"It would be rather unprofessional to tell you if it were so, my lady," answered Robert, gravely.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

A certain rabbin, upon the text, “Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall 239 dream dreams,” 447 inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream; and, certainly, the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth; and age doth profit rather in the powers of understanding, than in the virtues of the will and affections.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

not I. I would as soon have been run up to the yard-arm.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

I lighted the taper, and ran up to tell you.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Rang up three times yesterday I did."
— from Men of Affairs by Roland Pertwee

No one else feeds or cares for her and within a few days the two are bound together by a mutual affection—a tie which remains unbroken throughout the years of the dog’s working life.
— from Detectives, Inc.: A Mystery Story for Boys by William Heyliger

He turned in at the lane running up to the yellow house, so as to approach the barn from the rear, unobserved.
— from The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

You rip up that track you're laying and leave Nan's home alone.
— from Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

"Well," Kirby pointed out, "if he rides up to the Yankee prison camp, he ain't gonna find you neither.
— from Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton

I rang up to tell you how splendid and heroic your action was—” “I had my own life to save, Shirley.”
— from The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

Through the kindness of this same gentleman, I am able to give an interesting account of the changes of level, which have supervened here within historical periods: about the year 1680 a long sea-wall (or Prefil) was built, of which only a few fragments now remain; up to the year 1817, the sea often broke over it, and washed the houses on the opposite side of the road (where the prison now stands); and even in 1819, Mr. J. Martin remembers walking at the foot of this wall, and being often obliged to climb over it to escape the waves.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

And if a substance, what is its essence, and what power is inherent in it, by which it journeys incalculable myriads of miles, and reaches us ten thousand years or more after it leaves the stars?
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

We were taken prisoner, and Ben was mad as fire, and they were scared of him and chained him to the deck; and while he was sulking there, a little parrot of a midshipman come up and grinned at him, and snapped his fingers in his face; and Ben lifted his hands with the heavy irons and sprung at him like a tiger, and the boy dropped dead as a stone; and they put the bight of a rope round Ben's neck and slung him right up to the yard-arm, and there he swung back and forth until as soon as we dared one of us clim' up and cut the rope and let him go over the ship's side; and they put us in irons for that, curse 'em!
— from Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett