The house was very silent now, and not a sound came up from the misty streets.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The central portion was in little better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The blue smoke curls up from the censer and plays in the slanting sunbeams, the lighted candles faintly splutter.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Bluish smoke coiled up from the censer and bathed in the broad, slanting patch of sunshine which cut across the gloomy, lifeless emptiness of the church.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Superior sincerity (far superior) consoles us for the total want of old Grecian grace.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Then they vanished; and, though Kim, hanging half out of the window, strained his young ears, never a sound came up from the gulf.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

" "I hope it doesn't mean there's a storm coming up from the east to spoil the party," murmured Rilla.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It was the manager's duty, as well as his custom, after all were gone to see that everything was safely closed up for the night.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

I expected, with Sherman coming up from the South, Meade south of Petersburg and around Richmond, and Thomas's command in Tennessee with depots of supplies established in the eastern part of that State, to move from the direction of Washington or the valley towards Lynchburg.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

at this still, this lonely hour, Thine own sweet hour of closing day, Awake thy lute, whose charmful pow'r Shall call up Fancy to obey: To paint the wild romantic dream, That meets the poet's musing eye, As, on the bank of shadowy stream, He breathes to her the fervid sigh.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

My bows and reverences scarcely softened the exceedingly strange appearance I must have made as an intruder, clothed in universal flannel, and offering ten thousand apologies in French, German, and English for thus dropping down from the clouds, that is to say, climbing up from the water.
— from A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe by John MacGregor

They halted, and squadron after squadron came up from the rear.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

I hope the ghosts who live in the parsonage watched me with friendly eyes, and I looked back myself, to see a thin blue whiff of smoke still coming up from the great chimney.
— from Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett

Immense clouds of steam curl up from the surface, obstructing the view, but the noise of boiling and seething is always audible.
— from Wonders of the Yellowstone by James (Geologist) Richardson

He selected a dry log and for some minutes sat smoking and gazing in silence at the torrent, whose hoarse roar was the only sound coming up from the sleeping forest.
— from The Lady of Big Shanty by F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith

After the revolution the subject came up from time to time to the consideration of the governing powers, and new hospitals were erected, and great improvements made in the old ones.
— from Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by D. W. (David W.) Bartlett

Good scents came up from the sea, the heather was warm and fragrant, bees droned about, and stray seagulls swept the ridge with their wings.
— from Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

One day Hester, the servant, came up from the basement, saying there was a poor old man below, who asked for money.
— from Homestead on the Hillside by Mary Jane Holmes

That was precisely what he did, after the sun sank behind the western mountains, and the deep shadows crept up from the ravines and covered everything.
— from Harper's Young People, November 29, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various