As he was being led up to some object he noticed a hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The little creature in Nottingham had but been leading up to this.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Imagine Mr. Butler living up to social etiquette and enunciating his views on Paul Verlaine or the German drama or the novels of D’Annunzio.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

‘Yes,’ I observed, ‘about as starved and suckless as you: your cheeks are bloodless; let us take hold of hands and run.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The poets of The Nation , for all their intensity of patriotic feeling, followed the English rather than the Celtic tradition, their work has a political rather than a literary value and bears little upon the development of modern Irish verse.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk

When the lieutenant had taken his glass of sack and toast, he felt himself a little revived, and sent down into the kitchen, to let me know, that in about ten minutes he should be glad if I would step up stairs.——I believe, said the landlord, he is going to say his prayers,——for there was a book laid upon the chair by his bed-side, and as I shut the door, I saw his son take up a cushion.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

But if it meant the value, recognisable by reason and diffused through all life, which that casual attitude or feeling might have, then we should be launched upon the quest for wisdom.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

19 Arise, cry in the night, poure, for thy sinnes, Thy heart, like water, when the watch begins; Lift up thy hands to God, lest children dye, Which, faint for hunger, in the streets doe lye.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children; therefore, I promise you, I fear you.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

For the first fornight of his sojourn, our guest did nothing but lie upon that bed, and read, and smoke, and drink whiskey-and-water from morning until night.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

And they went thence, and towards Aberfraw the hosts proceeded, Matholch and his host in their ships, Bendigeid Vran and his host by land, until they came to Aberfraw.
— from The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch

At the end of the examination all those accused were seized and taken from the hall, the whole number, senators, prelates, noblemen, priests and burghers, being locked up together in a tower, the two bishops among them being alone given a better prison.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian by Charles Morris

All this is very true; but let us take a bottle of wine to cheer our spirits.
— from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding

The counting-houses are in the wings of the building looking upon the courtyard, which were occupied by the servants when the family whose coat-of-arms has been effaced from above the gate-way were still owners of the estate.
— from Serge Panine — Volume 01 by Georges Ohnet

They had been left upon the wash-hand stand; both glasses were smashed, and the bottle broken, with a tremendous report, making me fear that in the night we had, by mistake, approached too near to Sebastopol, and were being fired into by the batteries.
— from Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions by Alexis Soyer

In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken and strewed on the ground; some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the jutting rocks of the mountain, or transversely upon other trees.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The dinner of herbs which his mother sent him daily, and which is sometimes described as uncooked—salad to wit, which 165 enters so largely into the sustenance of the Italian poor—is a kind of fare which does not suit a delicate digestion; but he spared himself nothing on this account, though he had reached such a pitch of weakness that he was at last, as he bitterly laments, unable to fast at all, even on Easter Eve, when even little children abstain from food.
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The mention of Sir James Macdonald, says Boswell, "led us to talk of the Western Islands of Scotland, to visit which he expressed a wish that then appeared to me a very romantic fancy, which I little thought would be afterwards realised.
— from Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by William Black

[349] Likewise Bakunin regards it as a legal norm of the next stage of evolution that contracts must be lived up to.
— from Anarchism by Paul Eltzbacher

Mendoza and his force of infantry embarked on board of ten ships, whilst the cavalry pursued their way by land under the command of Don Garcia Ramon.
— from Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period; Vol. 1 of 2 by Robert Grant Watson