But in a minute she 'gan stir, With a short uneasy motion— Backwards and forwards half her length With a short uneasy motion.
— from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(1) The aim set up must be an outgrowth of existing conditions.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

You may sit upon my back, and then I will carry you there.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The young man still replied: ‘Come to the pollis!’ and was dragging me against the donkey in a violent manner, as if there were any affinity between that animal and a magistrate, when he changed his mind, jumped into the cart, sat upon my box, and, exclaiming that he would drive to the pollis straight, rattled away harder than ever.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The delight was too excessive to endure long, and before Sir Charles was ready to perform his part in the final scene, I felt the dear boy's discharge poured into me, as his head sank upon my back and his convulsive grasp of my throbbing instrument relaxed.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

I would fasten my eyes upon a sharp, wooded point that projected far into the river some miles ahead of me, and go to laboriously photographing its shape upon my brain; and just as I was beginning to succeed to my satisfaction, we would draw up toward it and the exasperating thing would begin to melt away and fold back into the bank!
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Pangutan-a siya ug muabut ba ang barku ugmà, Ask him whether the boat will arrive tomorrow.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Wood Saheb stood upon my breast and blood began to fall drop by drop.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

Meantime, General Young’s cavalry, and the Maccabebee scouts under Major Batson, a lieutenant of the regular army, and a medal-of-honor graduate of the Santiago campaign, were operating to the west of the general line of advance, striking insurgent detachments wherever found and driving them toward the line of the railroad.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Thence home, and dined, and to Deptford and got all my pictures put into wherries, and my other fine things, and landed them all very well, and brought them home, and got Sympson to set them all up to-night; and he gone, I and the boy to finish and set up my books, and everything else in my house, till two o’clock; in the morning, and then to bed; but mightily troubled, and even in my sleep, at my missing four or five of my biggest books.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In settling up my business affairs I suffered a heavy loss, and this, with the expenses incurred by my sickness, considerably reduced my pecuniary affairs.
— from Scraps of Biography Tenth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints by Various

If the beauties which he sought and attained are unnatural and extravagant, then the tests of correctness and good taste which have been hitherto set up must be abandoned.
— from The Poetical Works of William Collins; With a Memoir by William Collins

I knew nothing, until he seized me by the arm and pulled me after him; and it was not until he sprang upon my back, and then upon my shoulders, that I knew what he was going to do.
— from The Tiger of Mysore: A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Here a coreopsis flower Pushed its disc above a bower, Where once poured a starry shower, Bronze and gold: And a twisted hollyhock, And the remnant of a stock, Struggled up, 'mid burr and dock, Through the mold.
— from The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy by Madison Julius Cawein

The dejection that settled upon me brought a physical lassitude with it, and I rode wearily, jolting in the saddle before the journey was half done.
— from The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss

and before the Levitical priesthood was set up, Melchisedec “blessed Abraham.”
— from On the apostolical succession Parochial lectures, second series by William J. (William Josiah) Irons

Then, when the swamp is dry, we will plant eatable things in it, and perhaps set up more booths and huts and dig more baths.
— from The Hot Swamp by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

May I be permitted to say that they are spies set upon me by a man who has an object in disgracing me?
— from Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

From tree to tree the agile creatures sprang like flying squirrels, while the cold sweat stood upon my brow as I glimpsed the depths beneath, into which a single misstep on the part of either of my bearers would hurl me.
— from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs