But this would not serve: She ordered the two maids to take me each by an arm, and lead me back into the house, and up stairs; and there have I been locked up ever since, without shoes.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

It was most intolerably dirty; for it was Monday morning; and it had been tenanted by six drunken people, who had been locked up, elsewhere, since Saturday night.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

"Went to the races two days ago, got soaking wet, and has been laid up ever since at a friend's house with the worst attack of gout he ever had in his life."
— from Colonel Carter of Cartersville by Francis Hopkinson Smith

But, on the other hand, I have certainly never slept in the Griffin, which has been locked up ever since Uncle Arthur's death."
— from In the Dead of Night: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

He was breaking stones on the road a few weeks ago; but he caught a chill or something one very cold day, and has been laid up ever since.
— from Cecilia de Noël by Lanoe Falconer

In our absence the tide had been slowly creeping up on reeds and rushes, had reached its height, and (leaving a brown, bubbly line upon each slender stalk to show that the law had been fulfilled) had started slowly down again.
— from Virginia: the Old Dominion As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time by Frank W. Hutchins

In order that the tenth penny should not be levied upon every sale of goods, the natural but desperate remedy was adopted—no goods were sold at all.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 17: 1570-72 by John Lothrop Motley

and I've been laid up ever since.
— from The Deserter by Richard Harding Davis

In the screw engine referred to, as the cylinder is laid upon its side, there is no unbalanced weight to be lifted up every stroke, and the crank, whereby the screw shaft is turned round, consists of two discs with a heavy side intended to balance the momentum of the piston and its connections; but these counter-weights by their gravitation also prevent the connecting rod and crank from continuing in the same line when the engine is stopped, and in fact they place the crank in the most advantageous position for starting again when it has to be set on.
— from A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.

Three other keepers coming up, they were all carried off to the Hall, where they have been locked up ever since.
— from Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Misadventures by William Henry Giles Kingston