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to understand lit understand shallowly
Kun minagbáwun lang ni nátù pagsabut ang giisplikar sa maistru, dílì giyud ta makapasar, If you fail to understand (lit. understand shallowly) what the teacher explained, you won’t pass. ka-(←)
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

to us let us substitute
As then infinite time, or an existence out of time, which are the only possible explanations of eternal duration, are equally inconceivable to us, let us substitute for them a hundred or a thousand years after death, and ask not what will be our employment in eternity, but what will happen to us in that definite portion of time; or what is now happening to those who passed out of life a hundred or a thousand years ago.
— from Phaedo by Plato

to us Let us see
They shout to one another: “What is this gloomy cloud about to do to us? Let us see that it doth not bring a plague upon us!”
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

to us let us strive
May He grant us victory in that appeal; and when it has been granted to us, let us strive to render the victory secure by living more devoutly in His faith and fear, and seeking more diligently the Grace of His Holy Spirit.
— from The War and the Gospel: Sermons and Addresses During the Present War by Henry Wace

time upon loveliness unspoiled sweetness
and that he loved a woman in an hour because, in an hour, he had read her innocence as one reads through crystal, and his eyes were opened for the first time upon loveliness unspoiled, sweetness untainted, truth uncompromised.
— from Iole by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The ungenerous look upon self
The ungenerous look upon self-devotion as madness, folly, or art: he could not think me a fool, he did not think me mad, artful I believe he did suspect me to be; he concluded that I made the discovery of his inconstancy an excuse for my own; he thought me, perhaps, worse than capricious, interested—for, our engagement being unknown, a lover of higher rank had, in the interval, presented himself.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

there unconsciously laid up store
Nor would she ever know it as many must, for her heart went up to the heart of her heart, and there unconsciously laid up store against the evil hours that might be on their way to her.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

Tweedie unmistakably labouring under some
At the moment Mrs. Tweedie announced, "It is a vote," Ezra Tweedie, unmistakably labouring under some great excitement, appeared in the doorway.
— from The Morning Glory Club by George A. (George Alexander) Kyle

their use Let us suppose
Now for their use: Let us suppose that you have encountered a rattler and are not too scared to know what you are doing.
— from Backwoods Surgery & Medicine by Charles Stuart Moody

to us let us see
And now as we look at this picture with Christ to explain and interpret it to us, let us see what he will teach us concerning the gospel.
— from The Nation Behind Prison Bars by George L. (George Lewis) Herr

to us let us stop
But if it seemeth good to us, let us stop here for this day, and to-morrow seek further after the same thing which we before sought after.
— from King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies Turned into Modern English by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

to us Let us sum
When this was over Rivers called to us: "Let us sum up and reverence all!"
— from The Last Miracle by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel


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