It's nonsense to pretend that life won't
let one, that the past won't
let one.
Anna Karenina
However, take no notice that I mentioned anything to you of the matter; but I think people in business oft always to
let one another know such things."
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
The judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and
let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and he didn't know the old man; so he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he'd druther not take a child away from its father.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
And as different magistrates judge different causes, let the causes of the young be heard by the young: and as to those which are already brought to a hearing,
let one person pass sentence, and another see it executed: as, for instance, let the magistrates who have the care of the public buildings execute the sentence which the inspectors of the markets have passed, and the like in other cases: for by so much the less odium attends those who carry the laws into execution, by so much the easier will they be properly put in force: therefore for the same persons to pass the sentence and to execute it will subject them to general hatred; and if they pass it upon all, they will be considered as the enemies of all.
A Treatise on Government
Let one of your clerks make out the interest account."
A Millionaire of Yesterday
Before I went to sleep, I gave him to understand that I had some valuable furniture in my box, too good to be lost: a fine hammock, a handsome field-bed, two chairs, a table, and a cabinet; that my closet was hung on all sides, or rather quilted, with silk and cotton; that if he would
let one of the crew bring my closet into his cabin, I would open it there before him, and show him my goods.
Gullivers Travels
In carrying so many together she
let one fall at the feet of the barber, who took it up, curious to know whose it was, and found it said, "History of the Famous Knight, Tirante el Blanco."
Don Quixote
Milady
let one of those looks fall upon him which make a slave of a king.
Three Musketeers
In this kind of game, not to kill is to
let one's self be killed.
Twenty Years After
I had an instinctive feeling that it would be folly to
let one's temper effervesce often with such a man as Edward.
Professor
"Be off to your houses at once, and don't
let one of your voices be heard!"
War and Peace
Miss Murray made several trivial observations as we passed up the park, to which (in spite of my reluctance to
let one glimpse of my feelings appear) I could only answer by monosyllables.
Agnes Grey
Here, Moody,
let one of the servants take this at once to Mr.
My Ladys Money
"Anne Shirley, how often have I told you never to
let one of those Italians in the house!
Anne Of Green Gables
Here,
let one of the maids go down and wake Baily and tell him to go for Dr.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles