But as I wished to keep up my incognito as much as possible, I resolved to reply to all who asked me that important business would prevent my being present.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"He keepeth us mightily and mercifully in the time that we are in our sin and among all our enemies that are full fell upon us;—and so much we are in the more peril.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

I shall lay all this kingdom under my rule which they got into their hands by the slaughter of my kinsman Olaf Trygvason, or I shall fall here upon my inheritance in the land of my fathers.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

[140] Die Griechischen Kulte und Mythen , I, p. 78.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In short, I took all possible caution to preserve my effects and to keep up my plantation.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

“Then be so kind,” urged Miss Manette, “as to leave us here.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

"And this grief would I keep unto myself that none should know it, if it were not needful that it should be known to all."
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

I paced up and down the room, humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

He chid the sisters When first they put the name of king upon me, And bade them speak to him; then, prophet-like, They hail'd him father to a line of kings: Upon my head they plac'd a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Pasugúan ta ka ug magsúgud na ang dúlà, I will send s.o. over to notify you when the game starts. balin-an(→) a fond of giving orders, not liking to do things oneself.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Each week as I travelled I had to keep up my contributions to Punch —a whole page and several small drawings.
— from The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss

Yet in the midst of this conflict, other thoughts came flooding upon me; and voices from the world I was about to relinquish for her rung like a knell upon my ears.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

Then, you know, Uncle Mallory used to send us money.
— from The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

30 25 Grimm, Kinder und Hausmärchen , ‘Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft,’ ‘Die drei Spinnerinnen,’ ‘Das tapfere Schneiderlein,’ &c. 26 Cicero, De officiis , ii. 12.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

I emptied about six jugs of water on a gang of kids under my window."
— from Mike and Psmith by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Din kimat kinwanina un, “Mauabakko sīka tan adīka nakapitak sin bato.”
— from Kankanay Ceremonies (American Archaeology and Ethnology) by C. R. (Claude Russell) Moss

Then I’m resolved I’ll have a song to keep up my spirits.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

He suffered day and night, preferring not to be kept under morphine too constantly.
— from The Book of Susan: A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

The deception could not be kept up much longer; the explanation would bring about a very embarrassing and even grave situation.
— from A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad

So Mrs Boffin, she keeps up her part of the room, in her way; I keep up my part of the room in mine.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens