keep back
verb- To hold back; to refuse to give or share.
- To stay back; to refrain from approaching.
- To restrict or restrain.
- To prevent (a pupil) from advancing in a course.
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They had nearly reached the first rock when they heard a rough voice cry out, “Keep back!”
“If I’d been the whiting,” said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, “I’d have said to the porpoise, ‘Keep back, please: we don’t want _you_ with us!’”
First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the tiny hands were clasped upon her knee, and the bright eager eyes were looking up into hers—she could hear the very tones of her voice, and see that queer little toss of her head to keep back the wandering hair that _would_ always get into her eyes—and still as she listened, or seemed to listen, the whole place around her became alive with the strange creatures of her little sister’s dream.
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