The boy, still only from six to eight years old, keeps up the collecting habit with more method and with a wider range, and he demands assistance.
— from Froebel as a pioneer in modern psychology by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

It was astonishing how the young officers kept up their spirits, frequently singing quartets and glees amid the pattering of Minié balls; and I often heard gay peals of laughter from headquarters, as the officers that had spent the day, and perhaps the night, previous in the rifle pits, would collect to make out reports.
— from My Cave Life in Vicksburg, with Letters of Trial and Travel by Mary Ann Webster Loughborough

Nineteen years of knuckling under to Jann, of taking insults and cuffs and belittling, were wiped out under the flashing hoofs of her roan stallion.
— from The Buttoned Sky by Robert W. Krepps

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— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

The game of tennis consists in knocking the ball over the net and into the court of your opponent, keeping up this volley until one side or player fails to make the return properly or at all, which scores his opponent a point.
— from Outdoor Sports and Games by Claude Harris Miller