It was incumbent upon those who had charge of it to be chaste in thought, word, and deed; but one of the keepers having broken this condition, the Holy Grail disappeared.
Touching the matter in question, gentles, none know better than yourselves that many Zaporozhtzi have run in debt to the Jew ale-house keepers and to their brethren, so that now they have not an atom of credit.
There was a whole squadron of Russian shop-keepers from the Gostinnui Dvor, and from the old-clothes mart, in blue coats of foreign make.
One story is told of how the keepers were once marooned on the island for several weeks because of storms and rough weather.
The civilian keeperswere granted 1 year's leave each 4 years.
At Minots Ledge, the two assistant keepers kept the bell ringing and the lamps burning, but just before midnight on the 16th they cast a bottle adrift containing a message for the outside world in case they failed to survive.
The keepers barely escaped with their lives and lived for some days in an iron can buoy.
The hunger of the keepers was appeased until they were able to go ashore and get supplies at the village of York.
He and his sisters were the ancestors of the priest-keepers of things.
Then after long praying and chanting by the priests, the fathers of the people, and those of the Seed and Water, and the keepers of sacred things, the Maiden-mother of the North advanced to the foot of the ladder.
The ring was at last found between the two most beautiful keepers that nature had ever rounded, but I felt such emotion as I drew it out that my hand was trembling.
The keepers of the library always brought me candles when it grew dark, and their politeness was so great that they gave me the key of a side door, so that I could slip in and out as I pleased.
I went back to the ball-room, and we danced on till the king of door-keepers came to tell us supper was ready.
The preservation of both the keepers and the owners was due alone to His power, mercifully exercised for their deliverance.
In legislative halls and courts of justice, commandment-keepers will be misrepresented and condemned.
Though a general decree has fixed the time when commandment-keepers may be put to death, their enemies will in some cases anticipate the decree, and before the time specified, will endeavor to take their lives.
Had not Christ restrained the demons, they would have plunged into the sea, not only the swine, but also their keepers and owners.
They had made up their minds to go from house to house, if necessary, to look for Torres, but their better plan seemed to be to apply in the first instance to the keepers of the taverns and lojas where the adventurer was most likely to put up.
The latter term included both species, the keepers not distinguishing between them.
There was some outcry afterwards from thekeepers respecting the robbing of this nest, for they had intended to trap the old birds, but we kept discreetly silent.
Several times during the course of the spring many keepers hold a grand "vermin battue".
The poacher would make the most of such splendid opportunities, but his fraternity are scarce upon the moors, and the keepers are not much bothered by such gentry.
In most other woods of our acquaintance the Magpie was a sorely-persecuted species, and every bird and every nest were destroyed that the keepers could discover.
The shop-keepers all the length of the street gathered to join them.
The shop-keepers already were taking down their linen.
They also suppressed the playing of pool for drinks by minors, instituted by saloon keepers to induce them to drink liquor, which was the reward of those whom fortune favored in the game.
It is not only on the stage that the morals of the children have been protected; the keepers of low resorts have been prosecuted by the society.
But while the keepersof restaurants were, as a rule, precluded by law from selling ale, the publicans on their side were not supposed to purvey refreshment other than their own special commodities.
These "coquinarii" stood, perhaps, in the same relation to those times as our keepers of restaurants.
The whole of the receipts had been absorbed by lawyers, sheriffs, railway companies, and the keepers of the hotels at which the principal members of the troupe put up.
The hotel keepers were by no means anxious for our return, and some of the members of my Company had a healthy horror of running up hotel bills they were unable to pay.
Now the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks and cattle and all that they have.
Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers.
Some of these relations (that is, those whom he found useful and suitable) he appointed to various offices in his own house, others he made keepers of manors.
In fact, whatever was used by the keepers of the shrine was put there, for there was a door with iron gratings.
On the fourth day after, the abbot deposed the keepers of the shrine and the keeper of St. Botolph, appointing new ones, and establishing rules, so that the holy places should be more carefully and diligently kept.
The burgesses to present annually an alderman for confirmation by the abbot: the alderman to present four persons to the sacrist as keepers of the four gates.
There was a wooden platform between the shrine and the high altar, whereon stood two tapers, which the keepers of the shrine used to renew and stick together, by placing one candle upon the stump of another in a slovenly manner.
If the keepersof the shrine have been negligent, let the abbot lay it to his own charge, for it was he who appointed such careless fellows.
One of the keepers of Wolmer-forest sent me a peregrine falcon, which he shot on the verge of that district as it was devouring a wood-pigeon.
But in the more modern quarter the shop-keepers ventured on a Parisian brilliancy which we did not encounter anywhere else.
The perch aloft upon the box, Delightful for the view; The turnpike gates whose keepers stood Demanding each his due.
He was dying with eagerness to carry away the four-inch gun and I was equally anxious to make him a present of it; but the worthy keepers of the magazine implored me so urgently to leave it them, that I had not the heart to rob them of it.
There are clerks and book-keepers and men in the highest mechanical arts who are very good in their places, but who never fit themselves for anything better or anything else.
He then earnestly implored the commissioners and the notaries who were present not to reveal to the king's officers, and to the keepers of the Templars, the words which had escaped him, lest they should deliver him also to the flames.
He owes bills to shop-keepers for ties and trousers.
He appeared to be writing down the names of the shop-keepers whose windows were broken.
Then there were hosts of shop-keepers and tradesmen who were enabled to support their families decently, because the stream of traffic flowed through their native towns and villages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keepers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
