They sprang upon their horses and rode away over the Fyrisvold.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

That stern quality of the tangled backwoods which can only be described as merciless and terrible, rose out of these far blue woods swimming upon the horizon, and revealed itself.
— from The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

The same is the case with the transcendental proof of the existence of a Deity, which is based solely upon the harmony and reciprocal fitness of the conceptions of an ens realissimum and a necessary being, and cannot be attempted in any other manner.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Hans was heartily delighted as he sat upon the horse and rode away so bold and free.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The princess sprang up, threw her arms round his neck, embraced and kissed him repeatedly, and took her stomacher, which was made of pure gold, and hung it round his neck.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The Volscians bear their shields upon their head, And, rushing forward, form a moving shed.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

In the English Bards and Scotch Reviewers the labors of Maurice are compared to those of Sisyphus So up thy hill, ambrosial Richmond, heaves Dull Maurice, all his granite weight of leaves.
— from Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson

Empire, however, everywhere involved some measure of official toleration of diverging cults; and as in Babylon and Egypt, so under the Hellenistic and Roman systems, the religions of each of the provinces were more or less assimilated in all.
— from A Short History of Christianity Second Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

While the Orphans swarmed under the hill, a rattling discharge poured from the rifle-pits; but the troop had gotten under the fire, and it all passed over their heads.
— from Crooked Trails by Frederic Remington

The first, under the name of 'The Fillet of Pearls,' shows up the hypocrisy and rascality of the Khassidic miracle-workers, as only one who has himself been initiated in their doings could relate them.
— from The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener

I took a position slightly up the hillside and reclined with ear near the ground.
— from The Awakening of the Desert by Julius Charles Birge

But in this they were unsuccessful; the Russians at once divined our intention to seal up the harbour, and recognised that it was vastly more important to them to frustrate our purpose than to waste their fire upon our elusive destroyers; and I doubt whether a single gun was turned upon them.
— from Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Harry Collingwood

Then, like some breathless, holy spell, Upon the hushed and reverent crowd, A deep, impressive silence fell, And hands were clasped, and heads were bowed.
— from Poems of Progress by Lizzie Doten

The sun, late-rising, shines upon the height, And rolling vapours fill the vale below.
— from The Curse of Kehama, Volume 2 (of 2) by Robert Southey