He said: “Well, well, this lady had more forethought than the rest of us.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

When she held her hands out she took her eyes from Mr. Jaggers, and turned them watchfully on every one of the rest of us in succession.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

His Majesty King William the Fourth then reigned over us, a monarch deservedly popular amongst the boys addicted to melody, to whom he was chiefly known from the beginning of that excellent if slightly vulgar song in which they much delighted,— “Come, neighbours all, both great and small, Perform your duties here, And loudly sing, 'Live Billy, our king,' For bating the tax upon beer.”
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

These being taught them as soon as they have any apprehension; and still as they grow up confirmed to them, either by the open profession or tacit consent of all they have to do with; or at least by those of whose wisdom, knowledge, and piety they have an opinion, who never suffer those propositions to be otherwise mentioned but as the basis and foundation on which they build their religion and manners, come, by these means, to have the reputation of unquestionable, self-evident, and innate truths. 23.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

There are choice great natures among us that could exhibit the equivalent of this prodigious self-sacrifice, but the rest of us know that we should not be equal to anything approaching it.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

“Then you had better tell her that it is the custom of the house for the cook to serve everybody with coffee, chocolate, or tea, according to taste, in the morning, and that I shall be pained if she refuses to fare like the rest of us.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

i. p. 55) places the highest aim of art in the “representation of universal conceptions, and non-sensuous things.”
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Pain was (for example) vehement even to perfection in the souls of the saints by penitence: the body had there naturally a sham by the right of union, and yet might have but little part in the cause; and yet are they not contented that it should barely follow and assist the afflicted soul: they have afflicted itself with grievous and special torments, to the end that by emulation of one another the soul and body might plunge man into misery by so much more salutiferous as it is more severe.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

At the end of ten years they had paid everything, everything, with the rates of usury and the accumulations of the compound interest.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

[Pg 286] "I bet he ain't got no more confidence than any o' the rest of us," said Pete.
— from The Walking Delegate by Leroy Scott

A rather amusing story is told of a trial where one of the Irish jurymen had been "got at" and bribed to secure the jury agreeing to a verdict of "Manslaughter," however much they might want to return one upon the [Pg 149] capital charge of "Murder."
— from Law and Laughter by D. Macleod (Donald Macleod) Malloch

Xenophon accordingly said, "We are all aware that the king and Tissaphernes have made prisoners of as many of us as they could; and it is evident that they are forming designs against the rest of us, that they may put us to death if they can.
— from The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis by Xenophon

The rest of us crouched along the starboard rail, peering out into the mist, and listening for the slightest sound.
— from Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" by Randall Parrish

Papa shook his head slowly over his daybook, as ignorant as the rest of us what might have to be written upon the fair blank of the very next page—who could tell?
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Vol. 1/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The Reverend often used to tell them of the fine eels he used to have in the East, what good eating they were and how he longed for one again.
— from A Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre by Matilda Sager

"Like the rest of us, he had no proper training in biological science, and it has always struck me as a remarkable instance of his scientific insight, that he saw the necessity of giving himself such training, and of his courage, that he did not shirk the labour of obtaining it.
— from Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Charles Darwin

She led the way back to the pavilion, and, refusing to consider a proposal on the part of Mr. Ingle and myself to remain outside, entered the room last, herself, producing an effect of “shooing” the rest of us in; closed the door with surprising force, relapsed in a chair, and burst into tears.
— from The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington

One of the troopers was hit in the arm but, with that exception, they rode out unharmed.
— from At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty