For let us suppose they were under no guardianship, lacking in creative ingenuity 183 and forethought; let us suppose they were steered only by material forces, 184 and not by any special faculties (the one attracting what is proper to it, another rejecting what is foreign, and yet another causing alteration and adhesion of the matter destined to nourish it); if we suppose this, I am sure it would be ridiculous for us to discuss natural, or, still more, psychical, activities—or, in fact, life as a whole.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But supposing, which seldom happens, that the conquerors and conquered never incorporate into one people, under the same laws and freedom; let us see next what power a lawful conqueror has over the subdued: and that I say is purely despotical.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

But now, supposing that in spite of the general relief afforded by setting apart a portion of the Army, wind and weather and the toils of War had produced a diminution even on the part which as a spare force had been reserved for later use, still we must take a comprehensive general view of the whole, and therefore ask, Will this diminution of force suffice to counterbalance the gain in forces, which we, through our superiority in numbers, may be able to make in more ways than one?
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

The stranger and Irus have quarreled and are going to fight, let us set them on to do so at once.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

First, let us suppose that the above left -hand Diagram is the Biliteral Diagram that we have been using in Book III., and that we change it into a Triliteral Diagram by drawing an Inner Square , so as to divide each of its 4 Cells into 2 portions, thus making 8 Cells altogether.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

So I chanced another flyer: “Let us suppose a case.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

One day as the sun went down, they came to the cave in the Mount of Pion, and they said, each to his fellow, Let us sleep here, and go and feast and make merry with our friends when the morning cometh.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Nor should they define an oligarchy a government where the supreme power is in the hands of a few: for let us suppose the number of a people to be thirteen hundred, and that of these one thousand were rich, who would not permit the three hundred poor to have any share in the government, although they were free, and their equal in everything else; no one would say, that this government was a democracy.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

'Long Time' is required simply and solely because the intrigue and its circumstances presuppose a marriage consummated, and an adultery possible, for (let us say) some weeks.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

year at Berlin, skillfully removed the floating cartilage, and I saw my Aunt Lucretia's face light up, satisfied with the straight limb, and my weight upon it.
— from Jack Ballington, Forester by John Trotwood Moore

Fessenden looked up, surprised at this question.
— from The Clue by Carolyn Wells

Could you but forget for a time partisan contest and unprofitable political speculations, you might successfully meet the dangerous exigencies of your state with those efficient remedies which the spirit of the age suggests; you might, and that too without pecuniary loss, relinquish your claims to human beings as slaves, and employ them as free laborers, under such restraint and supervision as their present degraded condition may render necessary.
— from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII, Complete The Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life, and Criticism by John Greenleaf Whittier

But on the other hand, it is a statement which experience, derived from a variety of witnesses on various occasions, assures us is mostly false; stated numerically it is found, let us suppose, to be false 99 times in a hundred.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

[242] "First, let us settle about the price to be paid."
— from Charlie Codman's Cruise: A Story for Boys by Alger, Horatio, Jr.