If flesh and blood is not good enough for you you must go without: that's all.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

But I niver gave 'em a thought.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

It was, therefore, late before poets were either known or received among us; though we find in Cato de Originibus that the guests used, at their entertainments, to sing the praises of famous men to the sound of the flute; but a speech of Cato’s shows this kind of poetry to have been in no great esteem, as he censures Marcus Nobilior for carrying poets with him into his province; for that consul, as we know, carried Ennius with him into Ætolia.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

50 none The wife's death benefit is not graded except in the case of the Carpenters, where the minimum benefit is twenty-five dollars for six months' and fifty dollars for one year's membership.
— from Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions by James Boyd Kennedy

It is about the size of a well grown young fowl, but is not good eating. 123.
— from Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847 by Charles Sturt

In other words, law and order are gradually asserting themselves after the heyday of petty tyrannies, yet there are still queersome happenings on every seigneury, and the amount of arbitrary power possessed by the average baron is not good even for a conscientious and high-minded man.
— from Life on a Mediaeval Barony A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century by William Stearns Davis

At daylight we awoke, and found ourselves upon the wild steppes of Russia, forming part of the immense plain which, beginning in northern Germany, extends for hundreds of miles, having its surface occasionally diversified by ancient tumuli, and terminates at the long chain of the Urals, which, rising like a wall, separates them from the equally vast plains of Siberia.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

Scutari, or Shkodra, is the first oriental city which a traveller coming from Italy meets with, and the first impression made by its numerous gardens enclosed by high walls, its deserted streets and irregular buildings, is sufficiently curious.
— from The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. by Elisée Reclus

unacquainted with the origin, progress and history of the Constitution, would be very apt, from the phraseology of the instrument, (a pretty good ground, one would think, for argument upon its meaning) to regard the States as having divested themselves of their sovereignty, and to have become ( regard to have become , is not good English, Mr. Turnbull) great corporations, subordinate to one Supreme Government.'
— from Strictures on Nullification by Alexander Hill Everett

I am frantically in love, so my outlook, if I come back is not gay either.
— from The Price of Things by Elinor Glyn

“Get down, driver,” said June firmly, “and assist me to alight, if my brother is not gentleman enough to do so.”
— from Dick Merriwell's Trap; Or, The Chap Who Bungled by Burt L. Standish

It would be better if never given, except by a physician’s order.
— from How to Care for the Insane: A Manual for Nurses by William D. Granger