Whereunto they all said, Let us go thither and see, and stay you here for us; for this very day, without further respite, do we make account to bring you a certain report thereof.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Then doing the like also with his jaws and tongue, he did cast a squinting look upon Goatsnose, diddering and shivering his chaps, as apes use to do nowadays, and rabbits, whilst, almost starved with hunger, they are eating oats in the sheaf.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Along the tedious length of Benvill Lane she began to grow tired, and she leant upon gates and paused by milestones.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy
As he was between the columns of porphyry there and the tombs in question and the door of the church, which was shut, Messer Betto and his company, coming a-horseback along the Piazza di Santa Reparata, espied him among the tombs and said, 'Let us go plague him.' Accordingly, spurring their horses, they charged all down upon him in sport and coming upon him ere
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio
To James at Stirling let us go, When, if thou wilt be still his foe, Or if the King shall not agree To grant thee grace and favor free, I plight mine honor, oath, and word That, to thy native strengths restored, With each advantage shalt thou stand That aids thee now to guard thy land.' XIV.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott
In spite of this affliction, she looked unusually gay and graceful as she glided away.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Now I know many of these self-sacrificing gentlemen I see around me have in the past of their lives been trying to do good, looking for their reward largely in the next world; but I fear in the future, when we come to fix the place of our next annual meeting, they will forget the spirit of self-sacrifice and the world to come, and say, "Let us go to Ottumwa!"
— from Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family by Charles Clinton Nourse
In 1728 these seas swarmed with the pirates of Spain, and one night in September of that year the crew of a schooner landed upon Gardiner's Island, and for three days it was given up to plunder.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, November, 1878 by Various
"Oh! I guess it was Carter, 'cause she's always saying that Maude is clear Carter, just like her folds, and Marcus is all Simpson, like Uncle Gregory."
— from Polly of the Hospital Staff by Emma C. Dowd
" "Thus saith the Lord of hosts, it shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities; and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts."
— from The National Preacher, Vol. 2. No. 6., Nov. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers by William Patton
He jumped, therefore, from the carriage, hastened to Oswald, and said, "Let us go on!
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen
Angy started, looked up, going first red
— from Old Lady Number 31 by Louise Forsslund
As the two palms met and pressed each other Mordecai recovered some sense of his surroundings, and said, “Let us go now.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
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