Bernadotte had behaved so badly at Wagram, that Napoleon sent him to Paris with the stern rebuke, "A bungler like you is no good to me."
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
“A rabble like yours is no good.
— from The Law of the Bolo by Stanley Portal Hyatt
I saw a few rooks in Russell’s to-day, and last year I noticed great numbers.
— from The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls
Withdraw at once and leave the Grand Army within twenty-four hours; a bungler like you is no good to me."
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison
So—now—she would be wheedling me for more—what, you will not take it then—you’re resolv’d you will not.—Come, come, take it, or I’ll put it up again; for, look ye, I never give more.—Why, how now, Mistress, are you so high i’th’ Mouth, a Pistole won’t down with you?—hah—why, what a work’s here—in good time—come, no struggling, be gone—But an y’are good at a dumb Wrestle, I’m for ye,—look ye,—I’m for ye.—
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Aphra Behn
A man like you is not going to set up sic volo sic jubeo as the sole law in his family!”
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
And as for our little wooden friend up above, well, I should hope a dainty duchess like you is not going to let herself be dictated to by a low jointed creature, who sets up for a fairy when she knows her sisters dance round white hats every Derby Day.'
— from The Black Poodle, and Other Tales by F. Anstey
[6] Living his last years in Naples, Garcilaso had caught the right Renaissance spirit, and is beyond all question the most Italianate of Spanish poets in form and substance.
— from A History of Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
Of y r losse yt is neither good for me to write nor you to reade.
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt
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