It was icy cold, with the terrible coldness of death which leaves us no longer in doubt.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Let me express my gratitude that I am permitted once more to enjoy these generous utterances, no longer in dream or vision only, but in reality.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The creative force capable of reproducing the spectacle of universal normal life is denied him.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

But at nightfall he came striding down to us and left us no longer in doubt, for he ordered girths tightened and ammunition inspected.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

Mines and cattle ranges, stupendous cañons, strange rock-sculpturings in glowing colors, the desert with its entrancing vistas, its grotesque and often beautiful plant-life, even a glimpse of prehistoric ruins—all this the drive affords; and to it is added the impressive sight of the Roosevelt Dam with its beautiful, winding driveway upon the breast and its exhibition of 192 man-made waterfalls and 30-mile lake, an unoffended Nature looking indulgently down from surrounding precipices and mountain crests and seeming to say, “Son, not so bad.”
— from Finding the Worth While in the Southwest by Charles Francis Saunders

Omens trouble us no longer; it does not matter how we put on our stockings and shoes, or, at least, we do not feel that good or ill fortune is bound up with the order of our dressing.
— from Papers from Lilliput by J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley