No Juliet ever welcomed her Romeo more joyfully than she welcomed David when he paid her a flying visit unexpectedly; no Bayard ever had a more devoted lady in his tent than David, when his wife came through every obstacle to bring him comforts or to nurse the few wounds he received.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

For let us never be elated by the fatal hope of the war being quickly ended by the devastation of their lands.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Let us not bear each other any ill will.
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Let us not be exclusive; let us welcome all merit.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I never felt happier, I never understood nature better, even down to the veriest stem or smallest blade of grass; and yet I am unable to express myself: my powers of execution are so weak, everything seems to swim and float before me, so that I cannot make a clear, bold outline.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Heretofore we have been friends—lovers—let us not become enemies, mutual spies.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Those works, and all of that class are, for the object they have in view, worthless; not because the various statements they make are untrue, not because elegant language and beauty of style are wanting; but because they are radically defective in that, their method is irrelevant to the subject in hand; because in all the arguments that have been or can be brought forward there is nothing decisive and final; because the skeptic can thrust the sharp sword of his criticism through every one of them; because, in fine, the very root of the matter, their method itself is false, and men have attempted to establish by a series of arguments what must be ground for the possibility of an argument, and can only be established by the opposite, the a priori method.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

but : as, ut nihil bonī est in morte, sīc certē nihil malī , L. 14, while there is nothing good after death, yet certainly there is nothing bad .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

This custom continued through the Stuart period, and though dropped officially in England during the eighteenth century (when the mantling reverted to the livery colours of the arms, and became in this form a matter of course and so understood, not being expressed in the wording of the patent), it continued in force in Lyon Office in Scotland until the year 1890, when the present Lyon King of Arms (Sir James Balfour Paul) altered the practice, and, as had earlier been done in England, Page 391 {391} ordered that all future Scottish mantlings should be depicted in the livery colours of the arms, but in Scotland the mantlings, though now following the livery colours, are still included in the terms of the grant, and thereby stereotyped.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

They remain wedded to this habit of thought, and [Pg 236] refuse to open their eyes to the fact that such a view is, after all, based upon nothing but Egosim.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Ferner wird die Art dargelegt, wie Bomben und Waffen unbemerkt nach Bosnien eingeschmuggelt wurden, die keinen Zweifel darüber lässt, dass dies ein wohl voerberiteter und für die geheimnisvollen Zwecke der Narodna oft begangener Schleichweg war.
— from Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

About ten o'clock, a certain unwonted nervousness becoming evident among the Germans, the two English trenches of the first line let off a bouquet of rockets.
— from The Square Jaw by Henry Ruffin

A young girl, their daughter, with naïvely upturned nose, blinking eyes, and open mouth.
— from Savva and the Life of Man: Two plays by Leonid Andreyev by Leonid Andreyev

Sometimes I wish my grandmother had not brought up her sons to such a very high pitch, and sometimes I wish my mother had let that unlucky name become extinct in the family, or that I might adopt my nickname.
— from Melchior's Dream and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

Considered thus, nature is for us nothing but existence in all its freedom; it is the constitution of things taken in themselves; it is existence itself according to its proper and immutable laws.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

Irish speaking, used nothing but English, and the National Schools, also using nothing but English, imposed English culture from the first on the children and set the feet of the Nation more and more steadily Londonwards.
— from Sinn Fein: An Illumination by P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield) O'Hegarty

England is closely pressing upon the revolted provinces, along the upper course of the Nile; while France is attempting, by expeditions from the French Congo and through Abyssinia, to take possession of the Upper Nile before England conquers it.
— from The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known by Joseph Jacobs

Eyn Wolgeordent und Nützlich Bergbüchlein , etc., Worms, 1512
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

If a young writer “says so” by using the word instanced, will he use “nothing but English”?
— from Proof-Reading A Series of Essays for Readers and Their Employers, and for Authors and Editors by F. Horace (Francis Horace) Teall