Conchita kept an eye on the twins and little Elena, trying to keep them from falling into the creek by which they persisted in playing.

The dangerous current upon the prairie ceased, but the water stood and kept on rising.

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

Cows were kept in backyard barns, boys were hired to drive them to and from the pasture on the edge of town, and familiar to the ear, morning and evening, were the boys' coaxing voices, the thud of hooves, and the thwack of a stick on cowhide.

She kept the dolls on the Lincoln bed.

He always kept a few on his personal staff.

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

Jay Gould kept a cow on one deluxer.

A top official of the New Frontier who kept a record of his first weeks on the job here gives this report of his experiences:

A truth-revealing crisis erupted in Katanga for a couple of days this month, to be quickly smothered by the high pressure verbal fog that is kept on tap for such emergencies.

for he kept on threatening that he would `` pull the ears '' of those responsible for agricultural production.

The morning hawk, hungry for any eatable, killable, digestible item, kept his eyes on the ring of anchored ships that lay off the shores in the bay, sheltered by the Jersey inlets.

I didn't want to touch him and I hoped Ma would do it but she kept looking at the kid's clothes piled on the floor and the pool of water by them and didn't make any move to.

He kept on laughing until she started laughing with him.

Oyster salt roast -- oysters on the half shell, cooked on a bed of coarse salt that kept them hot when served -- was a standby at Manning's.

Keep the retirement age flexible so skilled craftsmen such as tool and die makers can be kept on the job for the convenience of the company.

But they kept on clapping for a long, long time.

`` This time '', Arlene said, and she even kept on wiggling a little bit while she was just talking, `` you're going to tell me what I am and what I'm doing.

we want to know why that book has kept on selling the way it has ; ;

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.

Hens are kept on the range and roosters are kept with them for their fertility.

Casey kept his smile fixed, but some small inner disturbance was working on him as he thought again about Needham, who was eight or ten years older than the girl.

One now leads to Aberdour railway station, a beautifully kept and cared for example of a traditional station, in keeping with its role of transporting at least a quarter of the village's working population to their work each day.

US President Reagan also actively hindered the Soviet Union's ability to sell natural gas to Europe whilst simultaneously actively working to keep gas prices low, which kept the price of Soviet oil low and further starved the Soviet Union of foreign capital.

In this way Sapir was introduced to Indigenous American languages while he kept working on his M. A.

Boas kept working to secure a stable appointment for his student, and by his recommendation Sapir ended up being hired by the Canadian Geological Survey, who wanted him lead the institutionalization of anthropology in Canada.

In-line engines often had a better power-to-weight ratio, but there were radial engines that kept working even after having suffered significant battle damage.

In 1702, Thomas Savery wrote in The Miner's Friend: " So that an engine which will raise as much water as two horses, working together at one time in such a work, can do, and for which there must be constantly kept ten or twelve horses for doing the same.

In the spring of 1984, Chernenko was hospitalized for over a month, but kept working by sending the Politburo notes and letters.

Some mustelids have been domesticated: the ferret and the tayra are kept as pets ( although the tayra requires a Dangerous Wild Animals licence in the UK ), or as working animals for hunting or vermin control.

A pet is a household animal kept for companionship and a person's enjoyment, as opposed to livestock, laboratory animals, working animals and sport animals which are kept for economic reasons.

He remained in this position, and the Jinn, thinking he was still alive watching them work, kept working.

* 1011 – 1021: Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhacen ), a famous Iraqi scientist working in Egypt, feigned madness in fear of angering the Egyptian caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, and was kept under house arrest from 1011 to 1021.

* Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhacen ), a famous Persian scientist working in Egypt, feigns madness in fear of angering Al-Hakim, and is kept under house arrest until 1021.

No referee working in the field ... could have kept his mouth shut once he saw the structure ".

He kept on working as an engineer and invented machines for electronically controlled engraving of printing plates and an electronic photo typesetting system called digiset marketed in the USA as VideoComp by RCA and later by III.

There is also evidence that horses were kept as meat animals prior to being trained as working animals.

This 1866 Pennsylvania election poster alleged that the Bureau kept the Negro in idleness at the expense of the hard working white taxpayer.

He later recalled, " I didn't have a title for it, so I kept referring to it as ' that swamp thing I'm working on.

The Hope Jones organ was heavily re-built in 1925 by Harrison & Harrison, and then regular minor works kept it in working order until Wood Wordsworth and Co were called in 1978.

The Lynchburg News & Advance reports that while more people are working than ever in greater Lynchburg, wages since 1990 have not kept up with inflation.

A. T. Bennett, was the section foreman for the area of track and he and his crew of workers kept the railroad track in good working order.

During the late 1970s and 1980s, the city witnessed a speculation spree, fueled by transplanted New Yorkers and others who bought many turn-of-the-20th-century brownstones in neighborhoods that the still solid middle and working class population had kept intact and by local and out-of-town real-estate investors who bought up late 19th century apartment houses often considered to be tenements.

are effectually called unto faith in Christ by His Spirit working in due season, are justified, adopted, sanctified, and kept by His power.

The park is very well kept and hosts camps for children during the working hours of the summer so parents can feel safe leaving their children.