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Sentences starting with keeping

Keeping close to the edge of the cottonwoods, he went swiftly and silently westward. [13]
Keeping in the shadow Venters went closer and closer until he could hear voices. [13]
Keeping in the shadow of the trees, he went to Charley's house. [11]
Keeping that group in my mind, I can compare those complexions with the white ones which are streaming past this London window now: A lady. [5]
Keeping store, no doubt, and respected by all. [5]
Keeping faithfully on. [5]

Sentences ending with keeping

And a woman will yield her hand while her heart remains in her own keeping. [11]
Presently it occurred to her that it would be best to take the will wholly into her own keeping. [4]
From that time she had never ceased to urge her aged friend to place the wondrous cup in her keeping. [10]
The commercial advantages of a great nation lie there in that man's keeping. [5]
He, the once, neglected, had the destiny of a State in his keeping. [9]
Has Mr. William Murray Bradshaw ever delivered into your hands any papers relating to the affairs of the late Malachi Withers, for your safe keeping? [6]
She leaves her memory in thy keeping. [6]
Oh, let my love be worth The keeping. [11]
Your daughter,"--he turned lightly towards Felicity,--"if she will not refuse me, and she cannot upon the ground that you refused my father--she shall be Countess of Enderby in her own right; with estates in keeping. [11]
This justified me in allowing you to eat the quince with her; this induces me now to entrust to you, without fear, what I have always looked upon as a sacred pledge committed to my keeping. [10]

Short sentences using keeping

I'm keeping him with me. [2]
What could be keeping Melissa? [10]
What can be keeping him? [2]
What is keeping him? [5]
You're keeping something from me. [13]

Sentences containing keeping two or more times

One of them is keeping Grinnage time, and the other is keeping St. Louis time, like my watch. [5]
Her devotion to her crippled father was in keeping with her quick response to every incident of sorrow or joy in the parish--only modified by wilful prejudices scarcely in keeping with her unselfishness. [11]
It was in apparently happy circumstances, for they could see no commotion about the homestead; they saw men with muskets, evidently keeping guard--yet too openly keeping guard, and so some said to each other. [11]

More example sentences with the word keeping in them

Take them into your keeping, man; and tomorrow morning we will see who has left this suspicious offering in our vestibule.--You were the first to reach the spot, fair Paula. [10]
They will tell you, about here, that I have a kind of hobby for keeping people from digging and crawling into their own graves. [11]
I did not write The Trail of the Sword because it was in keeping with the spirit of the moment. [11]
Nature, too, it would have seemed, had forged a mood in keeping with the time, for there was no air stirring when we came in, and a strange stillness had come upon the landscape. [11]
Then he, Argutis, would be house steward, and show that he knew other things besides keeping the workroom and garden in order, splitting wood, and buying cheaply at market. [10]
Gaston was kind with him, keeping, however, a firm hand till his manner had become informed by the new duties. [11]
Then Fulkerson said, with another look at his watch, "Well, March, we're keeping Mr. Lindau from his dinner. [8]
Subsequently his brother William wrote him that Commodore Decatur was keeping open for him the office of Chief Clerk in the Navy Department. [4]
I'll be a Will o' the Wisp, now here, now there, dancing about you always, starting up when you least expect me, and keeping you in a constant state of restlessness and irritation. [12]
I hope it will come soon, and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. [7]
The Hawkins family were settled there, and had a hard enough struggle with poverty and the necessity of keeping up appearances in accord with their own family pride and the large expectations they secretly cherished of a fortune in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
The lictors who were keeping off the mob had stopped Melissa too; but while Alexander had been gazing into Agatha's imploring eyes, feeling as though all his blood had rushed to his heart and face, Melissa had contrived to creep up close to him. [10]
He pushed his way as far as the obelisks near the great gate of the temple with its winged sun-disc and fluttering pennons, but there the temple-servants prevented him from going farther; they were keeping the avenue of sphinxes clear for a procession. [10]
Meantime the stage was wandering about a plain with gaping gullies in it, for the driver could not see an inch before his face nor keep the road, and the storm pelted so pitilessly that there was no keeping the horses still. [5]
Some said it was the softened climate, but others believed it was owing to the habit of keeping their ears open whenever they were walking through the grass or in the woods. [6]
After all this was settled Nilus departed with that half of the money which Orion was to hand over to the keeping of the Moslem money changer on the following morning. [10]
One thing, however, was now firmly established in his belief: that his favourite virtues were really the fairest of all, because--one will answer for all--man never felt happier than when he had succeeded in keeping his fidelity inviolate and maintaining his steadfastness. [10]
I knew it was not wide enough; still, I thought that by keeping strict watch and wasting no space unnecessarily I could crowd through. [5]
The long facade was imposing, dignified, with a touch of conventionality and solidity in keeping with my standing in the city. [9]
Her pawn, which was far from unbecoming, was in keeping with those gifts with which nature had endowed her. [9]
And then it was discomforting to see Huck eying Joe's preparations so wistfully, and keeping up such an ominous silence. [5]
After all, he was a very sane Young Doctor, and he had the faculty of keeping his head, and his heart, and his own counsel. [11]
On the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he was keeping the bank. [2]
The whoops was warnings that would come to us every now and then, and if we didn't try hard to make out to understand them they'd just take us into bad luck, 'stead of keeping us out of it. [5]
It was a very still Sabbath, and the mournful sound seemed in keeping with the musing hush that lay upon nature. [5]
Strips of dresses, vainly tied around the handles of the doors, signified the contrivance to which feminine despair had resorted as a means of keeping out the murderers. [5]
He's after keeping us poor and making himself rich. [11]
I am keeping up my studies every now and then, but there isn't much time for it. [5]
Their way was unobstructed until they approached London Bridge; then they ploughed into the multitude again, Hendon keeping a fast grip upon the Prince's --no, the King's--wrist. [5]
There was an undertone in the essay which was in keeping with the mode of life of the solitary stranger. [6]
One must not underrate the magnificence of this long-headed idea, one must not underestimate its giant possibilities in the matter of trooping the Church solidly together and keeping it so. [5]
Both of the two great parties, the Republican and the Democratic, in order to make a show of keeping abreast of the times, have merely patched their platforms with the new ideas. [9]
At night he turned to the chain-man to ascertain what distance they had come, and found that by some mistake he had merely dragged the chain over the ground, without keeping any record. [7]
Help me to turn this matter to the advantage of the Queen, and if Archibius succeeds in getting Barine away and keeping her in the country, then--if I had aught that seemed to you desirable it should be yours. [10]
