But exclusive suffrage of the so-called Five Thousand, especially with the expansive numerical construction now adopted, was of little value either to themselves or to the state; [108] while it was an insulting shock to the feelings of the excluded multitude, especially to brave and active seamen like the parali.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

One never-to-be-forgotten night, they two standing beside the fountain, steeped in the golden light of the southern stars, he had yielded himself up to the enchantment of the hour, to the witchery of luminous violet eyes, brighter for a veil of tears.
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

All have light and soft woods of little value except for making boxes, packing cases and wood pulp.
— from Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster

At one period, the war of La Vendée extended to the north of the Loire, as far as Rennes, forming a triangle, the eastern point of which rested on the town of Angers.
— from A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 With Notes Taken During a Tour Through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the Environs of Paris. Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings, from Drawings Made on the Spot by W. D. (William Dorset) Fellowes

Gladstone's dictum, "Chew each morsel of food at least thirty-two times," was of little value except as a general suggestion.
— from The New Glutton or Epicure by Horace Fletcher

[82] This does not appear in the extant Lives which bear the name of Nepos; but what we have under his name is a spurious work of little value except the Life of Atticus.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

The prizes taken in the Atlantic were of little value, except one.
— from A History, of the War of 1812-15 Between the United States and Great Britain by Rossiter Johnson

[Pg 60] from the world, and employment in spiritual things, should find favour with Christians, as a means of fulfilling the duties of their holy calling; and so it seems that some of them took to this way of life very early.
— from Sketches of Church History, from A.D. 33 to the Reformation by James Craigie Robertson

Unluckily only a part of the fleet came at first, and this part got shut up by a larger English fleet at Newport, and was of little value, except that the English ships which were watching it could not ravage the American coasts.
— from Harper's Young People, November 23, 1880 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

In Sanson's grip she turned wide terror-stricken eyes on Dangeau, making a little, piteous, instinctive movement towards him, her protector, and at that and his own impotence he felt each pulse in his strong body thud like a hammered drum, and with one last violent effort of the will he wrenched his eyelids down, lest he should look upon the end.
— from A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth