If you are attacked by day or by night, fight, but retreat, without shame; if you cross a bridge, feel every plank of it with your foot, lest one should give way beneath you; if you pass before a house which is being built, look up, for fear a stone should fall upon your head; if you stay out late, be always followed by your lackey, and let your lackey be armed--if, by the by, you can be sure of your lackey.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Canute's army will thus be dispersed so widely, that it is uncertain to whom fate may at the last give the victory; but let us first find out what resolution he takes.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But let us follow Frederick's masonic career.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

As soon as this is done, he lays up [228] the forms, and gives the proof to the compositor whose matter stands first, who should immediately correct it, then forward it to the next, and so on, till the sheet be corrected; the clicker then locks it up and pulls the second proof, which must be duly forwarded, and the type be locked up finally for press.
— from The American Printer: A Manual of Typography Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc. by Thomas MacKellar

The last words, which were uttered in warm excitement, would have been better left unsaid; for, from standing melted and overcome, with tears in her eyes, she suddenly fired up against the accusation.
— from One of Life's Slaves by Jonas Lie

"When she has been lifted up four feet, she is to go ahead," repeated Christy, in the tone of a musing man.
— from Within The Enemy's Lines by Oliver Optic

“That chest has been locked up for fifty years, and it’ll stand being locked up one more night.
— from The Story Girl by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

What has been laid up for future use?
— from A Memorial of Mrs. Margaret Breckinridge by John Breckinridge

One eats his potato thankfully, usually without bothering himself much as to how it came to be a potato; how the green leaves labored away, seizing the scanty atoms of an invisible gas and making them into starch; how this insoluble starch became a soluble thing, and melting away into the sap flowed through the stem to the tubers, there to form again into little grains and be laid up for future use.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, October 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

There was a bear in sight feeding below us, which, after some discussion, it was decided ought to be left unmolested, for fear the report of the guns might disturb ibex within hearing.
— from The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by Augustus Henry Irby

Always celebrated for its beauty of situation, old Leland, brief and curt to the verge of humour, broke out in its presence into verse: Deliciis rerum Bellus locus undique floret Fronde coronatus Viriarae, tempora sylvae.
— from The Rivers and Streams of England by A. G. (Arthur Granville) Bradley

Our young clergyman, as he turned the still-cherished plan of the new shawl anxiously in his mind, a "sadder and a wiser" man than before, determined never again to buy a new dress hat expressly to perform a journey in, especially when going directly from the "rural districts" to a large city; besides laying up for future use some other collateral resolutions and reflections of an equally wise and practical character.
— from The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Margaret C. (Margaret Cockburn) Conkling