In France it is always remembered, with better taste, that when a young lady goes up to the altar, she is ‘ encore jeune fille ;’ her dress, therefore, is exquisitely simple; a dress of tulle over white silk, a long, wide veil of white tulle, going down to the very feet, a wreath of maiden-blush-roses interspersed with orange flowers.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Marie seemed wonderfully supported, always, when she got upon this topic; and she now opened her eyes, and seemed quite to forget her languor.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

When he had got up to the animal she was riding he put his hand on the crupper and relaxed his speed.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I was lookin' for you!" He laid his hat and gun upon the table, and stood with one hand against its edge.
— from Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two Fortunate Lovers A Novel by Emerson Hough

Give us thorns, too, and sorrow and bears!
— from Collected Poems: Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

As the boy and girl came out of the shack he glided up to them as softly and silently as ever.
— from The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham

Would she like to see her son stuff his maws with pig; or perhaps grow up to take a shiksah to his arms?
— from Forward from Babylon by Louis Golding

One of the boys will go up the tree and shake the branch till the 'possum falls off, and when it falls the dogs will kill it.”
— from An Outback Marriage: A Story of Australian Life by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson

Dorothy Fraser had now returned to her duties in London; the Stauntons were to go up to town as soon as ever the cottage could be sold.
— from A Girl in Ten Thousand by L. T. Meade

The late Lord Goschen used to tell a story of a letter that he had from a Captain in the navy at the time when he was First Lord.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index by Various

Senkofsky translated the Derbent-Nahmeh ; and also edited with considerable additions the French-Arabic dictionary, originally written by the Swede Berggren, a work of great utility to the Arabic scholar; not a mere vocabulary, but full of geographical notices and general information; in short a work which, according to the prospectus written by the learned Frähn, "contains every thing that can be useful to the traveller, diplomatic agent, missionary, physician or merchant."
— from Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations With a Sketch of Their Popular Poetry by Talvj

"But I have promised Edward all the same to go up to town and see his pet doctor and make sure that the cure is complete.
— from The Obstacle Race by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

They had a habit of going up to them and smelling at their legs, and even gnawing their feet as they sat before the little tables selling their wares; and what made this more surprising was that the people did not always seem to find out when they were being gnawed.
— from Mopsa the Fairy by Jean Ingelow