I should have to give up my [Pg 337] place in time, for fear of doing my muscles an injury."
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Conscience and reason tell me that the best thing I could do now is to read my farewell lecture to the boys, give them my last word, bless them and give up my place to someone younger and stronger than I.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I did not like this way of talk at all; and thinking it best not to dwell upon it, said, Well, but, sir, you will excuse me, I hope, giving up my papers.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

“I would have to give up my position,” he said.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

I could give up my place in heaven to you, neighbor, if needs be, and go down to hell instead.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

It may be thou wilt go under my protection.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Edmund might, in the common phrase, do the duty of Thornton, that is, he might read prayers and preach, without giving up Mansfield Park: he might ride over every Sunday, to a house nominally inhabited, and go through divine service; he might be the clergyman of Thornton Lacey every seventh day, for three or four hours, if that would content him.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

'I don't give up my plan yet.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Why can't I get up?” Miss Polly's eyes asked an agonized question of the white-capped young woman standing in the window, out of the range of Pollyanna's eyes.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Yaw, dat ish me, mit my gun upon mine pack.
— from A Tender Attachment: A Farce by George M. (George Melville) Baker

There is just one thing to save this crumbling Republic; give us more paper money—greenbacks on greenbacks, mountain high.
— from A Strange Discovery by Charles Romyn Dake

A young man has too much vigor to bear confinement so soon; he gives up many pleasures which he might have had, and does not appreciate at their just value those which he has.
— from Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz

"And it will not be the most profitable for you, I warn you, Giovanni; for I am not in the mood to give up my purse to you; it is too well filled for that!"
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.1 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VII) by Paul de Kock

“I think I shall have to give up my plan of walking the rest of the way.”
— from Driven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

It was capacious, certainly, but not exactly the sort of boat in which to get up much pace, particularly as its sole apparent mode of propulsion was by means of two very long boat-hooks, one on either side.
— from The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed

To act upon my cousin's kind suggestion, was to go away from all my dearest and fondest associations; it would oblige me to give up my past life, sorrows and joys alike; to abandon the few friends, in whose companionship I had found one of my rarest delights, and to go among strangers who could not care for me except in a relative or, at most, an indirect way.
— from The Doctor's Daughter by Vera

Dr Plausible trod on the corns of old Lady G———, upset Miss Periwinkle, and nearly knocked down a French savant , in his struggle to obtain the door to receive his honoured guest, who made a bow, looked at the crowd—looked at the chandelier—looked at his watch, and looked very tired in the course of five minutes, when Prince Fizzybelli ordered his carriage, and was off.
— from Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat