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kept up no correspondence
For some time, although I kept up no correspondence, the memory of this episode remained firmly imprinted on my mind.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

kept under no constraint
They seem to be treated with kindness, and, if young, are kept under no constraint; but, when old enough to be sensible of the fate that awaits them, they are placed in fetters, and guarded.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Krauwer Utrecht Netherlands Coordinator
STEVEN KRAUWER [EN, FR] [EN] Steven Krauwer (Utrecht, Netherlands) #Coordinator of ELSNET (European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies) ELSNET (European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies) has 135 European academic and industrial institutions as members.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Krauwer Utrecht Netherlands Coordinator
Geoffrey Kingscott (London) / Co-editor of the online magazine Language Today Steven Krauwer (Utrecht, Netherlands) / Coordinator of the European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies (ELSNET) Michael Martin (Berkeley, California) / Founder and president of Travlang, a site dedicated both to travel and languages Tim McKenna (Geneva) / Thinks and writes about the complexity of truth in a world of flux Yoshi Mikami (Fujisawa, Japan) /
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

kept up no communication
One, I know, is Lord Heatherly; but I never saw him, and I think papa kept up no communication with him.
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

keep up no commerce
Were it not that an unconscientious unprincipled man might injure or mortify us in the most sensible manner; were it not that he had it in his power, by means of wit and frivolity, to embitter our whole existence, I would coldly repel him, and, with my love of truth, tell him without ceremony, that I would keep up no commerce with him; but as this is impossible, I must treat him with courtesy, endeavour to lay the evil spirit in him by delicacy and good-will, and afterwards, as imperceptibly as possible, withdraw from his pernicious influence."
— from The Pictures; The Betrothing: Novels by Ludwig Tieck

Kitchen Utensils Neckam commences
In his treatise on Kitchen Utensils, Neckam commences with naming a table, on which the cook may cut up green stuff of various sorts, as onions, peas, beans, lentils, and pulse; and he proceeds to enumerate the tools and implements which are required to carry on the work: pots, tripods for the kettle, trenchers, pestles, mortars, hatchets, hooks, saucepans, cauldrons, pails, gridirons, knives, and so on.
— from Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by William Carew Hazlitt

kept up no correspondence
Marianne kept up no correspondence with her brother's widow; from a letter to Sonnleithner (July 2, 1819), we gather that she had not heard from her sister-in-law since 1801, that she knew nothing of the children, and had only heard of her second marriage by chance.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

keeps up no ceremony
He lives alone, unguarded; trusts himself by night and day without any escort among the people; keeps up no ceremony at all, and is approachable at all hours.
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

kept under national control
The fisheries, if wisely handled and kept under national control, will be a business as permanent as any other, and of the utmost importance to the people.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

kept up no correspondence
"I did not hear from him directly, my lord," replied the knight, "as we have, in fact, kept up no correspondence.
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

kept under naval control
But this exception was modified by Spain's declaring her intention to send out only auxiliary cruisers taken from the mercantile marine and kept under naval control.
— from Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by Trumbull White

keep up no connection
“Maybe I don’t look like an Irishman or talk like one,” the other went on, “but that’s because I was taken to America when I was a little shaver, knee-high to a grasshopper, an’ my folks didn’t keep up no connection with Irishmen.
— from The Return of the O'Mahony: A Novel by Harold Frederic

kept under no constraint
They seem to be treated with kindness, and, if young, are kept under no constraint; but, when old enough to be sensible of the fate which awaits them, they are placed in fetters and guarded.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston


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