They spend lots o' money in keeping up old ruins, and finding the bones o' things, and such like; and living remains must be more interesting to 'em still, if they only knowed of me.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

In the mean time, the soft strait passage gradually loosens, yields, and, stretched to its utmost bearing, by the stick, thick, indriven engine, sensible, at once, to the ravishing pleasure of the feel and the pain of the distension, let him in about half way, when all the most nervous activity he now exerted, to further his penetration, gained him not an inch of his purpose: for, whilst he hesitated there, the crisis of pleasure overtook him, and the close compressure of the warm surrounding flow drew from him the ecstatic gush, even before mine was ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endured in the course of the engagement, from the insufferable size of his weapon, though it was not as yet in above half its length.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

This then I do in deed and word, this I do under Thy wings; in over great peril, were not my soul subdued unto Thee under Thy wings, and my infirmity known unto Thee.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

was proclaimed, a treaty was negotiated with Portugal, known as the Methuen Treaty, which gave England the practical monopoly of Portuguese trade, and sent the gold of Brazil by way of Lisbon to London,—an advantage so great that it aided materially in keeping up the war on the continent as well as in maintaining the navy.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Winter is a stupid; it wastes its merchandise, it loses its labor, it can’t wet us, and that makes it kick up a row, old water-carrier that it is.” This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in his character of a philosopher of the nineteenth century, accepted, was followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it entered the belly of the elephant through the crack.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The worlds are kept on their courses by such opposing forces, the perfect equilibrium never being found, and so the vitalising movement is kept up.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

This is why, as is well known, one is so careful to get a man first to hope for happiness before announcing it, then to suggest the prospect of it, then little by little make it known, until gradually all is known to him; every portion of the revelation loses the strength of its effect because it is anticipated by a demand, and room is still left for more.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

The mixture is kept underground in a closed vessel for three months, and then used to prevent the hair from falling out or turning grey.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Terror, the author’s principal engine, prevents the story from ever languishing; and it is so often contrasted by pity, that the mind is kept up in a constant vicissitude of interesting passions.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

The single interest awakened by Rosalind's secret love and playful archness of manner is kept up undivided throughout.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

"Three months of the worst luck man ever had; a row with the gens- d'armes,—long story: three of our pals seized; affair of the galleys for them, I suspect (French frogs can't seize me!); fricasseed one or two of them; broke away, crossed the country, reached the coast; found an honest smuggler; landed off Sussex with a few other kegs of brandy; remembered you, preserved the address you gave me, and condescend to this rat-hole for a night or so. Let me in; knock up somebody, break open the larder.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The Great Revolution found him settled as a minister in Kidderminster, under the sanction of a drunken vicar, who, yielding to the clamor of his more sober parishioners, and his fear of their appeal to the Long Parliament, then busy in its task of abating church nuisances, had agreed to give him sixty pounds per year, in the place of a poor tippling curate, notorious as a common railer and pothouse encumbrance.
— from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VI. (Of VII) Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, Plus Personal Sketches and Tributes and Historical Papers by John Greenleaf Whittier

UNSC Resolution 1244 in June 1999 authorized the stationing of a NATO-led force (KFOR) in Kosovo to provide a safe and secure environment for the region's ethnic communities, created a UN Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) to foster self-governing institutions, and reserved the issue of Kosovo's final status for an unspecified date in the future.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The appearances of amity were, indeed, for the sake of mutual interest, kept up on either side.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

The southerly wind is continuous and not at all pleasant in camp, but on the march it keeps us cool.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

He's pretty smart; I mean in keeping up with the business, you know what I mean.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

[Pg 203] the villadge neare the gunpouder howse, whoe fownd them out and made it knowne unto me and others.
— from Diary of Richard Cocks, Volume 2 Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615-1622, with Correspondence by Richard Cocks

"I've never left Canada, but a man I knew used to talk about Langrigg.
— from Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss

No man really amounts to much in Korea until after he is married, but that is largely true in our country.
— from Birdseye Views of Far Lands by James T. (James Thomas) Nichols