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Example sentences for "kept from"

  • The more is our greefe, that our pastor is kept from us, by whom we might injoye them; for we used to have the Lords Supper every Saboth, and baptisme as often as ther was occasion of children to baptise.

  • We answer, the more is our wrong, that our pastor is kept from us by these mens means, and then reproach us for it when they have done.

  • Things likly to be true in a cuntrie wher so many sayle of ships come yearly a fishing; they might as well say, there can no aile or beere in London be kept from sowering.

  • A Non-Rolling Thread Spool [Illustration] A spool of thread may be kept from rolling by gluing squares of cardboard to the ends.

  • The blade is kept from turning by a projection of the sheet metal which fits in a saw cut made in the frame.

  • Illustration: Boat Made of a Barrel Which is Kept from Capsizing by Timbers Attached] The boat is to be propelled with a single, double-end paddle.

  • Be their case and condition what it will, they might be kept from despair, and despondency of spirit, from giving over their case as hopeless; and from looking upon themselves as irremediably gone.

  • All these things have I kept from my youth.

  • He should also look to him for strength and support, in the mean time; and for grace, that he may be kept from fainting, and may be helped to wait till he come, who knoweth the fittest season wherein to appear.

  • Mention the usual methods by which food is kept from spoiling.

  • If food is to be kept from decaying, the housewife must endeavor to prevent the growth of micro-organisms, and she can best accomplish this if she is familiar with the ways in which they work.

  • There they were, kept from violence by some secret force.

  • Every breath of the old scandal had been carefully kept from her at home, and Winifred warned many times that he wouldn't have a whisper of it reach her for the world.

  • Ah, Mansoul, suffer not thyself to be kept from mercy, and to be run into a thousand miseries, by the flattering wiles of Diabolus.

  • As if he had said, It may be he may prevail with them, it may be he may win upon them, and so they may be kept from hence, from coming into this grievous place of torment.

  • But some may say, What should be the reason that the damned should desire not to have their companions come into the same condition that they are fallen into, but rather that they might be kept from it, and escape that dreadful state?

  • But does your grace really suppose that such a secret could be kept from me?

  • You cannot go to the noble gentleman who has been so deeply deceived by you and your parents and tell him the secret that you have kept from him so long.

  • He shall be kept from you, if, indeed, he should presume to seek you here," said the abbess.

  • The enemies of human nature are on their own element; cannot be conquered; cannot be kept from conquering.

  • There is no man in France entitled to write that," rejoins he; whereat the Galleries and the World will not be kept from applauding.

  • They should at first be kept from water to swim in, as it always does them harm.

  • Bar magnets should be kept in pairs with their poles turned in contrary directions, and they should be kept from rust.

  • A perfect customer is a customer who is so satisfied that he cannot express himself in words but who cannot be kept from trying to--who cannot be kept from coming back and who cannot be kept from sending everybody to W.

  • Man is kept from sin, next, by the light God gives him to know the truth and by the grace He diffuses that all may perform good.

  • Man is kept from sin by the hope mingled with fear which the thought of God, as both merciful and just, excites in him.

  • The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back.

  • The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward.

  • After that, he also made intercession for me, that I might be kept from hell in the time of my unregenerate state, until the time of my call and conversion.

  • But yet their heart, as I said, by this ungodly fear, is kept from a powerful gracious falling in with God.

  • These are sometimes made of square stock or kept from rotating by means of a key or pin.

  • A line contact is possible when the plunger is kept from turning, whereas but a single point bearing is obtained when the plunger is cylindrical and free to revolve.

  • The screw is kept from turning or loosening by means of a check nut.

  • If kept from "excitement," she is not from drudgery.

  • I felt how true it was that nothing in any being which was fit for me, could long be kept from me; and that, if separation could be, real intimacy had never been.

  • Nature cannot be kept from us while there is a sky above, with so much as one star to remind us of prayer in the silent night.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    artificial heat; attend them; close examination; cool water; gives them; historical character; kept alive; kept back; kept close; kept closed; kept down; kept from; kept right; kept saying; kept secret; kept silence; kept silent; kept them; kept thinking; kept warm; little darling; many talents; public assembly; social welfare; then call; yellow bird