Keepers

Examples

• While thus lessening the cost of time-keepers their value has been enhanced by increasing their accuracy and durability. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Long may it be ere England really becomes a nation of shop-keepers! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The only priests of these Aryans are the keepers of shrines and sacred places. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But what is the meaning of these head-keepers and hen-pheasants? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• We are but half-hearted home-keepers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• About the monarch were accumulated his scribes, counsellors, record keepers, agents, captains, and guards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They have broken down much of the illogical prejudice against the games, and have shown the public-room keepers that billiards can flourish under good and healthful conditions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They go about with her, now, more like her keepers than her husband and sister-in-law. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The keepers of those houses or castles might be considered as a sort of military governors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Nobody but mere merchants could be admitted; a restriction which excluded all shop-keepers and retailers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• As the game became more universally played, a better class of billiard-room keepers entered the commercial field, thus helping to eliminate the incompetent and vicious. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yes, I said; but they must be the houses of soldiers, and not of shop-keepers. Plato. The Republic.
• We could not hunt up guides and keepers--we must be on the ship before daylight. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I am accidentally possessed of a power over one of the keepers here, and in virtue of it I stand before you. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• What we call time keepers are really time measures, and are made to tell us how rapidly time moves, so that we may regulate our movements and occupations to conform to its flight. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• These socialists think entirely in terms of the factory population of cities: the farmers, the small shop-keepers, the professional classes have only a perfunctory interest for them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Second, excessive license taxes forces certain room keepers to resort to disreputable means for keeping alive their business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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