They miss some of the snug conveniences and petty comforts which belong to an old, highly-finished, and over-populous state of society; where the ranks of useful labor are crowded, and many earn a painful and servile subsistence, by studying the very caprices of appetite and self-indulgence.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

The rest of us likewise fell vigorously upon them, and our friends of Tlascalla behaved most valiantly, and pursued the enemy with great loss.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

The ranks of unskilled labor offer no such positions.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Charmed with the soothing tones, he endeavoured to reproduce them himself, and after cutting seven of the reeds of unequal length, he joined them together, and succeeded in producing the pipe, which he called the syrinx, in memory of his lost love.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Our artilleryman Mesa placed the cannon on a very advantageous spot, and we erected an altar where mass was immediately performed: for Cortes and the other chief officers huts were constructed of green boughs; the rest of us likewise constructed huts, and slept three together: the horses also were well provided for.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

" On this he cried out to the two Ajaxes and Menelaus, "Ajaxes captains of the Argives, and Menelaus, give the dead body over to them that are best able to defend it, and come to the rescue of us living; for Hector and Aeneas who are the two best men among the Trojans, are pressing us hard in the full tide of war.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Dr. Richard Garnett says in his Life of Emerson : "The object of this fine essay quaintly entitled Circles is to reconcile this rigidity of unalterable law with the fact of human progress.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rest of us, like him, held our peace.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

We soon had the topsails loosed; and one hand remaining, as usual, in each top, to overhaul the rigging and light the sail out, the rest of us laid down to man the sheets.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

At night a part of our number were taken to the nunnery, and the rest of us locked up in our rooms in the house.
— from Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal An Authentic Narrative of the Horrors, Mysteries, and Cruelties of Convent Life by Sarah J. Richardson

But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach xxi to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those ‘ tender and delicate ’ beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love—‘ thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women ’—whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
— from Sylvie and Bruno (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll

All the days that Ralph of Upmeads lived, he was the goodliest of men, and no man to look on him had known it when he grew old; and when he changed his life, an exceeding ancient man, he was to all men's eyes in the very blossom of his age.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

It consoles doubly—by the revelation of unsuspected loveliness, and by the proof that our lot is the common lot.
— from Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature by Arnold Bennett

was while he was a child or youth, while the reign of Unas lasted thirty years.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 2 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

"Yes—a few at whom the rest of us look rather askance.
— from Affairs of State Being an Account of Certain Surprising Adventures Which Befell an American Family in the Land of Windmills by Burton Egbert Stevenson

You think the rest of us like you.
— from The Gods and Mr. Perrin: A Tragi-Comedy by Hugh Walpole