A few people lingered round and praised her playing, but finding that she made no reply, dispersed to their rooms to write up their diaries or to sleep.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Of course it came upon me as a great surprise; but it can make no real difference to me.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

I shall wear my lovely cap and my new riding dress.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

It makes no real difference whether man’s belief in a universe enmeshed in serpent-coils be expressed in the Hindu’s cowering adoration of [ 418 ] the venomous potentate, or the christian’s imprecation upon it: fundamentally it is serpent-worship in each case.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Our Lord's injunction runs, "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Euripides left Athens about 409 B.C., and took up his abode for good in Macedonia at the court of Archelaus, where he died 406 B.C. 653 For a drachma was only worth 6 obols, or 9¾ d. of our money, nearly = Roman denarius.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

But this will make no real difference, because that which is truly the object of Friendship will also convey this impression to the mind.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

It was first descried by a mariner named Rodrigo de Triana; but the reward was afterwards adjudged to the admiral, for having previously perceived the light.
— from Macmillan's Reading Books. Book V by Anonymous

I always feel terrible sheepish even prayin' for him, let alone votin'—an' like it couldn't make no real difference.' "'Oh, an' ladies !' says Mis' Mayor Uppers, [Pg 298] 'really it's bad enough to have been the wife of a mayor.
— from Mothers to Men by Zona Gale

"Well, boys, you must not reckon distance by the time you have been absent," said the old man.
— from Lost in the Backwoods: A Tale of the Canadian Forest by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

"Lay not up for yourselves treasure on the earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal."
— from The All-Sufficiency of Christ. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. I by Charles Henry Mackintosh

I proceeded, however, to decipher the substance of the manuscript as well as I could, and move it into the following Tale, in which, following in part, though not entirely, my friend Tinto's advice, I endeavoured to render my narrative rather descriptive than dramatic.
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

Old as I am, and lonely and friendless as I was , before I met this dear woman, I know that love is the most sacred of all things—the most valuable of all things—better than gold—greater than power—the only treasure we can lay up in heaven 'where neither moth nor rust do corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal!'
— from The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli