Well, said Merlin, I know whom thou seekest, for thou seekest Merlin; therefore seek no farther, for I am he; and if King Uther will well reward me, and be sworn unto me to fulfil my desire, that shall be his honour and profit more than mine; for I shall cause him to have all his desire.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

She has made many minor reforms, but preserves her household of honour and is keeping up all the military household of the late Prince for her son.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

The Dean, however, put a stop to it on account of our health, as it kept us out very late; still, Dean Trench was always very kind to us, and in the evenings would frequently invite us to the Deanery to play at bob apple.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 38, February, 1894 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

When but seventeen years of age, circumstances compelled me to take charge of a farm in New Hampshire, and I kept up that farm until I was twenty-five.
— from Rudder Grange by Frank Richard Stockton

We had this for a day and a half, and it kept us pretty close to the stove.
— from Frank's Ranche; Or, My Holiday in the Rockies Being a Contribution to the Inquiry into What We Are to Do with Our Boys by E. (Edward) Marston

The first division, consisting of all merchandise that I had sent from Cairo, had arrived in Khartoum under the charge of a Syrian to whom I had given the command.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

his article in KUNST UND KUNSTLER, 1909, No. 8.]
— from Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky

mornin' there, I just chances to brush against him as I kiles up a rope, says he ' Fellow!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 66 No.406, August 1849 by Various

As he strikes the second time his arm is knocked up, striking his own forehead.
— from Will Shakespeare: An Invention in Four Acts by Clemence Dane

[Translation of the above back from the French:] THE FROG JUMPING OF THE COUNTY OF CALAVERAS It there was one time here an individual known under the name of Jim Smiley; it was in the winter of ‘89, possibly well at the spring of ‘50, I
— from Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain