"keep" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mrs. Macallan lifted her hand, and showed me a telegraphic dispatch which she had hitherto kept concealed in the folds of her dress.
- There was an unceremonious directness, a searching, decided steadfastness in his gaze now, which told that intention, and not diffidence, had hitherto kept it averted from the stranger.
- 'Here,' answered the queen, bringing forward the girl, whom she had hitherto kept in the background.
- The excitement of these last manoeuvres had somewhat interfered with the watch I had kept hitherto, sharply enough, upon the coxswain.
- The center of Paris had hitherto kept its medieval urban fabric composed mainly of narrow streets where traffic was difficult and hygiene was poor.
- The Times, which had hitherto kept a dignified silence on such a distasteful subject, pronounced itself well-pleased with the modified outcome.
- The crowd waved to and fro, and a deep murmur crept gathering over the silence which they had hitherto kept.
- ---he concluded, loosening the hold which he had hitherto kept upon the Saxon's tunic.
- The Jovian led the way onward in proud silence, but it was to be noticed that thereafter he doubled the distance he had hitherto kept between himself and them.
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