"Good for you" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reward will come if you obey—but you will be thinking of the commandment itself, and how to carry it out most perfectly, and let the consequences take care of themselves, because you know that your Father takes care of them; that He loves you, and therefore what He commands must be good for you, utterly the best thing for you; that He only gives you a commandment because it is good for you; that you are made in God's image, and therefore God's will must be for you the path of life, the only rule by which you can prosper now ...
— Sermons for the Times • Charles Kingsley
... associate with anyone, Jack, and it is good for you that you should occasionally have other association than that of your comrades of the pit. You will associate with people of higher rank than mine, if you live, and it is well that you should become accustomed to it. And now, Jack, I know you will not take it amiss, but clothes do go for something, ...
— Facing Death - The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines • G. A. Henty
... "Good for you, boys! I think, myself, that this old fellow may have been more sinned against than sinning; though perhaps he's wise in wanting to make a change of base since they're all down on him around here. We ought ...
— The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf • Captain Quincy Allen
... get used to it. Tell you what, I'll let you off on the lunch if you'll be at my hotel at four sharp. Don't squirm. That gives you as many hours to grind as are good for you at one stretch. If you try to funk it, I'll hold you for both lunch and call. Your social progress is on ...
— Out of the Primitive • Robert Ames Bennet
... mind poetry so much; but of prose I will read as much to you as will be good for you. Come, let us have a ...
— David Elginbrod • George MacDonald
... "Good for you!" cried Mr. Abercrombie. "You're a smart little girl, and a good speller. I'll take all the ...
— Marjorie's Busy Days • Carolyn Wells
... that curious smile and strangely shining eyes, and putting both her hands upon his shoulders, "I see that you must go ahead with this. I—I guess it will be good for you. Somehow, I think that this is to be your last folly, that you are really learning that the world is not all polo and honor-bets. So go ahead—and ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester
... did nothing that Mrs. West and I wouldn't like to do, if we could. I won't go into particulars, if you don't mind, because it wouldn't be good for you if I did, and might make you self-conscious—a great misfortune that would spoil what some of us like best in you. But ...
— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... ideal system for England to win this war by. Of course, there is an alternative scheme, namely, for some man of outstanding personality to come along and say, "Look here, I am master, and by my force of character I will compel you to bow to a system which I know to be good for you and which will in the end benefit you." Lloyd George might be even such a man—a Caesar, a Charlemagne, a Cromwell, or ...
— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones
... are the woman I have loved. Woman?" He laughed. "It's too good for you. Do you know what we men call such creatures as you? All this time you have waited—waited, and the moment your poor sister is in her grave, almost before the blood in her veins is cold, you seize your opportunity to fulfil your mad desire. Taking advantage of Charlie's ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum
... and gives him his needings. The red devil's sculp ain't more'n three days old. Good for you, Baby! Good boy! Give him all the 'lasses he can hold. Needn't worry about any raid s'long as he stays here, Davis. You can just take your ...
— A Virginia Scout • Hugh Pendexter
... and safe, as I think you are, it may turn out to be both. It would be a good plan, though, to say to yourself every time you come up Franklin Street, 'I've toted potatoes up this hill, and not my own potatoes either.' It's good for you, sir, ...
— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow
... you,—you to try and worm yourself into the affections of a handsome girl who is not eighteen, and has been shut out from the world by her father's misfortunes! That's your crooked notion of honor, is it? I call it base treachery; I call it taking advantage of circumstances to win what's too good for you,—what you'd never get by ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... and your girl is waiting for you at the hotel. Here, throw this into you—and for God's sake, brace up! You make me tired. Drink her down quick—the foam's good for you. Here, you take the stuff in the bottom, too. Got it? Take off your coat, so I can get at you. You don't look much like getting married, and ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower
... it;—and says I, 'Miss Wilcox, I do believe that the judgments of God will come down on us, if something a'n't done, and I shall always stand by the Doctor,' says I;—and, if you'll believe me, just then I turned round and saw the General; and the General, he just haw-hawed right out, and says he, 'Good for you, Miss Prissy! that's real grit,' says he, 'and I like you better for it.'—Laws," added Miss Prissy, reflectively, "I sha'n't lose by it, for Miss Wilcox knows she never can get anybody to do the work ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various
... Good for you, old handsome! Why, I'll be hanged if it ain't old Rover, boys; it's old Rover!" But Isaac could not speak another word. They all crowded round the wistful, clumsy old dog, whose eyes shone bright, though his breath was all gone. Each man patted him, and ...
— Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools - Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists • Various
... she were almost choking. "I'm so thirsty!" was the first thing she managed to say. They rose and he looked round, but there was no stream near. "We must wait till we get a little farther on," he said; "and anyhow it wouldn't be good for you to drink ...
— The Bridal March; One Day • Bjornstjerne Bjornson
... not so fixed, that we need be without authority for whatever we do; it changes according to climates and moons, according to Fernel and to Scaliger.—[Physicians to Henry II.]—If your physician does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat such and such meats, never trouble yourself; I will find you another that shall not be of his opinion; the diversity of medical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts and ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne
... struggle in the mind of Giraffe as to whether the sportsman spirit, or the love of good feeding would prevail; but at last he also cried out: "I hope he gets it, too, sure I do! Good for you, Giraffe!" exclaimed Thad, perhaps purposely mistaking this for a spirit of fairness that would do the tall scout credit as ...
— The, Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island - or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers • Herbert Carter
... "Good for you!" Andy shot after his departing chum; though he himself remained there by the rail, watching what ...
— The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing - Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics • John Luther Langworthy
... she wrote, "I shall love her more than I do you. I almost think —did I not remember what a bad boy you could be sometimes—that each one of you is too good for the other. But, Phil, if you should ever come to think that she is not too good for you, you will not be good enough for her. I can't think she is perfect, any more than you are perfect—you will find that she is just a woman—but there is nothing in all life so precious as such a heart ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... no progress. He speaks kindly of you, nevertheless, but does not seem to think you adapted for your present life. We are all grieved to hear this, and feel that you are not doing all that you might do. M. Rondic also says that the air of the workshops is not good for you, that you are pale and thin, and that at the least exertion the perspiration rolls down your face. I cannot understand this, and fear that you are imprudent, that you go out in the evening uncovered, ...
— Jack - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... "Good for you!" said Ben. "You have a fine memory. MY head is a perfect colander for figures. They slip through as fast as they're poured in. But other facts and historical ...
— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge
... "Good for you. I'll appoint you first lieutenant. I guess that nurse is all right, though she doesn't seem to be ...
— Old Rose and Silver • Myrtle Reed
... "Good for you, Phil! I like your spunk," said Paul, heartily. "I wouldn't go back to the old villain if I were you. ...
— Phil the Fiddler • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... right." August was confused by the keenness of her perception. It wasn't proper for a woman to understand such facts. He was at a loss for a reply. "Seven men spoke to me in it on one afternoon. It is no good for you to try to reassure me with platitudes; I know better. I ...
— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer
... a radiant smile. "Was it? I am capricious, I did not think of the good for you, only I wanted you—to please myself. I wish to be foolish to-day, Paul, and see your eyes dance, and watch ...
— Three Weeks • Elinor Glyn
... very bad, Jane," said he, "and I'm almost sure you will be with us for a long time to come. But you're more nervous and irritable than usual, I'll admit, and I fear this invasion of your nieces won't be good for you. ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces • Edith Van Dyne
... stop your further journey, my pretty dear," said he: "the night air is not good for you—by ...
— La Vendee • Anthony Trollope
... to be loved again. I incline to the opinion of Bill Chevenix, to whom he showed it. "Nevile, old chap," he said, "you take her on any terms. You've no idea how set up you'll feel by everybody saying you've done the square thing. I tell you frankly that she's too good for you. Look how she's shaped in Charles Street! As if she'd been born to it. And never once—never once—allowed to anybody that she's been in the wrong. Not to a soul. And neither you nor I believe that she has— nor did old Dosshouse, or whatever his name was." Ingram knew quite ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett
... color is good for you," she said approvingly. "The yellow one probably killed your hair? Yes; this does very well indeed, so we need think no more ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... be able to talk on any other subject than yourselves," retorted Weissmann, gallantly, "and that would not be good for you to hear." ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland
... clicking like castanets. Lady Morley-Frere, seeing my plight, held out a silver flask, and from the depths of her cloak growled out, "Drink, drink! 'Twill set you right in a trice. 'Tis hot and spiced, and good for you." I obeyed her. I had hardly swallowed it before a delicious warmth stole over me, and every nerve tingled with pleasure. I sank back into the cushions revived—exalted! Then I fell asleep. Oh, the shame of it! The shame of it! A thousand curses upon a ...
— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald
... good news, eh? The good for you? That's all you care about. After you get it, I'll get the husks of your pity. Well, here it is. I've poisoned them both—against each other. I told him she was against him in this land business. And it hurt me to see how gamely he took it, Jeff!" ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
... said the man. "You know nothing at all about it. What do you know of ships, or what's good for you? Hey? You don't ...
— Jim Davis • John Masefield
... the windows; but your teacher will always allow you to change your seat if this proves very unpleasant. If you have plenty of warmth in the room you sit in, unless the air outside is very cold, this "breeze" won't do you any harm at all; on the contrary, it will be good for you. Instead of catching cold from a draft like this, it is from foul, stuffy, poisonous air, loaded with other people's breaths and the germs contained in ...
— The Child's Day • Woods Hutchinson
... sorry to see you looked pale yesterday when he was asking you; and he was afraid that embroidery is not good for you. He thinks you are a very ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
... religious life be good for you, trust me, the way will open, however unlikely it may seem. If not, Heaven and the saints will show what your ...
— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge
... by jinks!" he chuckled exultantly. "First go-off! Good for you, Richard, my boy—your eye is pretty well in and no mistake. Come out of that, my young diamond, and let's have a look at you— you'd do ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton
... l'air de cette Bastille ne te vaut rien, 'the air of this prison is not good for you.' The Bastille, the famous State prison in Paris, was stormed on July 14, 1789, by the Revolutionists and razed to ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... Carolina. I see you think this place too expensive from its looks—too good for us. But I tell you the best, even this, isn't too good for you girls and your dad. Run away, and I'll come up and see ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... shouted Bimbo, who was allowed to pass the sentry this time, as he had a wooden pail in his hand, none too clean, in which the food of the prisoners was placed. "Here it is," he continued, as he set it down in their midst, "and a darn'd sight too good for you it is too, and mighty thankful you had oughter be that you fell into a gentleman's hands, and one that knows how to treat you. If I had the right I'd starve you all, blast ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... That's a good one! As if cripples like her had husbands! If he's left you it's not my fault. Surely you don't think I've stolen him, do you? He was much too good for you and you made him sick. Did you keep him on a leash? Has anyone here seen her husband? ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... sentiment. I can't see anything so awful in going to Aunt Clara's. It would be just a visit, such as any one would make. It wouldn't be for so very long, and it would do us all good. I would have a fine rest, and the change would be good for you, too. You could read and work in the evenings with no one to bother you. And you'd have a fine chance to see ...
— The House of Toys • Henry Russell Miller
... pirates," he commenced. "An' after this day, if you know what's good for you, never mention eggs ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London
... he said. "It is not good for you to be sitting moping at home every evening. I have often wondered before that you did not take a walk on deck before you turned in. I always used to do ...
— When London Burned • G. A. Henty
... "Good for you, Captain!" said Tom. "That's exactly what my father said. And now, have you your equipment handy? If it's not too heavy we can load it aboard the plane right away. Oh, and I want to introduce my ...
— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton
... but good for you," was the answer; "she said that. She said you were afraid of him, that you must do as he willed. It was very ...
— The Brown Mask • Percy J. Brebner
... moon. You'll meet with a... (She peers at his hands abruptly) I won't tell you what's not good for you. Or ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... Do you fancy that I understand them, though my reason, as well as Holy Scripture, tells me that they are true? I understand them no more than I understand how I draw a single breath, or think a single thought. But it is good for you, and for me, and for every man, now and then, to hear things which we do NOT understand; that so we may learn our own ignorance, and be lifted up above ourselves, and renounce our fancied worldly wisdom, and ...
— All Saints' Day and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley
... it's good for you to know how. But I shan't be willing to have you help me any more than you do now. I wish you didn't have to work so hard, child," and an anxious cloud overspread the ...
— The Adventures of Joel Pepper • Margaret Sidney
... "Good for you, Bab! you are an honor to the club, and I'm proud of you," said Prince Thorny, with a hearty hand-shake; for, as his man had won, he could afford to praise the rival who had put him on his mettle ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... "Good for you!" cried one of the pump-men. "Some of us tried to go down, but we couldn't fetch that far, not being able to hold our breath. If you'll try, it will be the only chance poor Tom has, for he can't last much longer, ...
— Joe Strong, the Boy Fish - or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank • Vance Barnum
... at all be good for you, for instance, whenever you were washing your faces, and braiding your hair, to be thinking of the shapes of the jawbones, and of the cartilage of the nose, and of the jagged ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin
... kissing her lover on the forehead; "we shall not see each other again. Live on your lands; that is the best thing for you to do; the air of Paris is not at all good for you." ...
— The Jealousies of a Country Town • Honore de Balzac
... "Good for you! I am glad you are thinking. Long, long ago when my own girlies were choosing their friends I asked them to remember two things as they chose—not only that the one they chose might be their husband, but that ...
— Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens • Margaret White Eggleston
... to marry someone else. I have an idea who I should like it to be, but I won't talk about it now. It's the most charming girl in the world. I shan't tell you her name, that would be tactless. It's that lovely Miss Verney, of course. She's much too good for you—an heiress, a beauty, and an orphan! But she's wonderful; ...
— Love's Shadow • Ada Leverson
... "Good for you, old girl! She's just what I need." And now he studied again the scene in which Kedzie took down the draught of bitter beer, and there was a superhuman vividness in the close-up, with its magnified details in which every tiny muscle ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... make you angry,' she said, trying to speak gently and keep down the physical tumult of the heart; 'but it is not good for you to be up like this. You are not strong—you ought ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... of you, Patch! No, I mustn't touch it because I'm not allowed dead birds. But I do thank you." She patted the panting head. "Look. Here's a stone I'll throw for you—down into the brook. I'm sure it'll be good for you to wash your mouth." She flung the pebble, and the dog went flying. Valerie turned to Lyveden with a glowing face. "Don't think I'm fishing for another dead bird, but I wish I could feel you'd forgiven me as truly as Patch. Oh, Anthony, I just can't tell you how ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... is for the most part unnoticed by us. When the mind touches the body through the appetites, we acknowledge the responsibility of the one to the other. There is a tendency in us which says 'Drink.' There is another which says, 'Do not drink; it is not good for you.' And we all of us know which is the rightful superior. We are also responsible for our health, although into this sphere there enter some elements of necessity which may be beyond our control. Still even in the ...
— The Republic • Plato
... it has to be. Keep quiet, dear. It can do no good for you to get all wrought up, and if you'd ...
— Raspberry Jam • Carolyn Wells
... powers, Tom Morgan, it's as good for you!" exclaimed the landlord. "If you had been mixed up with the like of that, you would never have put another foot in my house, you may lay to that. And what was he saying ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... wind. She'd have taken you in half the time to the outer beaches, and saved your legs," said the caustic speaker. "But exercise is good for you, I don't dispute." ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... "Good for you, Arthur!" she said, laughing, "you can ride the high horse, too. I like you like that. Now, Mr. ...
— The Second Chance • Nellie L. McClung
... old, you don't know what is good for you', said the Smith; 'now you shall be a lovely young maiden in half no time, and for all that, I'll not charge you a penny ...
— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent
... this schooner to-morrow morning, first thing. All the bundles are ready. If you should want me for anything, hoist some kind of flag on the mainmast. At night two shots will fetch me." Then he added, in a friendly tone, "Won't you come and dine in the house to-night? It can't be good for you to stew on board ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... it was not I who thought so, nor Graeme. But Harry said you were admired more than was good for you, ...
— Janet's Love and Service • Margaret M Robertson
... she murmured again. "'Tain't good for you to take on so, deary. Hadn't you better finish beating up the pancakes ...
— The Backwoodsmen • Charles G. D. Roberts
... the young journalist who was bent on marrying Mona Everard, "as usual closes the delicate sparring of his peers with a knockdown blow; there's nothing too good for you." ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith
... her for a few seconds without speaking. Then, "I am sorry," he said very deliberately. "But you mustn't smoke that sort any more. They are not good for you." ...
— The Keeper of the Door • Ethel M. Dell
... "Well, it isn't good for you to overwork, you know, Avery. I hate to think of it. And you have no one to take care of you ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... is a mere rocky islet with a few acres under cultivation, and that is all. I know it well. Much treasure is said to be buried there, but no one has ever found it. Don't waste your time looking for it, boy. You will keep away from this part of the world if you know what is good for you!" ...
— Plotting in Pirate Seas • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... thanked me for my last letter, which went by the cheese. I cannot bear not to be thanked. You will not pay us a visit yet of course; we must not think of it. Your mother must get well first, and you must go to Oxford and not be elected; after that a little change of scene may be good for you, and your physicians I hope will order you to the sea, or to a house by the side of a very considerable pond. {161c} Oh! it rains again. It beats against the window. Mary Jane and I have been wet through once already to-day; we set off in the donkey-carriage ...
— Memoir of Jane Austen • James Edward Austen-Leigh
... "Good for you, my little game cock!" exclaimed Miles, when he had heard the story. "Speaking of Stout, your friend Harrington has tried to scrape acquaintance with me, but he hasn't got beyond the scraping stage yet. I wonder what Stout ...
