On that account want I the honest ones to say to one another: “We love each other: let us SEE TO IT that we maintain our love!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

My object in mentioning these things is to show that if we concede the real objective existence of, let us say, the apparently well-authenticated banshee ( Bean-sidhe , ‘woman-fairy’), where are we to stop?
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

For military success is due to courage and good fortune more than anything else or, let us say, if you wish, to intelligence as well, though of the common everyday sort.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

It brings into prominence the sympathetic relation of man to man, the existence of benevolence, gratitude, prayer, of truces between enemies, of loans upon security, of arrangements for the protection of property.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If you, Stranger, who, I understand, are named Humphrey, should be, as I gather, a heaven-master, naturally you will ask me how I could fix an exact date by the stars without an error of, let us say, from five to ten thousand years.
— from When the World Shook Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

IV One must not expect in these stories the epic lineaments, the many incidents, woven into one great event of, let us say, the story of the War for the Brown Bull of Cuailgne, or that of the last gathering at Muirthemne.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8) Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. Bibliography by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

The effect of land under sunshine is to throw heat into the general atmosphere, and to distribute it by the carrying power of the latter over the whole earth.
— from Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young by John Timbs

[137] and of this we may now try the experiment ourselves: Let us spread the nets, and see if none of these birds, the carriers, [Pg 116] will fall into them; which is as much as to say that you and I will play together at One-and-Thirty, as if it was in earnest; perhaps somebody may make the third, and he shall be sure to be the first to leave his money behind him.
— from Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards by William Andrew Chatto

Under the excuse of looking up some precedents, he locked his doors to all comers for two hours, and paced his room.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Then they said to each other, “Let us seek safety in flight.
— from Santal Folk Tales by Campbell, A., of the Santal mission

The old prides and hatreds of the clans still linger in the forms of the Scotch names, and I believe you may make a mortal enemy of, let us say, Mr. Macdonald by calling him Mr. M'Donald or vice versa .
— from Leaves in the Wind by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner

Then, from the time of Ivan the Terrible, she unified her European territory, and expanded eastward on land, until she had embraced within her dominion much of Central and all of Northern Asia.
— from The Russo-Japanese Conflict: Its Causes and Issues by Kan'ichi Asakawa

The moment the royal assent has been given, that which was a bill becomes an Act, and instantly has the force and effect of law, unless some time for the commencement of its operation should have been specially appointed.
— from About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

“Because I’ve been on the pier with you to-night,” was the reply of the chief of the detective department of Russia, “and I have seen how closely you have been watched by a person whom even Oleg Lobko, usually so well-informed, does not suspect—a person who is extremely dangerous.
— from The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia by William Le Queux