Let us look at Bouille, and see how.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Let us live and be merry amongst our friends; let us go repine and die amongst strangers; a man may find those, for his money, who will shift his pillow and rub his feet, and will trouble him no more than he would have them; who will present to him an indifferent countenance, and suffer him to govern himself, and to complain according to his own method.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Was it her fault that she had inherited a temperament where passions lurked unsuspected like a banked fire?
— from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine

Neither did I perceive that there was any valley at all, but onely the bank of the river, environed with great thick trees, which had long branches like unto lawrell, and bearing a flour without any manner of sent, and the common people call them by the name of Lawrel roses, which be very poyson to all manner of beasts.
— from The Golden Asse by Apuleius

Let us love as brethren, and abhor all quarrels.
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

At night the bottom part of them insecks lights up like a big electric bulb, almost as bright, too.
— from Hoiman and the Solar Circuit by G. Gordon Dewey

It was impossible, under such circumstances, even for a lieutenant in His Majesty’s army to make a graceful exit, and Michael Reid looked uncommonly like a beaten hound as he went out of the house.
— from The Girl and Her Fortune by L. T. Meade

“Let us labor and be just, for to-morrow we die, and after death the Judgment,” said Holbein and Durer, and left eternal monuments of upright human toil and honorable gloom of godly fear.
— from Arrows of the Chace, vol. 1/2 being a collection of scattered letters published chiefly in the daily newspapers 1840-1880 by John Ruskin

But the seventh was different in form and style: it was the picture of a girlish face looking out of a frame of loose unpowdered locks; a bright innocent face, with gray eyes and marked black eyebrows, pouting lips a little parted, and white teeth gleaming between lips of rosy red; such a face as one might fancy the inspiration of an old poet.
— from Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

"The first of these, ECONOMY , is attained by doing away with any internal walls (all divisions being made by the necessary stalls), by reducing the whole construction, with the exception of the dome, to cast iron columns, supporting the lightest form of iron roof in long unbroken lines, and by the whole of the work being done in the simplest manner, and adapted in all respects to serve hereafter for other purposes.
— from The Crystal Palace: Its Architectural History and Constructive Marvels by Fowler, Charles, Jr.

For all at once, just as the back of Abel’s head must have loomed up like a black stone close by the sergeant’s path, and the rays of light glistened on his short, crisp, black hair, there came a loud croaking bellow from down in the swamp by the crook, and Dinny exclaimed aloud: “Hark at that now!”
— from Commodore Junk by George Manville Fenn