kept

Duke kept running for offices and losing by ever-greater margins.

As, however, the whole plan of our proceedings was to be kept secret, I will not touch on that subject.

One could see that, in both places, something like an old world dignity of life had in the past been kept up.

He did not care to show himself, and he kept one of the big trees between himself and the man all the time.

I discovered that they kept no cattle, nor animals of any kind for food or labor.

They were kept at hand constantly for any light they might cast on difficult passages.