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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
“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
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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