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Example sentences for "still kept"

  • He still kept silence, and did not appear to take any notice of me.

  • She raised her steady eyes to his hat, which he still kept on his head.

  • At the same time, she tried to possess herself of the laudanum bottle which I still kept cuddled up tight in my own hands.

  • Until Annis sailed, Benjamin continued in the employment of Keimer, whom he still kept entirely in ignorance of his project, and was frequently at the home of Keith.

  • In much later ages, while losing this, we still kept somewhat of the free beauty of untramelled bodies; but that too has gone under our binding weight of clothes.

  • The morris-dance, too, was formerly a common accompaniment to the Whitsun ales, a practice which is still kept up in many parts of the country.

  • This is still kept up, and consists of a yearly tax on all cattle found within the manor of Chetwode between the 30th of October and the 7th of November, inclusive.

  • However, at Celano the practice is still kept up of taking brands and ashes from the bonfires to the houses, although the fires are no longer kindled in front of the churches, but merely in the streets.

  • The custom is still kept up very commonly in the district.

  • In Belgium the custom of kindling the midsummer bonfires has long disappeared from the great cities, but it is still kept up in rural districts and small towns of Brabant, Flanders, and Limburg.

  • A similar custom appears to prevail at Thebes;[324] it used to be observed by the Macedonian peasantry, and it is still kept up at Therapia, a fashionable summer resort of Constantinople.

  • In Belgium the custom of kindling the midsummer bonfires has long disappeared from the great cities, but it is still kept up in rural districts and small towns.

  • A similar ceremony seems to be still kept up in Norway.

  • Yet he still kept up, and managed to return and deliver his country, and meet there a more glorious death in a great defeat and vast slaughter of the barbarians.

  • He still kept looking at me, as if in doubt.

  • He had avoided the name of any destination, for there was now quite a little band of railway folk about the cab, and he still kept an eye upon the court of justice, and laboured to avoid concentric evidence.

  • Its stern is still kept as a trophy in Rotterdam.

  • Some Chinese, composed of sterner stuff than their comrades, still kept up their fire, causing some casualties, but they also retreated in good time to secure their own safety.

  • After all were ready they were still kept waiting, but at last two loud explosions were heard.

  • A beautiful gold-banded tortoise-shell comb is still kept in the family, a present from Josephine to Agnes.

  • Still kept in the house are his spectacles which were made to order from silver dollars which he had saved.

  • He wrote in his last letter "The greater part of another month is past, and here I am, still kept by the protecting arm of the Almighty from all harm.

  • We still kept moving on, and at last General Sir G.

  • His wife was wounded by a shot from one of the villains, but he still kept on his way--it was life or death.

  • M165) In Belgium the custom of kindling the midsummer bonfires has long disappeared from the great cities, but it is still kept up in rural districts and small towns of Brabant, Flanders, and Limburg.

  • A similar custom appears to prevail at Thebes;(324) it used to be observed by the Macedonian peasantry, and it is still kept up at Therapia, a fashionable summer resort of Constantinople.

  • An interesting custom is still kept up at Laceby, a village in North Lincolnshire, where the bells ring a merry peal at the close of the service in which the third publication of banns has taken place.

  • In most parishes where it is still kept up, the ceremony is performed annually on Ascension Day.

  • And one treasure more, of which the recollection is still kept at Gunwalloe, "a little dead baby in its cap and night-gown, with a necklace of coral beads.

  • When they, as well as himself, returned to England, he still kept up a correspondence with them, preserving towards every member of the family the most enthusiastic regard and devotion.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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