“If thou meanest yonder Saxon churls,” said Front-de-Boeuf, “their ransom will depend upon other terms than thine.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

This much at least we were soon able to grasp, that he was particularly anxious to disabuse us of the idea that this was a full-dress rehearsal, and to show us that he was set upon a thorough re-study of the opera from the very beginning.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

ἐπί, to excite to war, mid. to rise up against, Mat. 24.7, et al; to raise up again, rebuild, Jno. 2.19, 20; to raise up from a lower place, to draw up or out of a ditch, Mat. 12.11; fr.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

she stammered; but he had found her lips at last and was drinking unconsciousness of everything but the joy they gave him.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

I have undergone such unspeakable torments, in bringing forth this sermon, quoth Yorick, upon this occasion—that I declare, Didius, I would suffer martyrdom—and if it was possible my horse with me, a thousand times over, before I would sit down and make such another: I was delivered of it at the wrong end of me—it came from my head instead of my heart—and it is for the pain it gave me, both in the writing and preaching of it, that I revenge myself of it, in this manner—To preach, to shew the extent of our reading, or the subtleties of our wit—to parade in the eyes of the vulgar with the beggarly accounts of a little learning, tinsel'd over with a few words which glitter, but convey little light and less warmth—is a dishonest use of the poor single half hour in a week which is put into our hands—'Tis not preaching the gospel—but ourselves—For my own part, continued Yorick, I had rather direct five words point-blank to the heart.—As Yorick pronounced the word point-blank, my uncle Toby rose up to say something upon projectiles—when a single word and no more uttered from the opposite side of the table drew every one's ears towards it—a word of all others in the dictionary the last in that place to be expected—a word I am ashamed to write—yet must be written—must be read—illegal— uncanonical—guess ten thousand guesses, multiplied into themselves— rack—torture your invention for ever, you're where you was—In short, I'll tell it in the next chapter.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

At this movement, which nobody opposed, he resumed a little courage, and ventured to draw up one leg and then the other.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

For the fire cuts the food and following the breath surges up within, fire and breath rising together and filling the veins by drawing up out of the belly and pouring into them the cut portions of the food; and so the streams of food are kept flowing through the whole body in all animals.
— from Timaeus by Plato

"If a neat wound a man, let the neat be delivered up or compounded for."
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Their husbands, fathers and brothers are fighting to protect us from subjugation, and if we are unmindful of the comfort of their relatives, it not only entails disgrace upon our name, but renders us deserving of a similar fate, and worse treatment."
— from The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Alex. St. Clair (Alexander St. Clair) Abrams

And when he had finished, his hearers were doubled up on the floor with laughter.
— from Princeton Stories by Jesse Lynch Williams

Whether they be for or against us, depends upon ourselves.
— from The Breath of Life by John Burroughs

The Damage he does to himself, is either with regard to his Health, or the Expence of Money, and may be consider’d under the same View as Drinking, with this considerable Advantage, that it restores us to that cool Exercise of our Reason, which Drinking tends to deprive us of.
— from A Collection of Chirurgical Tracts by William Beckett

His thought, from infancy to the drawing up of his last will and testament, is busy about his neighbour.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

As he laid the blue book back [Pg 393] on the cot, its closing words—the dying utterance of the martyred Becket—flashed through his mind, the personal cry of his own soul: "Into Thy hands, O Lord—into Thy hands!"
— from Satan Sanderson by Hallie Erminie Rives

[186] "See how she is drawing up on the one ahead."
— from The Boy Chums Cruising in Florida Waters or, The Perils and Dangers of the Fishing Fleet by Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely

The Indians doubled up on their trapped foe from both sides.
— from Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. Laut

They have done unto others what others have done unto them.
— from A Manual of the Historical Development of Art Pre-Historic—Ancient—Classic—Early Christian; with Special Reference to Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Ornamentation by G. G. (Gustavus George) Zerffi