To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.

I sat down to wait, and I watched Tessie Alpert, who hadn't moved or said a word but kept staring out of the window.

It might be added that as he kept his word so he expected that others keep theirs.

Was one that kept his word.

The word is of Latin origin ; during the Roman Republic, the census was a list that kept track of all adult males fit for military service.

The word " halogen " had actually first been proposed in 1811 by Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger as a name for the newly discovered element chlorine, but Davy's proposed term for this element eventually won out, and Schweigger's term was kept at Berzelius ' suggestion as the term for the element group that contains chlorine.

The Greek word dynamis, the " will " or " ability to fight ," was used to express the drive that kept hoplites in formation.

The contemporary Italian word is zucchero, whereas the Spanish and Portuguese words, azúcar and açúcar respectively, have kept a trace of the Arabic definite article.

An emphasis on oral transmission as more important than the printed word derives from the earliest period of Indian Buddhism, when it allowed teachings to be kept from those who should not hear them.

Henry kept his word and took care of Anne in his last years alive ; however, after his death Anne suffered from extreme financial hardship because Edward VI's councillors refused to give her any funds and confiscated the homes she had been given.

The Spanish kept salvage ships with crews of African divers on-call in major ports around the Caribbean, ready to sail as soon as word of a wreck was received.

He became a land surveyor and continued to write increasingly detailed natural history observations about the township in his journal, a two-million word document he kept for 24 years.

Tolkien sometimes changed the " meaning " of an Elvish word, but he almost never disregarded it once invented, and he kept on refining its meaning, and countlessly forged new synonyms.

Morphological details like word inflections, which usually take years to learn, are omitted ; the syntax is kept very simple, usually based on strict word order.

With minor trim changes and the word ' Dallas ' added in the 1994 – 95 season, they kept this design until their 1999 Stanley Cup-winning campaign.

Colonel Dalbier, true to his word, kept watch over them.

Brock's personal integrity and respect for native peoples has been well documented, and suggest that if he had lived he would have kept his word to the Shawnee.

The team did outstanding so the coach kept his word, thus ending the sport in its entirety.

On 21 June 1919, after nine months of waiting, Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, the German officer in command at Scapa Flow, made the decision to scuttle the fleet because the negotiation period for the treaty had lapsed with no word of a settlement ( he was not kept informed that there had been a last-minute extension to finalise the details ).

I have kept my word.

And for temporal authority, as the word passed through 10 mortal bodies and finally into the collective corporate body known as the Khalsa till eternity, kept changing with finally been vested in the Khalsa when Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th Guru, merged into it.

Later, the versions kept switching: sometimes the girls claimed it was " just a word ", while in other ocassions it was the " lesbo " explanation / For the release of their first English-language album, they decided to go by t. A. T. u., using uppercase letters and periods to distinguish themselves from an already existing Australian band, Tatu.

After promising land reforms and elected to power in West Bengal in 1977, the Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) ( CPI ( M )) kept their word and initiated gradual land reforms, such as Operation Barga.

Then he kept Blackman awake for more than an hour while he did an imaginary dialogue between his wife and himself in which, discussing the evening, he was continually berated.

He played a number of typical situations before observers, other supervisors who kept notes and then explained to him in detail what he did they thought was wrong.

For the use of students and future restorers, a full, day-by-day record was kept of all three undertakings, complete technical reports on what we found and what we did.

The interchange of shop licenses for a nominal royalty eliminated infringement suits among the members of the A.L.A.M. patent pool ( although it did not protect them against outside actions ) and kept open channels for the cross-fertilization of automotive technology.

The dromozoa kept him alive, but he did not know how they did it.

However, as Cornelius Castoriadis pointed out, other societies also kept slaves but did not develop democracy.

DeCelles kept his flight log, according to the article, but he did not file a report with authorities.

However, Beethoven did not retain this version, and kept rewriting until he had found its final form, with the words < em lang =" de ">" O Freunde, nicht diese Töne "</ em > (" O friends, not these tones ").

The destination of the expedition was kept top secret ; most of the army's officers did not know of its target, and Bonaparte himself did not publicly reveal his goal until the first stage of the expedition was complete.

She did not ally herself with Eakins ' ardent student supporters, and later wrote, " A curious instinct of self-preservation kept me outside the magic circle.

A 2008 study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine showed that dieters who kept a daily food diary ( or diet journal ), lost twice as much weight as those who did not keep a food log, suggesting that if you write your food down, you wouldn't eat as many calories.

He admitted, “ I took over a last-place team, and I kept them there .” They did indeed end up in the basement with a 17 – 57 – 6 record for only 40 points.

This reality did not dissuade Mujib from demanding in 1966 that separate foreign exchange accounts be kept and that separate trade offices be opened overseas.

Violin music came to value a smoothness which fiddling, with its dance-driven clear beat, did not always follow-in situations that required greater volume, a fiddler ( as long as they kept the beat ) could push their instrument harder than could a violinist.

Goya's involvement with the court of the " Intruder king ", Joseph I, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, is not known ; he did paint works for French patrons and sympathisers, but kept neutral during the fighting.

He participated little in the debates ( though he did vote for or against the various articles ), but his high prestige maintained collegiality and kept the delegates at their labors.

It has become a tradition as the biscuits were often sent to loved ones based in Gallipoli because the ingredients did not spoil easily and kept well during naval transportation.

Chapman kept his sexuality a secret until the 1970s, although he did allude to it in some Monty Python sketches.

Abbot Kuno did not relent, however, until Hildegard was stricken by an illness that kept her paralyzed and unable to move from her bed, an event that she attributed to God's unhappiness at her not following his orders to move her nuns to Rupertsberg.

But the Allies did not launch massive assaults and kept a defensive stance: this was called the Phoney War in Britain or Drôle de guerre – the funny sort of war – in France.

Although the Harmonites did seek work-oriented help from the outside, they were known as a community that supported themselves, kept their ways of living in their community, mainly exported goods, and tried to import as little as possible.

In addition, Tito was openly supportive of the Communist side in the Greek Civil War, while Stalin kept his distance, having agreed with Churchill not to pursue Soviet interests there, although he did support the Greek communist struggle politically, as demonstrated in several assemblies of the UN Security Council.

With the Wizards Davy Arnaud's goal in the first game to win the series as the defense and Kevin Hartman did the rest and kept Chivas USA off the scoreboard.