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Usage examples of "keep open".
It was as good as telling her that she should be a good girl and continue to keep open house for him and maybe some day.
Kennedy, while still rubbing his eyes, which he could scarcely keep open, calmly lit his pipe.
The only possible way to keep open the economic opportunities for new activities is for a 'third force' to protect their weak and still incipient interests.
Rufus Dawes, though his eyelids would scarcely keep open, and a terrible lassitude almost paralysed his limbs, eagerly drank in the whispered sentence.
That night, when Clara lay down in her bed and prepared to watch the stars, her eyes would not keep open, and she fell asleep as soon as Heidi and slept soundly all night--a thing she never remembered having done before.
I wanted to keep open the lines of communication to them, even those who disagreed with me, and work with them whenever I could on social problems at home and humanitarian problems around the world.
He came back only last week, and he says they keep open Sundays, and all night sometimes.
We now intend to make the experiment whether it is not possible to conduct reason safely between these two rocks, to assign to her definite limits, and yet to keep open for her the proper field for all her activities?
They are valiant men and keep open the High Pass and the Ford of Carrock.
Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
In that primitivism was her great strength, for it allowed the back door of her mind to keep open, as it were, to the rumor and movement of ancestral powers and instinctive agencies.