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Example sentences for "keeping them"

  • Prick off the seedlings when large enough to handle, keeping them in the temperature named until the final potting.

  • On the approach of frost they can be transferred to a cold frame, keeping them close to the glass, or they may be plunged in ashes in some sheltered position.

  • It is a golden rule to grow Melons liberally, keeping them sturdy by judicious air-giving, and to give them a little extra watering just as they are coming into flower.

  • If boiled, drain when tender, and let set in the kettle for a few minutes, keeping them covered, shaking the kettle occasionally to prevent scorching.

  • Pit the cherries, keeping them as whole as possible.

  • The only thing to be done is to take them from the hen till she is settled at night, keeping them in the meanwhile as snug and warm as possible.

  • Sheep are also sometimes cured by keeping them on a dry surface, and driving them over a barn-floor daily, which is well covered with quick-lime.

  • The pulpit is always afraid of the passions, and really imagines that it has some influence on men and women, keeping them in the path of virtue.

  • We will never succeed in raising great and splendid people by keeping them out of temptation.

  • Still, a taste for good stock, and the advantages of keeping them, over the common stock of the country, is not generally understood; and that taste has to be cultivated.

  • This will be doing them greater justice, than by keeping them in office another year, till the professional business, which once attached to them, is gone into other channels.

  • Cleanliness too is no less essential to keeping them in a wholesome state, than to animals intended to be slaughtered.

  • If the heat is sufficient to raise but not to soak the baking, a little fresh fuel should be introduced, after taking out the cakes and keeping them hot, and then returning them to the oven as quickly as possible.

  • The Indians, who were without guns, took to the lake for refuge, while the trappers entertained themselves with the rare amusement of keeping them in the water, by shooting at them occasionally.

  • But the task of keeping them to their work with sufficient steadiness, was very great.

  • With strong and skillful strokes the boatmen governed their richly laden boats, keeping them in line, and at the same time singing in chorus a loud and not unmusical hunting or boating song.

  • Observe as soon as your eggs are well mixed with the gravy and the other ingredients, then take them off from the fire, keeping them covered a while, then serve them with some grated nutmeg over them.

  • This plan I do not recommend, for toy pups do far better in constant human companionship; but it, or the alternative one of keeping them in a room with an oilcloth floor, are all that offer themselves, failing the desirable kitchen.

  • It is time we adopted a more rational way of keeping them.

  • Otherwise all we have gained by their incarceration is the privilege of keeping them at our expense.

  • Nor is he an insurer of the safety of the goods entrusted to him for sale; he must however use ordinary and reasonable care in keeping them.

  • Then he would be justified in keeping them until he learned the truth.

  • If a guest goes away, leaving his valise or other things with an innkeeper, he is not required after a reasonable time to observe such diligence in keeping them as he receives nothing in the way of compensation for so doing.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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