I kept themat bay with stones and my stick as long as I could--shooting the most troublesome one, when the remainder were called off.
Colonel Baillie could make but a feeble resistance against so superior a force, but his little band yet gallantly kept them at bay until their ammunition for the field guns began to run short.
Thousands have since perished, through diseases contracted during that awful time; but the excitement, supported by an invincible spirit, kept themup then and for some time after.
He kept them in camp; there was no straggling, no drunkenness or anything of that kind, and the men acted and conducted themselves like soldiers.
But he kept them down, and gently pressing Kate's arm to reassure her, stood erect and undaunted, front to front with his unworthy relative.
In spite of the choking cloud of dust in which we were enfolded we kept them in sight and at last got up to them.
I kept them a few days with me to let them rest, and then proceeded with them across to Mustang River, where they camped on the ground selected by Mr. Lasar.
A distrust of their earning powers, natural where a sufficiency is guaranteed, together with the knowledge that their fathers did not die, kept them cautious.
He thought them bad, and did not hang them because of the signature; he kept them locked up in a drawer.
A woman about the place would have kept them quiet.
He said that so much praying and singing prevented the people from doing their tasks, as it kept them up nights, when they should be asleep.
At his request, I found means to get him a Bible and a hymn-book from the overseer's room; and the old man ever afterwards kept them concealed in the hen-house.
The sharp cold, the fatigue of the journey, and a new sensation of a catching in the breath, partly as if they had just emerged from very clear crisp water, and partly as if they had been sobbing, kept them silent.
I thought I might as well keep them to myself as have them swallowed up alive too; so I kept them in a box, looking over them when I felt in the humour.
My dear friend, if I'd ever dreamed that you'd kept them--?
Well--that was what she wanted of me and I did it--I kept them together to the last!
If he had any opinions about them, he kept them to himself.
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