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Example sentences for "kept them"

  • I kept them at bay with stones and my stick as long as I could--shooting the most troublesome one, when the remainder were called off.

  • Colonel Baillie could make but a feeble resistance against so superior a force, but his little band yet gallantly kept them at bay until their ammunition for the field guns began to run short.

  • Thousands have since perished, through diseases contracted during that awful time; but the excitement, supported by an invincible spirit, kept them up then and for some time after.

  • He kept them in camp; there was no straggling, no drunkenness or anything of that kind, and the men acted and conducted themselves like soldiers.

  • But he kept them down, and gently pressing Kate's arm to reassure her, stood erect and undaunted, front to front with his unworthy relative.

  • In spite of the choking cloud of dust in which we were enfolded we kept them in sight and at last got up to them.

  • I kept them a few days with me to let them rest, and then proceeded with them across to Mustang River, where they camped on the ground selected by Mr. Lasar.

  • A distrust of their earning powers, natural where a sufficiency is guaranteed, together with the knowledge that their fathers did not die, kept them cautious.

  • He thought them bad, and did not hang them because of the signature; he kept them locked up in a drawer.

  • A woman about the place would have kept them quiet.

  • He said that so much praying and singing prevented the people from doing their tasks, as it kept them up nights, when they should be asleep.

  • He had a jail at Richmond where he kept them.

  • At his request, I found means to get him a Bible and a hymn-book from the overseer's room; and the old man ever afterwards kept them concealed in the hen-house.

  • The sharp cold, the fatigue of the journey, and a new sensation of a catching in the breath, partly as if they had just emerged from very clear crisp water, and partly as if they had been sobbing, kept them silent.

  • Clennam, no less steadily, kept them in sight.

  • I thought I might as well keep them to myself as have them swallowed up alive too; so I kept them in a box, looking over them when I felt in the humour.

  • My dear friend, if I'd ever dreamed that you'd kept them--?

  • Well--that was what she wanted of me and I did it--I kept them together to the last!

  • While I was with them I kept them in Thy name.

  • If he had any opinions about them, he kept them to himself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both being; democratic institutions; eyes closed; foreign birth; great rejoicing; handsomely bound; kept back; kept clean; kept close; kept down; kept his; kept moist; kept open; kept perfectly; kept quiet; kept repeating; kept right; kept secret; kept silence; kept waiting; private inquiry; set sail; this general; tulip tree; water deposits; well acquainted