"Novus rex, nova lex," muttered the Catholics, lifting up their heads and hearts once more out of the oppression and insults which they had unquestionably suffered at the hands of the triumphant Reformers.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley
His companions looked up to him, and his example was worth much more to many of them than books or schools.
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles
Something of the pity which he felt for this beautiful and innocent victim of rancour, oppression and prejudice, must have been manifest in Clyffurde's earnest eyes, for when Crystal looked up to him and met his glance she drew herself up with an air of haughty detachment.
— from The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
When farmers' wives, to say nothing of sons and daughters old enough one might imagine to be anxious to do something in repayment for the money and care lavished upon them, had all put their shoulders to the wheel, then English farming had prospered.
— from Malvina of Brittany by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
When we have a good conscience, we can lift up the head and move on through all sorts of difficulties; but to attempt to tread the path of faith with a bad conscience, is the most dangerous thing in this world.
— from Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume I by Charles Henry Mackintosh
"Come, let us tell him at once," interrupted the Baron.
— from International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 by Various
Why, child, the whole community looks up to her as if she were a sort of queen.
— from The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn by Evelyn Raymond
Guy was the elder of the two, and Charlie Haughton (I beg your pardon, he was always called Charlie) looked up to him as to an elder brother.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 02 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Instead of firing, the cannoneers leaped upon their horses, and made all haste to escape.
— from Following the Flag, from August 1861 to November 1862, with the Army of the Potomac by Charles Carleton Coffin
Miss Ormerod, consulting entomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society, has given much study to, and thrown considerable light upon, the hop aphis.
— from The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History (Illustrated with over Fifty Quaint Cuts) by John Bickerdyke
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