[Goes up to TATIANA ALEXEYEVNA] Get out of this!
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He says that Commodore Barrie came up in the Bullfrog , and that the gossip of the island was, that he was the cause of its being given up to the Americans.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

She struck a gong upon the table, and I was shown out by the page.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It was generally understood that their abrupt departure was due to Madame Olenska's desire to remove her aunt from the baleful eloquence of Dr. Agathon Carver, who had nearly succeeded in enlisting her as a recruit for the Valley of Love; and in the circumstances no one had expected either of the ladies to return for the wedding.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Sancho obeyed, and when the two had gone some distance in advance Don Quixote said to him, “Since thy return I have had no opportunity or time to ask thee many particulars touching thy mission and the answer thou hast brought back, and now that chance has granted us the time and opportunity, deny me not the happiness thou canst give me by such good news.” “Let your worship ask what you will,” answered Sancho, “for I shall find a way out of all as I found a way in; but I implore you, senor, not to be so revengeful in future.” “Why dost thou say that, Sancho?” said Don Quixote.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

his relations were unwilling to give up the tomehawk as they intended to bury it with the disceased owner, but were at length induced to do so for the consideration of a hadkerchief, two strands of beads, which Drewyer gave them and two horses given by the cheifs to be killed agreeably to their custom at the grave of the disceased.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In like manner, when there were Colonies sent from England, to Plant Virginia, and Sommer-Ilands; though the government of them here, were committed to Assemblies in London, yet did those Assemblies never commit the Government under them to any Assembly there; but did to each Plantation send one Governour; For though every man, where he can be present by Nature, desires to participate of government; yet where they cannot be present, they are by Nature also enclined, to commit the Government of their common Interest rather to a Monarchicall, then a Popular form of Government: which is also evident in those men that have great private estates; who when they are unwilling to take the paines of administring the businesse that belongs to them, choose rather to trust one Servant, than a Assembly either of their friends or servants.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

But Anne had given up trying to analyze the reason of her blushes.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Each individual of the automatic community forthwith set to work, according to his or her proper vocation: the monkey, taking off his Highland bonnet, bowed and scraped to the by-standers most obsequiously, with ever an observant eye to pick up a stray cent; and the young foreigner himself, as he turned the crank of his machine, glanced upward to the arched window, expectant of a presence that would make his music the livelier and sweeter.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Pg 506] A loud, sneering laugh came from the group under the trees, and a voice, which we recognize as Tom Gordon's, calls out, "He is coming the solemn dodge on you, boys!
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe

When we entered his room he was arranging his papers, and did not give us time to announce our engagement, as we intended.
— from Major Frank by A. L. G. (Anna Louisa Geertruida) Bosboom-Toussaint

She often gathered up the tablecloth after the housemaid had removed the breakfast dishes and, running out under the trees, would shake it vigorously that her wild pets might get all the little pieces of food that fell.
— from Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird by Virginia Sharpe Patterson

The train had not proceeded far, when, as we were passing a saw-mill, we saw a man, who had charge of a yoke of oxen, standing, with open mouth, gazing upon the train, and staring the very locomotive out of countenance.
— from John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch Or The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-legged Soldier after the War by A. F. (Ashbel Fairchild) Hill

The Southern Cheyennes had given up to their agent some Mexican prisoners whom they had taken in the spring, and this act, it was supposed, had seemed to the northern band a needless interference on the part of the United States.
— from A Century of Dishonor A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson

But if we use forbearance, and open commerce for them, they will come to, and give us time to attach them to us.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

The moment the General found that the doctor was willing that he should go up to town, and the ladies quite ready to accompany him at once, he himself began to raise objections.
— from The Lost Heir by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

No rule can be given covering all such cases, and the starting points of such numbers can be determined only by means of the calculations given under the third and fourth steps, below.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

That was what the courier, who was at that moment speaking to the Indians, wanted them to do; but the most of them were for gathering up their tepees and joining those who had retreated to the Bad Lands, for if they once got among them the soldiers would find it a desperate task to whip them.
— from Carl the Trailer by Harry Castlemon

when war was declared, our father stood up and gave us the tomahawk, and told us that he was then ready to strike the Americans; that he wanted our assistance, and that he would certainly get our lands back, which the Americans had taken from us.
— from Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians by Benjamin Drake