keep back|keep

pitää

pitää, säilyttää

pysyä

jatkaa, tehdä jotakin jatkuvasti

keskustorni

elanto To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.

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Both day and night did we keep company.

within the portal as I kept my watch

The wrathful skies / Gallow the very wanderers of the dark / And make them keep their caves.

(ux)

cursse on thy cruell hond, / That twise hath sped; yet shall it not thee keepe / From the third brunt of this my fatall brond(nb..).

Of course boys are boys and need watching, but there is little watching necessary when they keep chickens.

like a pedant that keeps a school

They were honourably brought to London, where every one of them kept house by himself.

At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.(..)In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps.

If the malt be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep.

And thenne whan the damoysel knewe certaynly that he was not syre launcelot / thenne she took her leue and departed from hym / And thenne syre Trystram rode pryuely vnto the posterne where kepte hym la beale Isoud / and there she made hym good chere and thanked god of his good spede

Keep that the lusts choke not the word of God that is in us.

I have kept the faith.

Him whom to love is to obey, and keep / His great command.

'Tis hallowed ground; / Fairies, and fawns, and satyrs do it keep.

So Sir Gareth strayned hym so that his olde wounde braste ayen on bledynge; but he was hote and corragyous and toke no kepe, but with his grete forse he strake downe the knyght(nb..).

He works as a cobblers apprentice for his keep.''

Pan, thou god of shepherds all, / Which of our tender lambkins takest keep.

to be in good keep

Often he used of his keep / A sacrifice to bring.

take keep — “take note”

And shame it is, if a preest take keep

A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep