93 adjectives to describe keeping

May he have it and thee in his holy keeping!"

CHARTERS, W. W. Teacher's guide to accompany Keeping healthy; or, Good habits and living healthfully, by W. W. Charters, D. F. Smiley & Ruth M. Strang.

The words had hardly been uttered when above the brickwork appeared the head and shoulders of a boy a size or so bigger than Acton; a dirty-looking brown bowler hat was stuck on the very back of his head, and rammed down until the brim rested on the top of his ears; and it will be quite sufficient to remark that his face was in exact keeping with the manner in which he wore his hat.

Of the interior, however, I shall not say much more than that it is at once a fitting modern residence for a nobleman of the high rank and ancient descent of the proprietor, and in admirable keeping with its exterior.

Behold this bracelet charm, of sovereign power To baffle fate in danger's awful hour; But thou must still the perilous secret keep, Nor ask the harvest of renown to reap; For when, by this peculiar signet known, Thy glorious father shall demand his son, Doomed from her only joy in life to part, O think what pangs will rend thy mother's heart!

"Therefore for peace, and not for gladness, have I left thee; for reverence to the Holy Father, and for the better keeping of all my vows.

Street by street the town was won until before them loomed the mighty keep of Pentavalon's ducal stronghold.

A lady red upon the hill Her annual secret keeps; A lady white within the field In placid lily sleeps!

So, keeping ever in the shadow of the great square keep, they went on, soft-treading and alert of eye till, being come to the angle of the wall, the friar stayed of a sudden and raised a warning hand.

"We'll shun the face of glaring day, "Eternal silence keep; "Thro' the dark wood together stray, "And only live to weep.

The massive keep, ponderous in stability, has the characteristic marks of the twelfth century, and is a noble ruin.

Still, it will be for me to settle which, in present circumstances, is best,to remain in, and not be misconstrued, or to go out and bear a testimony against the superstitious keeping of the day.

The two points at which she first aimed were the keeping clean of her room and the decent preparation of her meals.

The law that would deny his claim as Robert Burnham's son would stamp him as the grandson of Simon Craft, and place him again in his cruel keeping.

This heavenly shield, soon as it is display'd, Dismays the vices that abhor the light; To wanderers by sea and land gives aid; Conquers dismay, recomforteth affright; Rouseth dull idleness, and starts soft sleep, And all the world to daily labour keep.

"Dat keep de witches fum ridin you; but nary one o' dese charms work wid dis old witch.

Nay, since even the Senator Marcantonio had not flinched before that wonderful agonized white face, he need not confine her, as he had intended, in a convent for decorous keeping; he was glad of the change in her favor which would prevent the harshness that might have increased her influence to the degree of danger.

How I strained my eager eyes through the darkness as I thought that the distant black keep of our fortalice might even now be visible!

Then, over the graves, he walked into his fenceless little angular flower-garden; and here, composed and confident in the divine keeping, he pressed the stalks of his tulips deeper into the mellow earth.

Here it will be enough to point out that only a fragment of the great building with its double keep, whose ruin we see to-day, dates from the time of the first De Warenne, the rest being a later work largely of Edward

That this enormous keep is the work of Gundulph and contemporary with the Tower of London, there seems to be no reason to doubt.

The envious is more unhappy than the serpent: for though he hath poison within him, and can cast it upon others, yet to his proper bosom it is not burdensome, as is the rancour that the envious keeps; but this most plainly is the plague, as it infects others, so it fevers him that hath it, till he dies.

This care is due to Lord Curzon, who has taken Agra and its monuments into his especial keeping.

Lord, me safe from evil keep.

Let Æsop answer, who has set to view Such kinds as Greece and Phrygia never knew; And mother Hubbard, in her homely dress, Has sharply blamed a British Lioness; That queen, whose feast the factious rabble keep, 10 Exposed obscenely naked and asleep.

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