The magician kept looking up toward the sky and muttering to himself.
— from Fairy Tales from Many Lands by Katharine Pyle

" Killigrew laughed until the tears started.
— from The Voice in the Fog by Harold MacGrath

He invited me to tea with him, and he kept leading up to the subject and I leading away from it.
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

Clasping his knees, look up to that stern heaven,
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by George MacDonald

While such con­si­de­ra­tions as these, based on the chemical composition of the organism, teach us that there must be a definite lower limit to its magnitude, other con­si­de­ra­tions of a purely physical kind lead us to the same conclusion.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Our friends must bestir themselves once more, perhaps we may yet turn the scale.—If the voice of religion, wisdom and justice should fail, let us sound the trumpet of liberty and patriotism, that will conquer them in America, I know; let us try to storm them here with the united whole, and if by a base majority they still carry their point, we can nevertheless wash our hands and be clean.
— from The Fall of British Tyranny American Liberty Triumphant by John Leacock

He kept looking up towards the sky
— from By the Barrow River, and Other Stories by Edmund Leamy