With all these evolutions, he contrived to keep the horses up to the top of their speed, until, between ten and eleven, their heels resounded on the gravel at the end of the balcony.
The tyrant observed the whisper, and conjectured its import, though he could not hear what was said; and he inwardly strengthened himself in his determination to keep the power he possessed over his victim.
His purpose was to win and to keep the kingdom of England, and to hand it on to those who should come after him more firmly united than it had ever been before.
He had to keep the peace of the land, to put some cheek on the unruly wills of those turbulent barons on whom only an arm like his could put any cheek.
He had sworn at his crowning to keep the laws of the land, and to rule his kingdom as well as any king that had gone before him.
God, who made us, has put into our natures the craving tokeep the skin on the head.
Cheerfully, most cheerfully, will Cora and I keep the vigils, while you and all these brave men endeavor to snatch a little sleep!
The utmost that the scout could effect, was to keep themuzzle of his rifle a little in advance of his friend, to whom, however, it answered every purpose of a charmed shield.
The entrance, at various times, of two or three customers and of Mr Plornish, gave Mr Baptist just enough of this employment to keep the attention of the company fixed upon him.
With no defined intention of following him, but with an impulse to keep the figure in view a little longer, Clennam quickened his pace to pass the twist in the street which hid him from his sight.
The latter part of the day turning out wet, they were fain to keep the house, look over Mr Meagles's collection, and beguile the time with conversation.
Another dismal circumstance is, that Veneering, having the captivating Tippins on one side of him and the bride's aunt on the other, finds it immensely difficult to keep the peace.
It was his father, he said, who would not hear of the match, and had made the difficulties; he was most anxious to keep the engagement.
It was therefore agreed that the young people of both families should visit each other frequently for the future, and the friendship of course lasted as long as the jovial old mediatrix was there to keep the peace.
For some time George strove to keep the liaison a secret.
For indeed we need somewhat, if it were but to keep the life in the body of this wounded man.
There were rows of men-at-arms in bright armour also to keep the folk in their places, like as hurdles pen the sheep up; howbeit they were nowise rough with folk, but humble and courteous.
The way was rough day-long, and now and again they found it hard to keep the stream in sight, as especially when it cleft a hill, and ran between sheer cliffs with no low shore on either side.
My grandmother came to me and positively forbade me to keep the slave in her home.
One day he said to me quietly that he also had a candidate; I asked him who it was, and he said that he preferred to keep the matter to himself until the next meeting of the trustees.
So, stated differently, the race problem is the problem how to keep the Negro in focus with the traditional standpoint.
This policy would also tend to keep the Negro in the country and smaller towns, where he succeeds best, and stop the influx into the large cities, where he does not succeed so well.
The teachers in these institutions came not to keep the Negroes in their place, but to raise them out of their places where the filth of slavery had wallowed them.
And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep theway of the tree of life.
So concentrate on keeping them, whether important or unimportant, and remember it is just as important for this purpose to keep the unimportant, for by so doing you are forming the habit.
Fifth Maxim: "Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
Keep the idea in mind, that you mean to go forward, that each day must mark an advance and forward you will go.
Now fix the eyes upon the glass and try to keep the arm so steady that no movement will be noticeable.
He resolved to keep the appointment, and come round the next day.
What on earth could induce you tokeep the bonds in your own safe?
No doubt, with a highly organised and undamaged Government and a homogeneous and well-disciplined people that would have sufficed to keep the peace.
The Americans had indeed grown so accustomed to the idea that Great Britain could be trusted to keep the peace of the Atlantic that a naval attack on the eastern seaboard found them unprepared even in their imaginations.
It was necessary to keep the airship up until the wind fell and then, if possible, to descend in some lonely district of the Territory where there would be a chance of repair or rescue by some searching consort.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keep the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
