I shall not trouble myself to keep it, but I shall keep steadfastly to my own place.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I take him to be an impostor, but I shall know something more about him in the course of ten days.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But if she kept silence about her to Erskine, she atoned for it in the amount of time and thought that she bestowed upon the child.
— from Ruth Erskine's Son by Pansy

London, Thames; Westminster, Belgravia, Pimlico, Knightsbridge, Mayfair, Soho, Bloomsbury, Smithfield, Clerkenwell, Spa Fields, Bunhill Fields, Moorfields, Finsbury; Shoreditch, Whitechapel, Goodman’s Fields, Shadwell, Ratcliffe Highway, Stepney, Spitalfields, Bethnal Green, Hoxton, De Beauvoir Town, Copenhagen Fields, Haggerstone, Hackney, Dalston, Stoke Newington, Southgate, Kingsland, Abney Park, Green Lanes, Edmonton, Ball’s Pond, Mildmay Park, Muswell Hill, Wood Green, Hornsey, Canonbury, Highbury, Holloway, Barnsbury, Islington; King’s Cross, St. Pancras, Agar Town, Somers Town, Camden Town, Kentish Town, Primrose Hill, Highgate, Hampstead, Frognal, Bishop’s Wood, Hendon; Gospel Oak, Chalk Farm, St. John’s Wood, Kilburn, Maida Vale, Marylebone, Tyburn; Bayswater, Paddington, Westbourne Park, Notting Hill, Shepherd’s Bush; Acton, Gunnersbury, Kew, Brentford, Isleworth, Staines, Kingston, Shepperton, Twickenham, Richmond, Sheen; Chiswick, Hammersmith, Kensington, Brompton, Chelsea, Battersea, Walham Green, Parsons Green, Fulham, Putney, Wimbledon;
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner

But I sez, "Keep still, Josiah.
— from Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holley

He thinks very highly of Percy, and is glad Theodora should be in safe keeping; she was so wilful this last season in London as to make him very uneasy.’
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

If, on the other hand, the usurer to whom one entrusts one's money has other means of practising usury, there is no sin in entrusting it to him that it may be in safer keeping, since this is to use a sinner for a good purpose. _______________________
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

"I don't believe it," said Kate; "she couldn't do it.
— from What Might Have Been Expected by Frank Richard Stockton

All that is to tell you that, until better times (in which I do not believe), I shall keep Saint-Antoine in the bottom of a closet.
— from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by George Sand

Whether it was her father he had tracked or another, how horrified she would be if she knew she had made such a man her friend!
— from The Delafield Affair by Florence Finch Kelly

There the kitchen fire was burning as of yore, and on the hearth before it stood Karen, stooping down to oversee her cooking breakfast.
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner