One of the little fellows ran up, seized the overseer by the leg and bit him; but the monster was too busily engaged with Nelly, to pay any attention to the assaults of the children.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

"I'll have the flag run up," said the captain.
— from Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life by Henry Herbert Knibbs

In another moment we were in a second taxi, following them up Regent Street, through Regent's Park, and along Finchley Road, until suddenly they turned into Arkwright Road.
— from The Place of Dragons: A Mystery by William Le Queux

Plans for the future include upgrading the labor force, reducing unemployment, strengthening the banking and tourist sectors, and, in general, further widening the economic base beyond oil and gas.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Seeing that she was determined, unable to conjecture what she had come down for, realizing, upon second thought, that it was most improbable that she had any tale to tell of him, he reluctantly gave way.
— from In Old Kentucky by Charles Turner Dazey

The reply of the English Parliament was, by the enactment of fresh restrictions upon Scottish trade with England and its colonies, and by ordering the border towns of Newcastle, Berwick, and Carlisle to be fortified and garrisoned.
— from Bygone Scotland: Historical and Social by David Maxwell

A tiny blaze sprang from the two sticks, then the chant rose higher and higher, figures rose up, swaying their bodies from side to side in unison as the blaze grew into a flame and the flame into a roaring fire, the tongues of which reached almost to the tops of the slender trees that surrounded the camp of the Wau-Wau Girls.
— from The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea; Or, The Loss of The Lonesome Bar by Janet Aldridge

Plans for the future include upgrading the labor force, reducing unemployment, strengthening the banking and tourist sectors, and, in general, a further widening of the economic base beyond oil and gas.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I think they were, at first, rather unpleasantly surprised to find that their prospective tenants were from the “States”; but Hephzy and I managed to behave as unlike savages as we could, and the Cole manner grew less and less reserved.
— from Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Everything seemed to fetch right up standin' to the State's-prison.”
— from The Village Convict First published in the "Century Magazine" by Heman White Chaplin

Application was made to Congress in the winter session of 1880-'81 to appropriate $200,000 more for the works; but only $10,000 were granted, although the Legislature of Oregon had, in their session of 1880, by formal resolution, unanimously supported the application for $200,000.
— from Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash