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

Translation If you hear the noise of the chase Going down the stream Then run up the stream.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

A society is formed for discussion, but the idea of impending action prevails in the minds of those who constitute it: it is, in fact, an army; and the time given to parley serves to reckon up the strength and to animate the courage of the host, after which they direct their march against the enemy.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

“No, that about the fiddle is not quite what I mean,” she thought, running up the steps and feeling in her bag for the key—she’d forgotten it, as usual—and rattling the letter-box.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Anon they came to where the thirty knights lay waiting, and Sir Tristram rushed upon them, saying, “Here is one who fights for love of Lancelot!”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

The children seeing their little duties lie in action close around them, began to try each one to do something that she suggested towards redding up the slatternly room.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

All are Page 329 {329} taken from seals, and it is quite possible that the actual fans upon the seal helmets had some device painted upon them which it was impossible by reason of the size to represent upon the seal.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Suddenly they rested upon the shrivelled hand.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

As we circled upon the broad platform I saw Sab Than rushing up the steps to aid his father, but, as he raised his hand to strike, Dejah Thoris sprang before him and then my sword found the spot that made Sab Than jeddak of Zodanga.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The father was pouring out his soul to That God who rules on high, Who all the earth surveys; That rides upon the stormy sky, And calms the roaring seas, "that he would grant unto him a prosperous voyage across the mighty ocean, and make him useful wherever his lot should be cast, and that he who careth for the sparrows, and feedeth the young ravens when they cry, would supply the wants of his wife and little ones in his absence.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

This delusion of the world, appears to be so situated in the supreme soul, as the rows of waves are seen to roll upon the surface of the calm waters of the sea.
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki

In youth, the sun brings light alone— No shade then rests upon the sight—
— from Poems by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Here Christmas Evans prayed and preached, turning many hundreds from sin to righteousness under the sway of his matchless eloquence.
— from Days in the Open by Lathan A. (Lathan Augustus) Crandall

Greece, according to this Protocol, was still to remain under the Sultan's suzerainty: its ruler was to be a hereditary prince belonging to one of the reigning European families, but not to any of the three allied Courts.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

Ought not the cries of distress and agony from the poor women of Persia so to rouse us, their sisters in England, that we shall determine to do all that lies in our power to lighten their burdens and to bring some rays of light into the dark lives of our Eastern sisters?
— from Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East by A. Hume-Griffith

Such monarchies existed in the western states; they rested upon the shoulders of a middle class of small landowners and wealthy merchants, too weak to defend themselves in a state of nature, a war of all against all, but collectively strong enough to overawe the forces of anarchy.
— from Medieval Europe by H. W. Carless (Henry William Carless) Davis

But indeed, without an amendment, Congress had no power to lay any tax, save through requisitions upon the state governments.
— from The American Revolution by John Fiske

A metallic transmitting stylus, t, rests upon the surface of the drum, T, and any well known or suitable mechanism may be employed for causing an automatic transmitting pattern slip, P, to pass between the stylus and the drum.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various