You cannot catch it, nor drive it away, nor kill it, nor make it keep still.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

‘I now draw in and now let forth,’ says Krishna; 13 ‘I am generation and dissolution; I am death and immortality.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But she—if any neighbors had come in (None did): if any neighbors had come in, They might have seen her crying on her knees.
— from Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow

We are, there is no denying it, a nation of shopkeepers; and the spirit of trade can be tracked through every relation of our lives.
— from Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever

We have all been bad; there is no denying it; and never should we have conquered Germany, crushed Prussia, and forced Austria to submit, had our armies behaved in the way they have done of late.
— from Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

This is not difficult in a new country like Rhodesia, where the representatives of the two peoples are in the nature of things thrown much together, and where there has always been a good understanding between them, which has of late been very much strengthened by the mutual assistance given by each to the other during the recent troublous times; and the fact that in these territories a very good understanding prevails between the Dutch and British gives one reason to hope that in time a similar state of things may be attained in the Transvaal, although unfortunately in that State there are several factors which militate against such a result being speedily arrived at.
— from Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force by Frederick Courteney Selous

He did you a service, there is no denying it, and now he is presuming on your good nature."
— from A Gamble with Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking

It seems, however, that this same, Which in my hulk abounds, Is not, despite its awful name, So fatal as it sounds; Yet of all torments known to me, I'll say without reserve, There is no torment like to thee, Thou pneumogastric nerve!
— from Second Book of Verse by Eugene Field

It now defines itself as neither irrelevant to the real Caesar, nor false in what it suggests of him.
— from The Meaning of Truth by William James

This island, also, is not deficient in aloes, nor an infinite number of the other medicinal herbs, which may please the curiosity of such as are given to their contemplation: moreover, for building of ships, or any other sort of architecture, here are found several sorts of timber.
— from The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main by A. O. (Alexandre Olivier) Exquemelin

He is never downright intoxicated, and never free from the effects of liquor.
— from Ester Ried Yet Speaking by Pansy