They take the name of any offending student and bring him up next morning if necessary before the vice-chancellor.
— from Cambridge by M. A. R. (Mildred Anna Rosalie) Tuker

The tragedy arriving from trying to unite in action and purpose where in mind and heart and soul there is no union, no mutual illumination, no mutual comprehension of the point of view, will be everlasting.
— from Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch by Michael Moukhanoff

For this sentence is verray and sooth, that " nothing ne hath his beinge of naught"; to the whiche sentence none of thise olde folk ne withseyde never; al-be-it so that they ne understoden ne meneden it naught by god, prince and beginnere of werkinge, but they casten
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

Care of Linen When linen is well dried and laid by for use, nothing more is necessary than to secure it from damp and insects.
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

“I may go up now, may I not?”
— from The Haute Noblesse: A Novel by George Manville Fenn

She makes no complaint, utters no moan, is never visible in the streets; yet her lot is hard—harder than she can bear—harder than that of the improvident and thoughtless and vicious.
— from Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 1 [of 3] by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

There is nothing more intolerable than to lose one's time in waiting; nothing more useless; nothing more insupportable; nothing which more easily might be prevented, if people would only resolutely set about it!
— from The Home; Or, Life in Sweden by Fredrika Bremer