The girls had on cotton dresses under their shawls; they
kept shivering beneath the buffalo robes and hugging each other for warmth.
Something, it seems to me, may be contained and
kept alive in formality, but in formlessness everything spills and wastes away.
The Romans, in the countries which they annexed, observed closely these measures; they sent colonies and maintained friendly relations with[*] the minor powers, without increasing their strength; they
kept down the greater, and did not allow any strong foreign powers to gain authority.
"Exquisite pleasures--it's something to have had them!" he felt like retorting; but the appeal in her eyes
kept him silent.
She
kept tight hold of the stout slats and as soon as she could get the water out of her eyes she saw that the wind had ripped the cover from the coop, and the poor chickens were fluttering away in every direction, being blown by the wind until they looked like feather dusters without handles.
If he had not been a player of music, and had not
kept, in those days of his youth and prosperity, an idle house where singers, and players, and such-like children of Evil turned their backs on the Light and their faces to the Darkness, she might have remained in her lowly station, and might not have been raised out of it to be cast down.
"The music frightened them away, but they were hungry, and
kept coming back.
It is also a most favourable circumstance for the production of distinct breeds, that male and female pigeons can be easily mated for life; and thus different breeds can be
kept together in the same aviary.
All the smaller keys he
kept on a ring in the breast-pocket of his coat.
Poor Gub-Gub was dreadfully frightened; and the pushmi-pullyu began to sharpen his horns for a fight by rubbing them on the mast of the ship; while Jip
kept springing into the air and barking and calling Ben Ali bad names in dog-language.
I tried and found by experiment that the tide
kept sweeping us westward until I had laid her head due east, or just about right angles to the way we ought to go.
This would be to admit that they might be
kept up IN TIME OF PEACE, against threatening or impending danger, which would be at once to deviate from the literal meaning of the prohibition, and to introduce an extensive latitude of construction.