I’ve been at home all my life, corked up in a bottle; and they expect me to be married straight out of it.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was curled up in a blanket at that hour ready to go over the whole of the trenches, having arranged to start between three and four o'clock this morning.
— from Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 by G. B. (George Brenton) Laurie

If, however, when lighted, it curls up into a ball at the end, and goes out, and the ash black and when rubbed between the thumb and finger, and is gritty like charcoal, one may feel sure that it is pure dye stuff and will give excellent wear and will not crack.
— from The Copeland Method A Complete Manual for Cleaning, Repairing, Altering and Pressing All Kinds of Garments for Men and Women, at Home or for Business by Vanness Copeland

As he stood apart while the pirate counted out the money, the eight released slaves came up in a body, and one of them, bowing low before the merchant, said, “My lord, we have long been slaves of the Christian knights at Rhodes, and have worked in their galleys.
— from A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

We came to a river, stripped, tied our clothes up in a bundle and proceeded to swim across, shoving the clothes ahead.
— from The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland by Edward Edwards

In a corner of the room, coiled up in a big armchair, Zita was apparently reading a new magazine, but was, in reality, listening intently to every word that was being uttered.
— from The Master Mystery by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

About half-an-hour afterwards they all came up in a body astern of us, and so near that we could easily discern what they were, though we could not tell their design; and I easily found they were some of my old friends, the same sort of savages that I had been used to engage with.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

Now spring came on, and the famine increased every day, whereupon most of the soldiers came up in a body and entreated Olympias to suffer them to leave the place because of the scarcity, who, not being able to supply them with bread, let them go.
— from Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll

Grim does not respond to the invitation, however, but prefers to try the other “worm,” and when that, too, with a rapidity unusual in a worm, curls up into a ball and goes to the bottom, she instinctively grows suspicious, and sets her tail-screw going, just as the cunning water-hyena throws off its mask of mud, and makes a wild dash at her.
— from Grim: The Story of a Pike by Svend Fleuron

The two Senhors slept in Indian hammocks swung between giant rubber trees, while Affonzo curled up in a blanket and slept, as did Vicente and Joachim, on a fragrant couch of dried grass.
— from Our Little Brazilian Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

The sleepy Ouse had grown a sea, Where here and there a drowning tree Cast up its arms beseechingly; And cattle that in fairer days Beside its banks were wont to graze Now viewed the scene in mild amaze, And, huddled on an island mound, Sent forth so dolorous a sound As made the sadness more profound.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas