The baying of the wolves sounded nearer and nearer, as though they were closing round on us from every side.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

They fought like devils, and—well, the rest of us fought, too, and all the time, throughout the bloody business, I had before me that vision of Randolph alone in the moonlight.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

“We cannot return on uvalaku , for we have eaten of the pig, and we have chewed of the betel-nut given by the toli’uvalaku. ” Only after the most distant community with whom the Sinaketans kula has been reached, and after due time has been allowed for the collection of any vaygu’a within reach, will the party start on the return journey.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

There were either no villages, or the people were hostile, or the director, who like the rest of us fed out of tins, with an occasional old he-goat thrown in, didn't want to stop the steamer for some more or less recondite reason.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Here the range of underwater flora seemed pretty comprehensive to me, as well as more abundant than it might have been in the arctic or tropical zones, where such exhibits are less common.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

When the public good is so great and so evident as to justify the action, the commendable use of this licence causes us naturally to attribute to the parliament a right of using farther licences; and the antient bounds of the laws being once transgressed with approbation, we are not apt to be so strict in confining ourselves precisely within their limits.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

From this weird meal he passed to the degree Of Prince and Margrave; nor could ever he Be thought brave knight, or she—if woman claim The rank—be reckoned of unblemished fame
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

He hath held communication with an excommunicated person, capital 57, 'Ut fratres non participent cum excommunicatis', and therefore hath a portion in 'Anathema Maranatha'.—3d, He hath conversed with strange women, contrary to the capital, 'Ut fratres non conversantur cum extraneis mulieribus'.—4th, He hath not avoided, nay, he hath, it is to be feared, solicited the kiss of woman; by which, saith the last rule of our renowned Order, 'Ut fugiantur oscula', the soldiers of the Cross are brought into a snare.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

In the next instant, a wilderness of foam hurled us upon our beam-ends, and, rushing over us fore and aft, swept the entire decks from stem to stern.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

But he does make all the rest of us feel creepy.
— from Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford

Last of all, with wearied horses but in ranks of unbroken firmness, came the Stewartry men, headed by Godfrey McCulloch.
— from Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

They sang like the Chorus of Happy Peasants; they behaved as the mountain lass of poetry ought always to behave, and as the mountain lass of reality often utterly fails to do.
— from Linnet: A Romance by Grant Allen

And meanwhile a copy is just as good to the man who is coughing up to you and me and the rest of us for this, isn’t it?”
— from The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

"Never was any failure more remarkable or unlooked for than this," said one of the British artillery officers.
— from The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Ralph Delahaye Paine

She, with her little brother, twenty months younger, had been saved the torments of fear that had seized the rest of us from the time of the appearance of the Indians.
— from Captivity of the Oatman Girls Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians by R. B. (Royal Byron) Stratton

So did the rest of us, for the robber’s situation was a sufficient explanation of the accident that had befallen him.
— from Our Fellows; Or, Skirmishes with the Swamp Dragoons by Harry Castlemon

This Oil mitigates the Nephritick Colicks, remedies the Retention of Urine, facilitates Child-birth, allayes the After-Pains in Women after their delivery, and the Gripes in young Infants: It is taken inwardly fasting from half an Ounce to two Ounces; and it is us'd in Liniments to asswage and mollifie.
— from The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by M. (Charles Gabriel) Le Clerc

At any rate, the youth who had been inveigled into staking his life on the issue was left dead on the field, while the aggressor rode off unscathed, followed by the execrations of his own second.
— from The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales by John Charles Dent

FINLEY'S. We are safely housed under the hospitable roof of Uncle Finley, where they received us, as you might expect, with open arms.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Samuel Finley Breese Morse