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- 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
- This sign should have been first; but first or last, it is also false; for knowledge, great knowledge, may be obtained in the mysteries of the gospel, and yet no work of grace in the soul. Yea, if a man have all knowledge, he may yet be nothing, and so consequently be no child of God.
- For there is a knowledge that is not attended with doing: He that knoweth his masters will, and doeth it not. A man may know like an angel, and yet be no Christian, therefore your sign of it is not true.
- They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued like other men. These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are no sign that God hath forsaken you; but are sent to try you, whether you will call to mind that which heretofore you have received of his goodness, and live upon him in your distresses.
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- 1692, Thomas Bennet, Short Introduction of Grammar ... of the Latine Tongue:
- A Noun substantive and a Noun adjective may be thus distinguished, that a substantive may have the sign a or the before it; as, puer, a boy, the boy; but an adjective cannot, as, bonus, good.
- 1753, Charles Davies, Busby's English Introduction to the Latin Tongue Examined, page 11:
- A Pronoun is a Noun implying a Person, but not admitting the Sign a or the before it.
- 2008, Eero Tarasti, Robert S. Hatten, A Sounding of Signs: Modalities and Moments in Music, Culture, and Philosophy : Essays in Honor of Eero Tarasti on His 60th Anniversary:
- And some linguistic signs, like “the”, “and” or “with”, may lack apparent objects, though they are clearly meaningful and interpretable.
- 2011, Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 113:
- What this theory fails to see is that the 'living voice' is in fact quite as material as print; and that since spoken signs, like written ones, work only by a process of difference and division, speaking could be just as much said to be a form of writing ...
show no signs of
1892, Mary Thorn Carpenter, A Girl's Winter in India, page 209:Our next dish is one which has shown no signs of scarcity since we reached India, — the ever present chicken, or sudden death,” as it is called here, from the Anglo-Indian custom of cooking a fowl that has been running about the garden half an hour before.
1942 September and October, “Notes and News: The Stanmore Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 311:Mr. Simpson adds that the station at Stanmore appears practically unchanged from the time of its opening, even to the L.N.W.R. rubber doormat, which "shows no signs of wearing out."
1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 4, p. 84:After a long time (and the chant showed no signs of slackening) he found himself wondering, since Entish was such an ‘unhasty’ language, whether they had yet got further than Good Morning; and if Treebeard was to call the roll, how many days it would take to sing all their names.
1992 November, Frederik Pohl, “Outnumbering the Dead”, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, volume 16, numbers 12 & 13 (whole 192 & 193), page 252:How long those lives can be expected to last is hard to say, because even the oldest persons around aren’t yet much more than bicentenarians (that’s the time since the procedures first became available), and they show no signs of old age yet.
1994 June 24, The Associated Press, “BASEBALL; A's Witt, Nearly Perfect, Says It's Ump Who Wasn't”, in The New York Times:Witt, who had thrown three two-hitters in his career, was in control throughout and showed no signs of fatigue.
2007 February 8, John Lucas, “D.O.A.’s punk veterans won’t give up the fight”, in Georgia Straight, Vancouver, Canada, retrieved 17 February 2009:The band’s leader, Joe “Shithead” Keithley, shows no signs of slowing down. . . . He’s still an unapologetic shit-disturber, but it’s evident that the veteran antiauthoritarian is turning into something akin to (gasp!) a respected authority figure.
2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC:However, despite their wretched record of not having won a top-flight away game in their last 26 attempts, Fulham showed no signs of travel sickness against Stoke.
2022 April 20, Andrew Roth, “Russia’s latest military failures polarise society even more”, in The Guardian:Kremlin officials have shown no signs of contrition.
2025 May 4, John Simpson, “Police Federation under fire for backing ‘unsackable’ rogue cops”, in The Observer:Police officers are servants of the crown who cannot be sacked in the normal sense, so the Home Office announced a new legal route for police chiefs to sack those who fail vetting. But the Fed, as it’s known, is showing no signs of backing down. A source at its Met branch said it will now seek a judicial review of the new law.