“Well, dear aunt, there is no great harm done.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

If an individual craves a certain dish, and there is no good reason why he should not have it, by all means procure it.
— from A Handbook of Invalid Cooking For the Use of Nurses in Training, Nurses in Private Practice, and Others Who Care for the Sick by Mary A. Boland

My dear Agnes, there is no getting away from the fact that Rupert Haverford is a bore, a distinct and definite bore!" "Well," said Mrs. Brenton, "if that is your opinion of the man, I should not bother about him so much.
— from Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands

Although we can not sift out with certainty the superior from the inferior in our normal population by the property test or the educational standard alone, it is undoubtedly true that, on the whole, native ability, independence and energy are present to a higher degree in our well-to-do and prosperous families than in the stocks which merely hold [Pg 307] their own or which gradually decline, and there is no gainsaying the fact that in so far as the lower classes are where they are through actual deficiency—and there are enormous numbers in this category—they threaten our very existence as a race.
— from Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. (Michael Frederic) Guyer

Here, however, all trace of man is wanting; the winter torrents must be dangerous; and there is no grass for sheep.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The streets are well kept, which is not difficult to do, seeing that the ground is dry, and there is no great traffic to cut up the roads.
— from The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, Through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c. by Alexander Michie

Mogkunk is also in the Natick dialect, and there is no good reason for saying that it was not in the local dialect here.
— from Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them. by Edward Manning Ruttenber

Time and bait are both lost in the vain attempt: patiently he rebaits, until he finds the rebait brings his box of gentles to a discount; and then, in no gentle humour, with a baitless hook, and abated ardor, he winds up his line and his day's amusement(?)—and departs, with the determination of trying fortune (who has tried him) on some, future and more propitious day.
— from Sketches by Seymour — Volume 01 by Robert Seymour

‘And as for the days that be, are they not as that rugged pass, full of bitter winds and the voice of hurrying waters, that leadeth yonder to Silver-dale, as thou hast divined? and there is nought good in it save that the breath of life is therein, and that it leadeth to pleasant places and the peace and plenty of the fair dale.’
— from The Roots of the Mountains Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, Their Friends, Their Neighbours, Their Foemen, and Their Fellows in Arms by William Morris

On the 21st of November Colonel Mann sent a trumpeter to demand the castle for his Majesty's use; the demand was refused, and a week latter Captain Standford, who commanded the Irish force then just landed, sent the following peremptory summons:— Gentlemen,—I presume you very well know, or have heard, of my condition and disposition, and that I neither give or take quarter; I am now with my firelocks, who never yet neglected opportunity to correct rebels;
— from Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive. by James Croston