If you care to take my place at the altar, you can do it without any sanction from me, and there is no ground for me to come to you with a mad proposal, especially as our marriage is utterly impossible after the step I am taking now.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Therefore it is plainly evident that I am Highly Magnified, and there is no good reason why you should doubt the fact."
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

And if anyone does not believe me, and thinks it no great achievement nor worth all these praises, let him observe himself when a misfortune of this sort happens to him, and then let him decide; and I am convinced that he will not think that I am talking with exceeding folly.)
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

"If," thought Mr. Wilkins, observing Briggs's face and sudden silence, "any understanding existed between this young fellow and Mrs. Arbuthnot, there is now going to be trouble.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

I have so many acquaintances that I never get time to enjoy my friends."
— from The Dominant Strain by Anna Chapin Ray

"I see your friend Bowes very often," he wrote in May, 1778, a time when Mr. Bowes was his most valuable client; "but I dare not dine with him above once in three months, as there is no getting away before midnight; and, indeed, one is sure to be in a condition in which no man would wish to be in the streets at any other season."
— from A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

Where the mercury slipped to is a mystery, but I must admit that I never gave her warning that an antique barometer when charged must be kept perpendicular.
— from Collecting as a Pastime by Charles Rowed

The martyr added, there is no God but one, who is the author and preserver of the world.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler

Uses : An irrational bromide mixture, as there is no good evidence that the bases influence the bromide action materially.
— from Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments by William August Puckner

It is a poor return at best for all the good woman’s devotion and fidelity to me, and there is not going to be any halfway business about it.”
— from Lincoln's Yarns and Stories A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes That Made Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller by Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly) McClure

This error does not, however, destroy the beauty of the myth; and there is no good reason to doubt that D'Entrecolles related it as it had been told him by some of his Chinese friends at King-te-chin.
— from Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn