“The first and greatest rule unquestionably is, that all must be favorably disposed towards each other, and willing to be pleased.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Old Roger Gaskell received us, I thought, with a curious mixture of restraint and eagerness.
— from The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

The group rode up into the light and dismounted.
— from The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

I can go right up into the heart of your city and get a room for myself, with a nice clean bed in it, plenty of soap, water, and towels, and I can occupy that room for twenty-four hours for two bits.
— from The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams

And looking up at the boxes, at the women she had read about, the gorgeous gowns and the jewels they wore, and watching them laugh and chatter; or looking far above them to the dim tiers of galleries reaching up into the dark; or again with eyes glued on the stage feasting upon Paris, art, "Bohemia," youth and romance; squeezing her companion's hand and in flashes recollecting dazzling little incidents of the fortnight just gone by—her mind went roving into the future, finding friends and wide rich lives shimmering and sparkling like the sunlight on the sea.
— from His Second Wife by Ernest Poole

He showed us all over the mills—both kinds—and let us go right up into the very top of the wind-mill, and showed us how the top moved round so that the sails could catch the wind, and the great heaps of corn, some red and some yellow (the red is English wheat), and the heaps slide down a little bit at a time into a square hole and go down to the millstones.
— from The Wouldbegoods by E. (Edith) Nesbit

By-and-by, the Lamanesque government once more sent us their envoy, to say that the rule of the Lamasery was inflexible; that they grieved that our sublime and sacred religion did not permit us to comply with it; but that although we could not remain in the Lamasery of Kounboum, they would gladly retain us in the neighbourhood, and that to this end they invited us to go and take up our abode at Tchogortan, where we might wear what dress we pleased.
— from Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 2 by Evariste Régis Huc

Under the Directorate are the Graves Registration Units in the different spheres of military activity.
— from The Care of the Dead by Anonymous

"If I don't, and if he tries to keep Catherine from coming down to me—well, if I didn't look such a sight, I would go right up into the office!"
— from Her Husband's Purse by Helen Reimensnyder Martin

He has a giggle right up in the treble, and it comes out at such unexpected moments, when there is nothing to laugh at.
— from Red Hair by Elinor Glyn

On the 27th January, Colonel WARDLE, in pursuance of a notice which he had given, rose up in the House, and, after having in a clear and straight-forward speech, detailed a series of the most nefarious and disgraceful practices, between the Duke of York, the Commander in Chief, and his mistress, Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke, as to the disposal of patronage in the army, by Mrs. Clarke, for large pecuniary douceurs, which she received while living with his Royal Highness, &c. &c. he concluded by moving for the appointment of a Committee, to inquire into the conduct of the Commander in Chief, with regard to promotions and exchanges in the army, and other points.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt