322 A confidential agent sent to report upon the situation wrote in September, 1837, that opposition to the treaty was unanimous and irreconcilable, the Cherokee declaring that it could not bind them because they did not make it, that it was the work of a few unauthorized individuals and that the Nation was not a party to it.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

It was with just such blades as these that these splendid heroes of romance used to segregate a man, so to speak, and leave the half of him to fall one way and the other half the other.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Beside the window was a porch with steps, and a front door with a white board on it; Pashka ran up the steps, looked in at the window, and was at once possessed by intense overwhelming joy.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

So James Harthouse reclined in the window, indolently smoking, and reckoning up the steps he had taken on the road by which he happened to be travelling.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Aroused by what he saw, the soldier rushed upon them, seizing Pannychis, then Giton, then both of them together, in a crushing embrace.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

In a moment we were running up the steep drawside together, Yulka trotting after us.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

It is constantly held up to derision by those people who are unaware of the next rule upon the subject, which is, that as soon as a quartering comes into the possession of a cadet branch—which quartering is not enjoyed by the head of the house—all necessity for any marks of difference at all is considered to be ended, provided that that quartering is always displayed—and that cadet branch then begins afresh from that generation to redifference.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

A heavy storm that very night O'ertook them flying from the fight; And skulls and bones are tumbling round, Under the sea, on sandy ground.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

There is no doubt but Augustus, after this, came to a resolution upon the subject, and, accordingly, left him invested with no other honour than that of the Augural priesthood; naming him amongst the heirs of the third degree, who were but distantly allied to his family, for a sixth part of his estate only, with a legacy of no more than eight hundred thousand sesterces.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

[763] Ras Mahomet, which terminates the south of the peninsula formed by the two bays, the Ælanitic running up to Petra, and that of Heroopolis running up to Suez.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Line upon line the turf is reversed, until there stands out of the neutral landscape a ruddy square visible for miles, or until the breasts of the broad hills glow like the breasts of the robins.
— from A Year in the Fields by John Burroughs

The baby was really crying, and I must go up and see her,” she rattled on, without giving them time to reply, and then ran up the stairway with the big doll tripping after her.
— from The Story of Live Dolls by Josephine Scribner Gates

Both horses had to slacken speed as they raced up the slope.
— from Wild Roses: A Tale of the Rockies by Howard R. (Howard Roscoe) Driggs

Calyste felt that he ought to leave to Beatrix her freedom of action in receiving or not receiving him; and he waited, looking into the garden, with its walls furrowed by those black and yellow lines produced by rain upon the stucco of Paris.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Belief in gods and acts of worship paid to them do not constitute religion unless the sentiment, the sense of need, be also there.
— from History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies

He dismounted and ran along the road, unable to see his sister, and guided only by her voice, which appeared to proceed from a bed of tall weeds by the wayside.
— from Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen by Anna Chapin Ray

Suddenly, and at the very moment that we were about to advance, the white flag, the symbol of peace, was raised upon the side of the Mexicans.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

I write these concluding lines on a rock, under the shade of a tree on the banks of the island.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

By heaven thou shalt not die!— [ Bland rushes off: André looks after him with an expression of love and gratitude, then retires up the stage.
— from André by William Dunlap

Mrs. Gaylord rolled up the sewing in her work-basket, and packed it away against the side, bracing it with several pairs of newly darned socks and stockings neatly folded one into the other.
— from A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells