Taking off his boots, he lay down on the hard, narrow, leathern sofa, which he had long used as a bed, bringing nothing but a pillow.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And even amongst us, the hare that any one is hunting, is thought his who pursues her during the chase: for being a beast that is still looked upon as common, and no man's private possession; whoever has employed so much labour about any of that kind, as to find and pursue her, has thereby removed her from the state of nature, wherein she was common, and hath begun a property.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Two voices suddenly broke off with a loud roar of laughter, but the third, a tenor, still sang on, and took so high a note that every one instinctively looked upwards, as though the voice had soared to heaven itself.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Standing erect, severe as when sitting on the bench, he looked unmoved at the dead woman.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Sometimes of Syllables, as in Ecchos and Doggerel Rhymes: Sometimes of Words, as in Punns and Quibbles; and sometimes of whole Sentences or Poems, cast into the Figures of Eggs, Axes , or Altars : Nay, some carry the Notion of Wit so far, as to ascribe it even to external Mimickry; and to look upon a Man as an ingenious Person, that can resemble the Tone, Posture, or Face of another.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Every evening he assembled all the men-at-arms by the war-horn out of the town; and for a long time in the winter they lay under arms all night, ready to be drawn up in array.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

I paid the Indian the price Stipulated for his Services and we imediately loaded up and Set forward.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The room, which was small and stifling, and exactly opposite a hall in which domestics were noisily dining, had been occupied, I think, by servants also, and left unarranged at their departure.
— from A Ride on Horseback to Florence Through France and Switzerland. Vol. 2 of 2 Described in a Series of Letters by a Lady by Augusta Macgregor Holmes

Would it be a death-warrant she would have to give by looking up and saying 'Wrong'?
— from Voices in the Night by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Its motto is, "Look up, and not down; look forward, and not back; look out, and not in; lend a hand," or "Faith, Hope, and Charity."
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall

It commenced about the 8th instant, in boarding houses and taverns in the Cul-de-Sac—a low, uncleanly, and ill-ventilated part of the city—crowded with emigrants of the lowest description, with sailors and other persons of irregular habits.
— from The Cholera Gazette, Vol. I. No. 5. Wednesday, August 8th, 1832. by Various

Father Abella was walking down the long outer corridor of the Mission reading his breviary, and praying he might not be diverted from righteousness by the comforting touch of his new habit, when he looked up and saw the party from the presidio floundering over the last of the sand hills.
— from Rezanov by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Marco looked up at these words, and saw the sailor approaching whom the boy called Joe; and the boy himself immediately stepped down from the anchor, where he and Marco had been standing, and began coiling a rope upon the deck.
— from Forests of Maine Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge by Jacob Abbott

"Sure," said Sam. "Gee!" exclaimed Ernest, looking up at him with admiration.
— from The Dogs of Boytown by Walter A. (Walter Alden) Dyer

Poetry's face lit up, and he said, "We'll take a piece apiece," which we did, and then I said to him all of a sudden, "The sun'll still be shining on Mr. Black.
— from Shenanigans at Sugar Creek by Paul Hutchens

he said, looking up at the doctor in a dazed fashion, and struggling to his feet.
— from Three John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood

That hearsay knowledge had been sharpened by her gradual perception of the way certain men among the passers-by had looked up at her; and it had been driven deeply home one day, by one of those men.
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher