"She liked them things as was allus pointin' up to th' blue sky, she used to tell.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

But where no such theoretical truth is to be found, the inquiry must be pushed up to the original elements.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

So home to supper and to bed, Ashwell playing upon the tryangle very well before I went to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Philosophy says that the appetites of the body ought not to be augmented by the mind, and ingeniously warns us not to stir up hunger by saturity; not to stuff, instead of merely filling, the belly; to avoid all enjoyments that may bring us to want; and all meats and drinks that bring thirst and hunger: as, in the service of love, she prescribes us to take such an object as may simply satisfy the body’s need, and does not stir the soul, which ought only barely to follow and assist the body, without mixing in the affair.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Glory and curiosity are the scourges of the soul; the last prompts us to thrust our noses into everything, the other forbids us to leave anything doubtful and undecided.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Few stay on board, but all coming running up hither to towne, and nobody can with justice blame them, we owing them so much money; and their familys must starve if we do not give them money, or they procure upon their tickets from some people that will trust them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So that if there existed any one whom we assuredly knew to be capable of making discoveries of the highest kind, and of the greatest possible utility to the public; and if all other men were therefore eager by all means to assist him in successfully prosecuting his designs, I do not see that they could do aught else for him beyond contributing to defray the expenses of the experiments that might be necessary; and for the rest, prevent his being deprived of his leisure by the unseasonable interruptions of any one.
— from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

I should not, of course, deny—unless I were a fool—that many actions which are called immoral should be avoided and resisted; and in the same way that many which are called moral should be performed and encouraged; but I hold that in both cases these actions should be performed from motives other than those which have prevailed up to the present time.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He put us through the same preliminary manoeuvres of backing Mary on her knees over my mouth, and while he sucked my prick, he feasted his eyes at the same time on Mary’s really finely developed buttocks, giving him promise of great after-pleasure.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Play up to the permanencies, and try to write some dispatch that'll interest Lord Wiltshire.
— from The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance by Harry Johnston

In order to avoid further conversation, and preserve, unbroken, the thread of my reflections, I obeyed her.
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

| I expected, the Political Officers objected, and tried to persuade us that the risk was imaginary, &c. However, I was firm, and after a long and hot conversation which, at one time, seemed likely to [Pg 151] culminate in a row, I carried the day, and an order was issued that all Pathans (men) should leave the City, and that in the afternoon search parties would go round to ascertain that the order was being obeyed.
— from Private Journal of Henry Francis Brooke Late Brigadier-General Commanding 2nd Infantry Brigade, Kandahar Field Force, Southern Afghanistan, from April 22nd to August 16th, 1880 by Henry Francis Brooke

Meyer has shown independent grounds for holding “that the festivals which gave rise to the later names of the (Egyptian) months were demonstrably held a month later in earlier ages, under the twentieth, eighteenth, indeed partly under the twelfth dynasty; in other words, that after the end of the New Kingdom the festivals and the corresponding names of the months were displaced one month backwards.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12) by James George Frazer

On appeal the decision was reversed; Athanasius was reinstated, 14485 and advanced; the cause with which he had identified himself triumphed; and the Synod of Tyre being pronounced unorthodox, the Tyrian church, like that of Antioch, sank in the estimation of the Church at large.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

Lulla finds another baby, leads her to the window and points up to the tin.
— from Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael

You’ve just got to play up to these managers, if you don’t want to be put off for ever, or poked away in a back room.”
— from Flaming June by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

It is in the statement which the Soviet Prosecutor yesterday put up to the witness and in regard to which the witness made the statement that he considers it correct and will repeat it.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 7 by Various

"He pointed up to the yard-arm, as much as to say that I should be strung up, if I refused obedience, and I've no doubt he would have kept his word.
— from Charlie Codman's Cruise: A Story for Boys by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

One day Massena sent for me, and I found him in his tent with a great plan pinned upon the table.
— from The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle