They not only think it fair that Freshmen should go through their ordeal unaided, but many have a sweet satisfaction in their distresses, and even busy themselves in obtaining elevations, or, as it is vulgarly termed, in ‘getting RISES out of them.’”— Hints to Freshmen , Oxford, 1843.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

It seemed to her the hour when earth and sky would burst asunder, and all things be swallowed up in Saturn's fiery lake; but she knew that a new heaven and a new earth would arise, and that corn-fields would wave where now the lake rolled over desolate sands, and the ineffable God reign.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The soldier got to business, leading off with a powerful left jab to which the Irish gladiator retaliated by shooting out a stiff one flush to the point of Bennett’s jaw.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The country governs itself, and prefers to do it; and is so strenuous about it and so jealous of its independence that it grows restive if even the Imperial Government at home proposes to help; and so the Imperial veto, while a fact, is yet mainly a name.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The Rabbins, as has already been intimated, divide the glory of these apocryphal histories with the Masons; indeed, there is good reason for a suspicion that nearly all the masonic legends owe their first existence to the imaginative genius of the writers of the Jewish Talmud.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

He offered to put them into good repair in the course of an hour.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Many writers of Europe and Asia in the fifteenth century, when coffee was first brought to the attention of the people of Europe, agree on Arabia; but there is good reason to believe the plant was brought to Arabia from Abyssinia in the sixth century.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It is more akin, likewise, to outside life and landscape, (returning mainly to the antique feeling,) real sun and gale, and woods and shores—to the elements themselves—not sitting at ease in parlor or library listening to a good tale of them, told in good rhyme.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

to see the trouble that it puts a man to, to keep safe what with pain a man hath been getting together, and there is good reason for it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[589] In this last phrase, ‘intelligences superior to the human’, Dr. Stout assumes our own position, that hypothetically there is good reason for thinking that discarnate non-human intelligences—such as the Irish call the Sidhe —may exist and communicate with, or influence in some unknown way, the living, as during ‘mediumship’ and in ‘seership’.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

This is a gross mistake—elephants, when walking along the road, will break branches from the trees and use them as fly-brushes; [120] these creatures also manufacture surgical instruments, and use them in getting rid of certain parasites; [121] monkeys use rocks and hammers to crack nuts too hard for their teeth; these creatures also make use of missiles to hurl at their foes;
— from The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James, Jr.

The centre rail not only aids the train in going round curves, but also adds largely to its safety.
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir

The explorations in Palestine are very like a fulfilment of the prophecy, ‘Thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof;’ and if they are, there is good reason to hope that ‘the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.’
— from Rome, Turkey, and Jerusalem by Edward Hoare

"The Indians!" gasped Rob; "they're after us!
— from The Boy Scouts on the Range by John Henry Goldfrap

*This story teaches us to trust in God rather than in the opinion of men.
— from Stories from the Old Attic by Robert A. (Robert Alan) Harris

Footnote 1: Dulcis inexperta cultura potentis amici, Expertus metuit Hor. return to footnote mark Footnote 2: A son of one of the inferior gentry received as page by a nobleman wore his lord's livery, but had it of more costly materials than were used for the footmen, and was the immediate attendant of his patron, who was expected to give him a reputable start in life when he came of age.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

There is good reason to expect that under its protection and influence our trade and intercourse with that distant and interesting people will rapidly increase.
— from State of the Union Addresses by James Buchanan

This offence became so widespread throughout large parts of the country that it gave rise to theories about an organized conspiracy against property which was supposed to be, in some vague sort of way, an outcome of the socialistic excesses which had taken place during the French Revolution and had been revived by the more recent commotions in France.
— from A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy