One thing I observed, which looked well for us: they all got out upon the opposite side from Silver.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

If thou wouldst have peace and true unity, thou must put aside all other things, and gaze only upon thyself.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

but they begin with them, and go on until they arrive at last, and in a consistent manner, at their conclusion?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

or that they are good only up to a certain point?
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

You are aware that students of geometry, arithmetic, and the kindred sciences assume the odd and the even and the figures and three kinds of angles and the like in their several branches of science; these are their hypotheses, which they and every body are supposed to know, and therefore they do not deign to give any account of them either to themselves or others; but they begin with them, and go on until they arrive at last, and in a consistent manner, at their conclusion?
— from The Republic by Plato

Let us leave off dreaming for a little time and give ourselves up to technicalities.
— from The Cinema Murder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

And the little children said, "There are good onions up there; we will buy some and take them home to our grandmother to put in her broth."
— from Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus MacMillan

The small force of artillery took its place outside the wood to cover the attack but, as soon as a few shots were fired, the Austrian guns opened upon them and they were silenced.
— from With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Let us put an end then to the tragedy, and give ourselves up to those who are prepared for our destruction, lest the continued pressure and increase of our misfortunes oblige us, at last, to lay violent hands upon ourselves."
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus

A young man, with the eyes of a hawk and an iron jaw,—Clayborne, the surveyor general,—who sat at the end of the table beside the window, turned and gazed out upon the clouds and the sea, as if, contempt having taken the place of curiosity, he had no further interest in the proceedings.
— from By order of the company by Mary Johnston

"The buzzer must have the button that sounds it attached to a gate opening upon the road," said Pendleton.
— from Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John Thomas McIntyre

Let us take them and go out upon the lawn, to the inviting shade of yonder group of magnolias."
— from Elsie's Widowhood A Sequel to Elsie's Children by Martha Finley

They begin with tin-tacks, and go on until they can, with thumb and finger, pluck out a nail firmly driven into the wood.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Japan by John Finnemore