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keep back
1. ‘If I’d been the whiting,’ said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, ‘I’d have said to the porpoise, “Keep back, please: we don’t want YOU with us!”’
2. of her head to keep back the wandering hair that WOULD always get into
3. Torbin could reach the location in a fraction of the time it would take were he to keep back a pace for Roidon
4. No doubt exists that had not the Ansahs arrived with reports of the strength of the advancing English, which they greatly exaggerated, the Ashantis would have offered a spirited resistance at the entrance to Kumassi, when they found that no amount of subterfuge and false promise would keep back the invader
5. to keep back the tears, as he heard the crunching footsteps sounding
6. 'If I'd been the whiting,' said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, 'I'd have said to the porpoise, "Keep back, please: we don't want you with us!"'
7. First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the tiny hands were clasped upon her knee, and the bright eager eyes were looking up into hers--she could hear the very tones of her voice, and see that queer little toss of her head to keep back the wandering hair that would always get into her eyes--and still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the whole place around her became alive the strange creatures of her little sister's dream
8. “Keep back, keep away!” she screamed but she didn’t know whether the words made any sense
9. Aside from the noises of anguish he couldn't keep back, he remained silent
10. Among the injured was Shen, who couldn't keep back a quiet howling, his shoulder was black where his uniform had been burned
11. Once in a while two young men carrying sticks ran the circle perimeter, beating the ground in front of them to keep back the crowd
12. Purge me from secret sins and keep back your servant from presumptuous transgression
13. Saffyre and Zavier keep back in the shadows
14. I think it incredible that the very Apostle who a few days after went to Corinth, "determined to know nothing but Christ crucified," or the doctrine of the cross, would keep back the cross from Athenian ears
15. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time,
16. She lay there watching the smoke swirl up to the cobwebs on the ceiling, clenching her jaw to keep back tears
17. Keep back and see what’s going on
18. keep back her tears
19. My hold was unrelenting though and about the most strenuous aspect of the whole endeavor was trying to keep back from the girl’s unkempt and greasy looking hair
20. Paul said he did not keep back anything that was profitable
21. Paul said he did not keep back anything that was profitable (Acts 20:20), and that he declared the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27), yet he did not say anything about Hell in any of his letters
22. Paul said he did not keep back anything that was profitable [Acts 20:20] and that he declared the whole counsel of God [Acts 20:27], yet in none of his letters did he say anything about Hell
23. Once the boat enters the water, keep backing-up the moving trailer, at a stable speed
24. The next day when he came home he looked at her shyly, and at last could no longer keep back the words
25. Bovary watched him; they looked at one another; and this man, accustomed as he was to the sight of pain, could not keep back a tear that fell on his shirt-frill
26. I stared in my turn and couldn't keep back a movement of revulsion
27. Along the route the regiments of the royal Dublin Fusiliers, the King's own Scottish Borderers, the Cameron Highlanders and the Welsh Fusiliers standing to attention, keep back the crowd
28. They had nearly reached the first rock when they heard a rough voice cry out, "Keep back!"
29. Taking heart from them, other corps were proposed on the part of the gentry, in which they were themselves to have the command; and seeing that the numbers were to be limited, they had a wish and interest to keep back the real volunteer offers, and to get their own accepted in their stead
30. Now when he was asleep, she loved him so that at the sight of him she could not keep back tears of tenderness
31. As she crouched there, squeezing her eyes tightly to keep back the tears, she was startled by the sound of trotting hooves
32. Raoul uttered this "perhaps" with so much love and despair in his voice that Christine could not keep back a sob
33. He saw that, at the same time, he was pushing a human body and he could not keep back an exclamation, for he recognized the body at once:
34. dangerously responsive as a bit of finest Venetian crystal; and in looking at Rosamond, she suddenly found her heart swelling, and was unable to speak—all her effort was required to keep back tears
35. "You do know, you dear thing," I replied; "only you haven't my dreadful boldness of mind, and you keep back, out of timidity and modesty and delicacy, even the impression that, in the past, when you had, without my aid, to flounder about in silence, most of all made you miserable
36. The excitement was gone, now, and Tom and Joe could not keep back thoughts of certain persons at home who were not enjoying this fine frolic as much as they were
37. He still said it was "all right," but there was such a leaden dread at his heart that the words had lost their ring and sounded just as if he had said, "All is lost!" Becky clung to his side in an anguish of fear, and tried hard to keep back the tears, but they would come
38. Actually, a more accurate term would be “keep back
39. The purpose of this question was to discover whether any official had sought to keep back the news of the disaster
40. You know, when children are silent and proud, and try to keep back their tears when they are in great trouble and suddenly break down, their tears fall in streams
41. Nekhludoff had not yet understood the significance of his present position, and attributed the sobs he could hardly keep back and the tears that filled his eyes to the weakness of his nerves
42. He fancied that her mouth was unnaturally compressed in order to keep back the tears
43. The consumptive woman was not asleep, but lay with wide open eyes, her cloak folded under her head, trying to keep back the phlegm that irritated her throat, and not to cough
44. Maslova never expected to see him again, and certainly not here and not now; therefore, when she first recognised him, she could not keep back the memories which she never wished to revive
45. It was however impossible to keep back the dog, who found trails on the very path, and Olenin killed two more pheasants, so that after being detained by this it was getting towards noon before he began to find the place he was looking for
46. He is told not to steal, but he sees and knows that the employers steal his labor, keep back his pay, and that the officials are constantly robbing him
47. And yet, one needs but get a conception of what it all tends to and what no one can keep back,—that among men there will be established a Christian public opinion, with the same force and universality as the pagan public opinion, and that it will take the place of the pagan one, that the majority of men will be just as ashamed of all participation in violence and its exploitation as men are now ashamed of rascality, stealing, beggary, cowardice, and immediately this complex and apparently powerful structure of life falls of its own accord, without any struggle
48. Out of one only I shall keep back a handful of meal
49. You will see what a mood I was in when I say I felt as I had not since I, a very small boy indeed, ran away from home—it was one evening after I had been put to bed; I came back through the chilly night to take one last glimpse of the family that would soon be realizing how foolishly and wickedly unappreciative they had been of such a treasure as I; and when I saw them sitting about the big fire in the lamp light, heartlessly comfortable and unconcerned, it was all I could do to keep back the tears of self-pity—and I never saw them again