The sparrows assembled in dozens upon the wild vines, and chattered all together as loud as they could, but not about the old house; none of them could remember it, for many years had passed by, so many indeed, that the little boy was now a man, and a really good man too, and his parents were very proud of him.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He declared that if he had not had the consolation in those doleful hours of knowing that I had, at any rate, got my Dutchman finished, and that a prospect of success was thus opened to the little circle of friends, his misery would have been hard indeed to bear.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

And it is said that at Athens he attracted all the citizens to such a degree, that they used to run from their workshops to look at him; and when some one said to him, “Why, Stilpo, they wonder at you as if you were a wild beast,” he replied, “Not so; but as a real genuine man.” VII.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Thou art a right good man, and while I live, This day I give to teares.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It would, at any rate, give me something to do for ten minutes.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“At any rate, give me something to eat,” the workman said, but the other grew indignant: “Have we nothing to do but to feed you?
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

She was quite a different person from the haughty, shy, dissatisfied little girl whom we have known previously, and this change of temper proved great prudence, a sincere desire of amendment, or at any rate great moral courage on her part.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

While the mass of the people held tory, or, I should rather call them, conservative principles, our government seemed to work as well as any representative government may be supposed to work without the necessary check of a constitutional opposition.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

(1550-1826.), 1 -15 Berkshire Hills; noted persons born there; Anthony and Read genealogy; military record; religious beliefs; education; marriage of father and mother of Susan B. Anthony; her birth and childhood; characteristics of mother; first factory built.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

While I wait for his answer and remittance, good Mrs. Slimmens will provide me a home."
— from The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week by May Agnes Fleming

The gray was a mare, and a right good mare;
— from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Walter Scott

He is a man of about twenty-six or twenty-eight, of pleasant appearance, and rather good manners, which show that he is a well-bred man.
— from The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev

And a regular guy means, I presume, a reliable or respectable guy.
— from What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

H2 anchor CHAPTER X.—A Dutiful Grandson and a Respectable Grandmother —Military Dialogue —Disobedience of Orders—Solomon's Candor—A Confidential Communication—Solomon Dances the Swaggering jig—Honest Correspondence—Darby's Motion of Spiritual Things—Two Religions Better than One—Darby's Love of Truth.
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

When I had carried my game as far as I cared, we had some tea and a real good meal, after which, as it began to get dark, I invited them all to stay in my tent until I left Cooktown, because I was only waiting for a steamer.
— from Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Peter Ludwig Weitemeyer

Rangifer arcticus arcticus (Richardson): G. M. Allen, 1942: 297 (mainstay of Eskimos and Indians); 297-298 (description); 298-299 (Hudson Bay to Mackenzie River, N. to Banks and Victoria Islands, Boothia, Southampton and Baffin Islands, S. to Churchill River, Reindeer Lake, and ne.
— from The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper