Ang íyang panáad gibakbákan ug mga pasálig, His promises were backed up by assurances.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I'll give up my place here at once, and attend to the flowers, if you like."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

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

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

My love grew as I grew, until my poor heart was full to overflowing.
— from The White Rose of Memphis by William C. (Clark) Falkner

The King gave up making plans; he would have been contented to live quietly somehow, but even that was difficult.
— from Tolstoi for the young: Select tales from Tolstoi by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It gives us much pleasure, however, and probably it will the reader, to know that a few of the veterinary surgeons of London are just beginning to see the error of their ways.
— from The American Reformed Cattle Doctor Containing the necessary information for preserving the health and curing the diseases of oxen, cows, sheep, and swine, with a great variety of original recipes, and valuable information in reference to farm and dairy management by George H. Dadd

An old man of colour addressed me, asking if I was the Englishman who had rested at noon at St. Luzia; on my answering in the affirmative, he said that he was at the commandant’s at the time, and that there were several debates about the mode of proceeding respecting me and mine—that my determination not to give up my passport had caused some demur, and that among other suppositions of who I might be, one wiseacre said, there was no knowing whether I was not one of Bonaparte’s ministers, and what might be my diabolical plans.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster

Mandata sibi ita semper gerens ut majoribus par haberetur.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton

"I cannot give up my plan, however;" continued Lady Gordon, "you have put it into my head, but you will not find it easy to put it out again."
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

Without waiting for an answer they placed me on the wash-deck tub, and the barber rubbed me with the back of his razor and then let me go, upon my previously having given an order upon my bottle.
— from Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales by W. B. Cramp

He said that she was a disgrace to any English school; that no boy of ordinary capacities would construe so shamefully; that her quantities were false, her accent vile; that, in short, as a lad of spirit, she ought to give up murdering poor Homer in the future.
— from Girls New and Old by L. T. Meade

Gaze upon me part his hair.
— from How to Become an Actor by Aaron A. Warford