It was most intolerably dirty; for it was Monday morning; and it had been tenanted by six drunken people, who had been locked up, elsewhere, since Saturday night.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

But let us examine that also; because neither is one day present as a whole.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

So hotly would I flare up, whenever the abuse of handsome boys was even mentioned at the table, and with such uncompromising sternness would I protest against having my ears insulted by such filthy talk, that I came to be looked upon, especially by the mother, as one of the philosophers.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

I could dine without a tablecloth, but without a clean napkin, after the German fashion, very incommodiously; I foul them more than the Germans or Italians do, and make but little use either of spoon or fork.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Rather than kill a poor cuadrillero, who was doing his duty, I let him inflict it.” “But look,” urged Elias, after a moment’s silence, “look what a frightful catastrophe you are going to bring down upon our unfortunate people.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

But do you know you’re horribly captious to-day; I ran in to you with a light and open heart, and you seem to be laying up every word I say against me.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But,” said Albert, emitting a volume of smoke and balancing his chair on its hind legs, “only madmen, or blockheads like us, ever do travel.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But let us examine the mechanism.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But let us explain what lying means to the child.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Do not rely, I said, on a probability derived from the analogy of painting; but let us examine further and see 318 C whether the faculty with which poetical imitation is concerned is good or bad.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

But, let us examine the bold pretensions of human righteousness by the moral law.
— from Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de Courcy by Richard De Courcy

And now, as it will be a frequent article of impeachment against Napoleon in this book, let us examine into the truth of his turning Mahometan, and see, first, what foundation it had in fact from the mouths of his own countrymen.
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 1 (of 2) by John Ashton

But let us examine him carefully in detail.
— from Corea or Cho-sen: The Land of the Morning Calm by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

H2 anchor CHAPTER 7 ‘Although we are yet some way from our hotel,’ remarked Popanilla’s conductor, ‘we have now arrived at a part of the city where I can ease you, without difficulty, from your troublesome burthen; let us enter here!’
— from The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

In order to get out and in Hollyhock had taken pains early in the day to secure the gate keys of the Palace of the Kings; but both horse and girl forgot that the gates of The Garden, the beloved home of Lightning Speed, would be locked until early in the morning.
— from Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief by L. T. Meade

No more; but let us enter:—Hold!
— from Dryden's Works Vol. 08 (of 18) by John Dryden

"I would have swam ashore long ago, but at night I have always been locked up, ever since I was captured, in a cabin below.
— from With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Gentlemen, we pray you, dispose as you please of what belongs to yourselves, but let us entreat you to allow us to use, or to exchange, according to our own fancy, the fruit of our own labor, the sweat of our own brows.
— from Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frédéric Bastiat

But let us examine the reasonableness of them.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Jonathan Swift

— Perhaps you are right: but let us examine.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote