When this is once clearly grasped there remains little ground for keeping up that old controversy about the motor zone, as to whether it is in reality motor or sensitive.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

“I'm very sorry, Pete,” Bobbie whispered, leaning close to him as she fumbled with the big knot under the settle; “but if you only knew how sick you made me feel.”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

If a fellow is keyed up to what you might call intensive living, the way you get it here in Zenith—all the hustle and mental activity that's going on with a bunch of live-wires like the Boosters and here in the Z.A.C., why, he's got to save his nerves by having the best.”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

It was out of the question for the moment, and yet surely we could not leave the plateau until we had some definite knowledge upon the point.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

He left his cell at the head of the party, and, having carefully locked the door, deposited the key under the threshold.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

'Then let us dine by ourselves at the Mitre, to keep up the old custom, "the custom of the manor," the custom of the mitre.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

“I am content to do as thou sayest, brother Sancho,” said Don Quixote, “and when thou seest an opportunity for effecting my release I will obey thee absolutely; but thou wilt see, Sancho, how mistaken thou art in thy conception of my misfortune.” The knight-errant and the ill-errant squire kept up their conversation till they reached the place where the curate, the canon, and the barber, who had already dismounted, were waiting for them.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In a moment of impulse she bent over the sill, and laid her face upon his hair, weeping, and then imprinting a scarcely perceptible little kiss upon the top of his head, withdrawing quickly, so that he could not put his arms round her, as otherwise he unquestionably would have done.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

At the present day the ordinary Malay talks usually of only a single soul, although he still keeps up the old phraseology in his charms and charm-books.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

She continued to kneel, unable to think, her head against the cool porcelain bowl.
— from Know Thy Neighbor by Elisabeth R. Lewis

124 They kept up their fairy story of the Great Genius, and called things by fairy-story names, and talked to each other of their fairy-story fancies about them.
— from Two Little Pilgrims' Progress: A Story of the City Beautiful by Frances Hodgson Burnett

As soon as the rebel troops became aware of the purpose to charge, there was the disposition to abandon their position, but when they saw the small number of the Charging Party they resumed their [87] places behind their works, and held their musketry fire, keeping up the fire of their guns, until the charging line was within a few feet, when they delivered such a fire, volley upon volley, as threatened to kill, or wound, every soldier of the 84th.
— from Eighty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers (Infantry.) by Thomas Edward Merchant

While wandering through the town, I was much struck by the appearance of many Chinese girls wearing European shoes on naturally formed feet, and head-dresses of brilliant Manchester pattern, in the form of handkerchiefs, folded diagonally and once knotted under the chin, the ends projecting on either side by a particular and almost mathematical adjustment.
— from Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley

They turn away from the thought of self-denial, of keeping under the body, of fasting and prayer, of watchfulness and self-examination.
— from The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles by H. J. (Harry John) Wilmot-Buxton

When he was half way across the open he saw the girl rise and wipe the blade of her knife upon the hair of the dead bull's neck.
— from Snowdrift: A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

"There is no necessity to keep up this pretence any longer, men," exclaimed Captain Restronguet.
— from The Rival Submarines by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Adjoining the khan upon the west are placed the remains of the most interesting monument, the church of Erek Khoran Astvatsatsin .
— from Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces by H. F. B. (Harry Finnis Blosse) Lynch

In fact, Bob and I have been pals for a long, long time——” “I thought you told me just now that you had a spite against him?” interrupted Mrs. Mortimer, fixing her eyes keenly upon the Doctor, as if to read the secrets of his inmost soul and learn whether he were deceiving her.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds