But he cried aloud and said: "Master, what word of unwisdom is this which thou dost utter, bidding me look upon my mistress naked?
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

“Excellency,” said he gravely, addressing Franz, “if you look upon me as a liar, it is useless for me to say anything; it was for your interest I——” “Albert does not say you are a liar, Signor Pastrini,” said Franz, “but that he will not believe what you are going to tell us,—but I will believe all you say; so proceed.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Then to look upon my painters that are now at work in my house.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Maáyu pa ug bayran nímu ang buhis, lasbi ug mamurúsu ang yútà!
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I say with him in [4313] A. Gellius, let us maintain the vigour of our souls with a moderate cup of wine,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Don't palm all your abuses of languages upon me."
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Without looking upon myself as a remarkably combative person, I shall not decline the challenge to detect the fallacy and destroy the pretensions of every attempt of speculative theology.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

But he gone at last upon my enquiry to tell us how (he having been here too for survey of the Ropeyard) the day’s work of the Rope-makers become settled, which pleased me very well.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They fell, in fact, all of them more or less under military despotism.
— from Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de La Plata Their Present State, Trade, and Debt by Parish, Woodbine, Sir

“Let us make a bet on it!”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

This gentleman took it into his head to list under my banner, and pursued me so very assiduously with flattery, constantly reminding me of my good sense, that I grew immoderately fond of him; for though flattery is not most judiciously applied to qualities which the persons flattered possess, yet as, notwithstanding my being well assured of my own parts, I passed in the whole court for a fool, this flattery was a very sweet morsel to me.
— from A Journey from This World to the Next by Henry Fielding

Auntie laughed her old rich note of genial defiance, as if an affection for a thing of little value and less use must be defended.
— from The Sailor by J. C. (John Collis) Snaith

Job hath a strange expression, “Thou lookest upon me, and I am not,” Job vii.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Look up, my good friend, and smile.
— from Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

The chill wind of an early autumn night moaned sadly in the tall trees, and the dead leaves under my feet rustled a sad accompaniment to my thoughts, which at last, unhooded, flew back to the past.
— from Told in a French Garden August, 1914 by Mildred Aldrich

Look upon My boy as though I guessed it?
— from McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

And then I bent over the Caesar that Boy laid upon my lap, while Uncle asked:— "Well, my son, is there mutiny again in the camp of our Great and Good Friend, Divitiacus the Aeduan?" A few minutes later John said good-night with a ludicrous expression of pained, absent-minded patience.
— from The Bacillus of Beauty: A Romance of To-day by Harriet Stark