But she's nothing beside we—a junior branch of us, no doubt, hailing long since King Norman's day.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

After this we are not surprised to hear that a Professor of Divinity (perhaps ‘a late famous vicar of Croydon in Surrey,’ as the translator thinks) is desirous of being sent thither as a missionary by the High Bishop, ‘yea, and that he may himself be made Bishop of Utopia, nothing doubting that he must obtain this Bishopric with suit; and he counteth that a godly ccxxiii suit which proceedeth not of the desire of honour or lucre, but only of a godly zeal.’
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

After this we are not surprised to hear that a Professor of Divinity (perhaps 'a late famous vicar of Croydon in Surrey,' as the translator thinks) is desirous of being sent thither as a missionary by the High Bishop, 'yea, and that he may himself be made Bishop of Utopia, nothing doubting that he must obtain this Bishopric with suit; and he counteth that a godly suit which proceedeth not of the desire of honour or lucre, but only of a godly zeal.'
— from The Republic by Plato

Not satisfied with the story as first related by the medicine-men lest error perchance should have crept in, it was [pg xx] repeated and verified by others until no doubt of its entire accuracy remained.
— from The North American Indian, Vol. 1 by Edward S. Curtis

The captain and I swayed together, staggering and perspiring, bothered excessively by the ungainly rolling of the barque, both of us nearly dead with heat, and I half suffocated besides by the abominable acid stench from the hold.
— from An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell

I replied that I trusted it might be so, but the ways of the Almighty were beyond our understanding, nor did it become us to pass judgment upon them.
— from Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

My eyes serve for both of us now, don't they?
— from The Dead Secret: A Novel by Wilkie Collins

I had escaped from provincialism, from the obscure purgatory of the wholesale grocery business; new vistas, exciting and stimulating, had been opened up; nor did I offend the sensibilities and prejudices of the new friends I made, but gave a hearty consent to a code I found congenial.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

But as we grow up (which some of the best of us never do) we realise that piracy is not the best way to establish the ownership of cargoes, any more than the ordeal is the way to settle cases at law, or the rack of proving a dogma, or the Spanish American method the way to settle differences between Liberals and Conservatives.
— from Peace Theories and the Balkan War by Norman Angell

Both of us, no doubt, had been much longer there had we not been interrupted.
— from Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Hewlett

We all, the best of us, need discipline.
— from Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade