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Sentences starting with kept

Kept it up till after midnight. [5]
Kept busy, with a promise of success and backsheesh when the matter was completed, the Arab would probably remain secret. [11]

Sentences ending with kept

I understand why you sent it, and you must try to understand why it cannot be kept. [4]
He even knew where the handkerchiefs were kept. [9]
Then the priest went up to him, and said: "You said you were ready to take the consequences of your folly, and a prince's word must be kept. [10]
When the bridge was repaired and the boats were a second time confined to the draw it was provided that this record should be kept. [7]
He was not used to problems; he had only a code, which he had rigidly kept. [11]
First I went to the town where she'd first been taken, an' I went to the place where she'd been kept. [13]
Had one of the vows been kept? [11]
The white handkerchiefs, the 'senet' (perfumery), the umbrella, and perhaps the hat, are kept. [5]
I was not surprised to see such poor watch kept. [11]
Upon the windows supposed by the reporters to be those from which the heiress looked, a strict watch was kept. [4]

Short sentences using kept

He kept his word. [4]
Kilby kept his word. [11]
I have kept to that. [5]
But I kept thinking hard. [11]
They have kept the faith. [11]
She just kept on. [4]
But I kept on firmly. [11]
I have kept my word. [5]
But fear kept me still. [9]
The oath was kept. [5]

Sentences containing kept two or more times

While strolling around, we kept the run of the moon all the time, and we still kept an eye on her after we got back to the hotel portico. [5]
The other "bogus" was deep philosophical stuff, which we judged nobody ever read; so we kept a galley of it standing, and kept on slapping the same old batches of it in, every now and then, till it got dangerous. [5]
I don't doubt the old gentleman who lived so long on the top of his pillar would have kept a pretty sinner (if he could have had an elevator to hoist her up to him) longer than he would have kept her grandmother. [6]
At length Abelard offered to marry Heloise --but on a shameful condition: that the marriage should be kept secret from the world, to the end that (while her good name remained a wreck, as before,) his priestly reputation might be kept untarnished. [5]
I kept up my "blue" meditations and Higbie kept up a deal of thinking, too, but of a different sort. [5]
And I want Michael Clones to be kept with me, and Greenock, the master, and Ferens, the purser, to be kept where they are. [11]
You kept the lad hid away from the people that belonged to him, you kept him out of his own, and let others take his birthright. [11]
It had been kept secret from these people that I was to go with them, and they sullenly kept their muskets raised and cocked; but when Mr. Stevens told them who I was, they were agreeably surprised. [11]
Something in him kept saying that it was not fair to her; kept admonishing him to let things take their course; that now was not the time to see her; that it might place her in a false position. [11]
But while he kept his word he also kept his schemes to himself, and executed them with a single regard to his own interest and a Napoleonic selfishness. [4]

