The third, is thy ruling part; and here consider; Thou art an old man; suffer not that excellent part to be brought in subjection, and to become slavish: suffer it not to be drawn up and down with unreasonable and unsociable lusts and motions, as it were with wires and nerves; suffer it not any more, either to repine at anything now present, or to fear and fly anything to come, which the destiny hath appointed thee.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

This was no sooner settled than carried into effect; they descended gradually from the upper lines and manned all their vessels, compelling all to go on board who were of age to be in any way of use.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Now, when any one speaks up, like a man, and says slavery is necessary to us, we can’t get along without it, we should be beggared if we give it up, and, of course, we mean to hold on to it,—this is strong, clear, well-defined language; it has the respectability of truth to it; and, if we may judge by their practice, the majority of the world will bear us out in it.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Devil then appears and offers to get him out of his trouble if he will only destroy the ugly likeness, and make another and handsomer.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

‘That is too bad!’ cried he, and sprang up like a madman, and pushed his companion against the tree until it shook.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

My system can’t be improved upon!” “Listen a moment and you’ll be convinced, Sister,” said old Sipa in a tone of vexation.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The king unconsciously straightened up like a monument, and said, with frozen austerity: “Varlet, bring a seat; and serve to me what cheer ye have.”
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

As he held the door open with his hand, Uriah looked at me, and looked at Agnes, and looked at the dishes, and looked at the plates, and looked at every object in the room, I thought,—yet seemed to look at nothing; he made such an appearance all the while of keeping his red eyes dutifully on his master.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

That night she worked alone in her office until long after midnight; and all the next day until noon she was busy listening to or instructing salesmen, clerks, dealers, experts, auctioneers, and clients.
— from The Business of Life by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"Well, then, why didn't you come up like a man and say so?" demanded Tommy.
— from The Call of the Beaver Patrol; Or, A Break in the Glacier by V. T. Sherman

Then to stand up like a man, and sweep away my enemies, let them be priests, relations, or demons.
— from The Plowshare and the Sword: A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena

Snow mass gained at the sun-shielded headwall is usually lost as melt at the exposed snout.
— from Many-Storied Mountains: The Life of Glacier National Park by Greg Beaumont

A strange feeling of stiffness and cold so painful that for some moments Dallas could not move, but lay gazing straight before him at the heap of ashes, which gave forth a dull glow, just sufficient at times to show the curled-up form of the great dog, and beyond him, rolled up like a mummy and perfectly still, Abel, just as he had last seen him before he closed his eyes.
— from To Win or to Die: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze by George Manville Fenn

In most fleas the piercing organs of the mouth (upper lip and mandibles) are directed obliquely downwards.
— from The Flea by Harold Russell

la, a ao ka po, a i po hou ua la, alaila, manao ae oe ua make wau, alaila, moe hou aku
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

It was a long, wordy, ill-written rigmarole, in which that amorous gentleman spoke with much rapture of his love and devotion for Miss Gresham; but at the same time declared, and most positively swore, that the adverse cruelty of his circumstances was such, that it would not allow him to stand up like a man at the hymeneal altar until six thousand pounds hard cash had been paid down at his banker's.
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

Stand up like a man, as I do, and don’t sway about like a pine tree in a hurricane.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 3, March 1847 by Various