So I was kept there until late one night, when I was informed that I must be ready to leave the house.
He kept his eyes fixed upon the board, looked anxiously from one to the other as a move trembled in the balance, smiled sardonically when his desires were realized, and sighed almost aloud when a mistake was made.
In the course of our ramble I discovered that he kept but two servants, the old man who had admitted me to his presence, and his wife, who, as that peculiar phrase has it, cooked and did for him.
And this being so, I prudently kept out of the way, for I had no desire to be thought to presume on our previous acquaintance.
His position, his duties towards his fellow-men, the responsibilities of his rank, have always been kept rigorously before him.
He has been educated thoroughly, and he has all the best traditions of his race kept continually before his eyes.
The old man kept us at it like galley slaves till I began to think we should never get the cargo out.
However, I had to look my trouble in the face, and stand up to it as a man should, and I suppose this kept me from brooding over my loss as much as I should otherwise have done.
Trotty had little interest in a change like this, after the changes he had seen; but association is very strong sometimes; and he looked involuntarily behind the parlour-door, where the accounts of credit customers were usually kept in chalk.
He joined in the pursuit; he kept close to her; he looked into her face.
Trotty kept her hand within his arm still, but looked from face to face as wildly as a sleeper in a dream.
You see they kept company, she and Richard, many years ago.
They kept a frugal and poor table, not so much of necessity, or through lack, as out of love of poverty, and the habit which was implanted in them, which same they had acquired together with the disciples of Florentius.
Here a taper is kept lighted as a memorial of his good reputation, for verily he was a lover of the true light, and a defender of his country.
He was faithful in his labour, in the writing of books, and in his attendance in the choir; and being zealous for discipline he kept a watch over his mouth and loved his cell.
Likewise he resigned all his ecclesiastical benefices, but he kept some small portion of his father's goods to provide for his own necessities.
First he was Hospitarius and afterward Refectorarius to the Brothers, and all things that were committed to his charge he kept honestly and in cleanly fashion, seeing to the provision of all needful vessels, napkins, and towels.
So, returning to himself, he kept silence, and the thought came to him that our Father the Prior should soon depart hence.
The anniversary of his death and that of his parents is kept on the day following the Feast of St. Elizabeth, because we know not surely the day thereof.
He was kept confined until the accession of George I.
These demands, and all other proceedings between Great Britain and France, shall be kept inviolably secret, until they are published by the mutual consent of both parties.
Adding, how hard it was that they should be kept in the dark, and have no communication of what was done in a point which so nearly concerned them.
These princes were engaged in perpetual quarrels, in doing or revenging injuries of violence, or lust, or treachery, or injustice, which kept them all in a continual state of war.
The Duke, although his army was much increased by continual revolts, thought it best to gain time, being still in number far inferior to the King, and therefore kepthimself strongly entrenched.
He still kept his employment, and place in the cabinet council; but had never appeared there, from an avowed dislike of all persons and proceedings.
Scotland had beenkept back by the sterility of her soil; and, in the midst of light, the thick darkness of the middle ages still rested on Ireland.
Benjamin Hewling died with dauntless courage, amidst lamentations in which the soldiers who kept guard round the gallows could not refrain from joining.
To them he was still the good Duke, the Protestant Duke, the rightful heir whom a vile conspiracy kept out of his own.
During several generations, the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital have kept a register of the wages paid to different classes of workmen who have been employed in the repairs of the building.
In Ireland, on the contrary, the population, with the exception of the small English colony near the coast, was Celtic, and still kept the Celtic speech and manners.
He had long kept England passive by promising to support the throne against the Parliament.
The public discontent was heightened, when it was found that, while Dunkirk was abandoned on the plea of economy, the fortress of Tangier, which was part of the dower of Queen Catharine, was repaired and kept up at an enormous charge.
The demand that the Lord Lieutenant should be kept close prisoner was made at the bar of the Lords by Hyde.
The chief trick by which clever men kept up the price of their abilities was called integrity.
Had he kept this promise, it cannot be doubted that the reaction which was already in progress would very soon have become quite as strong as the most respectable Royalists would have desired.
The militia was called out to quell the riot, and was kept assembled, in order to protect the festivities of the conquerors.
Fletcher kept his temper better than any one who knew him expected.
The English navy at that time might, according to the most exact estimates which have come down to us, have been kept in an efficient state for three hundred and eighty thousand pounds a year.
Charles, kept poor by his follies and vices, wanted money.
The change in what one gains under the name of shelter, what one pays rent for, must be kept clearly in mind.
If they can be keptfrom degenerating, their rise when it comes will lift those below them, but it is a Herculean task to lift them by lifting all below as well.
All animal functions are better performed as a matter of habit, without thought; it saves energy for more intellectual pursuits, which, I grant, are better kept under volitional control.
Nor was the statesmanship entirely bad which kept the East in tolerable peace for four-and-twenty years.
In this anarchy of doctrine, the growth of irreligious carelessness kept pace with that of party bitterness.
Julian and his half-brother Gallus escaped the slaughter to be kept almost as prisoners of state, surrounded through their youth with spies and taught by hypocrites a repulsive Christianity.
Thus when Constantius turned against them, their chiefs were found wanting in the self-respect which kept both Nicene and Arian leaders from condescending to a battle of intrigue with such masters of the art as flourished in the palace.
Athanasius might perhaps have been crushed if his enemies had kept up a decent semblance of truth and fairness.
Sacrificial dinnerskept the soldiers devout, and lavish bribery secured a good number of renegades--mostly waverers, who really had not much to change.
He was, therefore, old enough to remember the worst days of the great persecution, which Maximin Daza kept up in Egypt as late as 313.
He hadkept away from the councils of Tyre and Jerusalem, and only came now to invite the Emperor's decision on his book.
But the great generals kept their faith to Valens, and the usurper's power melted away before them.
When heathens were pressing into the church in crowds, was that a suitable time to offend them with a solemn proclamation of the very doctrine which chiefly kept them back?
This is a point which must be kept in view when we come to estimate the conduct of Athanasius.
The Villa Albani I had not seen before; it is a good specimen of a Roman villa, full of fine things (the finest of which is the Antinous), but very ill kept up.
Four years elapse, and, as a proof that the lad we have described had kept pace with the times, we find him selected to manage the racing establishment of the late Duke of York, on the death of Mr. Warwick Lake.
He kept me about an hour, was very civil, and then dismissed me.
Sir Thomas Lawrence's father at one time kept the 'Black Bear' at Devizes.
The pilgrims arekept there from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, when they are dismissed.
Of this will three copies were made; one was deposited in the German chancellerie in England, one in Hanover, and the other it was believed the King kept himself.
I stopped at Verona to see the Amphitheatre, which is only perfect in the inside, and has been kept so by repeated repairs.
To-day it was unusually long, so these old Sibyls kept clamouring, 'Santa Trinità!
To the Villa Marconi, without any garden, but a capital house, and the only one which looks well kept and inhabited.
But the essential thing was to find a solution for the instrumental ensemble, and that I kept putting off in the hope that it would come of itself when the definite fixing of a date for the first performance should make it imperative.
Diaghileff kept ordering the electricians to turn the lights on or off, hoping in that way to put a stop to the noise.
Just as any organ atrophies unless kept in a state of constant activity, so the faculty of composition becomes enfeebled and dulled unless kept up by effort and practice.
We kept our plans secret, wishing to give Diaghileff a surprise for the twentieth anniversary of his theatrical activities, which was to be celebrated in the spring of 1927.
I kept them long after he stopped caring for me, until he was married; then I destroyed them.
But a severe and haughty manner in repose is not any indication of knowledge, nor is a well-kept beard, even when it is turning gray.
Both kept silence, therefore, their eyes fixed upon the 'bus ahead, and carefully watching its every stop.
Thereafter he kept his eye fixed upon the wings until she reappeared.
When the girl and her protégé arrived at the boarding-house of the fat manageress they found that the actor had so far kept his promise as to have inveigled her into a condition of alcoholic amiability.
Yorick, whose only means of ascertaining the place of meeting was to follow Bridges, kept as near the young actor as was compatible with safety from discovery by the latter.
I've kept my eye on him ever since, and he has no idea I'm on his track.
She stood outside the bicycle store andkept her gaze upon the 'bus, which was growing less and less distinct to the eye as it rolled down the street, while Haslam hastily engaged a two-seated machine.
She hadkept the letter from Jack to the actress in a box that always accompanied her.
But if this has been kept a family secret, how do you happen to know it, and by what right do you divulge it?
But he kept up his pace toward the goal of confirmed drunkenness.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislatures.
In the first place, the General had an illness much like Frances', and this meant that he must be kept in bed and amused from morning till night.
He kept some glasses especially to lend to them on these occasions, and if business happened to be very dull he would entertain them with stories of his childhood, of which they never tired.
Frances hoped Mrs. Marvin would speak to her, but the crowd separated them, and though she kept a careful watch she did not see her again.
All through the short service she keptstealing glances across the aisle, but Mrs. Marvin did not turn again.
I may have to, the times are so hard, and Mark must bekept at school.
All day Frances' thoughtskept going back to the unfortunate quarrel, and even when she was not thinking about it she was not happy.
As they sat in silence the song of the Spectacle Man kept repeating itself in Mrs. Morrison's mind, and it suggested to her the broken bridge which separated Jack from so much that might have been his.
There had been military hospitals before this, and places where those who could afford to pay for service were kept during illness.
Bacon was very much interested in astronomy, and not only suggested the correction of the calendar, but also a method by which it could be kept from wandering away from the actual date thereafter.
The early Christians took it up and kept it lighted, and, with the Jewish physicians, carried it through the troublous times of the end of the old order, and then passed it on for a while to the Arabs.
After excision a mixture of water and vinegar should be kept in the mouth for some time.
During the fourteenth century, Arnold of Villanova, the inventor of nitric acid, and the two Hollanduses, kept up the tradition of original investigation in chemistry.
These Christian and Jewish physicians particularly encouraged the translation of the works of the great Greek physicians and thus kept the Greek medical tradition from dying out.
They not only preserved the old medical writers for us, but they kept alive practical medicine with the principles of the great Greek thinkers as its basis.
Being refused admittance into any genteel societies, he resorted with Barras and other disgraced nobles to gambling-houses, and he even kept to himself when the Revolution took place.
Liebeau obeyed, Robespierre became victorious and kept his promise, and thus my present associate gained his rank.
He was neither enterprising nor inquisitive; he kept close to the rim of her skirt, which was as high as he could see, and he wished to be taken up and carried again.
To the gasping William it seemed that she already had kept on like this all night, and he expressed himself in one great, frank, agonized moan of relief when the music stopped.
And nobody, he was shudderingly positive, could see that Clematis was not his dog (Clematis kepthimself humbly a little in the rear, but how was any observer to know that he belonged to Genesis and not to William?
I bet he'd help you out, all right, if you keptafter him.
During the little time that William spent in this sequestration he passed through phases of emotion which would have kept an older man busy for weeks and left him wrecked at the end of them.
One of the most noticeable characteristics of these tours is the excessive manner in which "the republic" is kept to the fore.
For if he had kept but one eye on this world, as Humboldt said every well regulated chameleon and priest is in the habit of doing, he would have known that every word of this "No.
The lessees recommended him for that, and promised to make it good sometime if he kept on at that rate.
The Republic in an editorial of August second says: "Not being able to leave his crops unworked for two days in the week, Mr. King ploughed them on Sunday, after having kept the Sabbath the day before.
Every step of human progress has kept pace with the rise of the individual.
And with this fact kept in view, the short-sightedness of royalty in the presence of the rising tide of intelligent discontent is by no means strange.
Would it not have been better for THE ARENA to have been kept open, as if by the aforesaid Deity, with a level head and a stiff and silent upper lip?
I don't think he is very much hurt, but he is suffering from shock and loss of memory, and ought to be kept absolutely quiet.
From the patient's condition it was evidently most essential that he should bekept quiet.
I must have the truth--all you've kept back--the whole of this damnable story.
Living but a few rods apart, the liveried coloured servants of these colonial dignitaries kept their soles warm in carrying despatches.
Besides the river-flats that were keptperennially fertile by nearly annual overflows and a top dressing of rich silt, the old maize-lands of the Mohawk were vast in extent, and all ready for the plough.
For the last ten years before his death he had suffered at intervals from dysentery, which oftenkept him an invalid in bed for weeks.
Fortunately, through the thoughtfulness of the future hero of Bennington, his own rangers were kept sober by enforced total abstinence, and the Irish had the rum and drunkenness all to themselves.
Such a course of life was kept up for years, until the hospitality of Johnson Hall became a proverb, and its revelry, we must add, passed into a byword.
The gardener kept the grounds “as neat as a pin,” and from May to November smiling with flowers.
This house is still standing, and kept in excellent repair by its owner and occupant, Mr. Ethan Akin.
The same intense jealousy and love of lucre which, until the Revolution, kept at home all army contracts that could possibly be fulfilled in Great Britain, prescribed the ban which was laid on the Mohawk Valley Palatines.
Under Johnson’s vigilance and activity, the people in the forts, block-houses, and palisaded villages were kept on guard night and day.
The bullet moulds were kept hot, and extra flints, ramrods, and ammunition laid out all ready, while weary sentinels strained ear and eye through each long, dark night.
They claimed that they ought to have been keptin session, in order that they might have been advised with, and their opinions consulted from time to time as to the matters under consideration.
He exposed the grave state of affairs, in that the Indians had been kept from hunting for a whole year, and were now destitute.
Clinton and De Lancey kept up their quarrels; the former warning Johnson of his illustrious relative, venting his wrath on the Dutch legislators, and taking high-handed vengeance on Judge Daniel Horsmanden.
It kept "Freedom's Flame" burning brightly throughout the Philippines and gave the Filipinos the necessary strength and courage to resist-and finally to defeat the invaders.
The Jap kept poking me with his bayonet; fear gave me the strength to go on.
Prisoners were extremely restless and angry; they kept up a constant chatter all night.
Records were kept on the back of labels off condensed milk cans.
Claire assumed the code name of "High Pockets," because she kept her valuables in her bra.
At this insinuation, shame and indignationkept Anielka, for a time, silent.
She was expected to do everything well from the first; and if she did not, she was keptwithout food or cruelly punished.
This fact must be kept in mind to-day with all possible clearness because it throws the best possible light on the meaning of militarization in the workers' and peasants' State.
Grandma, who had come up to see whatkept him so long.
Their sandbox, too, kept them busy and for a long time Jimmie never had to warn them not to touch the gymnasium apparatus in the barn.
Competent white men have measured the course carefully, and several persons kept the time, none of whom marked over ten minutes, while others marked less than nine-fifty.
Canby has given orders that a strict watch be kept on the council tent and the trail leading to it from the Modoc camp.
From the record kept of that meeting I make a short synopsis.
This fort was built, and has been kept up at an enormous expense, to secure the peace of the country.
The Catholics take them into the church, whether converted or not; and they are never made any better, but rather worse, for they are kept ignorant and superstitious.
Messengers werekept on the road between our camp and the "Lava Beds" almost constantly for the three days we remained at Link river.
The disbursements could be made by the superintendent, and the accounts for the whole superintendency could be keptin his office.
They kept their faith, nevertheless, and came in, when I explained it, so they were satisfied.
If Adair hadkept away and used his head, nothing could have prevented his winning.
He seemed to think so--he kept telling me to tell you to go and see him.
So Psmith kept his own counsel, with the result that Mike went over to school on the Monday morning in gym shoes.
Being kept in on Saturday meant that he would be unable to turn out for Little Borlock against Claythorpe, the return match.
I think an eye ought to be kept on Comrade Jellicoe.
As it was, that victim of Fate, going well, kept ahead.
This was done by means of canvas chutes, kept in the dormitories.
It was not always possible to slip away from the throng, for Mr. Outwood evidently looked upon them as among the very faithful, and kept them by his side.
On reflection he dismissed this as unlikely, for the sergeant would scarcely have kept a thing like that to himself; but he might very well have seen more of him than he, Downing, had seen.
Emmie’s excursion had but begun, she was merely doing what every tourist did, although the romance and grandeur of it kept her pulses racing.
Dyke woke at dawn, and mechanically groped for the revolver that from habit he kept within reach of his hand while sleeping.
Dyke had kept them there yarning until two or three in the morning.
His crumpled shirt--and he kept running his hands through his hair till it was all anywhere.
Dyke set the men singing, made Manuel the leader of the march, and kept by Emmie’s side.
Only do not for a moment suppose that I kept it back because I was afraid you might not approve.
Pardon me--in a very much larger book, kept by the recording angel, who neither sleeps nor accepts drugs to make him sleep.
He himself relied greatly on his books, which he kept in handsome book-cases in his own room.
And I say it is a shame for a wicked kept woman to keap my niece in prison as she is.
Dyke sprang upon his back, frustrating the attempt; with the terrified mule rearing above them, nearly wrenching out the shoulder of Dyke, he nevertheless kept his place.