More example sentences with the word kept in them

So, you see, you've kept me here talking when there's no need and while my business waits. [11]
You have kept yourself shut up. [9]
You're famished when you're not poisoned; you're badly clothed and badly fed; you're kept together by flogging; you're treated worse than a convict in jail or a victim in a plague hospital. [11]
Mr. Noble--"Senator Dilworthy, your bank account shows that up to that day, and even on that very day, you conducted all your financial business through the medium of checks instead of bills, and so kept careful record of every moneyed transaction. [5]
I know that you, you alone, kept him prisoner here five long years. [11]
I said to you, Give up; but you kept on. [11]
And I promise you that if any such proposition shall hereafter come, it shall not be rejected and kept a secret from you. [7]
But--from the way you spoke, I should have thought nothing could have kept you away. [9]
But I'm kept, you see, for a worse fate and a sadder. [11]
You die because you have not kept your promise, but have returned to your sins. [5]
I couldn't go yesterday--I didn't want to go," she added, fearing he might think his work had kept her. [9]
At about ten years of age I began going to what we always called the "Port School," because it was kept at Cambridgeport, a mile from the College. [6]
In all she wrote she kept but two things back, her grandfather's death--and one other. [11]
His ledger, take-it-altogether, would not show a balance on the right side; but perhaps the losses on his books will turn out to be credits in a world where accounts are kept on a different basis. [5]
And yet you would have said that neither a cooper nor a carpenter kept them in use. [11]
A wiser person would have kept such a thing discreetly to himself, but with this harmless creature everything comes out. [5]
But Venters's voice would have kept anybody's legs from bucklin'. [13]
Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a rudimentary cleanliness among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, if the priests could be kept quiet. [5]
The convent, too, would be ready to receive her--the abbess had told him so--if Herr Groland, of Nuremberg, kept his promise of paying her admission dues. [10]
For I was worth a million dollars, and did not care "whether school kept or not! [5]
The Thugs were worshipers of Bhowanee; and to this god they sacrificed anybody that came handy; but they kept the dead man's things themselves, for the god cared for nothing but the corpse. [5]
She was much worn with the vigil she had kept, and received me with an apathy to frighten me. [9]
See here--these shoes--how worn they are--she kept them to remind her of our last long journey. [12]
Fortunately there was work of Richter's and of Mr. Whipple's left undone that kept him busy. [9]
His round of work not consuming all his energies, he must needs cultivate the Doctor's garden, which he kept in one perpetual bloom, from the blowing of the first crocus to the fading of the last dahlia. [6]
He kept his word, found Shon M'Gann, and on an autumn day of a year not so long ago lounged in this hut on Clear Mountain. [11]
She had one word which she always kept on hand, and ready, like a life-preserver, a kind of emergency word to strap on when she was likely to get washed overboard in a sudden way--that was the word Synonymous. [5]
He kept his word to you--at the risk of his life, and, as his son, I take a greater pride in him to-day than I ever have before. [9]
I kept my word as you see--and you have seen too how I endure my fate. [10]
Mr. Marmaduke was wont to rise at noon, and knew not wheat from barley, or good leaf from bad; his hands he kept like a lady's, rendering them almost useless by the long lace on the sleeves, and his chief pastime was card-playing. [9]
But the old woman's struggle between the duty that kept her near the fire and the love that drew her away from it was not of long duration. [10]
Not one Egyptian woman would have failed to appear if the plague had not kept so many imprisoned in their houses. [10]
True, the cautious woman took no part in the conversation afterward, but she kept her charge in sight while she was skilfully knotting the fringe into a cloth which she had woven herself. [10]
I kissed the woman openly--is there none among you who has kissed secretly, and has kept the matter hidden? [11]
How the good woman of the house took them in and kept them has been briefly mentioned. [6]
I've kept the wolf from the door. [11]
She kept up with tireless energy; and in the moments of dejection and misgiving which harassed her husband she remained dauntless, and put heart into him when he had lost it altogether. [8]
Mr. Holwell, perishing with thirst, kept himself alive by sucking the perspiration from his sleeves. [5]
Madame Marie sat with the doctor beside the bed of her dear mistress, and in another room, George Fournel, with the Avocat, kept watch beside the body of the Seigneur of Pontiac. [11]
Whitie watched him with somber eyes of love, and Ring, crouched on the little rise of ground above, kept tireless guard. [13]
Now send Cyrus with my shoes and cloak, and have my litter got ready, for Paulina has been kept waiting long enough. [10]
I kept quiet, with my ears cocked, about fifteen minutes, I reckon. [5]
Lassiter traveled slower, with more exceeding care as to the ground he chose, and he kept speaking low to the dogs. [13]
I became acquainted with Monsieur Bihin, le plus bel homme du monde, and one of the biggest, a great many years ago, and have kept up my agreeable relations with him ever since. [6]
Carts piled high with household utensils, chairs, and cupboards kept emerging from the gates of the yards and moving along the streets. [2]
Dick's face whitened with his thoughts, but he kept still until he could speak calmly. [6]
The veteran Memnon, with his one arm, had kept watch on the temple-roof during that night's orgy, planning measures for repulsing the enemy's attack, till the storm had burst on him and his adherents with the "artillery of heaven. [10]
They kept up with him, in the fascination of the sight, to the next corner, where he turned down the side street still searching the gutter. [8]
He kept me with him all the time, and I never got a chance to run off. [5]
He kept company with German students, though more addicted to study than we members of the fighting clubs (corps). [6]
So he added with deliberation: "If alliance must still be kept with this evil government of France, then be sure there is no Vaufontaine who would care to inherit a duchy so discredited. [11]
She came on with a calm and cheerful countenance, stopped once, and casting her eyes upwards, said, 'Why have they kept me five days from thee, my husband? [5]
Frau Friedrich, the wife of the man in charge of the fountains, kept a neat inn, in which, however, she by no means dished up to all persons what they would like. [10]
Franz von Welemisl, who was wont to creep like her shadow, and who was again a guest at the Tetzels' house, had been kept within doors by the cough that plagued him. [10]
The poor relation who was staying at the house would insist on Helen's remaining a few days: Old Sophy was in such a condition, that it kept her in continual anxiety, and there were many cares which Helen could take off from her. [6]
But the man who knew of the terrible thing he had done, who had saved him from the consequences of that terrible thing, was in sore trouble, and this broke down the gloomy guard he had kept over his dread secret. [11]
It was Patty who kept her head, and made us a stately curtsey. [9]
But kill Gabord, who had put himself in danger to serve me, who himself had kept the chains from off my ankles and body, whose own life depended upon my security--"Come, come, Robert Moray," said I, "what relish have you for that? [11]
The two servants, who had kept near them, knit their hands together, and thus carried her in advance of the princess. [10]
Mistress Kitty Fagan, who had kept her ears pretty wide open, carried them. [6]
But every one who could have directed them on their way had fled before them, so they had kept too far northward and wandered near the fortress of Thabne. [10]
Powhatan kept the whites who were with him to instruct the Indians in the art of war. [4]
She did not whistle for him either, but he kept on coming. [11]
They were always whispering around my bed and plotting against me, and it broke my sleep and kept me fagged out, because I got no good rest. [5]
And all the while the river flowing through the endless prairies, high-banked, ennobled by living woods, lipped with green, kept surging in her ears, inviting her, alluring her--alluring her with a force too deep and powerful for weak human nature to bear for long. [11]
Yet all the while for Sheila one dark thought kept hovering over everything. [11]
There are facts which you have kept out of view. [7]
The bands to which the woman belonged were forced by the cavalry into the palaestra and the neighbouring Maander, and kept there until Eumedes brought re-enforcements and compelled the Gauls to surrender. [10]
The Pilot alone, which relied on sensation for its circulation, kept hammering away for a time with veiled accusations. [9]
Under light awnings, which kept off the sun, were sold sandals and kerchiefs of every material and hue, ornaments, amulets, fans, and sun-shades, sweet essences of every kind, and other gifts for offerings or for the toilet. [10]
Herring's colored portrait, which I have always kept, shows him as a great, powerful chestnut horse, well deserving the name of "bullock," which one of the jockeys applied to him. [6]
Handing the flowers, which he had kept hidden behind his back, to her, he said: "Take them and carry them to mother, Bessie; this is the anniversary of her wedding-day. [10]
In the room where he awaited the verdict of the expert, he kept saying to himself: "She would have made everything else look cheap--if it could have been. [11]
I know that whenever I have said most, and felt most, something in me kept saying all the time: 'You're lying, you're lying, you're lying! [11]
When Carmen went, when Zoe fled, when his cousin Auguste Charron took his flight, when defeats at law abashed him, the house and mills, and stores and offices, and goodly trees, and well- kept yards and barns and cattle-sheds all looked the same. [11]
The arrangement adopted when they started, that the officer prisoners should be kept separate from the rest, had long since been abandoned. [2]
I had resolved, when the administration came in, not to take an appointment; and I had kept my resolution. [4]
Barbara had retired when Peter at last appeared, so weary that he could scarcely touch the meal that had been kept ready for him. [10]
Like many Southerners, when it became a question of go or stay, Mr. Brinsmade's unfaltering love for the Union had kept him in. [9]
I didn't know what to say, but I did say this after a while:--"'W-well, Mr. President, I guess I've kept you long enough--g-guess you're a pretty busy man. [9]
Fran Van der Werff, you have been kept waiting a long time, please follow me. [10]
Every year festivals were kept, with prayers and sacrifices, to the 'love of the brothers. [10]
The young strangers were kept long at the piano. [5]
But these treasures were kept jealously guarded, accessible to no human being except himself and his artists. [10]
The Keilhau ones were kept in a cellar, and through the opening we thrust a pole to which the blade of a rapier was fastened. [10]
Only her hands were busy; her eyes were elsewhere, and suddenly they brightened again, for the couple on which she kept them fixed were coming back, straight towards the hedge, and she would soon be able again to hear what they were saying. [10]
Provisions and fuel were always kept here in his father's time. [10]
When old Busino went to the Masque at Whitehall, his colleagues kept exclaiming, "Oh, do look at this one--oh, do see that! [4]
The court only went so far as to rule that the prisoner was to be kept in close confinement, so that he might be within reach of the hand of justice, if the supreme decision should be "guilty! [10]
She is not well to-day, and we have kept the knowledge from her. [11]
De Morgan is well remembered as a very distinguished mathematician, whose works have kept his name in high honor to the present time. [6]
But they were well nursed in the hospital; the people of Honolulu kept them supplied with all the dainties they could need; they gathered strength fast, and were presently nearly as good as new. [5]
We watched the weather all through that awful night, and kept an eye on the barometer, to be prepared for the least change. [5]
All day long we kept this up, without water for the mules and without ever changing the team. [5]
Well, sometimes when we have met since, I have told you the same story, and you've kept your promise and listened. [11]
There was no way to tell whether she'd been kept a prisoner or not. [13]
Wilhelm knew the way and strode in front of Henrica; the Junker kept close at her side. [10]
I halted; waited; watched; the conversation continued between the four men; it grew earnest; Backus drew gradually away; the gamblers followed, and kept at his elbow. [5]
Our guardian kept watch over my brothers' speed in learning. [10]
He kept close watch over her, and at the least indication of restlessness, that he knew led to tossing and rolling of the body, he held her tightly, so no violent move could reopen her wounds. [13]

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