It was finished, it was complete, its materials were strong and lasting, it needed no furbishing up, no repairs; it merely needed to be let alone.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

[148] Let us now return to the party of eleven persons who came with Anders Lie.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

In the daylight, indeed, she felt her terrors about his soul to have been somewhat exaggerated; whether well founded or not, she had no uneasiness now, reasoning that if Providence would not ratify such an act of approximation she, for one, did not value the kind of heaven lost by the irregularity—either for herself or for her child.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Thus all concentrates: let us not rove; let us sit at home with the cause.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Territory, devastation of Hellenic, not to be allowed, 5. 470 ; —unlimited, not required by the good state, 4. 423 [ cp.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

I believe the same arguments will prove, that even this command of the will gives us no real idea of force or energy.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

nicht mehr im Gebrauch out of use nicht mehr modisch out of fashion nicht notiert unquoted nicht offiziell unofficial nicht produktiv unproductive nicht registriert unregistered nicht rehabilitierter Konkursschuldner undischarged bankrupt nicht sicher unsafe nicht sortiert non-graded nicht sortiert; nicht eingestuft non-graded nicht später als am Fälligkeitstag not later than the maturity date nicht übertra
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

But those beasts to whom Nature has granted naught of these same things— Beasts quite unfit by own free will to thrive And vain for any service unto us In thanks for which we should permit their kind To feed and be in our protection safe— Those, of a truth, were wont to be exposed, Enshackled in the gruesome bonds of doom, As prey and booty for the rest, until Nature reduced that stock to utter death.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

ATHENIAN: Let us now reverse the order of the argument: Seeing that every individual is either his own superior or his own inferior, may we say that there is the same principle in the house, the village, and the state? CLEINIAS: You mean that in each of them there is a principle of superiority or inferiority to self? ATHENIAN:
— from Laws by Plato

On recovering consciousness I for some time could neither understand nor remember what had happened to me.
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

The fact that Hitler considered Romania a more important ally than Hungary was explained on the grounds that in an eventual war with the Soviet Union, Germany would undoubtedly need Romania’s southern wing which extends to the Black Sea.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 7 by Various

PRÆTEREA, P. PLATINÆ CREMONENSIS VIRI VNDECVNQVE DOCTISSIMI, De tuenda ualetudine, Natura rerum, & Popinæ scientia Libri x. ad imitationem C. APITII ad unguem facti.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

All these considerations can find, unfortunately, no room for discussion in these pages, for it were tedious to refer the reader to examples which are not illustrated.
— from Dürer by Herbert Furst

They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 43: John by Anonymous

Refugees UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund UN Institute for Training and Research UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East UN Special Fund UN University WFC World Food Council WFP World Food Program 3) Security Council: UNAVEM II United Nations Angola Verification Mission UNDOF United Nations Disengagement Observer Force UNFICYP United Nations Force in Cyprus UNIFIL United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon UNMOGIP
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Berkeley, he says, has proved incontrovertibly that it gives us no reason for the one, and Hume that it gives us no reason for the other.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

The admiral was indignant over this cruel mockery; but he showed no violence, used no recrimination.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World by Jules Verne

Stains are usually not reduced to below three-fourths chromatic intensity.
— from Industrial Arts Design A Textbook of Practical Methods for Students, Teachers, and Craftsmen by William H. (William Harrison) Varnum

"Let us now return and finish the brewing of good de Claverlok's nostrum," he said.
— from The Red Tavern by C. R. (Charles Raymond) Macauley