Fourteen primary schools were for the use of the negro citizens of the Nation, besides which they had a fine high school, kept up, like all the others, at the expense of the Cherokee government .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Solemn sacrifices and games were also established in his honour, and kept up long after his death at Sicyon, see 28 , 19 ; 30 , 23 .
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Nindut ang sabaw sa kinhasun ug lubihan, A chowder of seashells tastes good if coconut milk is added to it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ang suldádu tísu kaáyu ug láwas, A soldier has a very erect body.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For ye shall understand King Arthur is the man in the world that she most hateth, because he is most of worship and of prowess of any of her blood; also she loveth me out of measure as paramour, and I her again; and if she might bring about to slay Arthur by her crafts, she would slay her husband King Uriens lightly, and then had she me devised to be king in this land, and so to reign, and she to be my queen; but that is now done, said Accolon, for I am sure of my death.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

She wore a small blue silk necktie, that kept up like a ruff a gauffered cambric collar, and with the movements of her head the lower part of her face gently sunk into the linen or came out from it.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

“Were you kept under lock and key?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

By that time two parties had gradually formed themselves in the Mito clan, one which supported the ancient Kiôto policy of the author of the Dainihonshi, the other which, fearing Keisaburô, had formed an alliance with the Court of Yedo, at that time ably directed by Midzuno Echizen no Kami, father of Idzumi no Kami until lately a member of the Go-rôjiû (Council of State).
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

“Why, these apes are so cunning,” returned Pencroft; “they won’t show themselves again at the windows and so we can’t kill them; and when I think of the mischief they may do in the rooms and storehouse—” “Have patience,” replied Harding; “these creatures cannot keep us long at bay.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Mr. Franklin, on following his cousin out, informed the Sergeant that all his clothes were open to examination, and that nothing he possessed was kept under lock and key.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

But he's the most cheerful man in the place, and keeps us laughing all day long.
— from The Pomp of Yesterday by Joseph Hocking

It is the same with groceries, and these should be kept under lock and key!
— from The Champagne Standard by Lane, John, Mrs.

But he was not to know until later, and then to his sorrow.
— from Tom Fairfield's Hunting Trip; or, Lost in the Wilderness by Allen Chapman

"Why, these apes are so cunning," returned Pencroft, "they won't show themselves again at the windows and so we can't kill them, and when I think of the mischief they may do in the rooms and storehouse—" "Have patience," replied Harding; "these creatures cannot keep us long at bay."
— from Abandoned by Jules Verne

It kept under lock and key the insurgent impulses that moved him when he looked into the sloe eyes charged with reserve.
— from The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North by William MacLeod Raine

Through her he learnt that Catalina de Cruces was kept under lock and key—that Roblado had only been wounded, and would recover—that new officers went out with the scouting-parties—and that his master’s head had risen in price.
— from The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico by Mayne Reid

Henceforth young Gillam and Bridgar were out on parole during the day and kept under lock at night.
— from Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. Laut

As irrigation was not known until long afterwards, arable areas were limited, hence they were compelled to divide into families or small -478- clans, each occupying a single house.
— from A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522 by Frank Hamilton Cushing