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Example Sentences

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"KEEP HIM ALIVE" The circumstances of the death of Gaddafi, who had vowed to go down fighting, remained obscure.

From Reuters • Oct. 21, 2011

Paul Rusch now spends half his time in the U.S. getting more support for KEEP, and half his time in Japan supervising it.

From Time Magazine Archive

At present you have received just sufficient instruction to qualify you to ride properly escorted, on good roads, but —           "KEEP RIDING!"

From In the Riding-School; Chats with Esmeralda by Browne, Theo. Stephenson

A penny to KEEP, you mean: for all your love for the lass at the 'Bugle,' did thee ever spend a shilling in the house?

From Catherine: a Story by Thackeray, William Makepeace

The only justification was           "The good old rule … the simple plan,           That he shall take who has the power,           That he shall KEEP, who can."

From Korea's Fight for Freedom by Mckenzie, F. A. (Frederick Arthur)