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Example sentences for "keep himself"

  • He took up a paper in order to keep himself in countenance and passed three or four times from the salon into the garden.

  • In order to keep himself in countenance, he began to cut quills.

  • Her brother, who was giving her his arm, and was accustomed to obey her, was looking at another part of the room, and in order to keep himself in countenance was pretending to be stopped by the crowd.

  • To this degree of popularity the author had the hardihood to aspire, while, in order to attain it, he assumed the daring resolution to keep himself in the view of the public by frequent appearances before them.

  • It shows a rather high grade of persistent prowess in a man just to keep himself fit, to keep himself in working or playing health.

  • It was more to keep himself in occupation than out of any interest in the thing, for even the ordinary business of getting and spending had ceased to occupy the minds of men.

  • He'll keep himself out of mischief, yet follow the dictates of his own conscience.

  • I want no pupil who is useless alike to himself and others, one whose sole business is to keep himself alive, one whose body is always a hindrance to the training of his mind.

  • Let another tend this weakling for me; I am quite willing, I approve his charity, but I myself have no gift for such a task; I could never teach the art of living to one who needs all his strength to keep himself alive.

  • Were that so, the man would have perished over and over again before he had learned how to keep himself alive.

  • It was a generally received opinion that the nightingale, to keep himself awake in the night, sat on a tree of thorn, so that if he nodded he would be pricked in the breast.

  • The meaning then is this, that living a holy life is the way, after a man has believed unto justification, to keep himself in the savour and comfort of the love of God.

  • But Renzo, who was far from suspecting the little importance that was in reality attached to him, had, for a long time, no other thought but to keep himself concealed.

  • For an hour or two the plowing and singing went cheerily on; Bushie, the while, shifting his perch upon the fence to keep himself on a line with the furrow next to be run.

  • And every one shall have a month's clean board, And carry back, from out our plenteous store, Enough to keep himself a fortnight more.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    connecting links; ere long; keep alive; keep awake; keep away; keep cool; keep down; keep him; keep himself; keep house; keep moving; keep myself; keep ourselves; keep quiet; keep right; keep still; keep the; keep them from burning; keep together; keepe them; little child; mean that; rather will; several islands; tablespoons sugar; well knew