And to prove what you tell him about me you suggest that he keep the date instead.

He was less to see, but Feathertop took him in, too, just to keep the records straight.

`` It was foolish of him to keep them, whatever they were.

A northern ambassador, willing to keep his mouth shut and his ears open, could learn a lot that would stand him in good stead at the Curia.

Woodward took occasion to warn Blackman about Lewis's drinking and urged him to `` try to keep him sober ''.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Lewis was still solicitous of his condition: let him do as he wished, let him sleep with chambermaids if he must, but, she begged Blackman, try to keep him from drinking a great deal and bring him back in good health.

His English friends, it said, had gone into training to keep up with him vocally and with his `` allegro movements around the luncheon table ''.

Substitute approved objects for forbidden ones and keep telling him how he is to act.

One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.

In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.

He knows that he must give the expert his place, but he knows that he must also keep him in it.

For one thing, the driver usually sees less and has less fun than his passengers since it becomes pretty necessary for him to keep at least one eye on the road.

But in order to keep Letch in the public eye and out of trouble, I wrote in a part especially for him -- that of a dashing ruffian who `` sees the light '' and is saved by the inspiring example of Mother Cabrini.

I stayed half a block behind him, letting lots of cars keep in between us, listening to the steady beep beep beep.

There's no way to take him in now and keep those other two -- Wister and the one who hired the two of them -- from finding out about Roberts and lamming out.

Andy invented a job to keep him busy, sending him ahead to El Dorado to supervise last minute arrangements.

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.

Miguel and Arturo Ramirez remained on the veranda to keep Harper from interfering.

Shortly before nine I drove my jalopy to the street facing the Lake and parked the car in shadows far enough away from the rendezvous corner but near enough to keep the corner in clear view.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

On May 6th, Morgan, who had returned, received from Washington orders to `` send out patrols under vigilant officers '' to keep near the enemy.

He brushed back his black hair, shoving it under his pastor's cap to keep it from blowing in his eyes.

She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves.

Do keep the grill high enough above the fire so that when fat from meat drips down and flares up, flames cannot reach the meat.

However, such a hotbed of gossip had grown up during the trial, that every precaution had to be taken to keep my visit from being whispered to the world, Society, and even, alas, to my own mother.

So Mr. Crombie sat on a wooden box and talked in order to keep Mr. Blatz's mind from funny things.

If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.

Those modern scholars who urge that we must keep in mind the fundamental continuity of Aegean development from earliest times -- granted occasional irruptions of peoples and ideas from outside -- are correct ; ;

Greene was in actuality a young ruffian from Kent, who had broken with his parents in order to keep the company he preferred -- pimps, panders and whores.

The commercial propagandist, who can't afford to be critical, gets along well with the amateur, from whom he feeds, but he frequently steps on the analyst's toes by refusing to keep his material genuine.

I was careful to keep my feet, the seat of the least worthy spirits, from pointing at anyone's head, where the worthiest spirits reside.

His brothers' anger caused Palfrey genuine concern, for he had imposed a dual mission upon himself: to free his slaves, and to keep the family from falling apart over the issue.

Something in my voice must have touched her deeply because her anger passed quickly, and she turned away to keep me from seeing her face.

He clamped his jaws to keep the fury from spilling out.

A portable kerosene range designed for use aboard boats is sold with a special railing to keep it from moving with the motion of the vessel.

The Revenue Service said the addition of the attachment does not keep the range from coming under the Federal manufacturers' excise tax on household-type appliances.

The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles considered the 1954 Geneva agreement a specimen of appeasement, saw that resolution would be needed to keep it from becoming a calamity for the West.

The humidity from the steam that rises as the water heats helps keep the top of the custard from becoming too dry.

On becoming Prime Minister Major had promised to keep Britain " at the very heart of Europe ", and claimed to have won " game, set and match for Britain " – by negotiating the social chapter and single currency opt-outs from the Maastricht Treaty, and by ensuring that there was no overt mention of a " Federal " Europe and that foreign and defence policy were kept as matters of inter-governmental cooperation, in separate " pillars " from the supranational European Union.

In another case, March 28, 2007, the broadcaster paid almost $ 400, 000 in legal fees in a London court to keep an internal memo dealing with alleged anti-Israeli bias from becoming public.

In order to keep Arabs, whom he stated would never accept Israel as a Jewish state, from becoming a numerical majority in Israel, he proposed a plan allowing Arabs to voluntarily leave Israel and receive compensation for their property, and forcibly removing Arabs who refused.

This option was meant to keep the inquisition from becoming involved in local grudges.

To keep these baggage trains from becoming too large and slow, Marius had each infantryman carry as much of his own equipment as he could, including his own armour, weapons and 15 days ' rations, for about 25 – 30 kg ( 50 – 60 pounds ) of load total.

Such qui tam lawsuits must be filed under seal, using special procedures to keep the claim from becoming public until the federal government makes its decision on direct prosecution.

In 1987, with the success of X11 becoming apparent, MIT wished to relinquish the stewardship of X, but at a June 1987 meeting with nine vendors, the vendors told MIT that they believed in the need for a neutral party to keep X from fragmenting in the marketplace.

Refrigeration and storage in sealed containers will keep ground flax from becoming rancid for a longer period ; under conditions similar to those found in commercial bakeries, trained sensory panelists could not detect differences between bread made with freshly ground flax and bread made with ground flax stored for four months at room temperature.

; Scales: While, as mentioned under Fingering, a player will usually play a given instrument only in its tonic key and possibly in the key beginning on the fourth ( e. g. G on a D whistle ), nearly any key is possible, becoming progressively more difficult to keep in tune as the player moves away from the whistle's tonic, according to the circle of fifths.

The production of puff pastry dough can be time-consuming, because it must be kept at a temperature of approximately 16 ° C ( 60 ° F ) to keep shortening from becoming runny, and must rest in between folds to allow gluten strands time to link up and thus retain layering.

Treading water provides the swimmer an opportunity to keep the head from becoming submerged while not providing sufficient directional thrust to overcome inertia and propel the swimmer in any specific direction.

The key is that you must keep your body and arms loose, weaving your arms slightly only becoming tense upon impact.

This care will help keep the glucose ( sugar ) level in the blood from becoming either too high or too low, reducing or eliminating acute problems, and if sustained over a long time, reduce the chance of chronic problems as well.

It was vital to keep Henry alive, as his death would have led, not to York becoming king himself, but to the minority rule of his two-year-old son Edward of Westminster.

To avoid his fate, he locked his daughter, Ethlinn, in a tower made of crystal to keep her from becoming pregnant.

By 1722, congestion was becoming so serious that the Lord Mayor decreed that " all carts, coaches and other carriages coming out of Southwark into this City do keep all along the west side of the said bridge: and all carts and coaches going out of the City do keep along the east side of the said bridge.

In the book Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins, pennyroyal is used by Kudra to keep from becoming pregnant.

In 2008, claiming the county had been unwilling to help keep the city's troubled hospital open as a full-service medical facility, the city considered seceding from California and becoming part of neighboring Nevada, only a few miles away.

* In the film Pleasantville, the people who are still black-and-white burn all the books in the library to keep people from becoming colored.

It is becoming more common to use social media networking sites to keep listeners up to date.

She is the classic overachiever, constantly running for hall monitor and class president while trying to keep Louis's schemes from becoming disasters.