[ Whether Josephus, from 2 Chronicles 35:25, here means the book of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, still extant, which chiefly belongs to the destruction of Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar, or to any other like melancholy poem now lost, but extant in the days of Josephus, belonging peculiarly to Josiah, cannot now be determined.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Nevertheless, we will place before you what we can justly urge, not only on the question of the quarrel which the Thebans have against us, but also as addressing you and the rest of the Hellenes; and we will remind you of our good services, and endeavour to prevail with you.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

By degrees, our whole party surmounting the steep, joined us, not one among them, but gave visible tokens of admiration, surpassing any before experienced.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

amúa = ámù . kamikámi n 1 just us, no one special.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

kitakíta 1 just us, no one else.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Jasper understood nothing of it.
— from Orientations by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

He was judging himself now; he was passing judgment upon no other man.
— from The Short Cut by Jackson Gregory

Hitherto the carts had never gone about save by night, and for all that was rumoured by those who loved to make the worst of so terrible a calamity, it was seldom that a corpse lay about in the streets for above a short while, just until notice of its presence there was given to the authorities.
— from The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London by Evelyn Everett-Green

He then continued his journey until nearly one o’clock, when, tired out with his exertions, as soon as he had finished the remainder of his cakes, he laid down under a rick of corn, and fell fast asleep, having made twenty miles since he started.
— from The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook by Frederick Marryat

He jumped up, nearly overturned the conductor, as he dashed down the aisle, flung open the door of the car, and with the recklessness born of desperation and the fear of arrest, with only an instant's hesitation, jumped from the platform !
— from The Train Boy by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

'It is unfair to take advantage of you any longer,' he said, jumping up; 'no one can play without a queen, and you have lost your castles and one of your knights, and I was just going to take the other.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

They will probably get so jumbled up no one will be able to tell which is the chief hero or heroine, and there will be no logical development at all, which my English teacher insists is an elemental requirement of fiction if it isn't of life.
— from Kitty Canary: A Novel by Kate Langley Bosher

John understood nothing of politics.
— from The Son of a Servant by August Strindberg