The two sons grew up as parsimonious as their sire.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Young Tandyman, a hero of seventeen, laboriously endeavouring to get up a pair of mustachios, had seen the fight, and spoke in the most scientific manner about the battle and the condition of the men.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The butler had gotten up and poured oil in the flickering lamps by this time, and the boys, having rubbed their eyes open, had returned to their duty, when in came a female cymbal player and the crashing brass awoke everybody.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

muttered Mitya, also getting up and putting on his hat.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Says he, I'll go up, and prepare her; but won't tell her of it.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

consilium omittere , give up a plan omnînô , adv.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Deep in his heart had grown up a purpose of vengeance which only waited an opportunity to crystallise and take a definite shape.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

He got up and politely bowed to the Station Master, and offered his arm most ceremoniously to Mother.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

We took all opportunities to express to each other our mutual affections, and were ingenious in contriving incidents which might give us a plausible occasion for meeting.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Lechford has given us a picture of a funeral in New England in the seventeenth century, which is full of simple dignity, if not of sympathy: "At Burials nothing is read, nor any funeral sermon made, but all the neighborhood or a goodly company of them come together by tolling of the bell, and carry the dead solemnly to his grave, and then stand by him while he is buried.
— from Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

Through their very weaknesses, these musicians have created in us an ardent desire for their virtues, and have given us a palate which is ten times more sensitive to every note of this tuneful intellect, tuneful beauty, and tuneful goodness.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Even those who know the reason of the fund think it has been continued long enough, wish it were once paid off, suspect some secret in the affair, and give their tongues the liberty all losers claim; Our fathers, say they, have eaten sour grapes, and our teeth are set on edge, we are visited for their transgressions, and may be to the world's end, unless we shall find an honest chamberlain who will unveil this cloudy affair, and gives us a prospect of relief.
— from Augusta Triumphans Or, the Way to Make London the Most Flourishing City in the Universe by Daniel Defoe

In 1908, when he was about to go away on sorely-needed sick leave, the good people of Maubin town, who did not realise how ill he was, got up a petition to the effect that Dr Murphy’s leave should be refused, as Maubin town could not possibly dispense with him.
— from Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts by David Alec Wilson

The clash between Mr. Wilson and Signor Orlando and the departure of the Italian plenipotentiaries coincided with the arrival of the Germans in Versailles, so that the Allies were faced with the alternative of speeding up their desultory talks and improvising a definite solution or giving up all pretense at unanimity in the presence of the enemy.
— from The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon

A gentleman who nearly half a century ago visited one of these frontier dwellings, very romantically situated amidst the mountains of Western Virginia, has given us a pencil sketch of the habitation which we here introduce.
— from Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

"Oh, no!" said Corny; "we just intend to have a little coronation, and to ask the people to remember that she's a queen and not a pepper-pod woman; and if you could just give us a paper commission, and sign it, we should—at least I should—feel a good deal easier."
— from A Jolly Fellowship by Frank Richard Stockton

He should call her Pussy—then I might get up a pretty little blush for his sake.
— from Plays by August Strindberg, Second series by August Strindberg

[Pg 65] As for his own mental condition, Dostoïevsky gives us a picture of it in Injury and Insult: "As soon as it grew dusk I gradually fell into that state of mind which so often overmasters me at night since I've been ill, and which I shall call mystic fear.
— from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker