“But three steps will add to the length too ... where is it to come out?” “Why, to be sure, it’ll start from the bottom and go up and go up, and come out so,” the carpenter said obstinately and convincingly.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

One of the first letters which he received on his return to America was from Cambridge Livingston, dated December 20, 1845, and reads as follows:— "The Trustees of the New York and Boston Magnetic Telegraph Association are getting up a certificate of stock, and are desirous of making it neat and appropriate.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

I think the sun in those days shone all the time, and Paris, newly rebuilt by Baron [218] Haussman, glittered in bran new white and gold under a canopy of silky blue.
— from The Haunts of Old Cockaigne by Alexander M. (Alexander Mattock) Thompson

We might get him sent up for fraud and forgery, but if he had anything to do with knocking Jernyngham out, he’ll be more likely to give us a clue of some kind while he’s at large.”
— from Prescott of Saskatchewan by Harold Bindloss

Mr. Roumann looked eagerly into it, as did the others, and the German uttered a cry of surprise.
— from Through Space to Mars; Or, the Longest Journey on Record by Roy Rockwood

Tom was one of the boys who were getting up a company of soldiers, but Sonny Boy had never dared to say before that he wanted to join it.
— from Sonny Boy by Sophie Miriam Swett

It will give us a chance of seeing him, which is not a common pleasure, in any sense of the term."
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Mr. Jefferson has given us a copy of Sir Guy Carlton's letter to General Washington , which is relied on to support this assertion, which is so far from speaking such a language, that in his opinion, it was directly the reverse, and that in a very pointed manner.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

When Rosemary grows up and comes out, she will be her maid, you know, Lady Betty.
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson