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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
"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
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
There he was joined by General Pickens, with the militia of Ninety-Six, and a body of South Carolina state troops recently organized, under Colonel Henderson.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing
“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
Merely planning a tube and a handle upon a base, without carefully relating these three different elements according to the requirements of use, can hardly be called designing a candlestick.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Home Decoration by Charles Franklin Warner
Dr. Spence, accompanied by Mr. Wilson, returned direct to England; the rest of us came home through Europe.
— from Recollections of a Long Life by John Stoughton
"Ask the rest of us, Captain," he said; "Joe, you know it; Dick, you know it; now that I am telling you.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
When his glance fell upon Margaret, it rested; and thereupon, just as if he were not returned from an absence of three years and more, and heedless of the rest of us, confining his address to her alone, he bellowed, with a most malignant expression of face and voice: "So you played a fine game with us, my lady—luring us into the dirty scheme, and then turning around and setting your husband on us in the act!
— from Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens
The rest of us can hide and hear the fun."
— from Jack Ranger's Western Trip; Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range by Clarence Young
We all know they are not the chief good, perhaps not good at all; but if some one ventures to say so, all the rest of us call him a fraud and a crank, and go moiling and toiling on to the palace or the poor-house.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells
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