keep in
verb- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see keep, in.
- To require a pupil to stay after school as a punishment.
- To stay blazing (of a fire).
- To cause (a fire) to stay blazing.
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THESE nuts, that I keep in the back of the nest
They never meant to do any more--the Bandar-log never mean anything at all; but one of them invented what seemed to him a brilliant idea, and he told all the others that Mowgli would be a useful person to keep in the tribe, because he could weave sticks together for protection from the wind; so, if they caught him, they could make him teach them.
"Do you know what I keep in this book?"
Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to look in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock Holmes, for they enabled him to keep in touch with all that was going on at the police headquarters.
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