They are useful, too, in keeping up the standard of dress, which, but for them, would deteriorate, and become, what some old fools would have it, a matter of convenience, and not of taste and art. [6]
It seemed to Tom that his schoolmates never would get done holding inquests on dead cats, and thus keeping his trouble present to his mind. [5]
A story is told of a metropolitan journal, which illustrates another difficulty the public has in keeping up its confidence in newspaper infallibility. [4]
To-day I surrendered to you all of me that would be worth your keeping, if it was so that you might take and keep it. [11]
She had come to me last night ah--true; but that was in keeping with her dramatic temperament; it was the drama of it that had appealed to her; and to-morrow she would forget me, and sink her fresh spirit in the malarial shadows of Doltaire's. [11]
Probably a visit to his room would clear up all that has puzzled me, and make me laugh at the notions which began, I suppose, in nightmares, and ended by keeping my imagination at work so as almost to make me uncomfortable at times. [6]
It presently occurred to him that there might be some local source of infection which had brought on the complaint, and was still keeping up the symptoms which were the ground of alarm. [6]
Slowly it came to him that Little Hammer was keeping him alive against the will of the spirits--but why should they strike him instead of the Indian? [11]
I 'm agoing to give up keeping boarders at the end of this year,--I mean come the end of December. [6]
All I had to do was to shift some of their leading peculiarities, keeping the rest. [6]
She seemed indeed to be successful, for Dame Susannah agreed to everything she said; but she betrayed the fact that she was keeping a sharp watch by suddenly asking: "Does your husband's lofty niece not think us worthy of a single word? [10]
The body was to be preserved in health by keeping each of these qualities in its natural proportion; heat, by the proper temperature; moisture, by the due amount of fluid; and so as to the rest. [3]
It was keeping time to some rhythm, I knew not what. [9]
In the mean time the prudent Mr. Gridley had been keeping the young man busy, and amusing himself by showing him such of the sights of the city and its suburbs as he thought would combine instruction with entertainment. [6]
I'm keeping it till Manitou's paid the price of it. [11]
I can recommend this cow, if anybody wants one, as a steady boarder, whose keeping will cost the owner little; but, if her milk is at all like her voice, those who drink it are on the straight road to lunacy. [4]
There's such a thing as instinct, and there's such a thing as keeping your eyes open. [11]
When she made these excursions to Sark, Dormy Jamais had always remained at the little house, milking her cow, feeding her fowls, and keeping all in order--as perfect a sentinel as old Biribi, and as faithful. [11]
The Emperor received them at the gate of the citadel, where he was keeping watch ere he mounted his steed. [10]
The soldiers, swinging their arms and keeping time spontaneously, marched with long steps. [2]
Closely enveloped in the veil which Euryale had placed on her head, Melissa passed from room to room, keeping near to the philosopher. [10]
The gate of the scholar's house stood open, for an officer in the Regent's service had really entered a short time before, but the Scythian guards sent by the exegetus Demetrius, one of Barine's friends, were keeping back the throng of curious spectators. [10]
We sat up the rest of the night playing cribbage and keeping a sharp lookout for the enemy. [5]
He must supply the place of Biberli, who had left the house a long time before, and for the first time in many years was keeping his master waiting. [10]
I have taken the music of the song of Alsace, 'Le Jardin d'Amour', and I have made variations on it, keeping the last verse of the song in my mind. [11]
The tabu was the most ingenious and effective of all the inventions that has ever been devised for keeping a people's privileges satisfactorily restricted. [5]
It turned down the Moon-street, keeping to the middle of the road which was planted with elms, and had on each side of it a raised foot-way, which at this time of night no one used. [10]
With abandon of the mind came a recklessness of body, which gave her, all at once, a voluptuousness more in keeping with the typical maid of Andalusia. [11]
We were keeping the middle of the great river, as safest from detection, and when the tide was with us we could thus move more rapidly. [11]
I gazed about the mean room, with its litter of newspapers and reports, its shabby furniture, and these seemed to have become incongruous, out of figure in the chair facing me keeping with the thoughtful figure in the chair facing me. [9]
Now there was the matter of Joan's keeping her supernatural commerce a secret from her parents. [5]
Euergetes, brother of the king, was keeping his birthday in Memphis to-day, and all the city was to take part in the festivities. [10]
Many a time the idea crossed my mind that she had a secret--a secret which she was keeping wholly to herself, as well from me as from the others. [5]
Fulkerson, while breaking the ice for the whole company, was mainly engaged in keeping Colonel Woodburn thawed out. [8]
I still have the habit of keeping unfinished books lying around years and years, waiting. [5]
We have appropriated the English conviviality, the German simplicity, the Roman pomp, and we have added to it an element of expense in keeping with our own greatness. [4]
I think that the Dr. Tanners and those others who go forty days without eating do it by resolutely keeping out the desire to eat, in the beginning, and that after a few hours the desire is discouraged and comes no more. [5]
By this time, the dogs, panting, and lolling out their tongues, came swinging along, keeping the trail, like stupids, and consequently losing ground when the deer doubled. [4]
If Pharaoh returned, the body-guards would take him prisoner and remove him as Siptah, who liked no halfway measures, had secretly directed, while the chief-priest insisted upon keeping him in mild imprisonment. [10]
The skipper put the boat on the starboard tack, close-hauled and close-reefed the sails, keeping as near the wind as possible, with the hope of weathering the rocky point at the western extremity of the Bay des Trepasses. [11]
The costumes of the actors were in the last degree outlandish, and the performance was in keeping with the clothes. [5]
It seemed strange that, in the midst of such great events, the loss or keeping of an empire, these men should thus devote the few hours granted them for sleep; but they did according to their natures. [11]
I have induced that woman in whose charge it was left to intrust it to my keeping, with the express intention of showing it to you. [6]
I have thought that there may be something in the conditions with which you are here surrounded which is repugnant to your feelings,--something which can be avoided only by keeping yourself apart from the people whose acquaintance you would naturally have formed. [6]
But she knew that the Nile would flow backwards before she could dissuade him from keeping his promise to the abbess, so she forced herself to preserve at any rate outward composure. [10]
It was more than whispered that he sat too long over his wine, and that his desire for fiery liquid at other than meal-times was not in keeping with the English climate, but belonged to lands of drier weather and more absorptive air. [11]
He was so tall that he had a little difficulty in keeping his balance, and his hat was set upon the back of his head to preserve his equilibrium. [4]
But she passed swiftly on, keeping them back with grave words and gestures, until, before the door of the great anteroom thronged with Greek and Egyptian petitioners, she met Zeno, the Keeper of the Seal. [10]
Every Other Week supplies the long-felt want that's been grinding round in New York and keeping it awake nights ever since the war. [8]
This intention of suicide may have arisen from the fear that his wife was keeping a record of his own peccadilloes rather than of her own thoughts and emotions. [4]
There is no such thing as keeping a vessel in elegant condition, when she carries molasses and Kanakas. [5]
Old Harsdorffer afterward succeeded in keeping the suitor away from his daughter a long time, but finally relinquished his opposition. [10]
Yet it seemed strange that Doltaire should wish me dead, for he had reasons for keeping me alive, as shall be seen. [11]
It was a strange medley, in keeping, perhaps, with the incongruously furnished mind of the master of it all; it was expressive of tastes and habits not yet settled and consistent. [11]
Around the wounded stood crowds of soldier stretcher-bearers with dismal and attentive faces, whom the officers keeping order tried in vain to drive from the spot. [2]
At some distance stood a circle of court-officials, in whose faces it was easy to read that they were afraid of their ruler's wrath, and preferred keeping as far from him as possible. [10]
In this first stage, the heat of the sun, the monotony of the road, and the scarcity of sleep during the past thirty-six hours were all unfavorable to our keeping on the wagon-seat. [4]
This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on Prince Vasili's face so out of keeping with his dignity that Pierre stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. [2]
The prospect was so splendid that she hardly believed it would come true, so out of keeping was it with the chill darkness and closeness of the carriage. [2]
And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire. [7]
She detained the smith in the house, repeating her former words: "The men from Aalst are not coming; he is keeping diem back. [10]
As they paddled slowly along this lake, keeping time to their songs with the paddles, there suddenly grew out of the distance a great flotilla of canoes with tall prows, and behind them a range of islands which they had not before seen. [11]
But--alas, that she should carry it out to a remorseless end--would Clarence have been equal to keeping silence when Mr. Brinsmade came to him? [9]
He found Jerry Shorter in a receptive mood, and drew him into Cecil Grainger's study, where this latter gentleman, when awake, carried on his lifework of keeping a record of prize winners. [9]
And so long she had succeeded in keeping silence!--But now her patience gave way. [10]
After the dance she got hold of him, keeping him until certain designing ladies with daughters took him away; their names charity forbids me to mention. [9]

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