Whenever the road climbed up to these low eminences we found a family of peasants engaged, in a desultory fashion, in digging out the eggs from among the stones.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

A telescope stood in the yard, with its huge barrel canted up toward the lustrous evening star.
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Mark Twain

They chime up to the living earth The joy of them below, At tidings of the Saviour's birth
— from Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country With Copious Notes by John Pagen White

[22] It is, according to the chroniclers, "Une tente très longue et
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

Look through the egg then, and, if all the yolk has passed into the body of the chicken, you may assist it by enlarging the fracture with a pair of fine scissors, cutting up towards the large end of the egg, never downwards.
— from Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. by Hugh Piper

Their stony heads turned to regard Marci and Adam as they came upon them, their luminous eyes lighting on them for a moment and then moving on.
— from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow

But when we take into account the determined efforts of Spain and France to confine us to the land east of the Alleghanies, and then to the land southeast of the Ohio, the slavishness of Congress in instructing our commissioners to do whatever France wished, and the readiness shown by one of the commissioners, Franklin, to follow these instructions, it certainly looks as if there would not even have been an effort made by us to get the northwestern territory had we not already possessed it, thanks to Clark.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

Remember, do not have the electrolyte come up to the lower end of the vent tube.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte

Thou knowest, Eleanor, with what delight, when a child, he was accustomed to climb up to that little eyelet-hole, gazing out thereat for hours, and playing many odd and fantastic tricks through this loophole of observation."
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby

So, to quiet the boys, Jim climbed up, taking the little electric torch along with him.
— from The Boy Scouts on the Trail; or, Scouting through the Big Game Country by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917