" She rose and knocked upon the wall for the prisoner in the next cell, and the prisoner came.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When this ceremony was concluded, the dancing was resumed and kept up for three days and nights.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Nay she has sometimes such an influence, that she can stop our progress, even in the midst of our most profound reflections, and keep us from running on with all the consequences of any philosophical opinion.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

After passing through this phase of the cavernous way, we suddenly came, about a mile farther on, upon a square system of arch, adopted by the early Romans, projecting from the solid rock, and keeping up the weight of the roof.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

They had, so they said, as much as they could do to read about the revolutions, and keep up with the march of intellect and the spirit of the age.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

From other districts, however, I have obtained rudimentary information pointing to the fact that they were instructed in this magic by a mythical, malevolent being called Taukuripokapoka, with whom even now some sort of relations are kept up, culminating in nocturnal meetings and sexual orgies which remind one very strongly of the Walpurgisnacht.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I would not so much disturb or demolish that conviction, only to resume and keep unerringly with it the spinal meaning of the Scriptural text, God overlook'd all that He had made , (including the apex of the whole—humanity—with its elements, passions, appetites,) and behold, it was very good .
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Such men do not cope with statesmen or soldiers—but I have thought they deserve to be recorded and kept up as a sample—that this one specially does.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The dogs, too, seemed afraid of the rattle, and kept up a barking at a safe distance; but the Kanakas showed no fear, and getting long sticks, went into the bush, and keeping a bright look-out, stood within a few feet of him.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

A body of peasants, headed by the émigré colonel de Fleury, got into the bell-tower of the convent, which had not fallen with the rest, and kept up from its leads a vigorous plunging fire upon the besiegers, when they stole forward to burrow into the mass of débris.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

And have a big box all setting ready, all knit up, to match the other preparednesses?"
— from Peace in Friendship Village by Zona Gale

This system would require no material variation from the general plan of construction that is common to the different mammals of this class in respect to the parts where the resemblances are kept up throughout the series, such as those of the skeleton, muscles, nerves, viscera, and other organs that are found in all of them.
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

He directed, so says tradition, that a gallows be erected at Melton Ross, and kept up for ever, and that if any more deaths should result from the old feud it should be regarded as murder, and
— from Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

Eros and Anteros on either side, One fired the bridegroom, and one warmed the bride; And long-attending Hymen from above Showered on the bed the whole Idalian grove. All of a tenor was their after-life, No day discoloured with domestic strife; No jealousy, but mutual truth believed, Secure repose, and kindness undeceived.
— from Dryden's Palamon and Arcite by Geoffrey Chaucer

Then the hunt was renewed, and kept up in various places until the sun began to go down over the woods to the westward.
— from First at the North Pole; Or, Two Boys in the Arctic Circle by Edward Stratemeyer

R. Rochholz : Alemannisches Kinderlied und Spiel, 1859.
— from Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes by Lina Eckenstein

A young doctor, 2nd Lieutenant Cohn, who came back from Paris, contracted typhus at the hospital where he was serving; afterwards he was sent to the 26th Regiment and kept under observation; it was most suspicious, said the authorities, that a Jew should return from France for his military service.
— from The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein