"So Russell Square is not good enough for Mrs. Maria, hay?" said the old gentleman, rattling up the carriage windows as he and his daughter drove away one night from Mrs. Frederick Bullock's, after dinner.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
I beg to inform you, sir, that, if my son is not good enough to be Miss Verinder’s husband, I cannot presume to consider his father good enough to be Miss Verinder’s guardian.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
I’ll have you understand, sir, that this young lady is no humbug; she is not gammon either, sir.
— from The White Rose of Memphis by William C. (Clark) Falkner
For this reason sodium sulphite is now generally employed.
— from The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan
"She is not going," exclaimed Feak—"not until I know who she is.
— from Jimmy Quixote: A Novel by Tom Gallon
"Who knows where the girl comes from," said she, "she cannot speak; she is not good enough for a king."
— from The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
she is not good enough for them?”
— from The Diary of a Nobody by Weedon Grossmith
In the meantime, we fear the science is nearly good enough for the age.
— from Memoirs of John Abernethy With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First Published by George Macilwain
"There's hardly an evening we don't have company at the house, music or somethin'; I never get enough rest."
— from The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Van Vorst, John, Mrs.
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