“There is no use trying to see me,” she said toward the last.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Tom was vexed; it was no use to talk so.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

By a monstrosity I presume is meant some considerable deviation of structure in one part, either injurious to or not useful to the species, and not generally propagated.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Our business is not unknown to th' Senate; they have had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do, which now we'll show 'em in deeds.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In this they seem to have fallen upon a very good expedient for their own happiness and safety; for since the good or ill condition of a nation depends so much upon their magistrates, they could not have made a better choice than by pitching on men whom no advantages can bias; for wealth is of no use to them, since they must so soon go back to their own country, and they, being strangers among them, are not engaged in any of their heats or animosities; and it is certain that when public judicatories are swayed, either by avarice or partial affections, there must follow a dissolution of justice, the chief sinew of society.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

If, therefore, men in this life only have hope; if in this life only they can enjoy, it is not strange nor unreasonable, that they should seek their happiness by avoiding all things that disease them here, and by pursuing all that delight them; wherein it will be no wonder to find variety and difference.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Savitṛi is not infrequently connected with the evening, being in one hymn (ii. 38) extolled as the setting sun:— Borne by swift coursers, he will now unyoke them: The speeding chariot he has stayed from going.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

A hundred and eighty bodies of Swiss lie piled there; naked, unremoved till the second day.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

By a monstrosity I presume is meant some considerable deviation of structure, generally injurious, or not useful to the species.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

But if words are neither useful to the speaker, nor necessary for the hearer, nor contain any pleasure or charm, why are they spoken?
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

So I—" Well, there's no use tryin' to spin the yarn the way he did.
— from The Postmaster by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

The quickness with which it takes on flesh, and the weight which it frequently makes, are well known; but we may mention that it is not uncommon to tee steers of from four to five years old realize a weight of from 800 to 1,000 lbs.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

You can't come this road, it's no use to try; So never mind asking the reason why."
— from The Nursery, March 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various

As the Northern Whigs had unanimously opposed the repeal of the restriction of 1820 upon slavery in the Territories, it was not unnatural that they should at first feel that they were already the anti-slavery-extension party, and that all persons holding to that principle should be willing to march under their banner.
— from The Middle Period, 1817-1858 by John William Burgess

Why, look you now, there is the boy Richard of Gloucester, who comes not up to thy shoulder, and by dint of custom each day can wield mace or axe with as much ease as a jester doth his lathesword.
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 02 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The feet are badly moulded, and not up to the standard of ancient work.
— from Forged Egyptian Antiquities by T. G. Wakeling

It is really a steam-gun, rather than a steam-engine, and it is not unlikely that the study of the action of gunpowder may have suggested it to Leonardo.
— from A History of Science — Volume 2 by Edward Huntington Williams

But they were not up to the science of fine gun work, whereas the Abileneites, composed chiefly of left-over cowboys from the great Texas cattle-trail, whisky-dishers from the slumped Colorado mining camps, and tin-horners and desperadoes from everywhere, all knew how to pump lead like lathers spitting nails.
— from Taking Chances by Clarence Louis Cullen

The rich have a right to buy more expensive, and more numerous articles, than the poor, but they have no right to waste any thing ; for what they do not use themselves they should save for the comfort and enjoyment of others.
— from Letters to Persons Who Are Engaged in Domestic Service by Catharine Esther Beecher

This looked not unreasonable to the shrewd commission merchant, and, since his nephew was determined to make an excursion into the world, he concluded it had better be done under the safest and most business-like circumstances.
— from Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe