These battered and broken-nosed old fellows saw many and many a cavalcade of mail-clad knights come marching home from Holy Land; they heard the bells above them toll the signal for the St. Bartholomew’s Massacre, and they saw the slaughter that followed; later they saw the Reign of Terror, the carnage of the Revolution, the overthrow of a king, the coronation of two Napoleons, the christening of the young prince that lords it over a regiment of servants in the Tuileries to-day—and they may possibly continue to stand there until they see the Napoleon dynasty swept away and the banners of a great republic floating above its ruins.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

She took up the [ 22 ] jewel in her hand, left the palace, and successfully reached the upper world.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

UP, “to be UP to a thing or two,” to be knowing, or understanding; “to put a man UP to a move,” to teach him a trick; “it’s all UP with him,” i.e. , it is all over with him, often pronounced U.P., naming the two letters separately; “ UP a tree,” see TREE ; “ UP to TRAP ,” “ UP to SNUFF ,” wide awake, acquainted with the last new move; “ UP to one’s GOSSIP ,” to be a match for one who is trying to take you in;—“ UP to SLUM ,” proficient in roguery, capable of committing a theft successfully.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

He wanted someone to understand the feeling that had taken possession of him after his mother's death.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Then taking a gold medal from his neck, which was struck when the elector Frederic was crowned king of Bohemia, he presented it to one of the officers, at the same time uttering these words, "As a dying man, I request, if ever king Frederic is restored to the throne of Bohemia, that you will give him this medal.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

fatigued, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I’m sick, I’m dead.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

We are too good-natured a race; we hate to say the unpleasant thing; we shrink from speaking the unkind truth about a poor fellow whose bread depends upon our verdict; so we speak of his good points only, thus not scrupling to tell a lie—a silent lie—for in not mentioning his bad ones we as good as say he hasn’t any.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Putting everything else aside, I think that one of us ought to visit Bausi’s kraal in case the gentleman who you call Brother John should turn up there.
— from Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The gorse was still in bloom, in the latter end of the month of June, when Reding and Sheffield took up their abode in a small cottage at the upper end of this village—so hid with trees and girt in with meadows that for the stranger it was hard to find—there to pass their third and last Long Vacation before going into the schools.
— from Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

She took up the glass in a sudden frenzy of defiance.
— from The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

Say that up there they won't be disturbed by the—the music.”
— from Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

A flush overspread her fair face as she strove to utter the thoughts nearest her heart.
— from Gold Out of Celebes by Aylward Edward Dingle

There were flecks of snow upon the face and on the smooth brown hair and travel-soiled dress; clogs of snow, too, upon the tired feet--the little feet Andy had admired so much; but the traveler kept on bravely, till the friendly light shone out beneath the maples, and then she paused, and leaning for a moment against the fence, sobbed aloud, but not sadly or bitterly.
— from Ethelyn's Mistake by Mary Jane Holmes

; his part in the plot, 235 ; is arrested by the Dutch, 237 ; his end, 242 Abdul Karim, Haji, becomes Datu Imaum, 77 Abdul Mumin, Sultan, see Mumin Abdul Rahman, the Datu Patinggi of Serikei, 117 , 208 Abi, the murderer of Steele, 225 ; his death, 226 Aborigines Protection Society take up the cause of pirates, 140 Abu Bakar, Juwatan, 364 Abu Bakar, Sherip, 117 Agriculture, 7 ; early efforts to promote, 320 ; present thriving condition, 429 Ahmit, Sherip, 117 , 130 Aing, Abang, a distinguished native chief, 155 ; his wife, 156 ; is wounded, 176 ; the Chinese insurrection, 190 Ajar, Dang, 158 ; and Akam Nipa, 159 Akam Nipa, a famous Kayan chief, drives the Malays out of the Rejang, 16 , 159 ; in revolt, 282 , 289 Alderson, Baron, his speech at the London Tavern, 146 Alderson, Mr., 234 Ali, Abang, a Malay chief, 225 , 226 , 229 , 230 , 231 Ali, Datu Patinggi, the descendant of Rajah Jarom, 45 ; reinstated as Datu, 77 ; kills a Lanun Penglima, 80 ; his skirmish with the Saribas Dayaks, 100 ; his gallantry, 107 ; his death, 108 ; the champion of his people, 420 Amal, Sherip, 117 Ambong, destroyed by pirates, 95 American Methodist Episcopal Mission, 449 Amok by the Sea-Dayaks, 25 ; a bad case, ib. ; by Malays, 30 Amzah, Nakoda, his account of the pirates, 275 Antu-Jalan, The, a myth, 15 Api, Rajah, usurps the throne of Bruni, 53 ; his execution, 54 Astana, The, 396 Atoh (Haji Abdul Rahman) outwits the pirates, 274 Bailey, D. J. S., 388 , 389 Bain, Mr., murdered at Muka, 322 Bajau pirates, 92 ; associate with the Lanuns, 94 .
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde