"What does all this mean?" "Something rather unusual," said the shadow; "but you are yourself an uncommon man, and you know very well that I have followed in your footsteps ever since your childhood.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

In the hotchpotch which was everyday life, in the tangle of trivialities out of which human relations were woven, it was no longer a law, but a logical absurdity, when the strong and the weak were both equally victims of their mutual relations, unwillingly submitting to some directing force, unknown, standing outside life, apart from man.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I like to get in one of the Fifth avenue stages and ride up, stemming the swift-moving procession.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

In all animals, when the appetite is very intense, the stomach rises up, so that some people who have a clear perception of this condition say that their stomach “creeps out” of them; in others, who are still masticating their food and have not yet worked it up properly in the mouth, the stomach obviously snatches away the food from them against their will.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

"In the South Country rules a very delightful Queen called Glinda the Good, who I am sure will gladly receive us," said the Scarecrow, getting into the Thing clumsily.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

I own I was exceedingly provoked at this new alarm; and before my uncle had time to express himself on the subject, I ran up stairs, to see what was the matter.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Up, and at the Office all the morning, with my heart full of joy to think in what a safe condition all my matters now stand between my wife and Deb, and me, and at noon running up stairs to see the upholsters, who are at work upon hanging my best room, and setting up my new bed, I find my wife sitting sad in the dining room; which enquiring into the reason of, she begun to call me all the false, rotten-hearted rogues in the world, letting me understand that I was with Deb.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

School life is circumscribed and marked out according to a rigid, unique system, the same for all the colleges and lycées of the Empire, according to an imperative and detailed plan which foresees and prescribes everything even to the minutest point, labor and rest of mind and of body, material and method of instruction, class-books, passages to translate or to recite, a list of fifteen hundred volumes for each library with a prohibition against introducing another volume into it without the Grand-Master's permission, hours, duration, application and sessions of classes, of studies, of recreations and of promenades causing the premeditated stifling of native curiosity, of spontaneous inquiry, of inventive and personal originality, both with the masters and still more, with the scholars.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

I came not hither to pray; and yet if praying would satisfy thee, or remove the drought, I would ride up straightway to Saint Michael’s and pray until morning.
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

Our road is a round-about one, and rarely used since the shorter road has been made.
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

Here in these grottoes the heroic soul rose up superior to sorrow.
— from The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome by James De Mille

But the Pope’s heart within him burned, So that he rose up, seeing the sign, And came among them; but she turned Back to her daily way divine, And fed her faith with silent things, And lived her life with curbed white wings, And mixed herself with heaven and died: And now on the sheer city-side Smiles like a bride.
— from Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Wipe the apples clean, but do not pare them; cut them in halves, and take out the cores; lay them in the batter, rind uppermost; shake the suet on the top, over which, also grate a little nutmeg; bake in a moderate oven for an hour, and cover, when served, with sifted loaf sugar.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Jackson,” said Whitwell, in a tone of relief, as if turning from an irrelevant matter to something of real importance, “was down here to-night tryin' to ring up some them spirits from the planet Mars.
— from The Landlord at Lion's Head — Complete by William Dean Howells