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When Odinel de Umfraville was building the keep of his castle, every one in the neighbourhood was pressed into the service, and all lent their aid except the men of Wylam.

We'se got ter keep on eatin', an' we can't sleep enuff one night ter last fer a week,but I 'low it's jes' one o' de beautiful laws ob de Lord,de sun an' de moon an' de stars keeps a'goin over de same ground most continuous.

Even the willow leaves Brooding silence keep; All the great, good world is hushed Hushed that you may sleep!

His new hand was certainly worth his keep, and more, for weariness seemed a stranger to that big body, and no weight was too great to be cheerily assumed.

Till the Saracens by night Stormed the keep, and took the maid, With the captives of their raid.

They kissed, and entered the keep with their arms round each other's shoulders.

" And in the gloom he kindled incense rare, That filled the keep with blue unearthly smoke; And sitting at the mirror once again, He called with mystic gestures to the depths That yawned beneath an opening in the floor: "Uprise!

The sunken rocks and shifting sands of this coast had long been a terror to the mariners, but under his lordship's will, Dr. Sharp, then archdeacon of Durham, fitted up the keep of the Castle, for the reception of suffering seamen, and of property which might be rescued from the fury of the ocean.

But on gaining the keep he found with him only some thirty of his men; the rest had been caught in their beds.

The castle possessed a curious feature, of which no other examples now remain, in having two keeps, each built upon a mound.

" "Do I then journey to Bourne, my father?" "Aye, to Sir Benedict, who yet doth hold the great keep of Thrasfordham.

I learn my lesson How through the world's wide sweep Matter and spirit together Their concord eternal keep.

By the arching pepper-branches Let us tender silence keep; We have come into God's Acre, Where the children sleep.

The warden of fierce Reduan With cruelty more deep That that of a hidalgo, Has locked this prison keep; And on this frontier set me, To pine without repose, To watch, from dawn to sunset, Over his Christian foes.

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

Doubtless it is a grievous thing to have lost my keep, and to know that so many goodly spearmen lie dead behind the walls.

Rudenz it was who by a bold assault With manly valor mastered Sarnen's keep.

Bob West boarded at the hotel, and so did Ned Long, a "farm hand," who did sundry odd jobs for anyone who needed him, and helped pay his "keep" by working for Mrs. Kebble when not otherwise engaged.

I began, therefore, immediately after my return, to draw up an account of my voyage, from those notes which we pilots usual keep of all occurrences, and I compared it in my progress with the journals of some friends who had formerly made the same voyage.

"For, presently, as quiet as the king Sleeps now that planned the keeps of Ilion, We, too, will sleep, whilst overhead the spring Rules, and young lovers laughas we have done, And kissas we, that take no heed thereof, But slumber very soundly, and disdain The world-wide heralding of winter's wane And swift sweet ripple of the April rain Running about the world to waken love.

This pleased the king, who searched throughout the land to make choice of a fitting place to raise so strong a keep.

A little beyond the clustering houses, upon the edge of a high rocky promontory overlooking the Ouysse, is the castle of Belcastel, still retaining its feudal keep and outer wall.

Still the great edifice grew up, and Gundulf, who lived to the age of fourscore, saw his great keep completed from basement to battlement.

Child, they have left thee beggared of all else In Hector's house; but one thing shalt thou keep, This war-shield bronzen-barred, wherein to sleep.