keep promise

Example Sentences

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She little brave; she come all 'way 'lone to keep promise, so she not hurt my Wallula.

From A Flock of Girls and Boys by Perry, Nora

If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife, Become a Christian and thy loving wife.

From The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, William

Serve the Lord our God, and then well shalt thou speed, And he shall keep promise to multiply thy seed.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew

But though I am a daughter to his blood, I am not to his manners: O Lorenzo, If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife; Become a Christian, and thy loving wife.

From Shakespeare's play of the Merchant of Venice Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Kean, Charles John