Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...keep them safe, had tied them down...
...Freshy's leg is as big at the ankle as it is at the hip," and one fellow wanted to know which was his back and which was his chest. This last witticism almost brought the tears to Ferdy's eyes, and he had to bite his lip to keep from crying...
...Worse than that, worse than that," groaned Jack. "It's the first of the month, and my accounts are not begun yet; the governor came down on me last month, says he 's had enough of $5 charity, $5 sundries, &c., and that in future I must keep my accounts exact. O Al, if matches were made in heaven, accounts certainly were made somewhere else; say, you 're accustomed to manufacture something out of nothing on the Crimson, help me to manufacture $50 worth of accounts from nothing...
...officer, termed Master of the Hunt, who shall have a general supervision and control of the hunt, and who, assisted by the whips, shall keep the pack together in slow hunts...
...second trial-heat was between J. A. C. Wright, '81, A. J. Abbe, '81, and F. L. Creesy, '82. Wright soon had the track to himself, as his competitors could not keep within their lines...