There was a shout of surprise and consternation from the gentlemen on the terrace and the crowd upon the lawn, a shrill scream from the women; and in the next moment Paul Marchmont was writhing under a shower of blows from the hunting–whip in Edward Arundel's hand.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

In this brown dress she had come up to London, and so she had been clothed when her daughter last saw her.
— from Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

Early on the morning of the 11th of August, 1812, we first made the coast of Asia; and, on steering towards the shore, discovered, close under the land, a single sail, as white as snow, of a cut quite new to our seamanship, and swelled out with the last faint airs of the land-breeze, which, in the night, had carried us briskly along shore.
— from The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Basil Hall

"Come up to London and see some of your friends," was West's advice.
— from The Riddle of the Frozen Flame by Mary E. Hanshew

In The Time Of Thomas, Third Viscount, I Had Preceded Him As Page To Isabella Coming up to London again some short time after this retreat, the Lord Castlewood dispatched a retainer of his to a little cottage in the village of Ealing, near to London, where for some time had dwelt an old French refugee, by name Mr. Pastoureau, one of those whom the persecution of the Huguenots by the French king had brought over to this country.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray