They sat together in class, knelt together in the chapel, talked together after beads over their lunches.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

I am obliged to Fortune for having so often assaulted me with the same sort of weapons: she forms and fashions me by use, hardens and habituates me, so that I can know within a little for how much I shall be quit.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

‘Unhand me, sir, this instant,’ cried Kate.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Sailors therefore, in coasting, keep at a distance (from the shore), and are on their guard, lest they should be caught by a wind unprepared, and driven into these gulfs.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

When you came to me, I was willing to promise anything if you would only do away with the other Witch; but, now that you have melted her, I am ashamed to say that I cannot keep my promises.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

When you came to me I was willing to promise anything if you would only do away with the other Witch; but, now that you have melted her, I am ashamed to say that I cannot keep my promises."
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

I set the phone's alarm to go off every 90 minutes and wake me up so that I could keep it from going to sleep.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

This morning I attempted to persuade my wife in bed to go to Brampton this week, but she would not, which troubles me, and seeing that I could keep it no longer from her, I told her that I was resolved to go to Portsmouth to-morrow.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This troubled me the more for a long time, because I had soon told Steerforth, from whom I could no more keep such a secret, than I could keep a cake or any other tangible possession, about the two old women Mr. Mell had taken me to see; and I was always afraid that Steerforth would let it out, and twit him with it.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Then Glooskap saw that the Moose was too strong, and made him smaller, so that Indians could kill him.
— from Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland

I have always carried a handkerchief in my bag for use, so that I could keep the one which I held in my hand clean and nice.
— from Love After Marriage; and Other Stories of the Heart by Caroline Lee Hentz

Our lady here will be safe enough among the nuns—more safe than I can keep her.
— from The Brethren by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

"Is he not dying more slowly than I could kill him?"
— from The Unknown Quantity: A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Henry Van Dyke

But I feel reasonably safe in saying that I could keep the Premix Company from figuring in the case.
— from Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper

“Moreover,” said I, “a whale is so big and strong, that it can knock a boat right up into the air, and break in the sides of a ship.
— from Fighting the Whales by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

As sea transportation is commonly known to be twenty times cheaper than rail transportation, the shortening of a distance of 400 miles to the sea means a great deal economically to the provinces of Szechuan, Yunnan, Kweichow, and a part of Kwangsi.
— from The International Development of China by Yat-sen Sun

We reach a gate of the high wall surrounding the inner city Kitay-Gorod.
— from The Land of Riddles (Russia of To-day) by Hugo Ganz

All the time that I was trying to read the notes, so that I could know enough about them to write this article, my mind kept swimming up out of the mud into that clear river of text.
— from The Critical Game by John Albert Macy