"We have no use for Franc-tireurs," added the officer, catching sight of his black trousers.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

It seemed to me that the man did not understand French; for several times I made remarks in a loud voice, which must have drawn from him some involuntary sign of attention, if he had understood them; but he remained undisturbed and dumb.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Bumper , according to Johnson from “bump,” but probably from French BON PÈRE , the fixed toast in monastic life of old, now used for “full measure.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

If I obey them, I do it freely; venturing to displease God for the fear of Man, and Man prefer, Set God behind: which in his jealousie Shall never, unrepented, find forgiveness.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

The head clerk looked at him with a condescending smile of compassion, and at the same time with a certain triumph, as at a novice under fire for the first time—as though he would say: “Well, how do you feel now?”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

After this man there ran away to Titus many of the eminent citizens, and told him the entire number of the poor that were dead, and that no fewer than six hundred thousand were thrown out at the gates, though still the number of the rest could not be discovered; and they told him further, that when they were no longer able to carry out the dead bodies of the poor, they laid their corpses on heaps in very large houses, and shut them up therein; as also that a medimnus of wheat was sold for a talent; and that when, a while afterward, it was not possible to gather herbs, by reason the city was all walled about, some persons were driven to that terrible distress as to search the common sewers and old dunghills of cattle, and to eat the dung which they got there; and what they of old could not endure so much as to see they now used for food.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

It is no use falling foul of those upon whom our welfare so closely depends.
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these as steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.
— from Symposium by Plato

"Somehow, I ain't no use for folks that mean well," observed Mrs. Slawson.
— from Making Over Martha by Julie M. Lippmann

It is no use for folk whose finger-nails were never dirty, and who never scratched themselves while they cooked a meal over the primus burner on the floor, to say that all that medley of sounds and smells is not good.
— from The Eye of Zeitoon by Talbot Mundy

If we bare the breast and remove the pinion bones from any bird which flies—(it is necessary to make this proviso, for such as the dodo, the aptéryx, the ostrich, emu, and others, have wings which are only rudimentary, and not used for flight)—we find but a very meagre body remaining behind.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman

And, Cecilia, when I tell you that I have trusted to a man, to whom from childhood you have looked up with deep reverence, without suspecting that you owed him the respect so freely paid--and this man approves of my plan and resolution, and will himself do all in his power that the plan may not remain a plan, that the resolution may be executed--and this man will assure you of the fact with his own lips--Cecilia, I will bring this old man, your ancestor, to you, and when kneeling before him with his hand resting upon your head, the past, which seems as brazen and immutable as fate, reels and totters, you will perhaps believe that the present is not unalterably fixed for those who live and love!"
— from What the Swallow Sang: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

He always says he's got no use for failures.
— from The Princess Galva: A Romance by David Whitelaw

The leaves are large, and it bears a fruit a little resembling the orange in general appearance, though rougher and larger, being four or five inches in diameter; but it is not used for food.
— from Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839, part 2 by Josiah Gregg

Pralaya comes, with conquest, the overturning of civilization, mixture of blood; all the precious results obtained hurled back into the vortex;—and then to be cast up anew with the new manvantara, a new uncouth formless form, to be played on, shaped and infused by the life-currents again.
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

There is no coast without fisheries, and there is no marine animal that is not used for food, save those which are absolutely poisonous.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 by Various

NA nuclear: NA other: NA Uganda fossil fuel: 0.9% hydro: 99.1% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency