" "It's no use trying to argue with you," began Amy.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I shall merely call them by their proper names, up to that time when his majesty conferred on them honorary titles and sovereign authority.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Dílì ku musugákud ánang trabahúa, I am not up to that job.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The form and relations of the carotid vessels of Plate 7 may or may not be the same as those concealed beneath the same region of Plate 8, at the point R. The motions of the head upon the neck, or of the neck upon the trunk, will influence the relative position of the vessels A C B, of Plate 7, and therefore we take a fixed surgical position, in the expectation of finding that the carotid artery projects from under the anterior border of the upper third of the sterno-mastoid muscle, opposite the upper border of the thyroid cartilage; at this situation of the vessels, viz., R, Plate 8, opposite O, the thyroid projection, is in general to be found the anatomical relation of the vessels as they appear dissected in Plate 7.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The voice of the violin faintly echoes through the mind as the hand is laid upon it in the dark, and the feeling of the garments or draperies which may hang about the room is not understood till the look correlative to the feeling has in each case been resuscitated.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The judge smiled, as he said: “I do not understand the theory of your defense, Arsène Lupin.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

The handsome brute, just subdued, stood arching his neck under the tightly drawn rein, with one foot impatiently pawing the ground, and ears pricked up as if listening for the voice that had mastered him.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

But she recognized his love, on the understanding that she bound herself to nothing whatever, and that she reserved the right to say “no” up to the very hour of the marriage ceremony.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But as yet I did not understand that the sorrows of my own countrymen were mirrored in those tears.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

No use trying to explain.”
— from Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson

I am not used to that, and don't care for it.
— from The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Margaret C. (Margaret Cockburn) Conkling

Therefore it is not united to the body as its form.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

We are not used to threats in this chapel-of-ease, where I am archbishop, bishop, and chaplain, all in one.
— from The Chaplain of the Fleet by James Rice

But he soon gave me greater occasion to exclaim, by stooping down and slipping his hands above my garters; thence he strove to regain the pass, which he had before found so open, and unguarded; but now he could not unlock the twist of my thighs; I gently complained, and begged him to let me alone; told him I was not well.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Yanush Radzivill, a famous warrior, whose name up to the defeat at Shklov had been a terror to the enemy, gained however a number of important advantages.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

It may be roughly said that it stood for internationalism in 1792, when France claimed as her mission the liberation of all nations under the tricolor; it stood for nationalism in 1848 in the mouth of Mazzini, Kossuth and the German constitutional party; to-day it again stands for internationalism in the more advanced countries of Europe, but are we justified as yet in calling this more than a phase in the development of democratic doctrine?
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

“There ‘s no use trying to be a Greek,” said Gloriani.
— from Roderick Hudson by Henry James

According to a note by the Treasurer, four months after the foundation, the work done amounted to upwards of 5,000 l. towards which the treasurer had received only 800 l. , there being among the defaulters the king's 2,000 l. , paid by exchequer tallies on the post-office, "which," says he, "nobody will take at 30 per cent discount:" so that we see the suspension of great works for want of friends was never uncommon; though this was a "season of debt and disgrace" in England.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832 by Various

And when the fleet of ships of England was assembled in manner aforesaid, Sir Edward, our King, and his people were in the parts of Bury Saint Edmund’s: and from thence he passed on to Orwelle, where he put to sea, with his people beyond number, upon the Thirsday next before the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (24 June) which was on a Saturday: and upon the next Friday morning, our King espied his enemies upon the sea, and said ‘Because our Lord Jesus Christ was put to death on a Friday, we will not shed blood upon that day.’
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant