oh oh new new not no not knealer knealer of old show beefsteak, neither neither.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

From the hat the eyes of the robust anarchist wandered to the displaced table, gazed at the broken dish for a time, received a kind of optical shock from observing a white gleam under the imperfectly closed eyelids of the man on the couch.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

If he had kept out of sugar and gone back home content to stick to mules it would have been a happy wisdom.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

—This is an ancient tribe, and by all authorities styled Rajput; though, like the Jhala, little known out of Saurashtra, to one of the divisions of which it has given its name, Jethwar.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

| Man's modesty has followed this careful contrivance of Nature's; all right-minded people keep out of sight what Nature has hidden and take pains to respond to nature's demands as privately as possible; and in the case of those parts of the body which only serve nature's needs, neither the parts nor the functions are called by their real names.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dieu nous garde d'un homme qui n'a qu'une affaire —God keep us from a man who knows only one subject.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The smaller human elements were kept out of sight; the pettinesses that enter so largely into all earthly living and doing were disguised by the accident of lover and loved-one not being on visiting terms; and there was hardly awakened a thought in Boldwood that sorry household realities appertained to her, or that she, like all others, had moments of commonplace, when to be least plainly seen was to be most prettily remembered.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

It was poor Becky who crawled out, and her cap was knocked on one side, and her face was red with repressed crying.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

While these ceremonies were going on, all the people except the priests and their attendants kept out of sight.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Dick’s knowledge of astronomy was limited; he knew only one star by name, but that one was an inestimable treasure of knowledge.
— from The Dog Crusoe and his Master by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

"Stay hidden among the rocks, or some sniper will take a shot at you." "Don't worry, Dick, I'll keep out of sight," said Dan.
— from Tahara Among African Tribes by Harold M. (Harold Morrow) Sherman

With twitching tail and whiskers, cat-like, the fisher began to creep stealthily toward his prey, flattening his lithe body and keeping out of sight as he crept nearer and nearer the innocent cubs.
— from The Three Bears of Porcupine Ridge by Jean M. (Jean May) Thompson

A citizen of Cairo, gazing with wonder at the statues of Khafra or of Seti I. in the Gîzeh Museum, is himself, feature for feature, the very image of those ancient Pharaohs, though removed from them by fifty centuries.
— from History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

In the keenness of our sufferings, it seemed as if the usual necessities of the flesh had gone, and that we lived only in the spirit.
— from Saragossa: A Story of Spanish Valor by Benito Pérez Galdós

Besides, one of us must remain here, and one person can more easily keep out of sight than two.
— from The City of Pleasure: A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett

“I think so; provided you keep out of scrapes,” his father replied, laying a hand affectionately on the lad’s shoulder as he spoke, for Max was now close to his side.
— from Elsie at Ion by Martha Finley

“A kind of one, sir.”
— from Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

"From a knowledge of our Southern population, it is my solemn conviction that there is some danger of an early act of secession, viz.:
— from General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright