Boast of one thing and you will be found lacking in that and a few other things as well.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

Be one of them, and you will know all that there is to know.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

You have begun by making him an actor that he may learn to be one of the audience; you must continue your task, for from the theatre things are what they seem, from the stage they seem what they are.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There were several prisoners from the French army in Orël, and the doctor brought one of them, a young Italian, to see Pierre.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It may seem strange that Ophelia should be one of these; and yet Shakespearean literature and the experience of teachers show that there is much difference of opinion regarding her, and in particular that a large number of readers feel a kind of personal irritation against her.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

—The boys may find it feasible to go in a body once or twice a year on an educational tour—to the state fair; to study some particular thing in the city; to gather data for the solution of some local problem; to make a study of the habitat of some bird or animal; to gather specimens of rocks or plants; and so on.
— from Farm Boys and Girls by William A. (William Arch) McKeever

I thought he could be one of those, as you might say, and bring us good luck.
— from Roy Blakeley's Motor Caravan by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

I was determined not to be one of these, and yet I had not regarded her for two minutes before I found myself forgetting the real purpose of my visit, and taking a seat with the rest, in anticipation of something for which as yet I had no name, even in my own mind.
— from The Bronze Hand 1897 by Anna Katharine Green

Its threshold is crossed but once or twice a year, I believe, by three or four of the most exalted divines, but you may look into it freely enough through a couple of gilded lattices.
— from Italian Hours by Henry James

Nothing was said about the peculiar provisions of the will regarding the investment he was to make; but the boundless opportunities open to a youth with unlimited wealth at his disposal were all pointed out.
— from Dick Hamilton's Fortune; Or, The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis

And remember, that if there should be any misunderstanding between one of them and you, we should all interpose; and with effect, no doubt: but with the other, it would be self-do, self-have; and who would either care or dare to put in a word for you?
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

Nick had often seen her—she had always come to Beauclere once or twice a year.
— from The Tragic Muse by Henry James

She was particularly attracted by one of them, a young man of prepossessing mien and seductive style of speech, and she felt her heart beat wildly whenever he came with the other visitors.
— from Legendary Yorkshire by Frederick Ross

and the sooner you weed those kind of birds out of the army you will get somewheres and if you don't you won't.
— from The Real Dope by Ring Lardner