“I give it up,” said Lestrade.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The phenomenon cannot be of this simple character, but there must be a point somewhere at which the recipient of the impulse gathers itself up, so to speak, into a knot and becomes the subject of the impulse which is thus translated into movement.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He did not speak for a minute or two, and Janetta, not seeing her way clear to any remarks of her own, wondered whether they were to walk side by side to the gate in utter silence.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

A more ordinary man than you might carry it on now—more ordinary, you know." "Do you wish me to give it up?" said Will, the quick color coming in his face, as he rose from the writing-table, and took a turn of three steps with his hands in his pockets.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I have heard of two similar practices even in Philadelphia: and were it not for the benevolence of the quakers in that city many of the sable race, who now breathe the air of liberty, would, I believe, be groaning indeed under some planter's chains.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

Oh, Lord, I give it up!” said Mr. Beresford.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

“Your eminence,” said Comminges, “as I was re-conducting the young man for whom you have asked, he approached the glass door of the gallery, and gazed intently upon some object, doubtless the picture by Raphael, which is opposite the door.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

I answered this question, by assuring him my entertainment had been so agreeable in all respects, that nothing but my duty to him could have induced me to give it up so soon.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

1876–78—Henry B. Stevens, Buffalo, assignor to George L. Squier, Buffalo, is granted important United States patents on coffee-cleaning-and-grading machines.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“I won't give it up,” said Morgan; “If I do I'm——” “Policeman!”
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

Occasionally a primitive sash of several lights is found, but frequently the glass is used singly; in some instances it is set directly into the adobe without any intervening sash or frame.
— from A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Victor Mindeleff

Without going into unpleasant surgical details, the wound was a perfectly straight one.
— from Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer

" "We have given it up, sir," repeated Charles.
— from The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton by Oliver Optic

it's too bad to hev to give it up," said Ephraim.
— from Frank Merriwell's Backers; Or, The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish

“Here’s a go, and the game is up,” said Sanford, in a whisper, when he met Stockwell alone.
— from Up The Baltic; Or, Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Oliver Optic

The "Holy Ghost is upon" Simeon.
— from The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity by Arthur Lillie

“If you did care about it, I suppose you would not give it us,” said Lydia.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

A small garrison is usually stationed there, but at the time of my visit the fort was vacated by troops and left in charge of a sergeant (Mr. Brown), whose courtesy made our little party feel as much at home amid the equipments of war as if we were veritable soldiers and our ladies attaches of the camp.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing