Get up, I tell you.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

There does seem to be, all over China, a more or less active search everywhere to discover the men of talent that grow up in the young generation.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Having inadvertently witnessed Phillotson's tentative courtship of Sue in the lane there had grown up in the younger man's mind a curious dislike to think of the elder, to meet him, to communicate in any way with him; and since Phillotson's success in obtaining at least her promise had become known to Jude, he had frankly recognized that he did not wish to see or hear of his senior any more, learn anything of his pursuits, or even imagine again what excellencies might appertain to his character.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Get up, I tell you.
— from The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

So men passed out of Syria; they landed on the islands in the Mediterranean, they made their way to Asia Minor and across to Greece, until in the year 60 A.D. we get the graphic account of Paul the traveller, one of the first and most famous of the missionaries of the first century.
— from A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge

The worst of growing up is that you seem to want more and more to have a bit of the real thing in your games.
— from New Treasure Seekers; Or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by E. (Edith) Nesbit

I’m going to get out of this place, and I don’t believe you could break gaol, unassisted, in twenty years.
— from A Rock in the Baltic by Robert Barr

If in another sense the will of each individual is all-powerful over his own destinies, it is best that this idea of firm purpose and a settled energy that will not be denied, should grow up in the young soul in connection with a riper wisdom and an ampler experience than its own; for then, when the time for independent action comes, the force of the association will continue.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

It is well with a people when their garners are full and their flocks prolific;—when their sons are as plants grown up in their youth, and their daughters as polished marble columns; when there is no political convulsion in the land, and no complaining of poverty in their streets.
— from The Royal Exchange and the Palace of Industry; or, The Possible Future of Europe and the World by Thomas Binney

[117] Basil gazed up in the young man's face for a moment or two without speaking.
— from A Christmas Posy by Mrs. Molesworth

"Get up, I tell you.
— from Tarrano the Conqueror by Ray Cummings

Therefore we, who are older, bend our knees and pray as did David (Ps. 144, 12): "That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth: that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace!"
— from A Christmas Gift to the American Home and the Youth of America by N. P. (Niels Peter) Gravengaard