As an example of its use, let us suppose that upon measuring a boiler we find that its diameter is 54 inches, and that the distance from the upper tubes to the top of the shell is 25 inches.
— from Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room Useful to Engineers, Firemen & Mechanics; Relating to Steam Generators, Pumps, Appliances, Steam Heating, Practical Plumbing, etc. by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

Together as one people, let us work to build our strength at home, and together as one indivisible union, let us seek peace and security throughout the world.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Jimmy Carter

The general gives a striking proof of his confidence in us; let us show ourselves worthy of it.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

Outside, Tommy insisted upon looking up some of his other friends, but Rivington was against it.
— from The Last Penny by Edwin Lefevre

But such "clerks" as these are at no times the most easily found, because it is not they who are always running it "unto London, unto St. Paul's" on urgent private affairs.
— from Chaucer by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

[112] Thornycroft & Co., Ltd. Mock-wheel and Compass-pedestal of the "Hyderabad" Thornycroft & Co., Ltd. which collapse and leave a clear range for the guns In the Admiral's cabin there is to be a conference of senior officers later in the day to decide on the best means of ridding the seas within that area—and each base has its own area of sea—of a hostile submarine which has been inflicting undue loss upon shipping, its latest victim being a Danish barque.
— from Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace Was Met and Vanquished, with Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships, Nets, Aircraft, &c. &c., Also Describing the Selection and Training of the Enormous Personnel Used in This New Branch of the Navy by Charles W. (Charles William) Domville-Fife