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Example sentences for "she kept"

  • It is Maria Collins who has written the letter, and not Lucy," she kept saying to herself.

  • Nobody else round about Yardley except these two knows," she kept saying to herself with a bound of relief, "and for these I don't care.

  • Then, with a prayer in her heart and a new light in her eyes, she kept on her way.

  • She kept it in repair, heightened it by all sorts of artifices, and preserved it almost uninjured till her death.

  • She kept Mrs. Heeny in Paris for a fortnight, and between her more pressing occupations it amused her to listen to the masseuse's New York gossip and her comments on the social organization of the old world.

  • And so was Indiana's marriage--if she kept out of certain states.

  • She kept drawing in the others, giving each a turn, beating time for them with her smile, and somehow harmonizing and linking together what they said.

  • This little incident, however, she kept to herself, and enjoined her two attendants to do the same; for she knew the distress it would have occasioned those whom she loved.

  • She kept it bent, hidden from him, lifting a programme to shield her utterly from his gaze.

  • She kept strained in that position as he brought down his fist on the table.

  • We're going to see mummie," she kept on telling him.

  • I know what you've come for," she said, as she kept Connie's hand in hers.

  • She did not stop to analyze it, but she knew that she wished to escape from the woman; and an instant's reflection told her that she could not be seen if she kept still.

  • In it she kept a few letters and an abortive diary which in some moods had given her the comfort of a confidant.

  • She did not sleep; she kept trying to think of things that had escaped her memory as though there were holes in it, great white empty places where events had not been noted down.

  • So she kept him at home and taught him herself.

  • She kept repeating: "Talk of bad luck--I have never had any luck in life.

  • She kept my household accounts, and I could pour out to her all little worries, and now that Joey is married too, I don't know what I should do if one or other of them did not come sometimes and take care of me.

  • She had done with him just as she had done with Ernest--made him an excellent wife as long as she kept sober, but a very bad one afterwards.

  • During the spring months of 1861 she kept straight--she had had her fling of dissipation, and this, together with the impression made upon her by her having taken the pledge, tamed her for a while.

  • She kept rising on stepping-stones of her dead selves.

  • She kept whispering to herself: "What's the use?

  • She kept on singing the praises of Zada till everybody wanted to gag her.

  • She kept an eye on the lighted clock and in the dark sorted out the exact change and a tip, adding dimes as they were recorded on the meter.

  • The brand upon my brow can only be cooled by the waters of the deep lake," she kept saying to herself, while she hurried across the wooden bridge, and then over the rising ground until she again entered the dark forest.

  • She kept smiling, nodding and winking in all directions.

  • This one would have been so old, and this one so old," she kept on saying.

  • She kept up with tireless energy; and in the moments of dejection and misgiving which harassed her husband she remained dauntless, and put heart into him when he had lost it altogether.

  • But in the mean time that girl, that wild animal, she kept visibly, tangibly before him; if he put out his hand he might touch hers, he might pass his arm round her waist.

  • She kept a watchful eye on Cortese, and if she saw he was about to speak to her, she turned hastily to Colonel Boucher, who sat on her other side, and asked him something about his cari cani, which she translated to him.

  • She kept Peppino by her, who darted forward to shake hands with his wife's guests, and then darted back again to her.

  • She kept me at her side as a means of revenge.

  • I thought she was hopping; she kept hopping.

  • She kept dreaming of portraits of some sort, and of the funeral procession she had met that morning.

  • She kept talking, talking, and yet she felt that she had not said a tenth of what she wanted to say.

  • She kept looking at the picture with a mournful smile, and the fact that the others saw nothing special in it troubled her.

  • She kept a considerable number of house serfs, especially many maids, who earned their salt, however: from morning to night their backs were bent over their work.

  • She kept it in her pocket till the evening and even took it out and looked at it more than once; but at night--where would it be at night?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great importance; she asked; she came; she did; she don; she explained; she found; she glanced; she has; she hath; she knows; she liked; she may have been; she meant; she might; she murmured; she ran; she retorted; she sighed; she sobbed; she thought; she would have liked; sheet brass; sheet metal; way back; whom died