Hindley calls him a vagabond, and won’t let him sit with us, nor eat with us any more;
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Then said Panurge: ‘Heere, ik en spreeke anders geen taele dan kersten taele: my dunkt noghtans, al en seg ik u niet een wordt, mynen noot verklaert genoegh wat ik begeere: geeft my uyt bermhertigheit yets waar van ik gevoet magh zyn.’ To which answered Pantagruel, As much of that.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

“Yes, but, you see, she never meant it should be used, not even when there was company; and I had to get up on the step-ladder to reach it down from the top shelf of the china-closet, where she keeps it with all her best things, and of course she'll want to know why I did it—” The case was so serious that it called forth all of Ethan's latent resolution.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Such being the reasons which make it imperative that human beings should be free to form opinions, and to express their opinions without reserve; and such the baneful consequences to the intellectual, and through that to the moral nature of man, unless this liberty is either conceded, or asserted in spite of prohibition; let us next examine whether the same reasons do not require that men should be free to act upon their opinions—to carry these out in their lives, without hindrance, either physical or moral, from their fellow-men, so long as it is at their own risk and peril.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Keeping the definition in view, let us now enquire what advantage or disadvantage is likely to ensue from the lover or the non-lover to him who accepts their advances.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

Let us now examine what part they are playing in the minor subversive movements enumerated in an earlier chapter.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

but I would fain give you a regular detail—In passing a river about eight days ago, our coach was overturned, and some of us narrowly escaped with life—My uncle had well nigh perished.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“I didn't never call him unladylike, not even when he tied my Clorinda to the firewood bundle and burned her at the stake for a martyr.”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The water was very cold; he clung to a cotton bale—mainly with his teeth—and floated until nearly exhausted, when he was rescued by some deck hands who were on a piece of the wreck.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

He respected the susceptibilities of the people so far as to utter no explicit word of adverse criticism on the Gracchan measure; but he dwelt on the difficulties which attended its execution, and he suggested that the commissioners were burdened with an invidious task in having to decide the disputed questions connected with the land which they annexed.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

"But a mystery hung ower that lad's death that was never cleared up, nor ever will a'thegither.
— from The Shepherd's Calendar. Volume I (of II) by James Hogg

“Just coming, sir!” said the waiter, under no excitement whatever, though in an immense bustle—for waiters always remain cool and imperturbable when most in a hurry.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

He used no empty words in his manner of preaching.
— from Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner by A. L. (Andrew L.) Byers

Let us now examine whether the people of Great Britain are equally united against us.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

Let us, each of us, now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what is our lasting birthright.
— from U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses by United States. Presidents

The holders of the wealth of the world will never urge nor encourage war, when the property destroyed is their own and not to be replaced.
— from Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Calvin Elliott

Let us now examine whether we can properly understand the bearings of these relations, and the meaning of such differences.
— from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Vol. XLIX April-October 1850 by Various

The Ku Klux had been stringing up niggers every which way. ’
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Let us now examine what relates to this latter basin, this pretended interior sea, called Rupunuwini by the geographers of the sixteenth century.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt