One or two is generally considered enough, except where a sheriff with a reputation of usually getting his man and a Winchester rifle is after you, when we cannot too strongly impress upon the mind of the reader the absolute necessity for going well heeled.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn
J was a Jackass who said He had such a bad cold in his head, If it wasn't for leaving The rest of us grieving, He'd really rather be dead.
— from The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 10 by James Whitcomb Riley
"When the final vote was called for, we knew it was the home stretch, and every rascal of us got his weasel skin out and sweetened the voting on Miss Precilla June Jones.
— from The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams
"Well, guess the rest of us guides had better be gettin' back to work.
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake; Or, Bessie King in Summer Camp by Jane L. Stewart
[Pg 56] "What a way to spoil the quiet for the rest of us!" groaned her father.
— from Cinderella Jane by Marjorie Benton Cooke
So, at the end of the second course, he suddenly said from his end of the table,— “Monsieur le comte, you are too young, of course, to have known Gustavus III., whom Scribe and Auber have set in opera, while the rest of us glorify him in a galop .”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac
When the rest of us got home afterwards, it was to hear that our prima donna had become a mother rather less than two minutes after gaining the shelter of her own house.
— from Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge
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