— Two Boys and a Fortune • Matthew White, Jr.
... mean it. You have managed to escape the law, Dent, and you managed to put the best man in Liverpool under its ban. But we've made a law ourselves, and we'll carry it out on you. Here you stays until you confesses the truth about Will. It ain't no good for you to make a fuss, for the police they doesn't often walk down Paradise Row. Mother Bunch is the only policeman as has much power here. You had better submit, Isaac, for you ha' got no loophole ...
— A Girl of the People • L. T. Meade
... been very good for you to know what it feels like to be left behind," rubbed in Diana. "You never told us about that gipsy trail dodge. Tit for tat's ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... were not to put yourself out of the way. He would be very glad of your company, and it will be very good for you all to be together.' ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... to be late, poppa, but that last rubber of bridge was such a slow one, and I won eight dollars." "Good for you." After dinner he sits in the back of the box; the play or the plot does not interest him; his mind is full of more dramatic scenes—plots that, instead of play, can be made into reality—real live characters that he could make dance to the music ...
— Impressions of a War Correspondent • George Lynch
... the foremen, brought up the rear of the next platoon to enter. He caught sight of Mr. Smith and shouted: "Oh, Mr. Smith: good for you. I'm glad to ...
— The Johnstown Horror • James Herbert Walker
... I 'low it'll be good for you in the long run. 'Troubles is seasonin'. 'Simmons ain't good twel dey ...
— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston
... about a week she announced that he must have a daily bath! "It is easier to wash you than the bed-clothes, that's one reason," she said, "and it's good for you besides. That's what's wrong with lots of young boys; they git careless and dirty, and then they take to smoking and drinking just natcherally. A clean hide, mind you, is next to a clean heart. Now go along upstairs; everything ...
— The Black Creek Stopping-House • Nellie McClung
... silly again,' said Frau Ebermann. 'It is no good for you to wait here. Do you know what this place is? You have been to school? It is Berlin, ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling
... the health? Extra hours spent in bending over your desk aren't very good for you. You haven't yet ...
— A Sheaf of Corn • Mary E. Mann
... know, Arthur. Perhaps they may be honest, but I am sure it is not good for you to be with them. They are so sure that their false views of life ...
— The Pagans • Arlo Bates
... thinks it would be good for you, but I am not sure, Ruth. I am afraid whether, after living in a handsome well-appointed house, waited upon by servants, and surrounded with comforts and luxuries, you would grow discontented with our quiet country life. I know you love your home now, ...
— Ruth Arnold - or, the Country Cousin • Lucy Byerley
... the Countess, nothing. If the money comes, good for you. If not, I presume you will, at your own time, ...
— Captain Dieppe • Anthony Hope
... home smiling with the triumphs of these occasions, and offered them, with the slow, good-humoured, capable drawl that inspired such confidence in him, to his family at breakfast, who said "Great!" or "Good for you, Lorne!" John Murchison oftenest said nothing, but would glance significantly at his wife, frowning and pursing his lips when she, who had most spirit of them all, would exclaim, "You'll be Premier yet, Lorne!" It was no part of the Murchison policy to draw against ...
— The Imperialist • (a.k.a. Mrs. Everard Cotes) Sara Jeannette Duncan
... Beck, and Joel jumped in the air from sheer delight. "Good for you, Out!" yelled Dave Somers; and the rest of the watchers echoed the sentiment in various ways, even those who desired to see Whipple triumphant yielding their meed of praise for the performance. And, "I guess, Out," said Whipple ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... if you please. You need not be alarmed. I know what is good for you both, and you will have no reason to complain of anything I intend to do. To begin at the beginning. (To CLEANTE) Do you know, tell me, a young person, called Marianne, who lives ...
— The Miser (L'Avare) • Moliere
... than is good for you. Abstinence on Fridays—a regular confession and holy communion and holy mass on Sundays will help to keep you straight before ...
— A Bride of the Plains • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... dear," she said gently. "I knew Babe had been saying something hateful; but it's only her way. Mrs. Farrington wants you to have a good time, and I'm so glad you are going. Three weeks in New York will be good for you, and you will see ever so much. Just think how lonely we are going to be without you and Archie!" Her ...
