"It would not be troubling them much; we'ld only keep her a little while and they'ld hardly miss her."
— from Fairies and Folk of Ireland by William Henry Frost

If Lewis Gordon were grateful to Providence for anything, it was for making and keeping him a light weight, and thus rendering him independent of Australian or Arab mounts.
— from The Potter's Thumb by Flora Annie Webster Steel

" "Not to-night, sir, if you please," Tom cried eagerly; "we shall want to keep her a little while;" and the Laird answered, "It shall be as Dr. Holtum may think best.
— from Viking Boys by Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby

I knew he, at least, would appreciate the difference—and I thought Mrs. Duff-Scott looked like a person who would, also.
— from The Three Miss Kings: An Australian Story by Ada Cambridge

By morning she had herself in hand again,—at least to the extent of dealing with the unthinkable 250 fact that Collier Pratt, her lover, the man to whom she had given the lover’s right to hold her in his arms and cover her upturned face with kisses, had a living wife, and that he was not free to make honorable love to any woman.
— from Outside Inn by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Kelley

I took her in meanin' to keep her a little while, and then send her away.
— from Cy Whittaker's Place by Joseph Crosby Lincoln