For some time, the spirit of hilarity was kept up; but, at length, Perdita receded from the piano, for Raymond had joined in the trio of "Taci ingiusto core," in Don Giovanni, whose arch entreaty was softened by him into tenderness, and thrilled her heart with memories of the changed past; it was the same voice, the same tone, the self-same sounds and words, which often before she had received, as the homage of love to her—no longer was it that; and this concord of sound with its dissonance of expression penetrated her with regret and despair.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

At first we had fine weather, and things seemed to go pretty well; but, sad to say, the captain was a very tipsy man, and we, I believe, lost our way, and the wind blew against us and kept us back a long time.”
— from Salt Water: The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by William Henry Giles Kingston

You will tire of us, if you know us better, and look back upon your present judgment as mere poetry.
— from Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 2 of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

The vertical portion is hinged to the base, and is kept upright by a lock spring and stud.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson

And again, in a later Inquisition, post mortem, 13 Henry VII., No. 34, taken at Burwell, it was shewn that “the said Matilda Willughby died seised in fee tail of the manor of Kirkeby upon Bayne, and lands in Roughton, Woodhall, Langton,” &c.
— from Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter

This abrupt caress and departure rather startled Bess; for she felt with a girl's quick instinct that there was something in that kiss unknown before, and looked after him with sudden colour in her cheeks and new trouble in her eyes.
— from Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

The man, who was a second intermediate passenger, could not swim but was kept up by a life-buoy.
— from The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock

Now, were these shades of green, belonging to tropical vegetation, kept up by a low dense atmosphere?
— from From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It by Jules Verne

I had hitherto kept up, but at last I lay down, unable to move hands or feet, or to raise my head from the rock.
— from Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Misadventures by William Henry Giles Kingston

The Eskimo lamp which serves as a light, and to some extent as a stove, is a crescent-shaped stone utensil with a shallow trough scooped out; this is a receptacle for the whale-oil, the wick being some native moss laid along the edge of the lamp and trimmed from time to time, the supply of oil being kept up by a lump of blubber suspended over the lamp.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 3, July, 1890 by Various