69921 examples of keeps in sentences

Marry I think she is one whom the State keeps for the Agents of our confederate Princes: she'll cog and lie with a whole army before the League shall break: her name is common through the Kingdom, and the Trophies of her dishonour, advanced beyond Hercules-pillars.

Yes. Di. 'Tis a sweet boy, how brave she keeps him!

I know the boy She keeps, a handsome boy; about eighteen: Know what she does with him, where, and when.

Alas my Lord, your pulse keeps madmans time, So does your tongue.

I can keep my mother, as well, nay, better, than she keeps herself.

There is usually in such communities a strange lack of social intercourse; whether it be that the daily departure and return of the head of the family keeps up a perpetual succession of small crises of interest to the exclusion of others, or that the night finds all the fathers and brothers too tired to enjoy anything but slippers and cigars, I know not; but certain it is that all such suburban villages are unspeakably dull and lifeless.

How St. Gaudens created it and keeps it there in the heart of New York is his secret.

I suspect it is something about Junius which keeps her away, and I suppose she thinks he is still here.

In fact, that is the only thing that now keeps me here.

An emigrant, maybe, from the homestead tracts; he keeps his eyes alert, looking out; now and again he climbs to the top of a hill, looking out.

The small leakage of water into the vessel which is thus occasioned, keeps the screw shaft in this situation always wet, and this is all the lubrication which this bearing requires or obtains.

The engines are tied down by strong bolts passing through the bottom of the vessel, but the boiler keeps its position by its weight alone.

Most people don't know how to lay out a database; they make a mess that just keeps getting worse.

" "Keeps them in their place," Jennifer said.

Less bright the Moon, But opposite in level'd West was set, His Mirror, with full face borrowing her Light From him, for other Lights she needed none In that aspect, and still that distance keeps Till Night; then in the East her turn she shines, Revolv'd on Heavns great Axle, and her Reign With thousand lesser Lights dividual holds, With thousand thousand Stars!

In drawing-rooms odorous with luxury the man's name has mention, and the vulgarity of his liberated speech and courageous faith is a theme to move the wonder and excite the reprobation of hearts whose languid beating keeps up their show of life, to what sufficient purpose expect me not to tell.

"He needs no napkin for his hands His fingers' ends to wipe, That keeps his kitchen in a box, And roast meat in a pipe.

But if incessantly consumed, it keeps up a constant, but mild cerebral exhilaration.

The Jew would own his son, but he remembers that it would injure the son, and so he keeps silent.

And where have you been, and how's my mother, and what have you been doing?" "What have you been doing, rather?" repeats the young lady, giving him a cool and beautiful hand that he keeps in his own as long as he dares.

Thus, Grote keeps attention more by the intelligence of his comments than by the flow of his narration; he is far more political than picturesque; and while he gives a masterly analysis of the Athenian system of government, so as to place it in a new light even to the scholar's apprehension, he discusses the arts and the literature so inspiring to most cultivated minds, when describing Greece, with comparative indifference.

There is some apparently congenital defect in the Indians, for instance, that keeps them from choosing civilization and Christianity.

"If that durned Miss Panney," he continued, "keeps on tellin' that to the people, things will be a cussed sight worse than me a livin' here without decent vittles, an' Phoebe a boardin' that minister that ain't paid no board yit.

Everything was so clear that we could see the little rare island that keeps itself to itself on our horizon.

And she, too, forgot the crowd, and shyly, proudly gave as well as received; so there began to vibrate between them the spark that clears brains and hearts of the fogs and vapors and keeps them clear.

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