A faithful portrait of McKenzie will be seen at the beginning of the first volume of his "Life and Times," by Mr. Charles Lindsey, a work which will be carefully and profitably studied by future investigators in the field of Upper Canadian history.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Few of us could have walked.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

This young girl was Dorothy Camerden, and it took but a moment's contemplation of the scene for me to feel assured that it was against her this feeling of universal constraint had been directed.
— from The Amethyst Box by Anna Katharine Green

A flicker of uneasiness crossed his face, but it was gone in a moment.
— from The Gray Phantom by Herman Landon

All that has hitherto been said of their secret doctrine of systematic infidelity and sedition, is by no means founded on untenable conjectures, historical accusations, or forced confessions; but on the free acknowledgment of their teachers and masters; who, after having long concealed the atrocities of impiety from the eyes of the world, under the mask of the most profound hypocrisy, on a sudden lifted the veil, and published, to the profane, the mysteries of atheism and immorality, hitherto the inheritance of the initiated.
— from The History of the Assassins, Derived from Oriental Sources by Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph, Freiherr von

Without a sigh or sign of impatience, He 'welcomed them'—a difficult thing to do, and one which few of us could have achieved.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

He will be glad of it, because, except his mother Maria and a few of us children, hardly any one used it; all had the impudence to say "Gawk."
— from Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

Without any feeling of unendurable conceit, he understood that no one but himself could hold the bowmen before an assault, however weak.
— from The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah

Phrases like, some of them , one of you , many of us , any of them , few of us , &c., have no analogues in the singular number, such as one of me , a few of thee , &c.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Peltrie, Madame de la, founder of Ursulines Convent; her heart deposited in Jesuits' Church.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

While the enemy is still dangerous and more work remains, the American and Iraqi surges have achieved results few of us could have imagined just one year ago.
— from State of the Union Addresses by George W. (George Walker) Bush