A recent French author [96] thus describes the commercial and colonial conditions, at the accession of Louis XIV., of this people, which beyond any other in modern times, save only England, has shown how the harvest of the sea can lift up to wealth and power a country intrinsically weak and without resources:— "Holland had become the Phœnicia of modern times.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

He bowed his head almost as low as the table, to a complimenting nobleman; and called out, 'My Lord, my Lord, I do not desire all this ceremony; let us tell our minds to one another quietly.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Round which, we say, poor France nearly all ground down suicidally likewise into rubbish and Chaos, will be glad to rally; to begin growing, and new-shaping her inorganic dust: very slowly, through centuries, through Napoleons, Louis Philippes, and other the like media and phases,—into a new, infinitely preferable France, we can hope!— These wheelings and movements in the region of the Argonne, which are all faithfully described by Dumouriez himself, and more interesting to us than Hoyle's or Philidor's best Game of Chess, let us, nevertheless, O Reader, entirely omit;—and hasten to remark two things: the first a minute private, the second a large public thing.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In walking under high Ionic colonnades, looking upwards to a horizon defined by clear and noble lines, with reflections of his transfigured form by his side in shining marble, and around him solemnly marching or quietly moving men, with harmoniously sounding voices and rhythmical pantomime, would he not in the presence of this perpetual influx of beauty have to raise his hand to Apollo and exclaim: "Blessed race of Hellenes!
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I myself could live upon very little.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

As for me; as far as I am concerned Let us go away.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Another lancer, observing this struggle, galloped up and tried to spear the major and relieve his officer; but the former, by a sudden jerk and desperate exertion, placed the French officer uppermost, who received the mortal thrust below his cuirass and continued lying upon the major’s body for near ten minutes, sword in hand.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

As it can give no umbrage to the writers against the plan of the federal Constitution, let us suppose, that as they are the most zealous, so they are also the most sagacious, of those who think the late convention were unequal to the task assigned them, and that a wiser and better plan might and ought to be substituted.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Hearing this from the herald, and supposing that the herald was speaking the truth and that he had himself been betrayed by Prexaspes, that is to say, that when Prexaspes was sent to kill Smerdis he had not done so, Cambyses looked upon Prexaspes and said: "Prexaspes, was it thus that thou didst perform for me the thing which I gave over to thee to do?"
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Then maybe I can lie under the same sod with the red boys and not be ashamed.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

You shall play Ariel, Mann, and dear old Freeland shall be Ceres.... Let us be original.
— from Mummery: A Tale of Three Idealists by Gilbert Cannan

The two sentinels therefore did not hesitate, but set their long cavalry lances upright against the walls on either side, took down the bar, and laid hold of the ponderous gates, each man taking one and throwing himself backwards with all his weight to move it.
— from Arethusa by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Come, let us twine round our brows wreaths of poison ivy (that is for idiocy), and wander hand in hand with sociology in the summer fields.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry

"It's of no consequence," said the Commandant, looking up (but he was desperately confused).
— from Major Vigoureux by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Suppose a bird should open his mouth and throat as widely as possible, hold all his lyrical organs steady, and blow his windpipe with all the strength his lungs could command, it is obvious that the effect would be a clear, loud, uniform whistle, such as the meadowlark sends across the green fields.
— from Our Bird Comrades by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

In any case, let us hasten slowly, and wait till our doubt acquires some little certitude.
— from The Last Miracle by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

“Have you read the history of Scotland, Mistress Dunham?” demanded the Corporal, looking up at his pretty companion, for the first time with something like a smile on his hard, repulsive countenance.
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

A friendly citizen let us perch on his outside car.
— from Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (1 of 2) (2nd ed.) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert

Matrimony is like an old oak; age gives durability to the trunk, skill trims the branches, and affection keeps the foliage ever green. But come, let us in.
— from She Would Be a Soldier The Plains of Chippewa by M. M. (Mordecai Manuel) Noah

It is nonsense to seek to deny [Pg 251] the fact that you are not a creature like us,—it is no use trying to persuade ourselves you are like such beings as we are, so we may as well give it up.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue