Up, and in dressing myself in my dressing chamber comes up Nell, and I did play with her....
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This experience will be used, not as is done now, simply recognised as a common one.
— from The Century of the Child by Ellen Key

But I felt, and strongly, that there could be no friendship between us now, and I did not care to dissimulate merely for the sake of appearances.
— from The Celebrity, Volume 02 by Winston Churchill

By this time I begin to feel very sad about our cartel, for I expected that it would have been here before this time, but I entertain the same opinion, about its being agreed 194 upon, now, as I did at first; I am fearful, however, that something has turned up to prevent its being put in execution.
— from A Relic of the Revolution by Charles Herbert

“No; they are used to us now, and I don’t think there’s anything to fear.
— from Nic Revel: A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land by George Manville Fenn

My nerves were braced up now, and I do think I made a fair job of it--finding and tying up the arteries, cutting and sawing the bone off, and making a flap.
— from With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

She comes to the far East for a long visit, and her experiences "up North" are indeed delightful reading.
— from Jose: Our Little Portuguese Cousin by Edith A. (Edith Augusta) Sawyer

253 Ned Britton at once walked on to the tavern, but as the afternoon was only half gone Uncle Naboth and I decided to go on up to my father’s old home without delay and have our carefully planned interview with Mrs. Ranck.
— from Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The sunshine must fall on us, not as it does on some lonely hill-side, lighting up the grey stones with a passing gleam that changes nothing, and fades away, leaving the solitude to its sadness; but as it does on some cloud cradled near its setting, which it drenches and saturates with fire till its cold heart burns, and all its wreaths of vapour are brightness palpable, glorified by the light which lives amidst its mists.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren