Now, of all words in the language, ‘the’ is most usual; let us see, therefore, whether there are not repetitions of any three characters, in the same order of collocation, the last of them being 8.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

There stands before us, let us suppose, an animal in the full activity of life.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Witen (4) , v. to depart, to disappear, to dwindle, S, H; wyte , H; wit , S2; ute , let us, S.—AS. ( ge ) wítan ; see Grein.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

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

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

unāwemmed , -lic unstained, spotless , N. unāwemmednes f. incorruption , A 8·330.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Hector soon marked the havoc Diomed and Ulysses were making, and bore down upon them with a loud cry, followed by the Trojan ranks; brave Diomed was dismayed when he saw them, and said to Ulysses who was beside him, "Great Hector is bearing down upon us and we shall be undone; let us stand firm and wait his onset.
— from The Iliad by Homer

My dear friend, life is very short and very uncertain; let us spend it as well as we can.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

unbeschränkte Lieferung unrestricted supply unbeschränkter Kredit unlimited credit unbesetzt; leer vacant unbesetzte Zeit unoccupied time Unbesonnenheit indiscretion unbeständig unstable unbeständig unsteady Unbeständigkeit unsteadiness unbestätigt unconfirmed unbestätigtes Akkreditiv unconfirmed letter of credit unbestimmt vague unbewachter Bahnübergang unmanned crossing unbeweglich immovable unbeweglich machen; festlegen immobilize unbewegliche Güter; Immobilien immovables Unbeweglichkeit immobility Unbeweglichkeit des Industriestandorts industrial inertia unbewohntes Gebäude unoccupied building unbezahlbar priceless unbezahlbar unpayable unbezahlt unpaid unbezahlte Rechnung; Außenstände outstanding money unbezahlte Rechnungen outstanding accounts unbezahlte Werbung unpaid advertising unbezahlter Helfer unpaid helper unbezahlter
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

In the excitement of finding herself a person of such importance she forgot how much she was leaving behind her, until looking up, she saw a tender, wistful smile on her mother's face, sadder than any tears.
— from The Gate of the Giant Scissors by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

They are gathering around us; let us see how we can break through them.
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

The envious man told him that he was come on purpose to communicate a business of importance to him, which he could not do but in private; and in order that nobody may hear us, let us, says he, take a walk in your court, and seeing night begins to draw on, command your dervises to retire to their cells.
— from The Story of the White Mouse by Unknown

Two chickadees upside down uttering liquid undertones, searched busily for insects next their heads.
— from The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White

[Pg 27] age at which puberty takes place with us, let us see what conditions anticipate or retard this age.
— from The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

These feelings and recollections so occupied him that he forgot to chatter away as usual, until, looking up suddenly, he felt that his brother's eyes were closing—in short, that Tom was going to sleep.
— from The Little Princess of Tower Hill by L. T. Meade

Still a whole lifetime lies before us; let us see what can be made of it.
— from Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini

In her face, which was almost too full of expression for a woman, there was as much feeling, kindness and candor as there was calculation, coolness and deceit, and when she was angry and drew her upper lip up, so as to show her dazzlingly white teeth, it had even a devilish look of wickedness and cruelty, and at that time, when women still wore their own hair, the beauty of her long, chestnut plaits, which she fastened on the top of her head like a crown, was very striking.
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Guy de Maupassant