His mother-in-law and his wife would whisper to each other, get up and look expectantly at him for some time, waiting for him to look at them, and then they would bow humbly and say in sweet, soft voices: "Good-bye, Stiepan Petrovich.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Miss Matty and I quietly decided that we would have a previous engagement at home: it was the evening on which Miss Matty usually made candle-lighters of all the notes and letters of the week; for on Mondays her accounts were always made straight—not a penny owing from the week before; so, by a natural arrangement, making candle-lighters fell upon a Tuesday evening, and gave us a legitimate excuse for declining Mrs Jamieson’s invitation.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

816 Which after him she darts, as one on shore Gazing upon a late embarked friend, Till the wild waves will have him seen no more, Whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend: 820 So did the merciless and pitchy night Fold in the object that did feed her sight.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“The Custer Lodge is getting up a little entertainment for their own good, and they'd like a little newspaper notice.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The streets converged like the spokes of a wheel into an octagon-shaped court in the center of the town which gave upon a lofty edifice, which, with its domes and towers, dominated the whole city.
— from The Devil in Iron by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

Miss Reid seemed frightened, but I thought at the time she had spelled out the message, herself, to get up a little excitement.
— from The Room with the Tassels by Carolyn Wells

Two well-known graduates of one of our great universities are living examples of this precocious but enduring intellectual development.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Since pride stepp'd in and riot, and o'erturn'd This goodly frame of concord, teaching masters To glory in the abuse of such as are Brought under their command; who, grown unuseful, Are less esteem'd than beasts.—This you have practised, Practised on us with rigour; this hath forced us To shake our heavy yokes off; and, if redress Of these just grievances be not granted us, We'll right ourselves, and by strong hand defend What we are now possess'd of.
— from The Plays of Philip Massinger, Vol. I by Philip Massinger

You might get up a little earlier in the mornings."
— from The Jolliest Term on Record: A Story of School Life by Angela Brazil

Bless my soul! mademoiselle will get up a little earlier and go home a little later—what a hardship!
— from Sans-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Paul de Kock

We had to put on loose canvas shoes over our own shoes to enter the sacred precincts, and our guide gave us a long exposition of the necessary ablutions to be performed by the faithful before and after prayers, and showed us the water tank fitted with taps, at one of which a devotee was busy having his wash.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane

The past year has seen the prices of all English coals go up at least eighty per cent., and the coal-famine of Great Britain, foreseen some years ago, has already threatened to sap the vigor of her industrial systems and destroy her manufacturing supremacy, or, at any rate, place her at the mercy of the United States for the fuel with which to operate them.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various

We want to ask her permission to get up a little entertainment in behalf of Polo’s little brother and sisters.”
— from Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

I have succeeded in doing this, and in obtaining strong reversal of polarities, by superposing one polarity given while the rod is under a right elastic torsion, with another of the opposite polarity given under a left elastic torsion, the neutral point then being reached when the rod is free from torsion.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 by Various