Next day, rolling up my blanket, I started on my return to the Big Cane.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

This, duly reflected upon, methinks, should convince every one, that this world is not a place for the immortal mind to be confined to; and that there must be an hereafter, where the whole soul shall be satisfied.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

We see a folly swell into a vice, by almost imperceptible degrees, and pity while we blame; but, if the hideous monster burst suddenly on our sight, fear and disgust rendering us more severe than man ought to be, might lead us with blind zeal to usurp the character of omnipotence, and denounce damnation on our fellow mortals, forgetting that we cannot read the heart, and that we have seeds of the same vices lurking in our own.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

These were distressing revelations indeed; and though I was quite too young to comprehend the full import of the intelligence, and mostly spent my childhood days in gleesome sports with the other children, a shade of disquiet rested upon me.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

At noon thence toward the Committee, but meeting with Sir W. Warren in Fleet Street he and I to the Ordinary by Temple Bar and there dined together, and to talk, where he do seem to be very high now in defiance of the Board, now he says that the worst is come upon him to have his accounts brought to the Committee of Accounts, and he do reflect upon my late coldness to him, but upon the whole I do find that he is still a cunning fellow, and will find it necessary to be fair to me, and what hath passed between us of coldness to hold his tongue, which do please me very well.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

To propitiate a power and commute a doom resting upon much the same principles as those represented in the Lambton legend.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I pray you, let my wrongful intention, which sometimes is counted to stand for the deed, recoil upon me.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

I could now hear the Cossacks, who had dismounted, running upon my tracks.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

At the same time, it doubtless rendered us more or less "suspect" to the Tycoon's government while the latter lasted.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Just how she managed it I couldn't say, even if it was done right under my eyes; but when we starts in for dinner she's
— from Torchy, Private Sec. by Sewell Ford

—Living in poorly lighted houses without much fresh air, working in dusty rooms, using much strong drink and tobacco, eating [Pg 181] poor food, losing sleep, neglecting a cough, and taking little or no outdoor exercise weaken the body so that the consumption germs can grow in it.
— from Health Lessons, Book 1 by Alvin Davison

A new day rose upon me.
— from Daily Strength for Daily Needs by Mary Wilder Tileston

I remained thinking on the past, and wondering, until the day broke, and with the daylight roused up my watchful attendant.
— from Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat

One of the foulest disgraces resting upon mediæval England, but not upon her alone, was the state of her prisons.
— from The Last Abbot of Glastonbury: A Tale of the Dissolution of the Monasteries by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

Then my dream returned upon me.
— from Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

Then, darling, rest upon my breast, And teach my heart to lean With thy sweet trust upon the arm Which folds us both unseen! 1858 H2 anchor "THE ROCK" IN EL GHOR.
— from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

His reply is that religion is not superstition and does not rest upon a vague fear of the unseen forces of nature, but does rest upon "man's consciousness of his finiteness amid an infinite universe and of his sinfulness."
— from In His Image by William Jennings Bryan

"Not only your talk, but your walk, and the way you wear your clothes." "I suppose my tailor does rather understand my figure," said Percival; "but what puzzles you about my speech?"
— from The Honorable Percival by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

Thus far it has made good its revolt, and not a doubt rests upon my mind that she will make it good for ever.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton