"Keep open" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... placing an army under cover in the forest; and a dozen marches would take the battalion to the point where it was intended it should remain, as a support to two or three other corps still further in advance, and to keep open the communications. ...
— Satanstoe • James Fenimore Cooper
... you shall keep open house; I desire that you should keep a liberal table; I desire that my captain of musketeers should ...
— Ten Years Later - Chapters 1-104 • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... not given. Perhaps, in her eager struggle after the glittering prize which she had held out before herself, she disdained the love which had once delighted her; perhaps, actuated by a purer and less selfish motive, her friendship for Cleotos forbade her, in mere wanton pride, to keep open the wound which she had made. Whatever the reason, the withdrawal of the fascinations which had once attracted him, gave his mind leisure and opportunity to reason with itself in more quietude and composure than could have been expected. And, as he more and more began ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... all right. They say he looks like a ghost. Wonder if he'll have the good taste to close the store! Or will he keep open that day to ...
— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon
... rejected lover, and with the connivance, perhaps, of the father; all of which was concluded by reading the letter just received, it was added, by a trusty messenger, who had gone in disguise to the enemy's camp to receive it, and who had now returned to keep open the important communication. ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
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