The other was, not to have the houses run up together, as the corporal proposed, but to have every house independent, to hook on, or off, so as to form into the plan of whatever town they pleased.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Therewithal he ran up to a little saloon he had and there disburdened himself of the mass of stones he had brought home; then, running in a fury at his wife, he laid hold of her by the hair and throwing her down at his feet, cuffed and kicked her in every part as long as he could wag his arms and legs, without leaving a hair on her head or a bone in her body that was not beaten to a mash, nor did it avail her aught to cry him mercy with clasped hands.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

These are samples of the packing of the population that has run up the record here to the rate of three hundred and thirty thousand per square mile.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

They lost a large number from wounds inflicted by the elephants 83 ’ tusks; while the survivors made their way to a certain hill, which was a kind of natural fortification thickly covered with trees, and there halted, relying upon the strength of the position.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The Romans had now also another advantage, in that their engines for sieges co-operated with them in throwing darts and stones as far as the Jews, when they were coming out of the city; whereby the man that fell became an impediment to him that was next to him, as did the danger of going farther make them less zealous in their attempts; and for those that had run under the darts, some of them were terrified by the good order and closeness of the enemies'
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

I understand you, he replied; not perfectly, for you seem to me to be describing a task which is really tremendous; but, at any rate, I understand you to say that knowledge and being, which the science of dialectic contemplates, are clearer than the notions of the arts, as they are termed, which proceed from hypotheses only: these are also contemplated by the understanding, and not by the senses: yet, because D they start from hypotheses and do not ascend to a principle, those who contemplate them appear to you not to exercise the higher reason upon them, although when a first principle is added to them they are cognizable by the higher reason.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

50 Your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

So, they were as pleasant a party as, under the circumstances, they could well have been; and it was late before they retired, with light and thankful hearts, to take that rest of which, after the doubt and suspense they had recently undergone, they stood much in need.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Five minutes later Grim and I were on the back seat of a Ford car, bowling along the Hebron road under the glorious gray walls of Jerusalem
— from The Lion of Petra by Talbot Mundy

Ascertaining from the servant who opened the door that the volume had been left by Mr. Rambert’s messenger punctually at two, he ran up to his wife’s room to tell her about his visit before he secluded himself for the rest of the afternoon over his work.
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

"Take him right up to the spare room, Arnold.
— from Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Thompson Norris

He stopped, darted into the house, rushed up the staircase, rang the bell on the fifth landing, burst into the flat, to the great alarm of the footman who opened the door, and went out on the balcony.
— from The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective by Maurice Leblanc

As he sailed out of Havre the American ships in the harbor ran up their flags in his honor and fired their guns in salute, an intimation
— from Lafayette, We Come! The Story of How a Young Frenchman Fought for Liberty in America and How America Now Fights for Liberty in France by Rupert Sargent Holland

On one occasion he shut himself up for five hours in the stables, and on leaving left twenty horses rendered useless through his ill-treatment, including a favourite one of the King's, which died two days afterwards.
— from The Story of Don John of Austria by Luis Coloma

As soon as the door had closed behind them, he rapidly unrolled the banner so that it floated majestically over his head.
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Some of the bitterness in the heart rises up to her face.
— from Countess Vera; or, The Oath of Vengeance by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

“He has come,” said a young girl, a servant in the house, running up to the door of Marie’s room.
— from La Mere Bauche From Tales of All Countries by Anthony Trollope

There he ran up the sail, while Estelle lay quite still in an ecstasy of pleasure.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various