For a long time the young man resisted; but when he found that Robert was, in a quiet way, thoroughly determined upon not going without him, he gave in, and consented to join the party.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Seeing the pope had done us no good; now, in the devil’s name, ‘twill do us a great deal.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than she, turns and applies as she best pleases; the sole cause and sovereign mistress of her own happy or unhappy condition.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

And whoever should maintain this, siding with the Peripatetics, would do us no great wrong, seeing it is very well known that the greatest and most noble actions of the soul proceed from, and stand in need of, this impulse of the passions.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

If we were even assured that, when they make a mistake, that mistake of theirs would do us no harm, though it did us no good, it were a reasonable bargain to venture the making ourselves better without any danger of being made worse.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

And as to the drinking of them, fortune has in the first place rendered them not at all unacceptable to my taste; and secondly, they are natural and simple, which at least carry no danger with them, though they may do us no good, of which the infinite crowd of people of all sorts and complexions who repair thither I take to be a sufficient warranty; and although I have not there observed any extraordinary and miraculous effects, but that on the contrary, having more narrowly than ordinary inquired into it, I have found all the reports of such operations that have been spread abroad in those places ill-grounded and false, and those that believe them (as people are willing to be gulled in what they desire) deceived in them, yet I have seldom known any who have been made worse by those waters, and a man cannot honestly deny but that they beget a better appetite, help digestion, and do in some sort revive us, if we do not go too late and in too weak a condition, which I would dissuade every one from doing.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

them, though they may do us no good
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Cuando la lengua de Castilla se arraigó en la parte meridional de nuestro continente, sus hijos enriquecieron a la madre patria «no menos con los tesoros de su suelo que con sus aventajados talentos que fecundiza el sol ardiente y desarrolla una naturaleza grandiosa y magnífica.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But past who can recall, or don undoe? Not God omnipotent, nor Fate, yet so Perhaps thou shalt not Die, perhaps the Fact Is not so hainous now, foretasted Fruit, Profan'd first by the Serpent, by him first 930 Made common and unhallowd: ere our taste Nor yet on him found deadly; he yet lives, Lives, as thou saidst, and gaines to live as Man Higher degree of Life, inducement strong To us, as likely tasting to attaine Proportional ascent, which cannot be But to be Gods, or Angels Demi-gods.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Cortes was greatly vexed at his escape, as he might betray many things to the inhabitants that would do us no good.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The idea uppermost in my mind was that here was a building which was to last for hundreds of years, and that the figures in the storied windows above the altar would look down upon new generations of worshipers, centuries after I, with all those living, should have passed away.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

"I thought of it merely as giving us something to do--you are doing it all!--something that would buck you up if it proved your theory; but it will do us no good."
— from The Old Man of the Mountain by Herbert Strang

A serious rising would do us no good in Parliament, and the government has enemies in England as well as Ireland.
— from The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Here he is, however, and, as I keep the keys of the magazine, he can do us no great harm, unless he scuttles the brig.”
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 1, January 1847 by Various

"At any rate," said Stair, "killing a blue-jacket or an exciseman will do us no good, and I am for firing blanks except in the very last extremity—of course, if it is our life or that of another man, I think we owe it to ourselves to see that the funeral is the other fellow's!"
— from Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

"It don't do us no good to talk about things, Joe.
— from Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst

His cannon could do us no great hurt now, for we were on our faces, and in an instant we could turn into a huddle of bayonets if his horse came down again.
— from The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

In any event, an ordinary fuse would do us no good.
— from The Bungalow Boys in the Great Northwest by John Henry Goldfrap

A message does us no good until it becomes action, the grandest vision that ever swept through our brain or illuminated our sky leaves no vestige of worth unless it is turned into conduct and character.
— from A Wonderful Night; An Interpretation Of Christmas by James H. (James Henry) Snowden

If you pay it on the initiatory matriculation of a first journey, you may depend upon never getting any of it back; when on having studied anew the "art of self-defence," to protect you against another art, which you must also study, in close connexion with the " belle arti ," you are become really an adept, and duly qualified for that diploma.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various