The chromatic, with its delicate subtlety and with the "crowding" of its notes, gives a sweeter kind of pleasure.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

'Well; and what's come of it?' 'Nothing good,' said the Jew.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Now I know that when the long gray moustache nods up and down before my face, there is always an honest, good-natured old mastiff there, who growls out of his deep chest; only I never get sight of the mastiff, and sometimes think that it is the long gray moustache itself that growls so.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

They then joined forces and occupied Tarracina, 156 which owed its strength more to 67 its walls and situation than to the character of its new garrison.
— from Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II by Cornelius Tacitus

When he had concluded, he knelt down and prayed aloud for his consort, for his family, for the nation, and, lastly, for himself, that it might please God to avert his heavy calamity, or, if not, give him resignation under it.
— from Farmer George, Volume 2 by Lewis Melville

No good can come of it; no good ever has.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

No good can come of it, no good.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

A quaint ceremony called ooroonulka is next gone through.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston