"Good for you" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... teasing look in the biggest brother's eyes as he gave the Swede boy a slap on the back. "Good for you!" he said in an undertone; "I'll never forget that, long 's I live." The Swede boy tried to answer, hung his head, and finally made off. The biggest brother took up the reins and, while he waited, continued to pick cotton from the lapels ...
— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates
... loves. A friend exercises the right of reticence as well as the prerogative of speech. And for all the gaps that are left, let us bow quietly and believe that if it had been better for us He would have spoken. 'If it were not so I would have told you.' 'Trust Me! I tell you all that it is good for you to receive.' ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren
... very glad to hear what you say about the fencing school, Guy; it will be good for you to have such training. And indeed 'tis well that you should have some employment, for time would hang but wearily on your hands were you to remain long caged up here. I shall be very glad for you to go. It will make no difference ...
— At Agincourt • G. A. Henty
... beast," said T. X. "I am afraid I have kept you waiting for a very long time, but tomorrow you and I will take a little journey to Devonshire. It will be good for you, Mansus—where did you get that ridiculous name, by ...
— The Clue of the Twisted Candle • Edgar Wallace
... you will have to be good and not whinny or make a sound. I know what is good for you, and you must do just as I tell you, or a bad Yankee soldier will catch you and then you will see!' warned Rebecca, shaking her ...
— The Blue Birds' Winter Nest • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... Holt," laughed Jack. "That's nothing but a cleaning out medicine that will be good for you. Take off that mask of yours and you will breathe better. If it had not been for that, you would have got a bigger dose, but ...
— The Hilltop Boys - A Story of School Life • Cyril Burleigh
... to know, she isn't good for you. She'll seek to draw you in on this fool scheme of hers, and if you don't look out you'll do just what she says do. There never was a mere woman like her. She's uncanny, man! She will give you the same line of mad talk ...
— Daughter of the Sun - A Tale of Adventure • Jackson Gregory
... true; but some poor people seem to make more out of small things. That was what I meant,' said Gladys meekly. 'But we must not talk anything disagreeable, uncle; it is not good for you.' ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... spoken to and warned you from the best conviction; I have sincerely endeavoured and desired that which is best for you, and this you will some time or other come to see even better than now.[14] You will perhaps come to see that it would have been good for you if you had lent a more willing ear to my maternal counsellings; will perhaps come to deplore that you rewarded the love I cherished for ...
— The Home • Fredrika Bremer
... Ahrendt went upstairs and was gone for a long time. When he came down again, he said, "Brother Susag, before you leave here you are going to have a fur coat." I said, "Is that faith or presumption?" To which he replied, "If it isn't faith, I have never had faith." I said, "Praise the Lord; good for you and good ...
— Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag • S. O. Susag
... "Good for you! 'All work and no play,' you know," quoted Stuart, as they went in together, a moist and ...
— Under the Country Sky • Grace S. Richmond
... Lane shouted, seizing the nearest of his assailants by the neck and throwing him out into the darkness. "To hell with you!" he added, just escaping a murderous blow and driving his fist into the face of the man who had aimed it. "Good for you, Hunterleys! There isn't one of those old guns of theirs that'll go off. They aren't ...
— Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... 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 ruefully, "you might as well take the cup." But Outfield West only smiled ...
— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour
... for a moment say you are," I returned; "but I shouldn't harp upon the idea. I don't think it good for you." ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... he said, "—in spite of your burns. Well, good for you. But I guess you've had enough of Ku Sui for a ...
— Hawk Carse • Anthony Gilmore
... we can't waste time upon this nonsense; I know what's good for you, and I'm your father. True, I had promised you to young Valere; But, first, they tell me he's inclined to gamble, And then, I fear his faith is not quite sound. I haven't noticed that he's ...
— Tartuffe • Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
... Guard's greatcoat greeted his new friends, and inspected the Doughboys, laughing back at the crowd when some one called: "Good for you, Prince." To the ladies who held the twin flags he also expressed his thanks, telling them it was very nice of them to come out on so cold a night to meet him. Feminine America was, for an instant, non-plussed, and found nothing to answer. But their vivacity quickly came ...
— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton
... wanderers who may chance to stray into these little fields consecrated to the dead, and excuse your unwillingness to reflect by muttering, 'Horrible!' There is nothing horrible, after all, in these poor bones. What matters it whether they are bleached by the sun or blackened by the clay? It is good for you and for me to see them here, and to realize how soon all men are forgotten, how quickly their bones, mingling with others, give no more clue to the individual life to which they once belonged than a particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does to ...
— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker
... 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
... replied. "Love and war—the old story. Ah! that brought a little red into your cheeks, my girl. Well, it's good for you. Which is the man?—this one? Here, Corporal, lift his head, and you, Jones, bring ...
— Love Under Fire • Randall Parrish
... I'd 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' dog's a mercy, ...
— Colorado Jim • George Goodchild
... back, as they neared me I shouted, "Good for you, boys! Good for you! It was splendid." I shook hands with every one of them. They were very much excited over ...
— The Land of the Long Night • Paul du Chaillu
... the king's army and are going to help make it hot for the rebels, hey" with a chuckle. "Good for you." ...
— The Dare Boys of 1776 • Stephen Angus Cox
... 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 and self-righteous ...
— Kate's Ordeal • Emma Leslie
... would sweeping, and scrubbing, and moving furniture about. But you're born to a life of ease, my dear, so those things are out of the question for you. But fencing lessons would be good for you—and fashionable, too, which would ...
— Under the Country Sky • Grace S. Richmond
... greater through the memory of her after she was gone." When she came again, seeing him out of danger and seeing him comfortable, she seated herself beside his table and opened her work."It isn't good for you to talk much," she soon said reprovingly, "and I have to ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen
... "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
... "Good for you. Your object is surely commendable. I understand that you have already been making a start in that ...
— Dick the Bank Boy - Or, A Missing Fortune • Frank V. Webster
... will be good for you,' said Mrs. Forsyth, 'and it has come at the right time, for I think of taking the two girls up to London for three weeks. Miss Forsyth, their aunt, has asked us. She extended the invitation to you; but unless you behave differently there to what you do with us, ...
— Dwell Deep - or Hilda Thorn's Life Story • Amy Le Feuvre
... 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 the light on ...
— Three Weeks • Elinor Glyn
... so. Anyway, it's no good for you, Ban, if it won't let you be yourself. And write as you think. This isn't new to me. I've known newspaper men before, a lot of ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... incest not enough? And must there be adultery too? Grace after meat? Miscreant and Liar! 480 Thief! Blackguard! Scoundrel! Fool! hell-fire Is twenty times too good for you. ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume I • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... the townsmen of Gotham, Hearing your grace would come this way, Did think it good for you to stay.— But hear you, neighbours, bid somebody ring the bells.— And we are come to you alone, to deliver ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VI • Robert Dodsley
... in despair: "I shall never be happy here, nor anywhere. But take me," she added eagerly, "take me for your own sake;—for it will be good for you to have me with you in the woods,—it will, ...
— Nick of the Woods • Robert M. Bird
... in fervent admiration from the lips of Jasper, Jr. I glanced at his beaming, astonished face. He positively was grinning! "Good for you! You're a wonder, Mr. Smart! By cricky! And you're dead right. ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon
... "Good for you, Steve. I knew it. I'll tell you now that I would have hated like hell to see you leave me. You're the only man I can rely on down to the ground, ...
— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine
... "It would be so good for you to have something human and capable of a little consideration to go out with," added Bobus, "not to be tied to the tail of a will-of-the-wisp like that Elf-I should not like that ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... he grew more clear in his own mind as to his duty in the matter. Expediency whispered to him, "Better wait. You have only just come here. The people like you now. It will only cause unpleasant feelings and do no good for you to launch out into a crusade against this thing right now. There are so many of your members involved that it will certainly alienate their support, and possibly lead to your being compelled to lose your place as pastor, if it do not drive ...
— The Crucifixion of Philip Strong • Charles M. Sheldon
... as discontented as they could be. They wanted some boiled pelican, but of course I knew it wouldn't be good for them. So all I said was "Go to Number Two, Finborough Road, and ask for Agnes Hughes, and if it's really good for you, she'll give you some." Then I shook hands with them all, and wished them all goodbye, and drove them up the chimney. They seemed very sorry to go, and they took the bells and the portfolio with them. I didn't find this out till after they had gone, and then I was sorry ...
— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
... to you," he continued. "And it's certainly a cheerful color, too. You need brightening up. I don't believe it's good for you, living in this damp swamp and singing sad songs. What you ought to do is to get some clothes like mine and bring your wife over to Farmer Green's orchard and build a nest in an apple tree.... We could have some gay times ...
— The Tale of Jolly Robin • Arthur Scott Bailey
... Mr. O; and 'tisn't good for you to keep thinking about just one thing. You'll land where Iringer did, if you don't look out. How did ...
— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson
... sisterhood. She gave me special instructions to bring you along in time for some tea to-morrow, and she means to force you out of your hermitage while she is at Deene Place, so I warn you. Seriously, I think, it may be good for you. You will be sure to meet some decent people there, who will be worth knowing, not only just now, but when Cynthia is married and set up in Sloane Street. Barthrop has taken a house ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... friend," said the shadow to the learned man; "now that I am as fortunate and as powerful as any man can be, I will do something unusually good for you. You shall live in my palace, drive with me in the royal carriage, and have a hundred thousand dollars a year; but you must allow every one to call you a shadow, and never venture to say that you have been a man. And once a year, when I sit in my balcony in the sunshine, ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... beau. But now," she went on, as soon as she could stop laughing, "go to bed, and sleep easy, knowing that Rachel loves you, for I have said it. She loves you too well to take you at your word. I hope she isn't too good for you. I will think it all over, and see what can be done. Good night! Kiss me now for what I have told you, just as you would Rachel, if she ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864 • Various
... 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 ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton
... at the whiskered countenance. "Good for you, old top," she responded, cheerfully. "You ought to go into the Sunday puzzle department. You'd be hung all over with gold-filled watches. Where did you blow ...
— Miss Pat at School • Pemberton Ginther
... "Good for you, Dave!" cried Barringford. "That makes number one. Now let us finish him and see if we can run down ...
— On the Trail of Pontiac • Edward Stratemeyer
... told the Ganymedan, who was rubbing his chin and groaning: "you do exactly as I say, if you know what's good for you." He shook the ...
— Pirates of the Gorm • Nat Schachner
... "Good for you, sonny," came a quiet voice from beyond the group. "Your geography is correct. And you might add for the education of your people that Alaska is only thirty-seven miles from Bolshevik Siberia, and wireless ...
— The Alaskan • James Oliver Curwood
... 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
... child off when he asks a question, and if you give him a single reason he is not able to understand, if he finds that you reason according to your own ideas, not his, he will think what you tell him is good for you but not for him; you will lose his confidence and all your labour is thrown away. But what master will stop short and confess his faults to his pupil? We all make it a rule never to own to the faults we really ...
— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
... more inspired with his own eloquence—or maybe with the whiskey, or the gin, or the grape-juice; until young Philip became so filled with the spirit of the combat that he popped up out of the hay and shouted, "Good for you, old man! Stand up for your rights! Don't let her down you! Hurrah for men!" And the astounded farmer stood staring with his mouth open, while the two "wobbles" leaped up and fled from the barn, so convulsed with laughter they hardly noticed ...
— They Call Me Carpenter • Upton Sinclair
... want to 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 to ...
— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... You see, God in heaven is a good Father to all of us, who knows what we need better than we do. When something we ask for is not very good for us, He gives us something much better, if we confide in Him and do not lose confidence in His love. I am sure what you asked for was not very good for you just now; He has heard you, for He can hear the prayers of all the people in the world at the same time, because He is God Almighty and not a mortal like us. He heard your prayers and said to Himself: 'Yes, Heidi shall get what she is praying for in time.' Now, while God ...
— Heidi - (Gift Edition) • Johanna Spyri
... were of the same kidney—a prig of the first water, you know, Julien. I am never tired of telling you so, am I? Never mind, it's good for you. Have you seen Herr Freudenberg ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... it is not time for you to bear the heat of the day. A little shade is good for you. Let me cover you. It is too soon for ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke
... was the messenger. Come and sit here, my dear,—close to me. Have you ever thought, Anna, that it would be good for you to be married?" ...
— Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope
... according to the behest that we made to the fairest woman of the world, when she came back to us from the Well at the World's End, and it is many and many a year ago since we found any seekers after the Well dwelling here. Therefore have we the more joy in you. And we have brought hither matters good for you, as raiment, and meal, and wine, on our sumpter-beasts; therefore as ye have feasted us this morning, so shall we feast you this even. And if ye will, we shall build for you in the grove yonder such a bower as we build for our own folk on the night ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris
... crying," he said, in a slightly reproving tone. "I am afraid you do a great deal more of that than is good for you. It is a very babyish habit, and you must try to break yourself ...
— Elsie Dinsmore • Martha Finley
... lobby! I found Geoffrey there, 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 foot ...
— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... just thinking, Mrs. Fischlowitz, with your rheumatism and on such a cold day a cape ain't so good for you, neither. Right up under ...
— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst
... think my views have not undergone any change that I know of. I still insist that observation, reason and experience are the things to be depended upon in this world. I still deny the existence of the supernatural. I still insist that nobody can be good for you, or bad for you; that you cannot be punished for the crimes of others, nor rewarded for their virtues. I still insist that the consequences of good actions are always good, and those of bad actions always bad. I insist that nobody can plant thistles ...
— The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews • Robert Green Ingersoll
... good for you to get to bed," said Polly, coaxingly; "it'll make you grow, you know, ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... that you have taken all of it that is good for you at present. I made use of the speediest remedy; vital cases demand sure means, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various
... Ralph Hattersley. "Do you mean to turn from the error of your ways, and be a good husband, a good father, and so forth; as I do, when I get shut of you and all these rollicking devils you call your friends? I think it's time; and your wife is fifty times too good for you, you know—" ...
— The Tenant of Wildfell Hall • Anne Bronte
... to show his friendliness. "She ain't here now, but she'll be here soon. She's about due. Go on up and grab a box for yourselves. The house owes you fellers a drink, it seems to me. Can I send you up a bottle of Pumbry? The fizzy stuff's none too good for you, ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton
... glad when this final game is over, child," exclaimed Mrs. Harlowe anxiously, "I really think you have had more athletics this winter than has been good for you, what with your walking, and skating, dancing, and ...
— Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School • Jessie Graham Flower
... Majella," he said. "If she sent men after Baba, there is no knowing what they might do. It would not do any good for you to say he was yours. They would not believe you; and they might take me too, if the Senora had told them to, and ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson
... said Dr. Burns stoutly, rising in his turn. "A place that is too good for you is not good enough for me. I will ...
— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt
... a mistake. Phil Riggs, our scrawny, half-pint meteorologist, grinned nastily and reached for the plate. "'Smatter, Paul? Don't you like your breakfast? It's good for you—whole wheat contains bran. The staff of life. Man, after that diet of ...
— Let'em Breathe Space • Lester del Rey
... not sin against the Great Spirit; they have not laid hands on an Oomphel-Mother as we did. The oomphel we bring you will do no harm; do you think we would be so wicked as to bring the curse upon you? It will be good for you to learn about oomphel here; in your Place of the Gone Ones ...
— Oomphel in the Sky • Henry Beam Piper
... aren't got narrun—beer, cider, nor limonade—nary a drop. 'Tiddn' no manner o' good for you chaps to stan' there. You'd best toddle along up to The Green Dragon an' see if ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, August 1, 1917. • Various
... ugly thrust of the jaw. Servile and crawling to his masters, the man was ever arrogant and harsh with those beneath his authority. "I repeat the word. Drop that fist, Armstrong, if you know what's good for you. I warn you. Any disturbance, here, and—well, you know what we ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England
... "Good for you, Jim," said his friend heartily, "but if I had a crew that had been worth a tinker's curse, the night that he attacked the yacht, I would have saved that for you! I verily believe that Broome owned several men in my crew, and the rest of them were ...
— Frontier Boys in Frisco • Wyn Roosevelt
... your further journey, my pretty dear," said he: "the night air is not good for you—by ...
— La Vendee • Anthony Trollope
... come to us, you can listen to her as much as you like," said Alick soothingly. "We will not hinder you; and, as my mother says, it is not good for you ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, - No. 97, January, 1876 • Various
... at the discovery. A bitter and hot spring might be very useful. He had imbibed—like many others—from the teaching of his childhood that any bitter liquid was good for you. As he advanced farther the valley continued to spread out. It was now perhaps a half mile in width, and well wooded. The creek became less turbulent, flowing with a depth of several ...
— The Last of the Chiefs - A Story of the Great Sioux War • Joseph Altsheler
... Foster, in confirmation of the statement. "Good for you, Judge, git breath and go for ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 • Various
... that—but I really think it might be good for you to make a retreat where your cousin Giselle is, instead of plunging into ...
— Jacqueline, v1 • Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)
... where you like between dinner and tea time. With the latter regulation I do not intend to interfere, or at any rate I shall not do so so long as I see that no bad effects come of it; but I shall do so only with this proviso: I do not think it good for you to be going about the town. I shall therefore put Marsden out of bounds. You will be free to ramble where you like in the country, but any boy who enters the town will be severely punished. I am not yet sufficiently ...
— Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots • G. A. Henty
... bulged a little; and if Dade had not wisely side-stepped he would have received another one of Jack's muscle-tingling slaps on the shoulder. "Whee-ee! Say, you're getting appreciated, at last, old man. Good for you! Give me a job?" ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower
... "Good for you!" Hiram cried. "Set clus' and you'll get there!" It seemed, after all, that ill repute had not spread far. His spirits rose, and he whipped ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... Tom. Come for a bite to eat? Jest sit you down, and I'll have dinner on the table in no time. I got something good for you. Old Upden, the shepherd, brought me a nice rabbit this mornin', and I've stewed it. It's the last one we'll get, I expect. Upden was telling me he ain't going to snare no more, because the boys steal his snares, which ain't no joke, with copper wire ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees
... she said. "You—you've done me good. But it's not good for you, is it? I've made you quite damp. You don't think you'll catch cold?"—dabbing at his shoulder with ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... that it would have been no earthly good for you two," continued Sebright. "That's the point I made. If O'Brien knows anything, he knows you are on board this ship. He reckons on it as a dead certainty. Now, it is very evident that we could refuse to give you up, ...
— Romance • Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
... good for you. They all go to the making of a man—calling out that God-dependence in him which is the only true self- dependence, the only true strength. Well said old Hezekiah, "Lord, by all these things men live (by trouble, sorrow, sickness), ...
— Out of the Deep - Words for the Sorrowful • Charles Kingsley
... down from vestibule to FLYNN.) Well, keep your eye on something else, if you know what's good for you. (Takes badge ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page
... ask me!—Hanging is too good for you. You are found out, and [points to the Host] 'twas this blessed old fool that has undone you. Yes, you may look, but your hair will not curl any longer. Your plot is discovered. Noll knows all, and will only spare your life on condition of the colonies. [During this time Florence ...
— Cromwell • Alfred B. Richards
... heart," the girl said to the subaltern, pointing with her racquet to the disappearing form of her friend. "Nothing's too good for you for saving these precious mites. But she'll never let them out of her sight again until ...
— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly
... brave men, even though they be friendless," he said, with lofty courtesy. "How much warmer then is the state of my feelings toward one who is also a friend of Sigurd Haraldsson? Be welcome, Robert Sans-Peur. The best that Brattahlid has to offer shall not be thought too good for you." ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... "Good for you, Cecil!" called out another young woman from, the broad hammock in which she had been dawdling with half-alert ears through the foregoing conversation. "Spoken like a true Briton. What is ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... "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, and by the time the other diver gets ...
— Joe Strong, the Boy Fish - or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank • Vance Barnum
... glance at Henley, who had, on one occasion, knocked him down in some dispute over a debt at the store. He turned to the boy and took the hoe from him. "You go drive up that cow. I'll finish this patch myself, and don't you dare come back and say you can't find her, nuther. If you know what's good for you, ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben
... "Good for you," I exclaimed in admiration. "They talk about Indian fortitude. If I had given one of those Indians some sleeping pills, he'd have taken them all and asked for more. But you are the real American stuff, the pluck that can't be licked, and I'll soon have ...
— The Arctic Prairies • Ernest Thompson Seton
... 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, that you sleep with your windows open, and that ...
— Jack - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet
... and I remember the conversation began by his asking a lady in the room about the Centennial display, from which she had just returned. He asked her if she would advise him to take his daughter. She said she thought it would be a very nice thing for the girl, and she added, "It will be good for you. You will see so much that is new and wonderful. It will be of use to you in your work, I am sure." He said, "Well, I don't know about that. There won't be anything much that is new to me. I've seen it all. I was in Philadelphia in 1840." Then he gave us quite a talk ...
— Men, Women, and Gods - And Other Lectures • Helen H. Gardener
... love, or honestly hoped 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 ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett
... you," said Mrs. Smith at last, "and it's no good for you to keep coming here to see her. She will never come here again. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but you don't look over and above respectable. Your coat is torn, your trousers are patched in a dozen places, ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no good for you to do.' ...
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... "Good for you, Frank!" exclaimed the other; but Bob understood the nature of the risk they were taking, and he was not quite so ...
— The Saddle Boys of the Rockies - Lost on Thunder Mountain • James Carson
... or softening to the clergy! It will do little good for you—it is you, not the poem, they are at. They will say they frightened you—forbid ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... anything. Just eat it. Eat a bowl of it every day. Here, have an orange, too. But no cookies or candy, none of that sweet, starchy stuff. And no string beans. They're not good for you." ...
— It's like this, cat • Emily Neville
... your sake in the first place, and ours as well," said her hostess; "do you think you could induce a short nap after breakfast? It would be so good for you—and you might dream something. There would still be time for us to get ...
— The Toys of Peace • Saki
... dwell on the subject; it isn't natural, and it isn't good for you. The desire to see justice done is commendable and proper, but the desire for revenge isn't. You must not sacrifice your life to it. There is a law of compensation; ...
— The Net • Rex Beach
... 'Brute force, padded superficially by civilization,' Sommers added to himself, disliking Porter's cold eye shots at him. 'Young man,' his little buried eyes seemed to say, 'young man, if you know what's good for you; if you are the right sort; if you do the proper thing, we'll push you. Everything in this world depends on being in the right carriage.' Sommers was tempted whenever he met him to ask him for a good tip: he seemed always to ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
... "Good for you, my Irish Pat," said Frank; "but, do you know, I like them better this way. There's an attraction about that general conglomeration that appeals to me more strongly than those over-neat concoctions that look as if they had sat in a ...
— Patty at Home • Carolyn Wells
... for flight like a butterfly, the dimples playing hide-and-seek on her face, and her whole soul and body saying to the sons of men, 'Come, seek me on your knees—you know you can't help loving me! It is very good for you to ...
— The Dew of Their Youth • S. R. Crockett
... her, 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 clear in ...
— The Brown Mask • Percy J. Brebner
... be good for you to be away from it all for a time. It is hard to think clearly, hurried by my impatient anxiety to have you reach a certain conclusion. I realize that. But I know you will ...
— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland
... 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 ...
— Madame de Mauves • Henry James
... 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 ...
— With Moore At Corunna • G. A. Henty
... 'low it'll be good for you in the long run. 'Troubles is seasonin'. 'Simmons ain't good twel dey er fros'bit,' ...
— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston
... cannot leave this subject of first love. How do you know it was not good for you to love as you did? It is strange you should resolve to love no more because at one time you loved deeply enough almost to remain in love. It cannot be that you have grown old and that nature is resolving for you. You tell me ...
— The Kempton-Wace Letters • Jack London
... tried for something good for you," said Laura sadly. "Cora, dear, you will—you will be a little easy on Hedrick, ...
— The Flirt • Booth Tarkington
... than death." Said Lazarus; "and that was what He knew; And that is what it was that I could see This morning in his eyes. I was afraid, But not as you are. There is worse than death, Mary; and there is nothing that is good For you in dying while you are still here. Mary, never go back to that again. You would not hear me if I told you more, For I should say it only in a language That you are not to learn by going back. To be a child again is ...
— The Three Taverns • Edwin Arlington Robinson
... funny! Here's a good joke! I fell asleep in my dressing-room when the play was over, and there I was calmly snoring after everybody else had left the theatre. Ah! I'm a foolish old man, a poor old dodderer! I have been drinking again, and so I fell asleep in there, sitting up. That was clever! Good for you, old boy! [Calls] Yegorka! Petrushka! Where the devil are you? Petrushka! The scoundrels must be asleep, and an earthquake wouldn't wake them now! Yegorka! [Picks up the stool, sits down, and puts the candle on the floor] Not a sound! Only ...
— Swan Song • Anton Checkov
... hope it will be very pleasant, mother dear. It's a pretty place; and they say it will be very good for you." ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner
... and I take it, doctor or no doctor." This was said with a you-don't-fool-me expression on his solemn face. "W'y, one doctor'll tell you one thing, and another'll tell you another. One says bathing's good for you, and another says no; one wants you to get up bright and early, and another says sleep a plenty; one will half-starve you, and the other says the thing is ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston
... "Good for you. I'll appoint you first lieutenant. I guess that nurse is all right, though she doesn't seem to ...
— Old Rose and Silver • Myrtle Reed
... you pirates," he commenced. "An' after this day, if you know what's good for you, never ...
— Smoke Bellew • Jack London
... hypocrites! who make a whining pretence, according to a fixed rule, of verbally uttering thanks to God for every chastisement, and who say this is good for you. So do not I, being upright, and God seeing my heart, who also sees that I murmur not; but if it were not good in the end, yet I submit. He is not offended that with upright sincerity I give no thanks for it. And I say that, unless a man perceives the particular way in which ...
— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey
... "Good for you!" Whyn exclaimed. "You're the right kind of a scoutmaster to have. I shall tell that to ...
— Rod of the Lone Patrol • H. A. Cody
... bathing suit cost more than any two of my dresses. It is absolutely 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 ought to, ...
— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer
... "Good for you, son," exclaimed the captain. "First I took you for that German raider they say is ...
— The Boy Allies with Uncle Sams Cruisers • Ensign Robert L. Drake
... his companion with amusement and admiration. "Good for you!" he cried. "Tell the truth and shame the devil and set an example to all honest men. Mr. Welles, you have ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... "Good for you, Page!" nodded Farley "That's the whole game for a gentleman—and that's what either a midshipman or a Naval officer is required to be. Henkel, old fellow, you are a little too hot under your blouse collar tonight. ...
— Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis • H. Irving Hancock
... compelling him to choose between his honour and his concern for you. And since he is the very soul of honour, he must sacrifice you and himself, your happiness and his own, everything that makes life good for you both, to his duty." ...
— The Snare • Rafael Sabatini
... "Good for you, Jack!" exclaimed the colonel, thrusting out his hand. "I looked for something like this when I heard that you had purchased a Confederate flag and brought it home with you. Where did you get the flag, if it is a ...
— Marcy The Blockade Runner • Harry Castlemon
... everything that you like, pa!" said the spoilt youth. "If wine is good for you, it must be good for me. Remember, you told me yesterday that I must obey you in ...
— Mark Hurdlestone - Or, The Two Brothers • Susanna Moodie
... Society? When I was a Junior I trusted to the wisdom of the Seniors, instead of listening to every newcomer who talked frothy nonsense. I tell you, it is the monitresses who are your best friends, and who can decide what's good for you. Are you going to change the whole of our Briarcroft organizations at the bidding of a girl who has only been in ...
— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil
... Yeah, you, freshman—you with the skinny legs. You and your fat friend carry my trunk up to the fourth floor—and if you drop it, I'll break your fool necks."... "Freshman! go down to the station and get my suit-cases. Here are the checks. Hurry back if you know what's good for you."... "Freshman! go up to Hill Twenty-eight and put the beds together."... "Freshman! come up to my room. I want ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... McMurdo nodded. "Good for you, Brother Baldwin," he said. "You and I have had our differences, but you have said ...
— The Valley of Fear • Arthur Conan Doyle
... "Right good for you!" said her sister. "I'll not help at that work; I shall leave it for you. As to foreign fruits and spices, we'll have none of them, save now and then a lemon for the Lady Lettice—she loves the flavour, and we'll not have her go short of comforts—but for all else, I make no 'count of your foreign ...
— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt
... more 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
... "Good for you, Dick, pile it on," whispered Tom. Then he pulled Sam by the arm. "Come on, let us appear from behind another rock—they'll think we are two more of ...
— The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht • Edward Stratemeyer
... my nerves; I mean the emotion and distress it caused me. I suffered a great deal of pain, and was quite unwell for several days after it. Will it not be a pity if I can't come and be spoilt any more by you and Dorothy at St. Leonard's? It was so pleasant and good for you. ...
— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble
... said cordially. "She's a precious sight too good for you, you old rotter. You bear that fact steadily in mind, and we'll make something of ...
— Love Among the Chickens • P. G. Wodehouse
... "Good for you!" he chirped, as Dave worked the ailerons to counteract the leaning of the machine. A swing of the rudder had caused the biplane to bank, but quick as a flash Dave righted it by getting the warping control on the opposite tack, avoiding ...
— Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane • Roy Rockwood |
