Yes, he said, I will, to please you, since you will not let me speak.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

surplas n leftover military supplies and equipment sold to the civilian population.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

My eyes will not let me sew much in the evening, else I should have finished that batch to-night.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

They would not let me stir, or do you think I would have been hindered from obeying you?
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

But the same hero complains with more decency, though in great pain: Assist, support me, never leave me so; Unbind my wounds, oh! execrable woe!
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No, let me speak,” her mother went on, “why, you yourself would not let me have a talk to Vronsky.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I want you to know it—you must let me tell you—you will not like me so well!" "Tell it if you wish to, dearest.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

he does not lay much stress on it.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

"I did not lose myself," said Bessie; "I just came lost, I did not mean to do it."
— from Bessie in the City by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

If I had never left my study, England could not have contained a more rabid opponent of any change in our fiscal policy than I. I am like a small boy who is absolutely sure that he has worked out his sum correctly, but finds the answer is not the one which his examiner expects.
— from A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Will you not let me seat you on the sofa?"
— from Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

"And now let me see you Curlytops—and Trouble, too—though his hair isn't frizzy like Ted's and Janet's—let me see you eat until you get as fat as a Ring Rosy yourselves.
— from The Curlytops at Uncle Frank's Ranch; Or, Little Folks on Ponyback by Howard Roger Garis

“You do not love me sufficiently to sacrifice all for my sake, Edith,” I said at last gravely; “otherwise you would help me to unravel the mystery.”
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux

In that case, if possible, do not let me see the candy; let only the food it is best for me to have be put before me, and perhaps eventually I shall come to want the more wholesome thing—for it is better than the hunger.
— from Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter

“No, uncle, dear, you will not leave me,” she said, with a pleading look in his eyes.
— from The Haute Noblesse: A Novel by George Manville Fenn