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Example sentences for "would keep"

  • He would keep you in a lazy, sluggish coldness, to read, and hear, and pray as asleep, as if you did it not.

  • Were we but duly sensible of the worth of love, and the odiousness and malignity that is in the want of it, it would keep us from being quiet in the daily neglect of it, and would quicken us to seek it, and to stir it up.

  • We soon overtook him, but he would dodge us, and in a zigzag he would keep angling in closer to the breaks of the caƱon.

  • I would keep thinking of and talking about that lost opportunity.

  • If I were you I would keep memoranda of points worth attending to.

  • If you would like them I will send them; otherwise I would keep them to see whether the bilateral flowers will seed, for Herbert (581/3.

  • I told her I could not buy them; she rejoined that it might be better only to pledge them, for they would not be entirely lost to her, and she might redeem them ere twelve months had passed if I would keep them as long as that.

  • I meant to tell him that if he would keep right, I would keep counsel.

  • I knew that he would keep a careful watch over me.

  • Not knowing how to refuse, I said I would keep her to her word, and would have my horses taken out.

  • I swore I would keep my own counsel, even with the countess.

  • He embraced me, and put it in his pocket, saying he would keep it till his dying day.

  • I had spent the morning in doing two things--getting the five hundred pounds which would keep Mr. Montagu Babbacombe from a premature recovery, and putting my papers in order.

  • Do you think, having come, if I stayed it would keep on seeming different?

  • You don't think it would keep on seeming different if I stayed longer than that?

  • I do not say this that I would by any Means lose your Acquaintance; but I would keep it up with the Strictest Forms of good Breeding.

  • Making her piss was a favorite amusement with me, I would keep her a whole day without doing it, so that I might have a good long stream out of her when looking on.

  • But they were all positive, and I might as well have held my tongue; so I submitted, and told them I would keep to our first law, to be governed by the majority, and we resolved upon our journey.

  • If I had given myself, and found I had been a fool, I would keep faith.

  • And were I on English soil I--I would keep away.

  • Yet he knew that he had been in earnest when he had said, "I would keep away.

  • Then coffee wuz passed agin in a jewelled cup and agin I sipped a little on't, thinkin' like as not it would keep me awake it wuz so strong, but knowin' that I had got to be polite anyway in such a time as this.

  • If I kept my marriage day, I would keep it as a day of shame.

  • At such times, he would keep clear of the obstacles in his way, mechanically; and would appear to see and hear nothing until arrival at his destination, or some sudden chance or effort roused him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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