And as the king and Flollo rode up to the lists, each was so nobly armed and horsed, and sat so mightily upon his saddle, that no man could tell which way the battle would end.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Or put case they escape, and rest unmasked to their lives' end, yet after their death their memory stinks as a snuff of a candle put out, and those that durst not so much as mutter against them in their lives, will prosecute their name with satires, libels, and bitter imprecations, they shall male audire in all succeeding ages, and be odious to the world's end.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Flame of the Candle reached up to the lower edge of the Paper, or a very little higher.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

The button armies marched right up to the lower edge of the screens and right away I got the crazy hunch that they were connected with spots on the map.
— from The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber

Frost, which can deprive us of the most necessary articles of life, destroys many kinds of useful trees, and which scarcely ever leaves one insensible of its rigour, is certainly one of the most formidable misfortunes of human nature; we have therefore every reason to dread intense frosts, which might reduce us to the last extremities if their severities were frequent; but fortunately we can quote only two or three winters which have produced so great and general a calamity as that in 1709.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 10 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Work right up to the leaves, etc., which, if cut deep enough, should allow the chips to come away freely, leaving a clear line of intersection; if it does not, then the upright sides must be cut down until the ground is quite clear of chips.
— from Wood-Carving: Design and Workmanship by George Jack

L et the Vessell be A B C D, and in it the Water raised up to the Levell E F G, before the Solid Prisme H
— from A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Vpon, and Submersion In, the Water. by Galileo Galilei

Purdy sneered: "Gittin' in yer bluff right up to the last, eh?
— from Prairie Flowers by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

Down to the press rooms, up to the literary editor, across to the Woman’s Department and back to the Art Department he sped, always finding time to tell of his good luck and to receive sincere congratulations.
— from Jimmy Drury: Candid Camera Detective by David O'Hara

I really used to think Lady Emily (for this is all her doing) had some sense—but such a display of folly as this!"
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

At Nāgpur in November 1817 the Arabs alone attacked us on the defence and reduced us to the last extremity, when we were saved by Captain Fitzgerald’s charge.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell