The slandered hens were nowhere near the pansy bed and Marilla did not even glance at it.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

SYN: Gain, success, superiority, help, assistance, benefit, good, avail, interest, utility, service, profit, acquisition.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The boat entered a narrow by-channel, where it was pushed by the oar-blades set into crumbling banks, and there was a gloom as if enormous black wings had been outspread above the mist that filled its depth to the summits of the trees.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

But now the gentry have gone, and I need not tell you there’s nothing for the clergy to live on.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Last night, and only imagine—” “Madam,” said Mitya, “I can imagine nothing except that I'm in a desperate position, and that if you don't help me, everything will come to grief, and I first of all.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I came out to get Ange," I said, trying to keep my tone neutral.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

I've got no rich friends to help me up, but, sooner or later, I mean to find a place among cultivated people; and while I'm working and waiting, I can be fitting myself to fill that place like a gentlewoman, as I am."
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

“That was a real lady, I'll be bound for it,” said Jakes to himself; “she spoke just as polite as if I was a gentleman, and I'll try her plan, uphill, at any rate;” and I must do him the justice to say that he let my rein out several holes, and going uphill after that, he always gave me my head; but the heavy loads went on.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

We even need more than new ideas for changing the world or equipping Americans to compete in the new economy, more than a Government that's smaller, smarter and wiser, more than all the changes we can make in Government and in the private sector from the outside in.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

He possessed, too, a working knowledge of French, German, and Italian.
— from Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards

Ay, give me a goblet, and I will sing.
— from Andromache: A Play in Three Acts by Gilbert Murray

"Papa and mama said she was a beggar, and I thought she would look like them—but she is nice and looks good, and I will not mind you teaching me at all: will you make me pretty frocks?—mama said you should."
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

In the year 1624 my father, having proceeded Master of Arts at Oxford, became parson of a parish in Wiltshire, and wedded the daughter of a neighbour gentleman, and in the next year I was born.
— from A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight by Herbert Strang

If it were not for making himself a nuisance, and being paid to go away, it would never be worth while to play to fine houses.
— from Beggars by W. H. (William Henry) Davies

“Victory, O Lord,” “A Somnambulist,” and the [Pg 57] “Portrait of George Grote,” and it was welcomed by a host of admirers as a new revelation of his versatility.
— from Millais by A. L. (Alfred Lys) Baldry

I make the suggestion solely for your own good, and it is for you to talk it over among yourselves, and see if you cannot all come to an agreement that will put a stop to the senseless wars, and enable your people to cultivate the land in peace, and to obtain all the comforts that arise from trade.”
— from Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I guess we’ve got a good right to claim the game as it is.
— from Four Afoot: Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Highway by Ralph Henry Barbour