cried my father, repeating my uncle Toby ’s words as he walk’d to and fro—— ——Not, my dear brother Toby, cried my father, recovering himself all at once, and coming close up to the back of my uncle Toby ’s chair—not that I should be sorry hadst thou a score—on the contrary, I should rejoice—and be as kind, Toby, to every one of them as a father— My uncle Toby stole his hand unperceived behind his chair, to give my father’s a squeeze—— ——Nay, moreover, continued he, keeping hold of my uncle Toby ’s hand—so much dost thou possess, my dear Toby, of the milk of human nature, and so little of its asperities—’tis piteous the world is not peopled by creatures which resemble thee; and was I an Asiatic monarch, added my father, heating himself with his new project—I would oblige thee, provided it would not impair thy strength—or dry up thy radical moisture too fast—or weaken thy memory or fancy, brother Toby, which these gymnics 162 inordinately taken are apt to do—else, dear Toby, I would procure thee the most beautiful woman in my empire, and I would oblige thee, nolens, volens, to beget for me one subject every month —— As my father pronounced the last word of the sentence—my mother took a pinch of snuff.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

…” He rose and came close up to the door.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Several Chinnook Indians followed (,apt L—and a Canoe came up with roots mats &c. to Sell.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

She was often driven out in the gig, sitting beside her son and watching the countryside or the streets of the town, with a childish, candid, uncanny face, as if it all were strange to her.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

three guns sounded at once, then a continual cannonade, until, louder than the reports, the bear roared and filled with echoes all the forest.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

The force of necessity, he says, will bring nations at last to become members of a cosmopolitan state, “or if such a state of universal peace proves (as has often been the case with too great states) a greater danger to freedom from another point of view, in that it introduces despotism of the most terrible kind, then this same necessity must compel the nations to enter a state which indeed has the form not of a cosmopolitan commonwealth under one sovereign, but of a federation regulated by legal principles determined by a common code of international law.”
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

ANT: Adhere, accord, concur, conform, unite, amalgamate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

[authorities controlling currency, U.S] Federal Reserve Bank, central bank; Federal Reserve Board, board of governors of the Federal Reserve; Treasury Department; Secret Service.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Then, the gentleman who had been at Crockford’s all night, and who looked something the worse about the eyes in consequence, came forward to tell his fellow-countrymen what a speech he meant to make in favour of that petition whenever it should be presented, and how desperately he meant to taunt the parliament if they rejected the bill; and to inform them also, that he regretted his honourable friends had not inserted a clause rendering the purchase of muffins and crumpets compulsory upon all classes of the community, which he—opposing all half-measures, and preferring to go the extreme animal—pledged himself to propose and divide upon, in committee.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

—‘Levi Salmon, who lived about thirty years ago, between here and Newport, was a magician, and could call up good and bad spirits; but was afraid to call up the bad ones unless another person was with him, for it was a dangerous and terrible ordeal.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The adult community comes up from the open sea, bringing food inside them: they are full of half-digested shrimps.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

We are to find a superior, whose rights, including our duties, are presented to the mind in the very idea of that Supreme Being, whose sovereign prerogatives are predicates implied in the subjects, as the essential properties of a circle are co-assumed in the first assumption of a circle, consequently underived, unconditional, and as rationally insusceptible, so probably prohibitive, of all further question.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[43] A HOUND OF THE OLD STOCK “Is dem putty fas’ houn’s, Marse Lawrence?” asked Uncle Simon Bolick, as Mr. L. A. Williamson, of Graham, Alamance county, came up with his pack of noted fox dogs.
— from Tar Heel Tales by H. E. C. (Henry Edward Cowan) Bryant

He went to work at once, and one after another the traps were set, some of them in a little circular enclosure made by sticking spruce boughs in the snow, to which a narrow entrance was left, and in this entrance the trap placed and carefully concealed under loose snow and the chain fastened to a near-by sapling.
— from Ungava Bob: A Winter's Tale by Dillon Wallace

At length he saw the bushes move, and the Indian appeared and crept close up to him.
— from Rob Nixon, the Old White Trader: A Tale of Central British North America by William Henry Giles Kingston

Even a child could understand those equations.
— from Membership Drive by Murray F. Yaco

The astronomer, the electrician, the chemist, the mineralogist, the botanist, are constantly called upon to perform manual operations of exceeding delicacy.
— from Science & Education: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

There was a cunning calculation under this noisy joking—a cool resolve to extract something the handsomer from Bulstrode as payment for release from this new application of torture.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But they were common sacrifices in a common cause, ultimately crowned with the reward of liberty.
— from Sketches and Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne

At first it was misty only, and then a cloud crept up the water gullies from the valley of the Liffey, and in a moment I am cut off in a white silent cloud.
— from In Wicklow and West Kerry by J. M. (John Millington) Synge