The parallel between Lear and Gloster, already noticed, is, up to a certain point, so marked that it cannot possibly be accidental.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The toy engine was, literally, as good as new.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

And he did “smile around a little,” and got as near to her as he could to watch the effect, but the scheme was a failure—he could not get her attention.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Looks as good as new now.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

There she was, quite ready to receive them, with a display of tea-things that might have warmed the heart of a china-shop; and little Jacob and the baby in such a state of perfection that their clothes looked as good as new, though Heaven knows they were old enough!
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

He is devilish like his sister," says Mr. George, laying a great and not altogether complimentary stress on his last adjective.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

If with my help thou still must dare The lady from her lord to tear, Farewell to all our days are o'er, Lanká and giants are no more.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

My short sack and apron luck as good as new from the shop, and my pumpydoor as fresh as a rose, by the help of turtle-water—But this is all Greek and Latten to you, Molly—If we should come to Aberga’ny, you’ll be within a day’s ride of us; and then we shall see wan another, please God—If not, remember me in your prayers, as I shall do by you in mine; and take care of my kitten, and give my kind sarvice to Sall; and this is all at present, from your beloved friend and sarvent, W. JENKINS BATH, April 26.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Pocotaligo Fort was on low, alluvial ground, and near it began the sandy pine-land which connected with the firm ground extending inland, constituting the chief reason for its capture at the very first stage of the campaign.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Will. laught this off at first as well as he could; but finding himself pushed on all sides, and especially by the Templar , he told us, with a little Passion, that he never liked Pedantry in Spelling, and that he spelt like a Gentleman, and not like a Scholar: Upon this Will. had recourse to his old Topick of shewing the narrow-Spiritedness, the Pride, and Ignorance of Pedants; which he carried so far, that upon my retiring to my Lodgings, I could not forbear throwing together such Reflections as occurred to me upon that Subject.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Something was going wrong with this conversation, John felt, and he added, lamely: "Anyway, go away now."
— from Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie

Pascibiét o le, a gull, a ninnie, a foole.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

And didn’t I make up my mind I’d be as good as a kitten all day, and sit still like Agnes Gaylord, and not tickle the girls, nor make you any trouble, nor anything?
— from Gypsy Breynton by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Mr. Consadine had scarcely finished the sentence, when he [Pg 542] saw his cow-boy running up the street, shouting and crying aloud, that the best cow in the Inch-field was lost and gone, and nobody knew what had become of her, or could give the least tidings of her.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley

You ought to be ashamed," I said, "with your own mother looking like a ghost, and not a stick to put on the fire.
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Went home early and bought some more enamel paint—black this time—and spent the evening touching up the fender, picture-frames, and an old pair of boots, making them look as good as new.
— from The Diary of a Nobody by Weedon Grossmith

we just slipped along over them like a ghost, and never left a track.
— from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain

"That little black dress, fitting her like a glove, and no ornament or finery of any description.
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Sylvie began by helping Adele in the mornings to dust and arrange the furniture, under pretence that she did not know how to keep it looking as good as new.
— from Pierrette by Honoré de Balzac