His young officers, eager for battle, rode up to him and begged him not to delay.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

A dark-browed boy runs up to her and asks, looking at her very gravely: "What is your pleasure, madam?" "Nikolay Timofeitch always takes my order," answers Polinka.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then the bishop rode up to him, asked him why he was so silent, and what he was thinking of; for, in general, he was very cheerful, and very talkative on a journey to his men, so that all who were near him were merry.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

By raising up too hastily a species of industry which duly replaces the stock which employs it, together with the ordinary profit, it would depress a species of industry which, over and above replacing that stock, with its profit, affords likewise a neat produce, a free rent to the landlord.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

“Follow me!” said he, crossed the road, and began riding up the hill at a gallop toward the point where the French pickets had been standing that evening.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

That one," pointing to the dead savage, "was going to split my head open with his hatchet, when this one," pointing to the young brave, "ran up to him and pushed him away from me, and said something to him loud and mad which made him look scared and mean."
— from Burl by Morrison Heady

She had had the notion while she was at Verdun that something might be rolling up to her account in the bank at Metz, and now he was giving her proof after proof of the accumulation.
— from The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold

Dink Bynum returned unobtrusively to his abandoned post of duty; the crowds began coming back from the Shady Grove schoolhouse; and Jeff found time to slip out and confiscate to private purposes a coal-oil can that still stood in the roadway.
— from Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His People by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Heresy and schism, false philosophy, false science, and false art, cunning diplomacy, infidelity, and atheism, one and all boldly raise up their heads and attack the church in the face; while secret societies of world-wide organization are stealthily engaged in undermining her strength with the people.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Material advancement may be furthered when intellect is dominant and the longings of the heart unsatisfied, but soul growth will be retarded until the heart also receives satisfaction.
— from The Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel

The old Border raiders used the hollow as a convenient place in which to collect stolen cattle.
— from The Country of Sir Walter Scott by Charles S. (Charles Sumner) Olcott

but, running up the hill after the Frenchman, I helped him to carry the ladder we'd dragged out of the pit, for I knew he'd need of it.
— from The House Under the Sea: A Romance by Max Pemberton

If her work is found to be really unfitted to her and it is possible to give her a change, then it is done, but as a rule that is seldom the case, as, rather differently from what we used to hear was the way in the Army, every Waac Controller finds out what the girl is best at and what she likes doing most, and then, as far as possible, arranges her work accordingly.
— from The Sword of Deborah: First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse