Flushed cheeks usually mean heightened temperature; paleness means lowered temperature.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

So home on foot, calling upon my brother’s and elsewhere upon business, and so home to my office, and there wrote letters to my father and wife, and so home to bed, taking three pills overnight. 28th (Lord’s day).
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

that in the same climate and at only a few days’ distance, I should have suffered so cruelly, first from cold upon my island and now from heat upon this rock.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

I felt creeping upon me, by slow yet certain degrees, the wild influences of his own fantastic yet impressive superstitions.
— from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

Personal recollection supplies many an anecdote, anecdotes collected and freely commented upon make up memoirs, and memoirs happily combined make not the least interesting sort of history.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But, sometimes, when I took her up, and felt that she was lighter in my arms, a dead blank feeling came upon me, as if I were approaching to some frozen region yet unseen, that numbed my life.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I gave her fifty crowns, and made her sign a receipt specifying the reason why I had sent her away, and acknowledging that she had no further claim upon me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I thought of Steerforth: and a foolish, fearful fancy came upon me of his being near at hand, and liable to be met at any turn.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

These flashes come upon me at times.—Just step outside, sergeant, and you, Mr. Sholto.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

I shall content myself, refraining from superfluous repetitions, at once, before you, sir, and this respected circle, to proclaim my cordial confirmation of everyone of the sentiments which I have had daily opportunities publicly to utter, from the time when your venerable predecessor, my old brother in arms and friend, transmitted to me the honorable invitation of Congress, to this day, when you, my dear sir, whose friendly connection with me dates from your earliest youth, are going to consign me to the protection, across the Atlantic, of the heroic national flag, on board the splendid ship, the name of which has been not the least flattering and kind among the numberless favors conferred upon me.
— from Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New York by William Henry Seward

As to my dress, I covered my Hussar uniform with a long cloak, and I put a grey forage cap upon my head.
— from The Adventures of Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle

in a little time my fears came upon me all at once; for she fell sick, and died in a few days.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

The picture of the huge 'man-mountain' fallen upon his face to the earth, a huddled heap of useless mail, recalls the words of a psalm, 'When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell' (Psalm xxvii.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

Till at Love's throne my haughty spirit sank, And saw my pardon free Flow down from Calvary, Unlocks my bosom's grateful fountain.
— from Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner by A. L. (Andrew L.) Byers

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

Thy dying father comes upon my soul 10 With that same look, with which he gave thee to me: [ 520 ] I held thee in mine arms, a powerless babe, While thy poor mother with a mute entreaty Fix'd her faint eyes on mine: ah, not for this, That I should let thee feed thy soul with gloom, 15
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Their huts, food, cooking, utensils, manner of eating.
— from The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Dame Shirley

Cada piedra un piramide levanta, y cada flor costruye un monumento, cada edificio es un sepulcro altivo, cada soldado un esqueleto vivo.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley