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  • verb Obsolete spelling of keep.

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Examples

  • I will prouoke them to enuy (namely such as keepe not his Law) by a people, which is no people, and by a foolish nation will I anger them.

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

  • Whereby is declared, that such as keepe many honest seeming servants, may sometime finde a knave among them, and one that proves to be oversawcy with his master

    The Decameron 2004

  • Whereby is declared, that such as keepe many honest seeming servants, may sometime finde a knave among them, and one that proves to be oversawcy with his master

    The Decameron 2004

  • I will prouoke them to enuy (namely such as keepe not his Law) by a people, which is no people, and by a foolish nation will I anger them.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Around the time English players were performing Hamlet on the Continent, John Winthrop the father, sounding like a Puritan Polonius, advised his wayward son to “seeke the Lorde in the first place,” to “keepe diligent watche over your selfe,” and to “be not rashe upon ostentation of valor, to adventure your selfe to unnecessarye dangers.”

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • Around the time English players were performing Hamlet on the Continent, John Winthrop the father, sounding like a Puritan Polonius, advised his wayward son to “seeke the Lorde in the first place,” to “keepe diligent watche over your selfe,” and to “be not rashe upon ostentation of valor, to adventure your selfe to unnecessarye dangers.”

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • Around the time English players were performing Hamlet on the Continent, John Winthrop the father, sounding like a Puritan Polonius, advised his wayward son to “seeke the Lorde in the first place,” to “keepe diligent watche over your selfe,” and to “be not rashe upon ostentation of valor, to adventure your selfe to unnecessarye dangers.”

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • Don't read this if you want to keepe the show a mystery -- I think these guys/gals solved it.

    LOST Mirror Matter James F. McGrath 2009

  • Don't read this if you want to keepe the show a mystery -- I think these guys/gals solved it.

    LOST Mirror Matter James F. McGrath 2009

  • Mayle deere luse thayre antlyrs byfor wyntr – antlyrs r uzed fur maytyng rytual perpuses, nd r tu heevy nd impraktikal tu keepe whyn maytying seeson is uvr.

    Frank, can we please - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

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