Kargádu ug búnga ang nangkà, The jackfruit is full of fruits.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The school was kept up by a number of benevolent persons who contributed liberally to its funds.
— from The War Chief of the Six Nations: A Chronicle of Joseph Brant by Louis Aubrey Wood

Hour after hour he would run unflaggingly round in a circle on the grass, like a tethered foal, leaning toward the center as he ran, so that his hand could pluck the grass, kicking up behind, and neighing and snorting.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 by Martin Andersen Nexø

We therefore returned to the camp to subdue the fire, and, if possible, save some of the grass for the horses, which, with great difficulty, we succeeded in doing; but though checked, the fire had extended many miles over the country, and kept us busy all night.
— from Journals of Australian Explorations by Francis Thomas Gregory

A gem with so much rare and rich in her, Irreconcileable, impenetrable soul, How I exulted when she fell against the kitchener, Urged by a Nemesis (and legs) beyond control.
— from Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 by Various

We corralled our wagons for better protection, and the Indians kept us busy all night resisting their furious charges.
— from The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway by Henry Inman

They were started, at the latest, before the present generation, and have been kept up by a number of independent recorders.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

Like Captain Brocq!... Killed undoubtedly by a noiseless weapon ... when crossing the street!...
— from A Nest of Spies by Pierre Souvestre

The fine-spun abstractions of the Platonists and their kin, unchecked by a natural science which had not yet the appliances necessary for its growth; the orthodoxies of the various churches, so singularly differentiated in the course of development from the simplicity of their nominal founder—these were based upon assumptions for which the seeker after reasoned evidence could find no valid support.
— from Thomas Henry Huxley: A Character Sketch by Leonard Huxley

The salon gave access to the bedroom and the dining-room, the latter being connected with the kitchen underneath by a narrow staircase.
— from Balzac by Frederick Lawton