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• to keep silence;  to keep one's word;  to keep possession
• Both day and night did we keep company.
• within the portal as I kept my watch
• I keep a small stock of painkillers for emergencies.
• I keep my specimens under glass to protect them.
• The abundance of squirrels kept the dogs running for hours.
• Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered.[...]The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
• She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
• I used to keep a diary.
• The wrathful skies / Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves.
• I keep my brother out of trouble by keeping him away from his friends and hard at work.
• May the Lord keep you from harm.
• cursse on thy cruell hond, / That twise hath sped; yet shall it not thee keepe / From the third brunt of this my fatall brond.
• He kept a mistress for over ten years.
• He has been keeping orchids since retiring.
• Of course boys are boys and need watching, but there is little watching necessary when they keep chickens.
• Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.
• like a pedant that keeps a school
• They were honourably brought to London, where every one of them kept house by himself.
• At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[...]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
• She kept to her bed while the fever lasted.
• Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps.
• I keep taking the tablets, but to no avail.
• Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[...]Next day she[...]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
• Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become.[...]But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
• Potatoes can keep if they are in a root cellar.
• Latex paint won't keep indefinitely.
• If the malt be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep.
• And thenne whan the damoysel knewe certaynly that he was not syre launcelot / thenne she took her leue and departed from hym / And thenne syre Trystram rode pryuely vnto the posterne where kepte hym la beale Isoud / and there she made hym good chere and thanked god of his good spede
• Keep calm! There's no need to panic.
• The rabbit avoided detection by keeping still.
• Godfrey Evans kept for England for many years.
• Keep that the lusts choke not the word of God that is in us.
• School keeps today.
• I have kept the faith.
• Him whom to love is to obey, and keep / His great command.
• to keep one's house, room, bed, etc.
• 'Tis hallowed ground; / Fairies, and fawns, and satyrs do it keep.
• So Sir Gareth strayned hym so that his olde wounde braste ayen on bledynge; but he was hote and corragyous and toke no kepe, but with his grete forse he strake downe the knyght.
• He works as a cobbler's apprentice for his keep.
• Pan, thou god of shepherds all, / Which of our tender lambkins takest keep.
• to be in good keep
• Often he used of his keep / A sacrifice to bring.
• Please keep your ticket with you until you get off the train.
• ~ on course
• ~ on going