I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the dæmon at the casement.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Than Kosis looked up in surprise, and, rising, saluted her.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

65 Observe how he takes us, as it were, by the hand, and leads us in spirit through these places, making us no longer readers, but spectators.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

By the beginning of the fourteenth century all these plays were, in various localities, united in single cycles beginning with the Creation and ending with the Final Judgment.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

When I did look up I saw Arthur standing in the doorway laughing, with a stick in his hand.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

In thy solemn spaces, beyond the human eye, God fashioned His universe; laid the foundations of the earth, Laid the measure thereof, and stretched the line upon it; Shut up the sea with doors, and made the glory Of the clouds a covering for it; Commanded His morning, and, behold!
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

Loring and Shinny looked up in surprise.
— from Danger in Deep Space by Carey Rockwell

The priest looked up in surprise.
— from A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 by Felix Dahn

There all was quiet and orderly; the operators placidly pursuing their labours, working out their calculations, or watching the tell-tale spot of light on the scale, and all looking up in silent surprise at the sudden hubbub round their door.
— from The Battery and the Boiler: Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Her existence has been a boat that has always lain in harbour—" She suddenly looked up: "I spent my childhood at Dieppe, and that often suggests images to me," she observed complacently, and then she went on in quite another tone of voice:— "To return to Madame and her fate!
— from The Chink in the Armour by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Every time my thoughts travelled back to my late undertakings in South Africa they passed over St Helena, and recoiled with shame at the desolate state into which England had allowed this place to fall.
— from What I Saw in Kaffir-Land by Stephen Lakeman

I had not been there long before I heard voices, and, looking up, I saw the party walking towards me.
— from The Weapons of Mystery by Joseph Hocking

The epitaph, a very quaint one, was also of his own writing, and runs thus:— This craggy stone a covering is for an architector’s bed; That lofty buildings raisèd high, yet now lyes low his head; His line and rule, so death concludes, are lockèd up in store;
— from Curious Epitaphs, Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland. by William Andrews

If you insist on its being a Teutonic people (which I flatly deny) then you have one which alone of Teutonic peoples has inherited the Roman gift of consolidating conquest, of colonising in the wake of its armies; of driving the road, bridging the ford, bringing the lawless under its sense of law.
— from On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

The vision of my soul Has looked upon its Sun and turns no more To any lower light.”
— from Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith