When Beauty lies hand-folded, pale and still, Forsaken of her lovers and her lords, And winter keeps cold watch upon the hill Then he lets fall his bale of coloured words.
That bitter twilight which sun-worshipping Youth Flies headlong keeps Age loitering on the hill, Uneager to fold such greyness to his breast, Knowing that none will thwart him of his will, None be before him on that quest.
There was never a joy that the world can kill So long as there lives a dream of the past, For the alchemist in his fragrant still Keeps fresh the dream to the very last.
Because he is the secretary of the Archbishop and keeps the pay-roll he thinks he can instruct me in my work!
That part of the country keepsits name, and there are groves of oak here and there, but that is all.
How fast this movement into the thirteenth ward is taking place is indicated by what a colored woman told me who keeps a grocery store on Wylie avenue near Francis street.
There is great danger, too, in the sweat that keeps a man's clothing wet all of the time.
The Polish women have not the conservatism which keeps the Italian girl at home.
He regrets the twelve-hour day now chiefly on the ground that it keeps the young men away from church.
A salary of L20 a year is paid to "Mr. Sharpus that keeps the letter office at New York.
At the extremity of this hyperborean solitude is the residence of a poor widow, whose lonely cottage is called the "light-house," from the fact that she uniformly keeps a lamp burning in her little window at night.
Willis, however, keeps the two types more apart than Whitmore.
During the day the captain keeps all his men employed in arranging and packing a vast variety of goods for carriage.
Each holds a stout stick, of about four feet long, in his hand, with which he beats upon the frame work, and keeps accurate time with the music.
Naturally our residential spy keepshis book of expenses and is duly recouped for his outlays on drinks, dinners, race-course visits and loans, with interest at 5 per cent.
Journalistically it was disappointing at first, for it was Sunday morning and apparently Prussian militarism keeps the Sabbath holy.
The man who has nothing to dokeeps half-a-dozen horses and enjoys the privilege of walking, which he shares with women and four-footed animals.
The man seated at the stern closes with his body the opening between the ends of the raised gunwale and thus keeps out the spray or wash of the sea.
The present prince lives in the family palace in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele familiar to every tourist from its curved facade and rows of columns, and still keeps up much of the princely state and ceremony of a past age.
The Roman's Character The pride of the Roman is his chief characteristic; it keeps him from some of the pettinesses of his neighbours and is occasionally the idol to which self-interest is sacrificed.
How the proprietor can have dragged up, and keeps dragging up, so many superfluities from the river level to that eagle’s nest, excites your wonder.
The ledge over which these two celebrated falls are precipitated, comes out of Canada from an immense distance, and keeps its course along the shore of Lake Ontario, in a direction nearly due east.
But being bound to silence on that head, he keeps silence, and meddles with nothing political.
I thocht ye were maybe paying a veesit to yon warlock the new Duke keeps at his hoose!
Ingolstadt will come tumbling down in a day or two at most, and then the Swedes will come here after the Elector, as some say, or be off to ransack Munich, where hekeeps his treasures, as others say.
In this great work the technical invention keeps pace with the inspiration.
It is, however, reopened at night, and some small pity comes on one for the recreant Gerard, inasmuch as she keeps him awake by wailing about her love.
For some time past you have shown a taste for solitude which surprises me and pains me, because itkeeps us apart.
He has a fine dignified manner, which suits the head of such a house, and keeps everybody in their place.
Servants are come to such a pass, my dear, in Portsmouth, that it is quite a miracle if one keeps them more than half a year.
And with him they sent the lad, on pretext to be a page at his house of Loch Ranza, which he keeps for the King's hunting lodge on the Isle of Arran.
But I minded me of the dogs that James of Chapeldonnan keeps for his own purposes, which on my way to Ailsa I had seen his wife feed.
Blessed be infancy, which keeps alive in each family the sentiment of hope, indispensable to run as the air and the light!
This is the young lady that keeps the note," said the general.
Something very naughty, be assured," said another; "they say he keeps a haram.
Delighted with making an exhibition of his horsemanship, and totally regardless of the maddening effects of bit and spurs, the Indian is never at rest with them, but keeps both at work with relentless rigor and perseverance.
Onlie it keepeth him from needing Damocles his sword; he trusts not in the favour of princes nor in the voyce of the people, and keeps his soul as a weaned child.
For in the minds of prisoners anti-bodies to the disease of pessimism multiply so fast that their combative antitoxin keeps pace with the worst of news.
Their false teachingkeeps the race from advancing.
If old Crowfoot keeps steady--and with our presence to support him I believe he would--we could hold things safe for a while.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keeps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
