The only course, therefore, left to the king was to lead his men close under the skirts of the hills, thus presenting to the attack of the enemy a long line of march, in which it was difficult for one part to relieve another.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Ang inahan mauy nangulípì pagbalíbad nga wà mulakat ang íyang anak, The mother covered up for her son by saying he hadn’t gone out.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But you needn’t mind that; I shall never trouble you again by intruding my company upon you so unseasonably.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Thou mayest cover up thy secret from the prying multitude.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mr. Macdonell's remains are deposited with those of his military chief under the column on Queenston Heights.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Little Toomai pattered after him, barefooted, down the road in the moonlight, calling under his breath,
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

If either everything or nothing that men came upon in their primitive day-dream had been continuous in its own category and traceable through the labyrinth of the world, no mind and no self-consciousness need ever have appeared at all.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Miss Rachel saw her—said a few last words to Mr. Franklin—and suddenly went back into the house again, before her mother came up with her.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Well, each of us got a sheet and hid it there, and we kept potatoes to bake and an old frying-pan and a kettle and other things like that in case of emergency, for there was no knowing what might come up with an organization like ours, and we knew we had to be ready.
— from Mark Tidd: His Adventures and Strategies by Clarence Budington Kelland

If the Sereno were curious and kept him talking, the port-guard might come up.
— from Wyndham's Pal by Harold Bindloss

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— from Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri Edited with Notes and Biographical Sketch by Edwin Thompson Denig

Continuously hover over your subject, brood over it, keep it before the mental camera until a perfect negative is taken, from which a positive may be formed at any time.
— from How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking by Edwin Gordon Lawrence

We will be sisters still, more closely united than ever.”
— from The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour

In 1880 the black belt States and Territories—having one hundred and over—extends from Wyoming over Montana, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

It was found one mile from Chillicothe, and by its contents I was known to be the owner; a man set out in the night to bring it to me; at midnight this man arrived in Tarleton, had me called up, and safely returned me my pocket-book.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard

I gave the desired permission, when he said, "I just wanted to say, sir, that I wish't you'd let me come up of an evenin' and sit off in the corner there on that chair, and hear Doctor Bainbridge tell about Pym and Peters.
— from A Strange Discovery by Charles Romyn Dake