"There was not enough room for us all in Frankfort," said Nathan Mayer Rothschild, in speaking of himself and his four brothers.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
"We should train ourselves in time," she would say, "to the business of procuress: nothing else remains for us when we are old."
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The hospital was crowded, and there was no extra room for us.
— from Recollections of the Civil War by Maud E. Morrow
We do not want to know anything which is not entirely right for us to know, but we do want to know all you feel you can rightly tell us of his work.
— from The Man Who Ended War by Hollis Godfrey
Attigny was burned, and nearly equal ruin fell upon Compiègne itself.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various
There were seven of us non-commissioned officers, and we rode in one compartment behind the officers' carriage, Gooja Singh making much unpleasantness because there was not enough room for us all to lie full length at once.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy
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