When the last one was gone, Uncle Mark said, a little rebukingly, ‘Ye shouldn’t a’et all them candies to onct, Miss Phil.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

: manhed ( e ), manhood, S2, C; manheid , S2; mankin , mankind, S; mon-kin , S; moncun , S; man-ken , S; man-kunne , S; mon-kunne , S; man-qualm , pestilence, H; man-quellere , murderer, executioner, S2, S3, W, W2; mon-quellere , S; man-red ( e ), homage, S; man-scipe , homage, honour, S; mon-slaȝe , man-slayer, S; man-slecht , man-slaughter, S; man-sleiht , S; man-sleere , murderer, W2; mon-þewes , the morality of a grown up man, S.—AS. man .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Dì ku muhislung sa ákung pagtuun hangtud maduktur, I won’t give up my studies until I become a doctor.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"You can't know how hard it is for me to give up Meg," she continued, with a little quiver in her voice.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

LE LIÈVRE DU GASCON Un Marseillais se promenait un jour avec un Gascon à quelque distance d'Amiens.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Now, after a while, Little-Faith came to himself, and, getting up, made shift to scramble on his way.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

If the links are well wrought, and the chain complete, not only is this system firmly grounded upon Mr. Spencer's premiss, but, as was intimated on an early page, he has in this his special point given partial utterance to what, once established, involves the fallacy not only of all he has written before, but as well of the whole Limitist Philosophy.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

After I got to Leipzig I quite gave up my studies and all regular school work, probably owing to the arbitrary and pedantic system in vogue at the school there.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I could bear up against all trials with him to comfort and cheer me, but his long-continued absence cast a gloom upon my spirit not easily to be shaken off.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

I then gave up my silver and copper money, my purse, with nine large pieces of gold, and some smaller ones; my knife and razor, my comb and silver snuff-box, my handkerchief and journal-book.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

I saw them gallop up Main Street; lichtnin struck the ground before them; the young doctor covered his face wi' his hands, and the horse nichered wi' fear and tried to wheel, but Gourlay stood up in the gig and lashed him on through the fire.
— from The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown

Because I loved them!—loved them so well that I was willing to give up my soul to save theirs!
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Twice over I had felt my bare feet, slip upon the deck, in what seemed blood, and had shuddered as I thought of how I should leave my footmarks all over the clean white boards; but this time I stumbled over what seemed to be a body, and should have fallen, if I had not gathered up my strength for a jump, and thrown myself forward, when, as if in one and the same moment, there was a crash as of breaking glass, a heavy fall, and then a foot was upon my throat, and a pistol held to my head.
— from Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn

This reception in a travellers' rest hut was the limit reached by our bluff; it gave us much satisfaction to think how annoyed our Turkish friends in Kastamuni would be to know of our being entertained in such a manner.
— from A Kut Prisoner by Harry Coghill Watson Bishop

Yet still at times, I was helped to believe that it was a true manifestation of grace unto my soul, though I had lost much of the life and savour of it.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

To Him I give up my spirit.'
— from A Clerk of Oxford, and His Adventures in the Barons' War by Evelyn Everett-Green