Let us not claim the prize before we have won it, nor demand our wages before we have finished our work.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Her letter to Raymond gave no clue for discovery; it assured him, that she was in no danger of wanting the means of life; she promised in it to preserve herself, and some future day perhaps to present herself to him in a station not unworthy of her.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I followed, and without Mr. Cummings, and without arms, which I never do or will carry, unless as a soldier in war, or unless I should yet come to feel I must fight a duel, or to join and aid in the ranks of a necessary Vigilance Committee.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

I have occupied stations which I never dreamed of when a slave.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Not quite that, perhaps; if turned out from her father's family even, she was in no danger of wanting food or shelter or protection; for she would be sure of those and more in Mrs. Caxton's house.
— from The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner

Alice was in no danger of what she most shrank from—a public pillory; but she was among those of whom the world whispers, with a half-condoning smile and shrug.
— from The Shadow of Life by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Here and there occur the names of those who were venerable for age, remarkable for their exploits, conspicuous by their station, rank, or talent--GREAT by the consent of their cotemporaries--who once figured upon a stage which is now decayed, or where illustrious in an empire which is now passed away.
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume II Including an Essay on What Christianity Has Done for Women by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox

Emily to reassure herself, declaring that she was in no danger, of which she was convinced, for she began to laugh heartily at the discomfiture of M. Law.
— from The Double Life by Gaston Leroux