The peasants would not give that price, and, as Levin suspected, kept off other purchasers.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The king of the province is of the lineage of Prester John, George by name, and he holds the land under the Great Kaan; not that he holds anything like the whole of what Prester John possessed.[NOTE 1] It is a custom, I may tell you, that these kings of the lineage of Prester John always obtain to wife either daughters of the Great Kaan or other princesses of his family.[NOTE 2]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Negroes of ability have been carefully gotten rid of, deposed from authority, kept out of positions of influence, and discredited in their people's eyes, while a caste of white overseers and governing officials has appeared everywhere.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

This unexpected band of auxiliaries arrived in Paris on the tenth of January and the Prince of Conti was named, but not until after a stormy discussion, generalissimo of the army of the king, out of Paris.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Besides, I was certain that, if he had known of our presence, the tortures would have begun at once.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Even the knowledge of our parents, children, and friends, if that can affect and delight us in the other world, if that still continues a satisfaction to us there, we still remain in earthly and finite conveniences.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In the like manner, when I used to explain to him our several systems of natural philosophy, he would laugh, “that a creature pretending to reason, should value itself upon the knowledge of other people’s conjectures, and in things where that knowledge, if it were certain, could be of no use.”
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

He keeps out of politics, and he has none of the Yankee faults."
— from The Crisis — Volume 05 by Winston Churchill

"Why shouldn't I if I want to?" "I always keep out of personal things—even with pals.
— from The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

There were nineteen kinds of offences for which transportation, imprisonment, whipping, or pillory were provided: there were twenty-one kinds of offences punishable by whipping, pillory, fine and imprisonment.
— from The History of London by Walter Besant

Say no word and make no sign which may lead him to know of our presence here.
— from The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

“In the first place, then, I am the party, although I saw to it that my name was kept out of print, whom the drunken lunatic assaulted.” Harley, pipe in hand, stared at the speaker perplexedly.
— from Tales of Chinatown by Sax Rohmer

Notwithstanding the disturbance of this additional work, Mrs. Grimes was most amazingly amiable, even to me; but she was so persistent in requiring, first the key of one place, then of another, next of a chest of drawers, and again of a cupboard, that at last my grandfather distractedly gave her the whole bunch, and told her not to bother him any more.
— from The Hole in the Wall by Arthur Morrison

James, who was not an Irish patriot but an English king out of possession, would have vetoed the Act of Attainder had he dared.
— from Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith

In other cases, as for instance in many plants, a kind of outside pressure, the so-called tissue tension, may account for the arrangement in surfaces minimae areae .
— from The Science and Philosophy of the Organism by Hans Driesch

It is a grave flaw in the construction of Mr. Granville Barker's otherwise admirable play Waste , that it should open with a long discussion, by people whom we scarcely know, of other people whom we do not know at all, whose names we may or may not have noted on the playbill.
— from Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer