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• She kept them at it. (10)
• She kept her eyes on him. (10)
• Beauchamp kept eye on him. (10)
• She has kept her word, Percy. (10)
• Adrian kept in the background. (10)
• Sorry to have kept you waiting. (8)
• Beauchamp kept the appointment. (10)
• If only it could be kept from him! (8)
• Guests kept arriving till midnight. (9)
• His mother kept herself from laughing. (9)
• In the end, they won and kept the field. (10)
• Her mother kept her patience with difficulty. (9)
• Wilfrid kept his eyes slanting on the floor. (10)
• My father and Mr. Peterborough kept their chairs. (10)
• Naturally the best driver of the two kept the whip. (10)
• He kept her hand, indifferent to the gentle tension. (10)
• Jonathan Eccles kept both hands firmly in his pockets. (22)
• Baffled and sighing, Laetitia kept silence for a space. (10)
• He kept coming up and touching her shoulder or forehead. (8)
• The manhood of our country is kept down, in consequence. (10)
• They kept the betrothed gentleman waiting a very long time. (10)
• He kept her hand rather a long time, and gave it a hard squeeze. (8)
• She has kept her secret very well, and so have the rest of them. (9)
• At lunch he was almost cordial, and kept pressing Bosinney to eat. (8)
• She kept her look forward at the dead wall Chillon had thrown up. (10)
• The thought of his approaching interview with Dahlia kept him dumb. (10)
• He had his arm about her, and kept gently patting her on the shoulder. (2)
• If he put to sea, he kept in sight of land, like the ancient navigators. (9)
• Vittoria kept her eyes on the fiercer sister, who now declined to speak. (10)
• She kept her poppy colour throughout the day, so sensitive was this pride. (10)
• It must have mystified the Cambridge salesmen, and I doubt if he kept it up. (9)
• She kept nothing back, recounting the whole miserable fiasco of her marriage. (8)
• Hilary could not meet those eyes; he kept his own fixed on the empty cocoa cup. (8)
• He is apparently kept on constant service between Milan, and Verona, and Venice. (10)
• Mrs. Amble kept down those sentiments which her vernacular might have expressed. (10)
• The fear of human glances and human presences had kept her from fleeing by tram. (12)
• After all he had done nothing to be ashamed of, even if he had kept knowledge dark. (8)
• He laughed boisterously at something Lynde said, and kept filling his glass for him. (9)
• Whoso drank of the ale of the Green Dragon kept in his memory a place apart for it. (10)
• It is no true day so long as the goddess of the morning and the sun-god are kept asunder. (10)
• She did not meet his gaze quite steadily and all that evening kept putting her confession off and off. (8)
• All these weeks he had kept himself in hand; but to do so had cost him more than he liked to reflect on. (8)
• His possessive instinct, subtle, less formal, more elastic since the War, kept all misgiving underground. (8)
• She marvelled pityingly at the sort of madness which kept the streets so lively for no reasonable purpose. (10)
• Nothing but the consciousness that he was subsisting on money not his own would have kept him from his vice. (22)
• They had made the Marienburg their home, and kept it against foreign and domestic foes for five hundred years. (9)
• There was a look of triumph and softness about her; the colour kept deepening in her cheeks, her figure swayed. (8)
• They walked to their door after they left the horse at the livery stable around the corner, where Lapham kept it. (9)
• I have broken her life and trodden on her heart, but I have saved another life and kept another heart from despair. (12)
• In those three days she had stumbled on the secret he had kept for two years, and had instantly decided to cure him. (8)
• The Tinleys of Bloxholme still kept to dancing, and had effectually driven away Mr. Pericles from their gatherings. (10)
• His hands and neck still kept the brown of the Texan suns and winds, and he looked as business-like as Lapham himself. (9)
• On the slack wire the balance must be kept by working the body from the waist down, and is mainly done with the legs. (21)
• Yet the dread of a separation from her has kept me at these pastimes for a considerable period beyond my relish of them. (10)
• If an Irishman was present, she kept him from overflooding, managed to extract just the flavour of him, the smack of salt. (10)
• There was no great share of reverence in Barbara, but what little she possessed had always been kept for her eldest brother. (8)
• The keeper of the dive, and several others in whose interest it was to have the peace kept, effected a partial reconciliation. (12)
• Wooden beams and joists should be kept at least 2 inches from the chimney and at least 4 inches from the back of any fireplace. (17)
• He kept mumbling prayers with his lips; but as he looked upon me darkling, it did not seem as if prayer were uppermost in his heart. (2)
• Boyne remained alone in the vehicle, staring wildly round; the driver kept slowly and stupidly on, Boyne did not know how much farther. (9)
• This recurring thought, more than the cogency of the new views, kept her from combating certain fallacies in them which had struck her. (10)
• Like everything else that he has, this is provided and kept in repair by the wife, and is renewed as frequently as her scanty means permit. (1)
• The arts had been kept alive only through the fostering care of the Church, and all had taken on a conventionally ecclesiastical character. (3)
• He poured out stories of his American wanderings, including a tale of a murderous lonely inn, kept by Scots, whose genius tended to assassination. (2)

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Definition of kept:

• kept, pa.t. and pa.p. of keep_.(0)

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