Citations:us


 * 1623? — William Shakespeare, As You Like It i, 3
 * When from the first to last, betwixt us two, Tears our recountments had most kindly bath'd.


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * 2. I find that men (as high as trees) will write Dialogue-wise; yet no man doth them slight For writing so: indeed, if they abuse Truth, cursed be they, and the craft they use To that intent; but yet let truth be free To make her sallies upon thee and me, Which way it pleases God; for who knows how, Better than he that taught us first to plough, To guide our mind and pens for his design?
 * Come, then, neighbour Pliable, let us turn again, and go home without him; there is a company of these crazy-headed coxcombs, that, when they take a fancy by the end, are wiser in their own eyes than seven men that can render a reason. [Prov. 26:16]
 * CHR. I am directed by a man, whose name is Evangelist, to speed me to a little gate that is before us, where we shall receive instructions about the way.


 * 1840— James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder, ch xxix
 * "Mabel, you know that the Sergeant, afore he left us, had settled it 'atween us two that we were to become man and wife, and that we were to live together and to love one another as long as the Lord was pleased to keep us both on 'arth; yes, and afterwards too?"


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth.
 * If this had never been between us," said the girl, looking mildly, but with steadiness, upon him; "tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now?
 * "Spirit," said Scrooge, after a moment's thought, "I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people's opportunities of innocent enjoyment."


 * 1860 — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, ch xxvii
 * “Us two being now alone, sir,”—began Joe.


 * 1886 — Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch xx
 * One day I learn that you lend a hand in public-houses. Then I hear you talk like a clodhopper. I'm burned, if it goes on, this house can't hold us two.


 * 1899 — Muriel Press (tr.), The Laxdaela Saga (anonymous Icelandic saga)
 * Hrut said, "It is no good casting about for this; the sores between us two will never heal up; and I should like that from henceforth we should not both live in Salmon-river-Dale."


 * 1902 — Rudyard Kipling, How The Leopard Got His Spots
 * 'Let us melt into the landscape — just us two by our lones.'