God keep us all.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[He accidentally knocks up against a little table and nearly upsets the candelabra] I can pay for everything!
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

While the lady at the needle kept up a little running, contemptuous comment: “Blagueur—farceur—gros bete, va!”
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

The way you’ve passed these three last days might knock up a Titan.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

In the course of the day I had furniture, bedding, kitchen utensils, a good dinner, twenty-four well-equipped soldiers, a super-annuated sempstress and several young girls to make my shirts.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Directly the rout of the enemy had begun, as I have described, and while we kept up a hot pursuit, they were driven towards the left, where the river was on the right of the victors.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

She has money enough to live very comfortably, if she only knew how to use it judiciously, and had taught her son to do the same; but she is ever straining to keep up appearances, with that despicable pride that shuns the semblance of poverty as of a shameful crime.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Three times he strikes on the table with the handle of his scramasax , the name given by the barbarians to the knife used at table, and habitually worn at the warrior's belt.
— from The Poniard's Hilt; Or, Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue

A very slow and steady fire of wood or charcoal is now kept up, and the remains of the moisture in the leaves is thus gradually and slowly evaporated.
— from Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. by Robert Fortune

… I believe they won’t take the waistcoat off, and left seven roubles in my purse to keep up appearances, as though that were all I have.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Kay used an electronic spreadsheet on his newly developed computer to forecast its sales.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

By this means they were able to keep up a constant supply of provisions.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Various

The child herself could not bear the thought of being torn from the kind uncle and aunt, whom she had learned to love so devotedly, to go to a strange land.
— from The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson Compiled From Family Letters and Reminiscences by Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas) Randolph

We had, however, a public library of some two hundred volumes, and, what was of equal consequence, the town was on the road which was then the great thoroughfare, connecting Boston with New York; and hence we had means of intelligence from travellers constantly passing through the place, which kept us acquainted with the march of events.
— from Peter Parley's Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley") by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

A hot pursuit was kept up after the king, and he was finally captured and sent a prisoner to the Cape.
— from Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

Till that black hole To him blazed red, As if the very coal Had kindled underfoot and overhead: Then, gripping tight his pick, He rushed upon his brother: But Robert, turning quick, Leapt up, and now they faced each other.
— from Fires - Book 1: The Stone, and Other Tales by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Hardly had the crash sounded than Perk had another missile on its way and as long as the pile held out he meant to keep up a continual fusillade that would have the man inside guessing.
— from Eagles of the Sky; Or, With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes by Ambrose Newcomb