Up, pretty well, the weather being become pretty warm again, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and I confess having received so lately a token from Mrs. Russell, I did find myself concerned for our not buying some tallow of her (which she bought on purpose yesterday most unadvisedly to her great losse upon confidence of putting it off to us).
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Now, Gentlemen, let us come over to this side of the water.
— from The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

“That girl lives upon criticising other people,” he said to himself.
— from The Laurel Walk by Mrs. Molesworth

Rather let us become oblivious of our own selves, and drinking down the wine of heavenly grace, let us cry out our joy, and lose ourselves in the beauty of the All-Glorious.
— from Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá

"Whist, captain!" said Ned, checking his own spirits with a mock air of gravity, "let us conduct ourselves like gentlemen; it is only your low fellows who get into such confoundedly high spirits; men of the world like us should do everything as if their hearts were broken."
— from Paul Clifford — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Some hint of Jack's discontent, or rather of his vague dream of flight, came into Dick's busy head, and when one day they were tramping down by the James together, he said, owlishly: "I say, Jack, when Vincent goes, let us clear out!"
— from The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

Finally, when it broke down and we had no fresh accumulator, we had to unlimber the front gun, attach drag ropes to the tractor, haul vigorously on the ropes until the engine started up, then back the tractor and front limber back to the guns, limber up, cast off the ropes and go ahead again.
— from With British Guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron

It was fired upon from the terrace of the Tuileries, and from a gunboat lying under cover of the Pont-Royal.
— from Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by John Leighton