But a dog, or a lesser thing,any inanimate substance, as a keep-sake, a watch or a ring, a tree, or the place where we last parted when my friend went away upon a long absence, I can make shift to love, because I love him, and any thing that reminds me of him; provided it be in its nature indifferent, and apt to receive whatever hue fancy can give it.

" The assailants tried beams against the keep gate; the defenders shot them down or hurled rocks upon their heads.

But does punishing A keep B from the commission of crime?

His poetry is that of a man who has kept company with kept-mistresses.

Antiquarians also infer that in the drawing it was intended to represent the great keep-tower as standing upon the top of the mount, and not by the side of it.

Climbing the keep-wall, Cercamorte squinted down into the murky courtyard.