With a menacing look at the turnkey he crawled upon the hearth, and, peering up the chimney, struck and prised at its sides with the crowbar, and worked at the iron grating across it.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

OTHELLO I have a pain upon my forehead here.
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

For it is not pleasant when the heart is opened by compassion, and the head active in arranging plans of usefulness, to have a prim urchin continually twitching back the elbow to prevent the hand from drawing out an almost empty purse, whispering at the same time some prudential maxim about the priority of justice.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

He had already put up his whole stock of linen in it, consisting of four shirts, to which he now added eight for Mr Jones; and then packing up the portmanteau, he was departing with it towards his own house, but was stopt in his way by the landlady, who refused to suffer any removals till after the payment of the reckoning.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

In the course of the seventeenth century, therefore, the English, French, Dutch, Danes, and Swedes, all the great nations who had any ports upon the ocean, attempted to make some settlements in the new world.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The enemy then, being in a state of confusion from being attacked on all sides, fled without coming to close conflict; but they were hemmed in on all hands, Alexander pressing upon them in one direction and the men of Craterus running up in another.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

He traveled all over the country, living like the apostles of old, upon hospitality, and preaching upon street-corners when there was no hall.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

If the examiner then believes that the witness agrees with him and proceeds upon this only apparently certain basis, the case may become very bad.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

We flitted hither and thither and enjoyed every hour, and picked up a great deal of useful information and entertaining nonsense, and went to bed at night satisfied.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Poisoners are put to death in Persia in the following manner: their heads are placed upon a flat stone, and are then beaten with another stone until the face and skull is crushed.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

"Then I ought to have affection poured upon me," said Guildea, smiling rather grimly.
— from Tongues of Conscience by Robert Hichens

They all ran to her, jumped upon her lap, and passed their tiny arms round her neck, and the garden would then fill with the noise of joyous games, races, and cries; and it was not she who ran or cried the least, so happy was she at once more feeling herself a poor unknown little girl as in the far-away days of Bartres!
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete by Émile Zola

Had a strong, concerted attack, in large force, from Holland and Zeeland below and from the city above, been agreed upon, there was hardly a period, until very late in the winter, when it might not have had the best chances of success.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

A year later, in 1859, Meissner 17 brought forward the first of his contributions, and during the following three or four years several communications were made representing the work of himself and pupils upon the question of gastric digestion, or more especially upon the character of the products resulting from the digestive action of pepsin-hydrochloric acid.
— from On Digestive Proteolysis Being the Cartwright Lectures for 1894 by R. H. (Russell Henry) Chittenden

Repentantly, we had again picked up our thick camel’s wool garments which we had laid off in the southern waters.
— from The Adventures of the U-202: An Actual Narrative by Spiegel, E. (Edgar), Freiherr von

The [Pg 187] time for that occupation was now come, and they were very busy curing their meat; they had also put up a small shed for smoking their bacon and hams.
— from The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat

Hence we will honor our new lord so that he may enjoy health and protect us from ruin."
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

He says of his own childhood:— "I was of a stiff, moody, and violent temper; so much so that I remember going once into the attic of my grandfather's house at Penrith, upon some indignity having been put upon me, with an intention of destroying myself with one of the foils which I knew were kept there.
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

The twelve are sent forth to exorcise, heal, and preach, unfurnished; and as before they are to give testimony against those who will not receive them.
— from The Historical Jesus: A Survey of Positions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson