Otherwise, the place will be quickly forgotten, it will never be found when I am dead of the same malady, I shall be laid under some other heap of poor grass.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

He pronounced the most severe sentences upon Offenders, which, the moment after, Compassion induced him to mitigate: He undertook the most daring enterprizes, which the fear of their consequences soon obliged him to abandon: His inborn genius darted a brilliant light upon subjects the most obscure; and almost instantaneously his Superstition replunged them in darkness more profound than that from which they had just been rescued.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Brothers, let us squander our morning in futile songs. 85 Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

Perhaps it may be well in this connection to draw a distinction as to the amount of capital required between the case of the building of a town and the building, let us say, of a large iron bridge across an estuary.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

I remember one funny story about himself that made grandmother, who was working her bread on the bread-board, laugh until she wiped her eyes with her bare arm, her hands being floury.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

When the word which has here an unusual sense (or whose regular English equivalent is not used in translating this phrase) is one which will not be looked up, such as a familiar preposition, its special definition for this occasion is appended in parentheses to the appropriate definition of the other word, which definition it precedes or follows according to the order of the Spanish phrase: thus, under acabar , 'end ( por with)' means ' acabar end; acabar por end with'; under adelante , '( más further) on' means ' adelante on; más adelante further on.'
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The sublime Feast of Pikes, with its effulgence of brotherly love, unknown since the Age of Gold, has changed nothing.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

When Anderson calls Moses a Grand Master, Joshua his Deputy, and Aholiab and Bezaleel Grand Wardens, the expression is to be looked upon simply as a façon de parler , a mode of speech entirely figurative in its character, and by no means intended to convey the idea which is entertained in respect to officers of that character in the present system.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

“I am going to be happy,” said she, “but let us say nothing, and it will come of itself.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But let us see how he mends the matter in his own which follows.
— from His Majesties Declaration Defended by John Dryden

“I hope, never to return,” replied Mr. Goodlow, “and that these weeks of folly and punishment may not be lost upon us all; but let us speak no more of it.”
— from Superior Fishing Or, the Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

But let us stop assuming that the spelling book will rub the Decalogue into the conscience.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, April 1884, No. 7 by Chautauqua Institution

But as the truce-boats went off one after another, and week after week passed by, leaving us still in our dark and wearisome prison, hope again died away.
— from Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure by William Pittenger

“Let us therefore seek honestly after truth; let us yield nothing to the claims of birth, to the authority of parents and pastors, but let us summon to the bar of conscience and of reason all that they have taught us from our childhood.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Burges looked up, shrugged his shoulders, muttered "I call that damnable," and walked on.
— from John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. (1847-1900), a Memoir by Hunter Blair, David Oswald, Sir

But what a pity that two fine boys like us should be kept apart by that awful spirit which prompts men to hate one another for the love of God, and to lie like slaves for the pure love of truth."
— from The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith

Such is the law of boiling in the air, but let us see what it is in a vacuum.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution

As they sat talking together Baldur looked up suddenly, and said, "Is it not strange, Father Odin, that we do not find any traces of that giant who fled from us, and who escaped drowning in his father's blood?"
— from The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology by Eliza Keary