‘They are not great eaters,’ said Mr. Snawley.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

But this, to say the truth, is often too dearly purchased; and though it hath charms so inexpressible, that the French, perhaps, among other qualities, mean to express this, when they declare they know not what it is; yet its absence is well compensated by innocence; nor can good sense and a natural gentility ever stand in need of it.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

maximè abhorrentem praetereo: nempe quid ad Ludum attinet, totius illae gentis Columbianae, a nostrâ gente, eadem stirpe ortâ, ludi singuli causa voluntatem perperam alienare?
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

This he accepted as a matter of course, remarking casually in his letters that the others are not good enough swimmers to take his place.
— from Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore

As he [Pg 449] approached his house every step awoke a new grief; every stone, every hedge, was sacred to some memory.
— from She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir

He imported from England an improved Rotheran or patent plow, and, having noticed in an agricultural work mention of a machine capable of pulling up two or three hundred stumps per day, he expressed a desire for one, saying: "If the accounts are not greatly exaggerated, such powerful assistance must be of vast utility in many parts of this wooden country, where it is impossible for our force (and laborers are not to be hired here), between the finishing of one crop and preparations for another, to clear ground fast enough to afford
— from George Washington: Farmer Being an Account of His Home Life and Agricultural Activities by Paul Leland Haworth

"But the animals you speak of are not good eating, Super," said Mrs. Campbell; "is there no game that we can eat?"
— from The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat