The shorn clerks not only lived in camp, ministered to the sick and shrived the dying soldier, but wrote texts for the banners, furnished the amulets {311} and war cries, and were ever assistant and valuable in keeping up the temper and morals of the armies.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

“If we only could keep up to that ar’!” said Tom;—“it seemed to come so natural to him, and we have to fight so hard for ’t!
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Even now the rude Boshmen keep up the tradition among their medicine-men.
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

It was in a deplorable state, and I had to have it repaired, which kept us till the afternoon of the next day; however, so far as pleasure was concerned, the time was not lost.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Up, having lain long, and then by coach with W. Hewer to the Excise Office, and so to Lilly’s, the Varnishes; who is lately dead, and his wife and brother keep up the trade, and there I left my French prints to be put on boards:, and, while I was there, a fire burst out in a chimney of a house over against his house, but it was with a gun quickly put out.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A certain Manxman I knew used to talk about the transmigration of spirits; but I shall not give his name, since many of his family still live here on the Island.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Skilful hands will soon learn to make a cord of the same kind with four threads, as follows: knot the four ends of thread together, make a few knots, using two threads as one, then dropping the loop on your forefinger, put the next one upon it and draw up the knot, passing however the threads over those that you dropped.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

It would be a great advantage to go with somebody who knows all the dates, and which kings usurped their thrones, and who they properly belonged to.'
— from An American Girl in London by Sara Jeannette Duncan

Mr Barlow then placed a key upon the table, and putting the iron near it, the key attached itself as firmly to the bar as the needles had done before.
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

In those early days many of the deep windows had no glass, and one night, when a staggering Mediterranean thunderstorm crashed down upon us, we really didn’t like it and hid the knives under the table at dinner.
— from An Autobiography by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) Butler

On a little knoll under the trees at the entrance to the grounds the military and civic processions assembled to listen to the eloquent words of Rev. Mr. Barrett, of Rochester.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

With insufficient instruments and no proper means of sterilizing them, the operation, carried out as it was in a dark, grimy hut, with only a blubber-stove to keep up the temperature and with an outside temperature well below freezing, speaks volumes for the skill and initiative of the surgeons.
— from South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

The name of Louvois was never afterwards pronounced; not a word was said upon this death so surprising, and so sudden, until the arrival of an officer, sent by the King of England from Saint-Germain, who came to the King upon this terrace, and paid him a compliment of condolence upon the loss he had received.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

And he knelt upon the turf and laid his cheek and forehead to it, and then he rose, sealed up his lips, and passed into the Ring.
— from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

The animal was a steady trotter and managed to keep up to the auto, which was obliged to move slowly, as it had quite a heavy load on a steep grade.
— from The Motor Boys Overland; Or, A Long Trip for Fun and Fortune by Clarence Young