Notwithstanding Mr. Samuel was ejected from his living, he continued to exhort and instruct privately; nor would he obey the order for putting away his wife, whom he had married in king Edward's reign; but kept her at Ipswich, where Foster, by warrant, surprised him by night with her.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

2 Of Maria Clara nothing more is known except that the sepulcher seems to guard her in its bosom.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Je cognois tout, fors que moy-mesme —I know everything except myself.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Many other wholesome regulations of a much more important kind, especially those for the suppression of infanticide, were instituted by this prince.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

4. 6447 . See more in Kemnisius' Examen Concil.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

madrugar i keep early hours, be on foot early.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Now from E and F describe with the same radius the intersecting arcs at G and draw F G. Finally make I K equal to H C and L B equal to A D. If we now draw I L, it should be parallel to F G, and all the six pieces are marked out.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

But when Jane Murdstone is kind enough to come to my assistance in this endeavour, and to assume, for my sake, a condition something like a housekeeper’s, and when she meets with a base return—’ ‘Oh, pray, pray, Edward,’ cried my mother, ‘don’t accuse me of being ungrateful.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Bowing his laurel-crowned head before the crowd assembled to do him honor, the brave American general receives the benediction of the venerable abb, while his memory is kept ever fresh in the public mind by the grand equestrian statue which now stands a monument to his prowess.
— from Four Months in a Sneak-Box A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop

“My French is of the sort to be exploited only among my intimates, and luckily all my intimates know English.”
— from The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan

Yet, when they came to ordain me, I knew enough and was sent at once to the work of the ministry."
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

Some neuter verbs express being in general; as, The man is ; Kingdoms exist .
— from English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners by Samuel Kirkham

Their mind is kept ever on the alert by their ambition, which sounds a charge in front and urges them to the assault of the future; incessantly at war with necessity, their invention always marching with lighted match blows up the obstacle almost before it incommodes them.
— from Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Henri Murger

Please may I keep ’em!”
— from Quicksilver: The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel by George Manville Fenn

Tell me who they are; maybe I know 'em.”
— from Cy Whittaker's Place by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

The wives spin, color, and prepare the yarn, and a man is kept employed in weaving.
— from The Mormon Prophet and His Harem Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children by C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg) Waite

When, nearly a month before, news had reached the Mother Superior of the young stranger's accident, in accordance with the rule which excludes from the convent worldly affairs, she had not made it known except to those who were to aid in carrying out her kindly plans for him.
— from Flute and Violin, and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances by James Lane Allen