Whatever the future might prove concerning her influence over Jimmy, it certainly appeared that she had brought nothing but mischief upon the household in Grandison Square.
— from Enter Bridget by Thomas Cobb

‘Yet the man is not without points that will be most useful to himself in getting through life.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

Nor is it too much to say that if a man were so placed and endowed in every way that all his work should be made as easy as the ignorant imagine it to be, that man would find in that very facility itself a condition most unfavorable to his intellectual growth.
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

It’s to make us think he is going down to your place.”
— from Dick o' the Fens: A Tale of the Great East Swamp by George Manville Fenn

The American is still, perhaps, a great powerful youth, but, once he gets his mind made up that he is going to defend his rights, he will do so irrespective of consequences.
— from Secrets of the Bosphorus by Henry Morgenthau

I wasn't much use to him, I guess; leastways, he never took the trouble to hunt me up.
— from Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett

I presented the Jongpen with one of the new lever electric torches, with which he was much pleased, saying it would be of much use to him in going up and down his dark staircases.
— from Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921 by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston

The American is still perhaps a great powerful youth, but once he gets his mind made up that he is going to defend his rights, he will do so irrespective of consequences.
— from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau