"This agitation don't do us no good," shouted the volunteer orator.
— from The Apple of Discord by Earle Ashley Walcott
As one explained whom Cottar found with a shut eye and a diamond-shaped mouth spitting blood through an embrasure: “We tried it with the gloves, sir, for twenty minutes, and that done us no good, sir.
— from The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Rudyard Kipling
‘It can’t do us no good,’ she’d say—or words like them.
— from The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell
In other words, wert thou to witness any transformation in the realm of the divine unity, no greater sin could be conceived in all creation, but wert thou to consider transformation in its own place and understand it accordingly, no harm could befall thee.
— from Gems of Divine Mysteries by Bahá'u'lláh
“That will do us no good,” said Kingsley—“what
— from The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore
“The fish will do us no good,” said Charles.
— from The Peasant and the Prince by Harriet Martineau
It’ll do us no good sir; it’ll only set people more against us.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew
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