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Let us examine the heads
Let us examine the heads of this journal’s argument; endeavoring to avoid the incoherence with which it is originally set forth.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Let us examine this hypothesis
Let us examine this hypothesis in the light of a document which was unknown to me when I wrote my former account of the Illuminati.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

largely upon experience than he
No man drew more largely upon experience than he did, and he has nowhere left a single reminiscence of student life-for the "Tia Fingida," if it be his, is not one—nothing, not even "a college joke," to show that he remembered days that most men remember best.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

largely upon experience than he
No man drew more largely upon experience than he did, and he has nowhere left a single reminiscence of student life—for the “Tia Fingida,” if it be his, is not one—nothing, not even “a college joke,” to show that he remembered days that most men remember best.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

let us enter the home
As we have few acquaintances in Manila, let us enter the home of Capitan Tinong, the polite individual whom we saw so profusely inviting Ibarra to honor him with a visit.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

less use even than his
Now it came to the turn of the third son to watch; and he was quite ready, but the King had not much trust in him, and thought that he would be of less use even than his brothers; but at last he let him go.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

looking up eagerly to Hiram
[5] Bruno stood by at the foot of the ladder, looking up eagerly to Hiram, and watching as if he were going to take the cage as soon as it came down.
— from Bruno; or, lessons of fidelity, patience, and self-denial taught by a dog by Jacob Abbott

let us enter the house
To my dismay, however, no attempt was made to let us enter the house, although the girl had kept up an incessant knocking.
— from The Man Without a Memory by Arthur W. Marchmont

let us examine the Homeric
Now let us examine the Homeric herb moly.
— from Custom and Myth by Andrew Lang

Let us enter the house
Let us enter the house, and you shall learn,” replied Catesby.
— from Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth

Let us end this homicidal
There was no call from people to people across the frontiers of hostility: “Let us end this homicidal mania!
— from Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

lived upon earth that he
Here in Jerusalem not many days since, I chanced to hear a wondrous thing, 'that they which had sinned might find peace and forgiveness in one Jesus of Nazareth, who had lived upon earth that he might save them which were lost.'
— from Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross by Florence Morse Kingsley

lady upon earth to have
"I protest," said she, "that I am the unhappiest lady upon earth to have my name thus called in question."
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

let us enter the house
Now, let us enter the house.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

let us enjoy the happy
In a lighter or more garrulous vein another says: 48 "Come, friends, let us enjoy the happy time of life; let us dine merrily, while short life lasts, mellow with wine, in jocund intercourse.
— from The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Frank Frost Abbott

lifted up equally to heaven
On the plan of a cross rises the triangulation of the edifice; and a hundred obelisks, lifted up equally to heaven, express the concordant homage of love and of faith.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various


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