"We might as well let it drop.
— from The Dude Wrangler by Caroline Lockhart

"If there's any efficacy in the thing, I may as well let it dry in.
— from For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss

The storm blew for an hour, then it travelled onward in its might, and was lost in distance.
— from The Dog Crusoe and his Master by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

that men and women live in drunken stupor upon the spoils of young children,—often not their own,—sent out to beg, to steal, or do worse yet?
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

If the people cannot control and look down peculiarity, or anything they dislike, one might as well live in despotism at once."
— from Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

It is evidently a Russian Mission on one of the big lakes,—which mission, and what lake, I don't know.
— from The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan

'Leave the world,' my angel whispered, 'leave its discontent.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

She retired to the Continent, was reduced to a Bohemian life, but ultimately attached herself to Joseph Sedley, whom she contrived to strip of all his money, and who lived in dire terror of her, dying in six months under very suspicious circumstances.—Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848).
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer