I did not look up nor speak, till the closing door and his retreating step told me that he was gone.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

" Let us now suppose the stranger to have finished his supper of bear's meat, and by his natural felicity of manner to have placed himself on a footing of kindness with the whole family; so that they talked as freely together as if he belonged to their mountain-brood.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

] Let us now survey the catastrophe of this busy plot, and the final situation of the principal actors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

CYRANO (hurriedly): Let us not seem to suffer either!
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Of all our passions and appetites, the love of power is of the most imperious and unsociable nature, since the pride of one man requires the submission of the multitude.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Let us now see the effect on the assemblies.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ulin n stern, the rear end of a ship.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Let us now stop the Paper at the Focus G, where the Light appears totally white and circular, and let us consider its whiteness.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Moreover, it is a matter of great importance that no notice should be taken in his presence of the quaint sayings which result from the simplicity of the ideas in which he is brought up, nor should they be quoted in a way he can understand.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Njal rode to the Thing, and at first all is quiet until Njal says that it is high time for men to give notice of their suits.
— from The Story of Burnt Njal: The Great Icelandic Tribune, Jurist, and Counsellor by Unknown

He mounted the steps deliberately, looking toward his feet; the priest held up the crucifix, and he felt it was there, but did not see it; his lips one moment touched the image of Christ, but he did not look up nor speak; then, as he gained the last step, the bascule or swingboard sprang up before him; the executioner gave him a single push, and he fell prone upon the plank, with his face downward; it gave way before him, bearing him into the space between the upright beams, and he lay horizontally beneath the knife, presenting the back of his neck to it.
— from Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend

Thou shalt help us, nor shalt thou be dishonoured in the deed."
— from Heiress of Haddon by W. E. (William Elliott) Doubleday

The disadvantages, of which he fears the inconvenience, to use no stronger term, are numerous.
— from Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards

Why... What the devil's up, Newton, seen the gho——?" He finished the rest of the sentence inside his helmet, which an unseen hand had suddenly banged down over his eyes—Caldwell had become what is vulgarly known as "bonneted."
— from Hector Graeme by Evelyn Brentwood

Mary bore up nobly; so, too, did the boys.
— from The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

Either, then, let us refute this conclusion, or, while it B remains unrefuted, let us never say that fever, or any other disease, or the knife put to the throat, or even the cutting up of the whole body into the minutest pieces, can destroy the soul, until she herself is proved to become more unholy or unrighteous in consequence of these things being done to the body; but that the soul, or anything else if not destroyed C by an internal evil, can be destroyed by an external one, is not to be affirmed by any man.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

"Bag's sealed up now," said the postmaster officially.
— from Lone Pine: The Story of a Lost Mine by R. B. (Richard Baxter) Townshend

The unusual name suggests that the elder Ralph was not of English descent.
— from William the Conqueror by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman