Major Sadir, whom I have mentioned before, kept another gaming-house, in company with his mistress, who came from Saxony.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In the rice-jar ( buyong b’ras ) during this period, a stone, a big iron nail, and a “candle-nut” must be kept, and a spoon ( sĕndok ) must always be used for putting the rice into the pot before boiling it.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

His ardour was admirable, but the world must be known before it can be reformed pertinently, and happiness, to be attained, must be placed in reason.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

[679] Deïdamia : That Achilles might be kept from joining the Greek expedition to Troy he was sent by his mother to the court of Lycomedes, father of Deïdamia.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

A fire must be kindled to give heat both to the mother and the new-born baby.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

"Then we may be killed after all, as the boys say; and hark!
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

De Ruyter and the English main body kept up a sharp action, beating to windward all the time.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

It must be kept in mind that here we are trying to obtain a clear and vivid idea of what the Kula valuables are to the natives, and not to give a detailed and circumstantial description of them, nor to define them with precision.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

In the second place, you must have two horses; one you must ride yourself, and the other you must lead, which must be loaded with a sheep cut into four quarters, that must be killed to-day.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

I was not included among them, to my sorrow, and had no idea how long I might be kept at Brest.
— from In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France by Edward Alva Trueblood

No real opposition, however, was ever met with; but in June (after our failure to take Delhi by a coup de main became known) there was an organized attempt to seize the Treasury.
— from On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Of course you know what she would like, what she is hoping for against hope—old Mr. Marshall was a very rich man——" Miss Berwick knew very well, but she thought the question an outrage—so foolish and so shocking that it was not worth an answer.
— from Barbara Rebell by Marie Belloc Lowndes

I next saw him on horseback, and this man of giant strength in full suit of black, riding a large spirited black horse, became my "black knight."
— from Half a Century by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

I was told that this is the entrance to Colman Killigrew's house, and I thought you might be Killigrews.
— from Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure by Joseph Hocking

I don't think we will take very long, actually, but one of the things the Commission is trying to do is develop as much background knowledge about Lee Harvey Oswald as it possibly can, in the hope that it might give some insight into his possible motive, if in fact he did assassinate the President.
— from Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Honing Spruit Station, about midway between Kroonstad and Roodeval, was the scene of his new raid.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

He did not hesitate to delay the payment of a just claim in order that the appropriation might be kept within the limits that he had fixed.
— from Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell