This notice of the old chroniclers' pioneer king of Britain has again and again recurred to us as we have had occasion to narrate the energetic doings of the first ruler of Upper Canada, here and previously.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

and, as Mr. Bhandarkar remarks, “it shows that the old tradition about Nāgendra and Bappa Rāwal’s infancy given by Tod had some historical foundation, and it is intelligible how the Rānas of Udaipur could have come to have such an intimate connexion with the temple as that of high priests, in which capacity they still officiate.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The males were exterminated, Ape Town was destroyed, the females and young were driven away to live in bondage, and the long rivalry of untold centuries had reached its bloody end.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Nothing, short of a secret acquaintanceship with facts unknown as yet to the rest of us, could have nerved her to such an act.
— from The Amethyst Box by Anna Katharine Green

Instead of setting his ideas in order, he had to set his books in order: and after a hot and dusty morning with the rows of unreadable classics he came downstairs to find that the vicarage party had arrived just in time for lunch, bringing with them as the advance guard of their occupation a large clothes basket filled with what Laurence described as "necessary odds and ends that might be overlooked later."
— from Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie

One of my attachés has broken down completely, cries when spoken to; living in a fiercely hostile atmosphere is not agreeable and I wonder how long the rest of us can hold out.
— from Face to Face with Kaiserism by James W. (James Watson) Gerard

“It seems hardly fair to leave you all the work to do, Evelin, when any of the rest of us can help you.
— from The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific by Harry Collingwood

Downs , a term given to undulating grassy hills or uplands, specially applied to two ranges of undulating chalk hills in England, extending through Surrey, Kent, and Hampshire, known as the North and South Downs.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various

Probably the popular impression that from the beginning of the world the far North has been the region of unendurable cold has been one of the chief reasons why our hypothesis is so late in claiming attention.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, April 1885 by Chautauqua Institution

They could have that, and the rest of us could have the bedroom and living-room.
— from Captain Chub by Ralph Henry Barbour

[252] The younger, Edgar Munro, the father of Lucy, grew prosperous in business—for a season at least—and, until borne down by a rush of unfavorable circumstances, he spared neither pains nor expense in the culture of the young mind of that daughter whose fortunes are now somewhat before us.
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

"Ah, Emma, I am glad you have come down from your proud indifference, and condescended to be curious like the rest of us," cried her sister.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback