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"Keep tabs on" Quotes from Famous Books

... see, you hope to keep tabs on our course by ear, when the eye fails us; is that it, Jack?" ...

— Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast - or Through Storm and Stress to Florida • Louis Arundel

... Thode jumped to his feet. "I remember it all now. That was one of the letters that was stolen from Larkin's desk by a clerk we found to be in the secret employ of Chase and Wiley! They'd corrupted him in an effort to keep tabs on the progress we were making down here. We didn't prosecute him because of the notoriety, but we made him leave the East when we discovered his operations. It never occurred to me that any of the stolen letters could be put ...

— The Fifth Ace • Douglas Grant

... preservation programs already in movement or initiated by this report, and perhaps most of all through aroused and informed public interest. There is room for a broadly based citizens' watchdog organization to keep tabs on Basin affairs and to exert leverage in such critical fields as local planning. It might be formed as a new group or might be built around an existing organization such as the new Potomac Basin Center, whose function has been to comment impartially and intelligently on Basin ...

— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior

... that sort to carry messages," objected Carter. "Maybe you're right. We have not watched him long enough to find out. We've got nothing yet on the young fellow. Maybe he's the real boss of the outfit. At any rate he is the one the Chief is anxious to have you keep tabs on. Are you ...

— The Apartment Next Door • William Andrew Johnston

... to could keep tabs on him pretty well, eh? That's easier to do in a little country place like that, where everyone knows the business of everyone else, than it would be in a big ...

— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters - or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed • Robert Maitland