" As soon as the rope was tied, the soldier climbed up the tree, and let himself down through the hollow to the ground beneath; and here he found, as the witch had told him, a large hall, in which many hundred lamps were all burning.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

All of a sudden she stopped, caught up the two notes, and after looking at them closely, said decidedly, "I don't believe Brooke ever saw either of these letters.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Cecina’s invention to send back news to his family was much more quick, for he took swallows along with him from home, and turned them out towards their nests when he would send back any news; setting a mark of some colour upon them to signify his meaning, according to what he and his people had before agreed upon.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Never, so it seemed to Anne, had there been so many squeaky pencils as there were that morning; and when Barbara Shaw came up to the desk with a sum she tripped over the coal scuttle with disastrous results.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

We managed to carry on a conversation in which I endeavored to convey my sense of his politeness in inviting me so cordially up to the city of Mexico, and my regret that the peculiar duty on which I was engaged did not admit of a compliance, or even of an intelligent explanation, at the time.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

She came up to the door and looked at Dinah, and the old woman saw how pale she was, and what a strange light gleamed in the violet eyes under their long, curling lashes of golden-brown.
— from Little Golden's Daughter; or, The Dream of a Life Time by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

She came up to the table, and emptied its contents upon the blue denim table-cover—two or three gold pieces, some fifteen silver dollars, and a handful of small change.
— from Blix by Frank Norris

The distances had become so short, that five or six minutes sufficed for all that Jasper wished, and he put the helm down again, when the bows of the Scud came up to the wind, notwithstanding the turbulence of the waters, as gracefully as the duck varies its line of direction on the glassy pond.
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

And, extending his arm towards the smoking chimney: “Up there, that village ought to be Vallars, but it’s not up to much.”
— from The Queen Pedauque by Anatole France

Again the same summons, calling upon them to hasten, as they valued life.
— from Scouting Dave: The Trail Hunter by James L. (James Lorenzo) Bowen

At the very least it possesses the incontestable advantage of starting with a few ordinary terms, and of leading the reader along with facility and promptness, by a series of simple combinations, up to the loftiest.
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

We might, of course, have had Henry overthrow the Old Cinch in Sunbury; clean up the town.
— from Henry Is Twenty: A Further Episodic History of Henry Calverly, 3rd by Samuel Merwin

I liked the way he took hold and did things; there was no nonsense about him,” replied Mrs. Smith; then, having wedged the last child in so that it could not possibly fall out, she clambered up to the driving seat and started with her load, leaving Bertha standing looking after the wagon.
— from The Youngest Sister: A Tale of Manitoba by Bessie Marchant

The white dresses of the Ternates were laid aside: with nothing on them but their belts, and scimitars, and creeses, and blue under-drawers, they silently crept up to the palisades, there deposited their fagots, and then again returned, again to perform the same journey.
— from The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat