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Nor leave up nor down , etc.
— from Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Robert Browning
Didn' never have to lock up nothin den en if you tell a story, you get a whippin.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration
Let us not do evil that evil may be escaped from; and it is an evil, and the fruitful parent of evils innumerable, to do violence to our understanding or to our reason in their own appointed fields; to maintain falsehood in their despite, and reject the truth which they sanction.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold
What every person of the Godhead is urging upon our acceptance now, let us not dare either to reject or postpone.
— from The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark
“My beautiful betrothed, let us not deceive each other,” he said, smiling; “it is not a marriage, but a partnership we are going to conclude in obedience to the wishes of our fathers.
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
But, my dear friend and colleague, let us not deceive each other, though we are able between us to deceive other people into believing almost anything.
— from The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
"Eh! come, come, gentlemen," said he, "let us not devour each other; you are made to live together, to understand each other in all respects, and not to devour one another.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas
It would be difficult to find written instances of the pronouns scho , or she , their , you , the auxiliaries sal , suld , &c., before the twelfth century; but their extensive prevalence in the thirteenth proves that they must have been popularly employed somewhere even in times which have left us no documentary evidence of their existence."
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
"Eh! come, come, gentlemen," said he, "let us not devour each other; you are made to live together, to understand each other in all respects, and not to devour one another."
— from The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
But let us not distress each other thus, 'Tis time to act, and though a sevenfold love Had bound me to this strange, this lovely maid, Though the mere thought distracts me, that in her I lose my seven dear sons a second time, If Providence require her at my hands
— from The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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