"How you keep it up I don't see," I said.

Anyhow, one can't keep it up for long!"

It was plain he could not keep it up for long.

It was no uncommon occurrence for Mr. Stuart to set 2,000 ems of solid bourgeois an hour, and keep it up for the entire day.

I often wonder how any one can be as unselfish as you are and keep it up day in and day out, working for other people.

Domestic life seems so pleasant to me that I feel as if I'd better keep it up for the rest of my life," answered Sophie, making a pretty picture of herself as she cut great slices of brown bread, with the early sunshine touching her happy face.

Now keep it up!

"But somehow we could neither of us keep it up.

Assuming an easy gait within its powers of endurance, a pony of the prairie will keep it up almost indefinitely.

"Keep it up!" gasped Holman.

"Keep it up!"

But she could not keep it up.

So Inger, no doubt, found it not worth while, and did not care to keep it up.

You'll feel badlyoh, I know thatbut in the end it won't be as bad as trying to fit me in, trying to keep it up.

A few trials showed us the struggle was useless: we had to deal with a regular "pacer," andas I have elsewhere remarkedtheir speed is greater than that of any fair trotter, although so fatiguing that they are unable to keep it up for any great distance; but as we had already turned the bottom of the car into a gravel-pit, we did not think it worth while to continue the amusement.

So much for the king's garden as it is sometimes called; to attend all its different branches no less than a hundred and sixty persons are constantly employed, and to keep it up nearly twelve thousand pounds is annually expended.

But, becoming as his attitude was, he had not been able to keep it up.

Then the rains begin to come steadily again, and keep it up until the end of the wet season, falling in the manner already described so that one can get one's outdoor exercise in the morning, while the afternoon showers are conducive to industry.

Of course, this is all very right and proper if you can keep it up, but I've known a good many men who would kiss their wives on the honeymoon between swallows of coffee and look like an ass a year later when she chirruped out at the breakfast-table, "Do you love me, darling?"

The authorities advise you to begin to sow at the commencement of the sixth season immediately after the autumn equinox and to keep it up for the following 91 days, but not to attempt to sow any thing after the winter solstice, unless it is absolutely necessary, because seed sown before the winter solstice germinates in seven days, while that sown later hardly ever sprouts for 40 days.

"Yes," he said at last, "it is not a bad beginningif he can keep it up.

For a time I prided myself that I gave every one of them as full attention as before, but I can not keep it up.

However, he tried to keep it up.

And so we have got to keep it up all our days, long after the primary reason for it all has sunk into oblivion.

" "But why does she seem so friendly with him?" "It is her way; she can't be other than smooth and caressing, and likes to have young men about; and I try to be grave and distant, becausethe sooner he is cured of me the better for him," she uttered, with a sob; "but when he is there, and I see those grieved eyes of his, I can't keep it up!