“It was brought me,” she answered, as it were unwillingly, not looking at him.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

relinquēbātur ut neque longius ab āgmine legiōnum discēdī Caesar paterētur , 5, 19, 3, the consequence was that Caesar could not allow any very distant excursion from the main line of march .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Let us now look at the intent of each of these passions.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Let us not lose a minute!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

let us not lose a moment.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Let us now look a little more closely at the brain and at the ways in which its states may be supposed to condition those of the mind.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

He can give us no light at all into his estate, but upon the whole tells me that he do believe that he has left but little money, though something more than we have found, which is about L500.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The clear air of the South cheats us northerns like a mirage.
— from Claret and Olives, from the Garonne to the Rhone Notes, social, picturesque, and legendary, by the way. by Angus B. (Angus Bethune) Reach

Let us now look a little closer at the circumstances of the case.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1 by George Thomas Stokes

No 48) says that it was Steele who first used the name for this nobleman, "and upon no less an important affair, than the oddness of his buttons."
— from The Tatler, Volume 1 by Steele, Richard, Sir

D in its lower half make like B; but at top let the anterior limb ascend upwards to the maximum height of the letters, and then cut off the hither angle by its diagonal; next superpose to the same height half a square upon the other three squares of the farther limb, & once more do here as you did below, and let this broken limb rest on the angle of the near limb, and let it extend beyond it as far as the end of the upright near limb; and so will it all but contain three conjunct squares; for when it meets the near vertical limb, that fraction is to be cut off at right angles.
— from Of the Just Shaping of Letters by Albrecht Dürer

And there, according to Girolamo Gigli, "they were known to have been in existence for many years, until, not long ago," says he, writing in 1707, "they were transported to Grenoble, at the time when the monks of Pontignano, as well as all those of the Carthusian order, were obliged to send all their papers to the Grande Chartreuse."
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Apart and unsympathizing in that austerer wisdom which comes to us after deep passions have been excited, we see form after form chasing the butterflies that dazzle us no longer among the flowers that have evermore lost their fragrance.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Mr. Ripley had proposed to them to join us, no longer ago than that very morning.
— from Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 (of 2) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The weather was colde, and good fires hee kept, (as fishermen, what hardnesse soever they endure at sea, will make all smoke, but they will make amends for it when they come to land;) and what with his fiering and smoking, or smokie fiering, in that his narrow lobby, his herrings, which were as white as whalebone when he hung them up, nowe lookt as red as a lobster.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares— The poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays!
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, November 1883 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. by Chautauqua Institution