You have kept him out of the way a long time, and you have been artful in it, and it does you credit."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This day, at White Hall, I overheard Sir W. Coventry propose to the King his ordering of some particular thing in the Wardrobe, which was of no great value; but yet, as much as it was, it was of profit to the King and saving to his purse.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is done!
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

But I will say no more, for I had rather they should be told of their faults by Momus, who was want formerly to sting them with some close reflections, till nettled by his abusive raillery, they kicked him out of heaven for his sauciness of daring to reprove such as were beyond correction: and now in his banishment from heaven he finds but cold entertainment here on earth, nay, is denied all admittance into the court of princes, where notwithstanding my handmaid Flattery finds a most encouraging welcome: but this petulant monitor being thrust out of doors, the gods can now more freely rant and revel, and take their whole swinge of pleasure.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

So ended all danger to Anne of meeting Captain Wentworth at Kellynch Hall, or of seeing him in company with her friend.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

When I offered to blow his brains out for his insolence, ‘Pooh!’ said he,—‘kill the man who saved your poor boy’s life once, and who was endeavouring to keep him out of the ruin and perdition into which a wicked father was leading him, when a Merciful Power interposed, and withdrew him from this house of crime?
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Mrs. Joe was prodigiously busy in getting the house ready for the festivities of the day, and Joe had been put upon the kitchen doorstep to keep him out of the dust-pan,—an article into which his destiny always led him, sooner or later, when my sister was vigorously reaping the floors of her establishment.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

A poor lad, Who choosing play at hide and seek with death, Just hid where death just came to look for him; For there's no place, I think, can keep him out, Once he's his eye upon you.
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

If a Man tells her a waggish Story, she gives him a Push with her Hand in jest, and calls him an impudent Dog; and if her Servant neglects his Business, threatens to kick him out of the House.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

It keeps her out of the great movements of her day—gives her no part in the solution of the ethical and economical problems which affect her and her children.
— from The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

His father had a great idea of bringing the young man up to some useful calling to keep him out of mischief.
— from The Wharf by the Docks: A Novel by Florence Warden

You may do your best to keep her out of the way; but, depend upon it, she will contrive to be seen.
— from The Shadow of a Sin by Charlotte M. Brame

that in the sight of God the Kaiser had only one legal wife, and that she was Vera Savanoff.
— from Remarkable Rogues The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America; Second Edition by Charles Kingston

That'll keep him out of mischief.
— from The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper

This order, which was dismembered from the Knights Hospitallers, or of Jerusalem (afterward of Rhodes and Malta), to defend the Christians in Germany against the inroads of the barbarous northern infidel nations, long produced many incomparably great heroes, and models of all virtues.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler

"If I [Pg 36] had been in the place of the justice, I would have kicked him out of the hall.
— from The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning by William Makepeace Thayer

Reid had been on the range about two weeks, but Mackenzie had not seen a great deal of him, owing to Tim’s plan of keeping him out of the disputed territory, especially at night.
— from The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by George W. (George Washington) Ogden