“Yes, and a fine lot of good that does me!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

I thus took a final leave of Georgia; for the treatment I had received in it disgusted me very much against the place; and when I left it and sailed for Martinico I determined never more to revisit it.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

“My dear Fanny,—for so I may now always call you, to the infinite relief of a tongue that has been stumbling at Miss Price for at least the last six weeks—I cannot let my brother go without sending you a few lines of general congratulation, and giving my most joyful consent and approval.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

65 He gan in thringe forth, with lordes olde, And sette him there-as he was wont to done; And with a chaunged face hem bad a bone, For love of god, to don that reverence, To stinte noyse, and yeve him audience.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

But when, superior to the rage of woe, I stood restored and tears had ceased to flow, Lenient of grief the pitying god began: 'Forget the brother, and resume the man.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

But Mrs. Allan’s dimples were as sweet and sudden as ever, her eyes as clear and bright and true; and what her face lacked of girlish beauty was now more than atoned for in added tenderness and strength.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Whatever doubts some of Croke's language might raise, standing alone, the fact remains indisputable, that for nearly a century from Woodlife's Case the liability of carriers for loss of goods, whether the custom of the realm or the defendant's common calling was alleged or not, was placed upon the authority and was intended to be decided on the principle of Southcote's Case.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

But the fixed limit of ground-space is not thought of in connection with manufactures.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

To still further reassure politicians and others who have been alarmed by Mr. Williams’s book, I may quote two passages from lectures on German competition recently delivered in the West Riding.
— from Are We Ruined by the Germans? by Harold Cox

There are four lodges, or gates of entrance into the domain, inhabited by some of his Lordship’s dependents.
— from History of Llangollen and Its Vicinity Including a Circuit of About Seven Miles by W. T. (Wilfrid Tord) Simpson

For this, it is infinitely superior to the stag; for the real sportsman can only enjoy that chase when the deer is sought for and found like other game which are pursued with hounds.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

“My cousin Mapes says that he finds lots of girls who are ‘good fellows’; but that when he marries he doesn’t want to marry a ‘good fellow,’ but a wife .” “Horrid thing!”
— from Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie; Or, Great Times in the Land of Cotton by Alice B. Emerson

* Note: There is a fair life of Gregory VII.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

Self-preservation is the first law of life, but self-abnegation is the first law of greatness—and of art.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The inner, usually the bright-colored, row of floral leaves, often grown together, 24 .
— from Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

Besides the inconvenience and loss thus caused, a further loss of gold takes place from the inability of the ordinary mercury to touch or amalgamate tarnished gold, unless it is ground with it, for a more lengthy period than is found practicable in most cases.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson