"Get money," she replied; "for you must know that when you reach the ground under the tree, you will find yourself in a large hall, lighted up by three hundred lamps; you will then see three doors, which can be easily opened, for the keys are in all the locks.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

After the dinner-table was removed the hall was given up to the younger members of the family, who, prompted to all kind of noisy mirth by the Oxonian and Master Simon, made its old walls ring with their merriment as they played at romping games.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Joseph was now grown up to thirty years of age, and enjoyed great honors from the king, who called him Psothom Phanech, out of regard to his prodigious degree of wisdom; for that name denotes the revealer of secrets.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I've laid by now, and gev up to the young uns.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

SALOMÉ [ Going up to the young Syrian.
— from Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde

The Julian year was introduced throughout the Roman empire, and continued in general use till the year 1582.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

"But I have given up talking to you, old fellow, years and years," said Mrs. Bagnet as she blew a little dust off the pickled pork, looking at me again; "and when ladies and gentlemen know you as well as I do, they'll give up talking to you too.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

You did go up to town, you know you did—you said so yourself!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Give us that thing you wrote—do you remember?
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

But he said, Nay, lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
— from The Syrian Christ by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany

This piece, entitled ‘The Phœnix,’ was intended to represent the degradation of Greece under the Turkish yoke, her escape from such bondage, her material civilization, and her subsequent rise to intellectual supremacy, which end the formation of the colony of Melnos was supposed to foster.
— from The Island of Fantasy: A Romance by Fergus Hume

At last Schomberg spoke tentatively: “And so the—the gentleman, up there, talked you over into leaving a good berth?”
— from Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad

When you get used to that you may try the floor."
— from The Pony Rider Boys in Louisiana; or, Following the Game Trails in the Canebrake by Frank Gee Patchin

In a month or two the young of the former require no further attention; and if in a state of nature some of the latter give suck to their offspring for a longer period, it is on their parts without effort or labour; and in both cases the time given up to their young forms a very small part of the life of the animal.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

They had seen me go up to the young woman’s room and they might have thought that Ernest was not there.
— from Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) by Paul de Kock

Nevertheless, some of the principal features of the Portuguese and Spanish discoveries in Papuas and New Guinea, up to the year 1545, are clearly discernible.
— from The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts. by George Collingridge

If you have allowed others to encroach too much on your time, if you have given up to them your innocent pleasures, your improving pursuits, and favourite companions, has this indulgence of their selfishness really added to their happiness?
— from The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by Anonymous

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton