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Example sentences for "keep his"

  • Do you suppose that you have got a boy on his first v'y'ge up here among you?

  • Now let us talk of other things--ought we not to release June?

  • Half an hour must settle the matter, one way or the other; but I warn Master Cap that the surest-footed man among us will not be able to keep his feet an instant on the deck of this low craft, should she fairly get within them.

  • He spoke to him of the artillery, and audaciously summoned him to keep his word.

  • Duc d'Orleans to ask him to keep his promise, and hinder the Pretender's journey.

  • On the following Tuesday morning he came to keep his appointment, and punctually came until his discomfiture.

  • He had promised his wife solemnly that he would keep away from these, and he had a natural inclination to keep his promise; he had no wish to be that peaceful spectator who always gets shot when there is any firing on a mob.

  • It was not possible to keep his recreation a secret at the office, and Fulkerson found a pleasure in figuring the jolly time Brother Conrad must have teaching farm work among those paupers and potential reprobates.

  • And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.

  • For this is the charity of God: That we keep his commandments.

  • And again: For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments, and: His commandments are not heavy (chap.

  • We have known him, if we keep his commandments.

  • Fanferlot, the ambitious, who had determined to obtain renown in his profession, decided to keep his conjectures to himself.

  • Resolved to unravel by himself the tangled thread of this mystery, the detective determined to keep his conjectures to himself; for the same reason he was silent as to the interview which he had overheard between Madeleine and Prosper.

  • When he tearfully promises to be more prudent, and never again give me trouble, he means to keep his word; but perfidious friends entice him away, and he commits some piece of folly without thinking of the consequences.

  • As the gentleman was not honourable enough to keep his engagement, he came again next day, with his pocket-book in such a state of distention that he was regarded in the bar as a man of large property.

  • If his workings and windings were detected by A, so much the greater reason was there for practicing without loss of time on B, if it were only to keep his hand in.

  • It was late in the afternoon now, though, and high time for Tom to keep his appointment.

  • She would always remember, that though it was in her power to keep her pledge, it might too probably not be in his power to keep his.

  • Frank was to keep his eye on the portals, and if he found that Mr Moffat did not appear as readily as might be desired, he also was to ascend the steps and hurry into the strangers' room.

  • With sense enough to keep his heart-burnings well stored away in his own bosom, Nicholas soon became a sort of privileged character.

  • He promised his mediation to better her eventful and mysterious life, to be a friend to her; and nobly did he keep his promise.

  • He had been careful to keep his business a profound secret, and pressing his affections, soon found the object of his ambition keenly sensitive to his advances.

  • He's a pious nigger; and a nigger can't keep his pious a'tween his teeth, no more nor a blackbird can his chattering.

  • But the time for these visions had gone by; and, if any steadfast republican still continued to amuse himself with them, fear of public derision and of a criminal information generally induced him to keep his fancies to himself.

  • As he appointed civil officers to keep his seal, to collect his revenues, and to dispense justice in his name, so he appointed divines of various ranks to preach the gospel, and to administer the sacraments.

  • He affirmed that, when he promised his cousins at the Hague not to raise troubles in England, he had fully meant to keep his word.

  • This, Twemlow is so kind as to promise, with every appearance of most heartily intending to keep his word.

  • It was a grand spectacle, but not so grand as to keep his eyes, for half a minute together, from stealing a look at the man upon the bed.

  • He had not purchased a decent cash-box to keep his papers in, but one of those native imitations that you buy for ten rupees.

  • He had really done his best to keep his temper in the hearing of the flirtations I have mentioned; but he broke down at last.

  • Many a knight has been unhorsed, and noble men have pledged faith to one whose house they cannot find, or even his country or locality; each of these men perforce must fail to keep his pledge.

  • You can come up with him to-night, if you are able to keep his tracks in sight, and are careful not to lose any time.

  • Before he departs, he will try to keep his pledge to her.

  • He encounters hardly a single knight who is able to keep his seat, and he gives the horses he wins to those who want them.

  • Perhaps you'd better get a schoolboy to keep his finger on it," continued the colonel, laconically.

  • Dusenberry now left him entirely in the charge of Dunn; while, as he said, he went to Adger's Wharf to keep his eye on another vessel that was approaching the dock.

  • And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

  • And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

  • For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

  • But they have not yet met, though Stevens, with praiseworthy Christianity, is on his way to keep his engagements, as well to mother as to son.

  • Thus, resolving not to keep his vows to his unhappy victim, the criminal was yet devising plans by which to continue his power over her.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keep his" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bear witness; continuation schools; his house; keep awake; keep away; keep close; keep himself; keep myself; keep quiet; keep right; keep the; keep thee; keep their; keep thyself; keep together; keep warm; keep watch; keep you; keeping the; keeping them; love them; possess himself; secular priests; seek refuge; topped table; wild roses