The important port of Utica having been given up to the Romans, an immense fleet was employed in transporting to this point eighty thousand foot-soldiers and four thousand horses; Carthage was besieged, and the son of Paulus Emilius and adopted son of the great Scipio had the glory of completing the victory which Emilius and Scipio had begun, by destroying the bitter rival of his country.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

The rector would side with the prefect of studies and think it was a schoolboy trick and then the prefect of studies would come in every day the same, only it would be worse because he would be dreadfully waxy at any fellow going up to the rector about him.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

On returning to St. Louis, on the expiration of my leave of absence, I found that General Halleck was beginning to move his troops: one part, under General U. S. Grant, up the Tennessee River; and another part, under General S. R. Curtis, in the direction of Springfield, Missouri.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Giving up therefore their resentment against the Clusians, they sound a retreat, threatening the Romans.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The Carthaginians shall give up to the Romans all prisoners without ransom.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

None in particular; on the contrary, the hour of liberation's struck, and I'm going up there to receive absolution.
— from The Road to Damascus, a Trilogy by August Strindberg

By-and-by I go up to the room and find my wife watching alone by the aged sufferer.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 705, June 30, 1877 by Various

Now she wants to go up to the rescue, and stay there.
— from A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson

" The lady then requested that an hour might be allowed her to send for a neighbor, who lived several miles distant, to come with his team to remove the furniture to a place of safety, as all the wagons about the plantation had been given up to the rebel army.
— from Frank on the Lower Mississippi by Harry Castlemon

Once she fainted in his arms, and even to go upstairs to their rooms at the top of the house tired her so much that afterwards she would lie back in a chair, with her eyes closed, looking very white and worn.
— from Back to Life by Philip Gibbs

I fear I must give up trying to read any paper or speak; it is a horrid bore, I can do nothing like other people.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

Going up to the roof, and lying flat on my stomach, I peered out.
— from The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I by Jules Lermina

The column continuing to press forward, General Sir D. Pack galloped up to the regiment and called out—"Ninety-second, you must charge, for all the troops to your right and left have given way."
— from With the Scottish Regiments at the Front by Evelyn Charles Vivian

The French also laboured hard along the front of the attack to restore the severely damaged works, brought more guns up to the ramparts, and closed the breach by retrenchment.
— from The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

"He got up to that rock all right, didn't he?
— from The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by John Henry Goldfrap