Did I deserve to be lifted up to heaven and then dragged down to hell by you?
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Troy stood in the bottom, looking up towards her.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

I was soon made aware that the heads of several of the staff corps were restive under this new order of things, for by long usage they had grown to believe themselves not officers of the army in a technical sense, but a part of the War Department, the civil branch of the Government which connects the army with the President and Congress.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

“Take thou thy women-folk, Maidens and wives: Over your ankles Lace on the white war-hose; Over your bosoms Link up the hard mail-nets; Over your lips Plait long tresses with cunning;— So war beasts full-bearded King Odin shall deem you, When off the grey sea-beach At sunrise ye greet him.”
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

“Sold him?” echoed both, lifting up their hands in dismay.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

19 Arise, cry in the night, poure, for thy sinnes, Thy heart, like water, when the watch begins; Lift up thy hands to God, lest children dye, Which, faint for hunger, in the streets doe lye.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

A clergyman named Lovejoy was killed by a mob in Illinois for espousing the cause, while defending his printing-press, and in the old "Cradle of American Liberty" the wealth, power, and culture of Massachusetts arrayed itself against the "Abolitionists" so outrageously, that a mere spectator, a young lawyer of great promise, asked to be lifted upon the high platform, and replied in such a speech as was never before heard in Faneuil Hall.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

In like manner, if a man of good repute tries to force and importune us to something bad, let us tell him that he is acting in an ignoble way, and not as his birth and virtue would warrant.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

But when the sea receives thee, the wrath of the prison of Eolus shall be loosed upon thy head.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

It was with reluctance that he suffered her to go; but there was no look of despair in parting to belie his words, or give her hopes of his being less unreasonable than he professed himself.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

“Very well, Mr Grenvile—good name that, by the by—excellent name—name to be lived up to,” he remarked when I had answered him.
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

Actual contact with labor teaches him that much that he has read and had told to him by professors of mid-wifery in the lectures, is of but little use to him at the bedside.
— from Philosophy of Osteopathy by A. T. (Andrew Taylor) Still

Ruiz, not being less unscrupulous than his fellows, detained some of the natives to repeat and exemplify these wonders, and, by learning Spanish, to qualify themselves as interpreters.
— from Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period; Vol. 1 of 2 by Robert Grant Watson

The enmity of Tim Pickard and the "Tangs" still continued, but for the most part it was expressed in sneers and attempted slights rather than by any open manifestations; but Ward felt that he could endure all that easily now in the knowledge he had of the regard with which most of the boys looked up to him since the day of the great game with the Burrs.
— from Ward Hill, the Senior by Everett T. (Everett Titsworth) Tomlinson

The people in their Sunday trim, Filling their glasses to the brim, Look up to him, Singing ha, ha, ha!
— from Ballads by William Makepeace Thackeray

Blanchette’s own godmother was but little use to her, being a most religious and most rigid Marquise, who dwelt on her estates in a lonely part of La Vendée, and only made her presents of holy books and crucifixes and relics in little antique boxes.
— from Princess Napraxine, Volume 3 (of 3) by Ouida

Keep the cash but leave unsoiled The heart I rescue and would lay to heal Beside another's!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

M. Minutoli, lately chief of the Police at Berlin, has been amusing himself by looking up the history of this visitant from the unknown world, and has published a variety of curious particulars respecting her, drawn in a measure from documents preserved in the royal archives, as well as from old-time chronicles and dissertations, Latin and German middle age doggerel, and the records of jurists, historians and theologists.
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

Jimmie, who had lighted their own lantern when the police boat pulled out, was already trying to get things in some sort of order, though most of the work would have to be left until they had daylight to assist them.
— from Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise; or, The Dash for Dixie by Louis Arundel