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keep us as long in it
He brings us into this world, and tries to keep us as long in it as he can, and as long as our bodies can hold together; and he is with us at that strange and last hour which will come to us all, when we must leave this world and go into the next.
— from Health: Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by John Brown

keep up a livelier interest in
As every experienced teacher knows, pupils gain a far better knowledge, and keep up a livelier interest in any branch of science, if they see with their own eyes and do with their own hands that which serves to illuminate and illustrate the subject-matter.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

keep up a little interest in
He was always ready to fill the jug and play a social game at cards—he only bet, as he said , to keep up a little interest in the game.
— from Pen Pictures, of Eventful Scenes and Struggles of Life by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Craig

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