But because the dining-table in the replica of a palace (whether English, Italian, Spanish or French) may be equipped with great "standing cups" and candelabra so heavy a man can scarcely lift one, it does not follow that all the rest of us who live in medium or small houses, should attempt anything of the sort.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

And when the rest fell off from her, being compelled to stand alone, after having undergone the very extremity of danger, she defeated and triumphed over the invaders, and preserved from slavery those who were not yet subjugated, and generously liberated all the rest of us who dwell within the pillars.
— from Timaeus by Plato

When my eldest brother was born, of course the rest of us knew (I mean the rest of us would have known, if we had been in existence) that he was heir to the Family Embarrassments—we call it before the company the Family Estate.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Before the Nation came to rule over us we had other governments which were foreign, and these, like all governments, had some element of the machine in them.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

The rest of us were taken down.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

“We shall not know what we have to rely on until we have first made the ascent of the mountain,” replied the engineer.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The rest of us were also desired to sit down on chairs which were brought in for us.
— 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

I don't see how he can help it; and I do believe he would if the rest of us were out of the way."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Briefly, the "Odyssey" consists of two distinct poems: (1) The Return of Ulysses, which alone the Muse is asked to sing in the opening lines of the poem.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

He assured them that he as well as all the rest of us were friendly disposed, and ready to serve Motecusuma, and that it was in this spirit we had taken the three other tax-gatherers under our protection, who were now immediately brought forth from our vessels, clothed and delivered up to the ambassadors.
— 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

Vain, however, my efforts to speak in behalf of either the dead or the absent; every attempt was met by the ready assertion, "You can't prove anything; you were not old enough to remember or understand what happened."
— from The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

Slaney, who was using a line as thick as signal-halliards, was the first to haul his fish over the side, and drop him, kicking and thrashing like a young porpoise, into the boat; the rest of us, whose tackle was much thinner, were a long way behind him, and Slaney's line was over the side again before our fish were laid beside the first arrival.
— from Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 by Louis Becke

The rest of us will take care of the search.”
— from The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Gerald Breckenridge

So the rest of us went to the church of St. Maurice, which begins to date with the twelfth century and looks even older.
— from The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine

“When I found that the regular troops were put on short rations to furnish the rest of us with something to eat, I thought I’d better go home,” one man said.
— from The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga: The Story of General Burgoyne's Defeat by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

Meanwhile, Lister, you will send forward, say, five scouts over the bridge, and the rest of us will move slowly behind you."
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang

This was a dreadful thing to say, and of course the rest of us were all very shocked.
— from The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The late Lord High Adjudicator, who is now King Joshua Dobbs, seized the regalia as soon as he knew that he was elected King, and so the rest of us will have to make shift with such crowns and things as we can manufacture for ourselves.
— from The Missing Prince by G. E. (George Edward) Farrow

"One of MacWhirter's, sir; one of his choicest; painted in his best period," says this same fraud to-day (the period, remember, when he would say, "What can one expect of the Hudson Rivery School, sir?"), and then the dealer demands a price which, had it been paid in Mac's earlier days, would have resulted in his breaking all students' rules and setting up Johannesburg of '41 instead of the simple steins of the Hofbrau with which Lonnegan, Boggs, and the rest of us were being regaled.
— from The Wood Fire in No. 3 by Francis Hopkinson Smith

The boat was unmoored, and Frances Fenton and Ella Holrook rowed him carefully around the island, while the rest of us were drawn up on shore to witness the performance.
— from In Our Convent Days by Agnes Repplier