1 He kept his eyes fixed on the light till it vanished.
2 The kitchen was a poor place, not "spruce" and shining as his mother had kept it in his boyhood; but it was surprising what a homelike look the mere fact of Zeena's absence gave it.
3 Ethan felt that if he had pleaded an urgent need Hale might have made shift to pay him; but pride, and an instinctive prudence, kept him from resorting to this argument.
4 Mattie's hand was underneath, and Ethan kept his clasped on it a moment longer than was necessary.
5 He kept his eyes fixed on her, marvelling at the way her face changed with each turn of their talk, like a wheat-field under a summer breeze.
6 The sled swerved in response, but he righted it again, kept it straight, and drove down on the black projecting mass.
7 Under her shapeless dress her body kept its limp immobility, and her dark eyes had the bright witch-like stare that disease of the spine sometimes gives.
8 I kept waiting for her to do it, but she didn't.
9 "I kept thinking she would," yelled Stuart.
10 The lawn, reclaimed from weeds, grew thick with clover and Bermuda grass, and Gerald saw to it that it was well kept.
11 As valet, he kept Gerald's bedroom in order, and, as butler, he served the meals with dignity and style, but otherwise he pretty well let matters follow their own course.
12 He tried to think of something to say and couldn't, and silently he blessed her because she kept up a steady chatter which relieved him of any necessity for conversation.
13 There were many things she kept from her mother these days.
14 But, most of all, she kept secret the fact that Rhett Butler called frequently at Aunt Pittypat's house.
15 Scarlett was not the only member of the household who reacted strangely and unwillingly to his presence, for he kept Aunt Pitty in a flutter and a ferment.