— Teddy: Her Book - A Story of Sweet Sixteen • Anna Chapin Ray
... and why won't I remain and be a credit to the town and a lot more like that, good and strong. Then when I do consent to remain, why, what do they do? Do they grasp my hand and say, 'Ah, good old Potts—stanch Potts, loyal Potts—good for you—you won't desert the town!' Do they talk that way? No, they do not. Instead of talking like a body would think they'd talk after all those letters and things, why, they turn and fling abuse at me—and now—now they've gone and done this ...
— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson
... Bessie French declared, when there were some plaintive murmurs on the part of Bandy-legs and Max to the effect that they wished to save their guests from all hard work, "we expect that you find plenty of times to do all the cooking that's good for you. Now it isn't often that you have girls in camp to show you what they know about these things; so I think you'd better tell us to do just as we feel like; and that's going to be take charge of the meals as long as ...
— Afloat on the Flood • Lawrence J. Leslie
... are all nonsense," she wrote; "the young lady's far too good for you, mauvais sujet beyond redemption. If you've a particle of conscience you'll not come and disturb the repose of ...
— Madame de Mauves • Henry James
... whole, it was better not to interfere"—she broke off, recurring once more to Angelica's question. "I was sure he would find you out sooner or later, and then I knew he would do what was right; and in the meantime the companionship of such a man under any circumstances was good for you." ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... father will say. I can't say how fine a thing it will be to be his partner, but your father will think it a high compliment that he should have wished it. It will be good for you—and for him too. I don't know which I ...
— The Inglises - How the Way Opened • Margaret Murray Robertson
... start so? Now I am quite sure you have been more severely hurt than you imagine, and that my talking so much is not good for you." ...
— My Doggie and I • R.M. Ballantyne
... yourself in so much learning, had failed to prepare yourself for all human possibilities, so that if any unexpected accident should happen to you, it would not find you unfortified. Since, notwithstanding, you are in this plight, why I might benefit you by rehearsing what is good for you. Thus, just as men who put a hand to people's burdens relieve them, so I might lighten this misfortune of yours, and the more easily than they inasmuch as I shall take upon myself the smallest share of it. ...
— Dio's Rome • Cassius Dio
... "Good for you, Mopsy Midget!" cried King, "you're a trump! Come on, we'll get there before the car does." King grasped his sister's hand, and they set off merrily at a good pace along the straight road ...
— Marjorie's Maytime • Carolyn Wells
... "Good for you, young man!" I cried, shaking his hand. "You've cheered me up a lot. I'll take a fresh start, and surely we'll find out something. But I'd like ...
— The Gold Bag • Carolyn Wells
... just as fortunate for me as it has been good for you, Mary," he said. "I have never had a sister, and I seem to have found ...
— With Moore At Corunna • G. A. Henty
... "Good for you!" cried Sack Todd. "I like a fellow who wants to stand up for himself. But just now you ...
— The Rover Boys on the Plains - The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch • Arthur Winfield
... except, 'It is good for you to believe in love.' I should think she understood me. Then she asked me if I hoped to see Mr. Razumov presently. I said I trusted I could manage to bring him to see my mother this evening, as my mother had learned of his being here ...
— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad
... it may be,' said her master; 'but I will let you know what I think good for you to know, ...
— The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay • Maurice Hewlett
... "Good for you!" cheered Brierly. "You're quite right. When these materialistic investigators get done with trying to prove that independent slate-writing exists, they'll begin to give some attention to the fundamental truths ...
— The Shadow World • Hamlin Garland
... "Good for you!" exclaimed Theron, approvingly. Then it occurred to him to ask, "But where did you get them ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic
... it is," said Pamela, starting up again. "Why shouldn't it be as much good for you as for any one? If you want to be good—and I think you are good, Diana—you can't help praying to God. For all the good comes from Him. That's what Grandmamma told us. And He puts little bits ...
— "Us" - An Old Fashioned Story • Mary Louisa S. Molesworth
... to make it up pritty quick now, for whin the boys come back the prisoners an wounded men'll be sure to tell that their chief came for the express purpose of rescuin' that 'thief Brixton'—an' it's hangin' that'll be too good for you then. Roastin' alive is more likely. It's my opinion that if they catch us just now, Muster Fred an' I will swing for it too! Come, ...
— Twice Bought • R.M. Ballantyne
... "Good for you, professor!" cried Mrs. Bartlett emphatically. "That's the truth, if ever it was spoken. But are ...
— In the Midst of Alarms • Robert Barr
... "Don't be childish," he said. "And don't make any more comments about this matter. It's of no importance—and cold roast beef is just as good for you ...
— The Jester of St. Timothy's • Arthur Stanwood Pier
... shovelling out hand-shakes, and talking to press-men. An old uncle of mine—nice old boy—who's sat for a Yorkshire constituency for about a hundred years, caught hold of me. 'Know that fellow, Peter?' 'Rather!' 'Good for you! He's got his ...
— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... think you've read more than is good for you. I think you are half mad, Tamar; but think what you may, it must be done. Have not you read of straining at gnats and swallowing camels? You used not, I've heard, to be always so scrupulous, ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... green crawler, don't you think I know better than you what is good for you? Would you like there to be ...
— Woodland Tales • Ernest Seton-Thompson
... if you know what's good for you!" he called out suddenly, as though he had made up his mind as to who and what we were. "If you don't, ...
— Tales of the Fish Patrol • Jack London
... is to him," said John; "but a day now or a day then interferes with nothing, and the country would be good for you, Elinor. Doesn't your husband see it? You ...
— The Marriage of Elinor • Margaret Oliphant
... recovered strength to bear the infliction with firmness,' said Guy; 'but, Amy, I'll tell you what we will do, if you are sure it is good for you. He will have a good long sleep, and we will have a walk ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge
... fellow," said Nelson, good-naturedly, but with marked earnestness, too. "You're patronizing the barroom side of the hotel altogether more than is good for you, and if you don't know it yourself, Walky, I feel myself enough your friend ...
— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long
... not," said Kitty ruthlessly. "But as it is not good for you to travel alone in these exciting times, you must take me with you—engaged to Jack—and to be married when we have time to look around. Has anyone ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
... done so, child. But you had best retire into the zenana. It would not be good for you, or me, were ...
— The Tiger of Mysore - A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib • G. A. Henty
... I really think it might be good for you to make a retreat where your cousin Giselle is, instead of plunging into ...
— Jacqueline, Complete • (Mme. Blanc) Th. Bentzon
... "Good for you. Well, so long. Two-fifteen from Paddington, remember. I'll meet you there. I've got to go and ...
— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse
... Starr, "I can well understand the hesitation you feel; but it will be good for you to go with us. Those who love you are taking you, and they will bring you back again. Afterwards you will be free, if you wish it, to continue your life in the coal mine, like old Simon, and Madge, and Harry. But at least you ought to be able to compare ...
— The Underground City • Jules Verne
... up the little wheeled conveyance to the bedside, the nurse took his wrist in her hand again. She beamed happily. "Good for you," she said, as she placed her hand upon his forehead. "Why, you're splendid. You've got your nerve all right," and she stared in amazement when Roderick smiled at her. He did not answer, though, he was listening to something. All the old promises he had learned at his father's knee and that had ...
— The End of the Rainbow • Marian Keith
... Bullfrog," announced Lize, "and I'll carry one of your lungs away. I know your howl—it don't scare me. I've stood off one whole mob to-night, and I reckon I'm good for you. If you want to get in here you hunt up the judge of this ...
— Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger - A Romance of the Mountain West • Hamlin Garland
... you ever forgit it ag'in, if you knows what's good for you. Now den, you had said you wouldn't ever call it lies en moonshine ag'in. I'll tell you dis, for a warnin': if you ever does say it ag'in, it's de LAS' time you'll ever say it to me; I'll tramp as straight to de judge as I kin walk, en tell him who you is, ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... and patiently, till you come to see, as she bids you, the true relation between the idleness of women and money in the Fifth Avenue and the hunted squalor of women without money at the Five Points. Women of Boston, the parallel stands good for you. Listen, and you may hear the dull murmur of your own "Black Sea," as ...
— A Practical Illustration of Woman's Right to Labor - A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia • Marie E. Zakrzewska
... "Good for you, sis!" he exclaimed. "Now you just wait until I get my hat and we'll carry that ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln
... up his hat, then remembered that it wouldn't do to exult over the defeat of his guests, and stopped in the middle of the cheer to whisper to his friend, "Good for you, Jo! He did cheat, I saw him. We can't tell him so, but he won't do it again, ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... a certain interest. "I am afraid you are really quite ill," she said, drawing a little nearer. "Please don't let me put you out, and do not stay under that table, Mr. Jimson. Indeed it cannot be good for you." ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... no doubt it will all come even in the end and you will get your share of troubles, like others. Perhaps Mrs. Arbuthnot will have no children as there is so much for them to take. Or perhaps you will lose all your money and have to work for your living, which might be good for you. Or," he added, still thinking aloud after his fashion, "perhaps she will die young—she has that kind of face, although, of course, I hope she won't," he ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard
... perhaps I shall grow in time to bear the thought of staying with her for a long, long while. Only, my poor boys and my dear little Johnnie and Francie—I did think I should have had you always. But it will be good for you, too, if I get on well ...
— The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 • Various
... "Do you? Good for you! So do I. It doesn't bring in the dollars as fast as some others, but it does seem a man's job to me. The big specialists make a lot of money too, but that isn't exactly what I mean. Some of the best men I've met were just country doctors, working night and day in all sorts of weather and getting ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln
... deceive yourself long before you came to London, and that was when the mischief began. I think I have been to blame, too, perhaps, for I was proud of my truthful, upright girl, and may have let you hear me say more than was good for you to hear and you grew proud ...
— Kate's Ordeal • Emma Leslie
... himself in the ill-smelling forecastle. He was awfully hungry, and the first thing he did was to make his way to the cook's galley. The cook smiled as Mont appeared. "Got around, eh?" he said. "Good for you. I thought you would be sick for the rest of the ...
— The Wizard of the Sea - A Trip Under the Ocean • Roy Rockwood
... work for Hannah," she commented. "But it's making a new woman of her. It would be good for you, too, Lizzie. There's nothing like bending over to ...
— More Tish • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... "Good for you! I admire your pluck!" said James, slapping Mark on the back. "You are true grit, you are! Just teach the fellow ...
— Making His Way - Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... will be good for you,' he added persuasively; and again she tried to give a look of response. So they were brought— Robina, Angela, and Bernard—and each stood for a moment on a chair at his bedside. The two little ones he merely kissed and blessed, but to Robina ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... dare a lot of things for certain reasons. See here, you've bin through a hell of a lot up here, but you've never suffered hunger, and it wouldn't be good for you, I'm thinking. Cold and frostbite is one thing, and hunger's another. There's nothin' like starvation to freeze up your heart. It's like a red-hot iron inside, gittin' redder and redder.... Shootin' a starvin' ...
— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild
... besides, though I have not the least intention of reading you a lecture, you have really made your doings unnecessarily conspicuous of late. The Paris chroniclers have talked about you enough for the present. Don't you think so? Yes, finish the bottle. I always told you that champagne was good for you." ...
— Whosoever Shall Offend • F. Marion Crawford
... "Good for you, Charley," said the Doctor. "Now let us see about the phosphoric acid, of which the soil, according to the above statement, contains only half as much as it contains of potash, or 4,000 lbs. ...
— Talks on Manures • Joseph Harris
... "Good for you, young man," responded Mr. Cranmer, warmly. "I like especially to see a young man sound and square ...
— Three People • Pansy
... he said, on the third day of their making acquaintance with Roger, "that this young fellow has joined. If I had had my will, I should have said nay when Cortez proposed it; but it is good for you, lad. It is well enough for an old soldier like me to toil along all day without speaking, under a burning sun; and to say but little, even over his cup of wine, at the end of the march. But it is not ...
— By Right of Conquest - Or, With Cortez in Mexico • G. A. Henty
... "Good for you, Polly!" And casting himself upon his sled, with the most reckless disregard for his ribs, off whizzed Tom after her, and came alongside just as she reined up "General Grant" on the broad path below. "Oh, won't you get it ...
— An Old-fashioned Girl • Louisa May Alcott
... well as all its untruth, flows in a noble stream through the pages of fiction. Do not allow the elders to persuade you that pirate stories, battles, sieges, murders and sudden deaths, the road to transgression and the face of dishonesty are not good for you. They are 90 per cent. pure nutriment to a healthy boy's mind, and any other sort of boy ought particularly to read them and so learn the shortest cut to the penitentiary for the good of the world. Whenever you get hold of ...
— The Delicious Vice • Young E. Allison
... Dr. Donaldson, ma'am, and as he said fruit would be good for you, I have taken the liberty—the great liberty of bringing you some that seemed to me fine.' Mrs. Hale was excessively surprised; excessively pleased; quite in a tremble of eagerness. Mr. Hale with fewer words expressed ...
— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... on along the corridor. Excerpts from her letter were running through his brain: "It would do no good to warn him, Jimmie—the Skeeter and his gang would never let up on him until they got the stones. . . . It would do no good for you to steal them first, for they would only take that as a ruse of old Luddy's, and murder the man first and hunt afterward. . . . In some way you must let the Skeeter SEE you steal them, make them think, make them certain that it is a bona-fide theft, so that they will no longer ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard |
