But she had been kept up late every night, and put upon an unlimited allowance of gin-and-water from infancy, to prevent her growing tall, and perhaps this system of training had produced in the infant phenomenon these additional phenomena.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Certainly the classicists in education have a noble example here in China of what their style of education can do if only kept up long enough.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

I think the krokodile usually lays eggs when they want sum more krokadiles, but i don't kno whether i think the alligatur
— from Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things by Josh Billings

On the other hand, if you are underweight and the added nourishment is gradually worked up to, it will improve the health and cause a gain of so much (theoretically, and in reality if kept up long enough).
— from Diet and Health; With Key to the Calories by Lulu Hunt Peters

The rest could not be kept under long enough for any such deal.
— from The Voyage of the Arrow to the China Seas. Its Adventures and Perils, Including Its Capture by Sea Vultures from the Countess of Warwick, as Set Down by William Gore, Chief Mate by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

His idea, as I got it, was that the patient must be kept unconscious long enough for the body to regain its functions and get over the strain of the operation.
— from An American Suffragette by Isaac Newton Stevens

He wrote that, at the same time that the wire and the top of the bottle were electrised positively or plus, the bottom of the bottle was electrised negatively or minus, in exact proportion; the consequence was that, whatever quantity of electrical fire was thrown in at the top, an equal quantity went out at the bottom until, if the process was kept up long enough, the point was reached in the operation, when no more could be thrown into the upper part of the bottle, because no more could be drawn out of the lower part.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

Tochter ins Ohr gekräht hatte; Kreutzwald u. Löwe, Ehstnische Märchen .
— from Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) by Angelo De Gubernatis

“The boys will be mustering now,” said John, “an’ them theere daws have kep’ us late enough already.”
— from Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

But, those ought to be so regulated as to make it unnecessary that the servants should be kept up late, except on extraordinary occasions.
— from The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own housekeeping by Anne Cobbett

Well do I remember Our childhood's days again—I'd live them o'er— When chilly blasts of sleeting, bleak December Kept us, long ev'nings, close within the door, We stories begged and then some Bible tale— Of David's valor, or Saul's treachery Of Moses meekness or Methus'lah hale— Of Abraham's faith or Esau's jealousy.
— from Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward, Containing: A Full Sketch of Her Life With Various Selections from Her Writings and Letters ... by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward

"You haven't known us long enough."
— from Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young