Keeper

Examples

• The door-keeper will pass the note to Mr. Lorry, and do you make any gesture that will attract Mr. Lorry's attention, and show him where you stand. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• That and to get a writing to be fust-hand Lock Keeper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The feverish young inn-keeper and ex-engineer started like Satan at the touch of Ithuriel's spear. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Directly after, Mr. Wynne's keeper came up, carrying a gun. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The door clashed, the voices and the feet came on, and the prison-keeper slowly ascended the stairs, followed by a guard of soldiers. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Baxter's the keeper, and when he finds strange dogs hunting about, he takes and shoots 'em. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• On my way I saw William Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• When I booked my place at the coach office I had had 'Box Seat' written against the entry, and had given the book-keeper half-a-crown. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He was speaking to you just now,' said Bradley, kneeling on one knee on the grass beside the Lock-keeper. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The book-stall keeper got into the coach; and away they drove. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The keeper of the keys is dead and his keys are not upon his carcass. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And from being a keeper of the law he is converted into a breaker of it? Plato. The Republic.
• The ambassadors of the other nations asked us to take the matter in hand and hasten the assistant keeper to the plant. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• 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.

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