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"Keeper" Quotes from Famous Books

... casting out of hands, moving and wagging of the head, grinding and gnashing together of the teeth; always they will arise out of their bed, now they sing, now they weep, and they bite gladly and rend their keeper and their leech: seldom be they still, but cry much. And these be most perilously sick, and yet they wot not then that they be sick. Then they must be soon holpen lest they perish, and that both in diet and in medicine. ...

— Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus • Robert Steele

... has a vote occupies a double position; he is a Mormon in religion and a Mormon in political faith. In that way every office is filled with a Mormon, or with a Gentile who can be blind to Mormon iniquities. To-day a bigamist in Utah has no more to fear from the law than has a gambling-house keeper in the city ...

— The Mormon Menace - The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite • John Doyle Lee

... blunderbuss and shut his eyes, and would infallibly have pulled the trigger, if Sandy Black, who had in some measure become his keeper, had not seized his wrist and wrenched the weapon ...

— The Settler and the Savage • R.M. Ballantyne

... own needless indulgences: and the publican knows it; knows, sometimes in definite certainty, always in broad suspicion, that he is receiving money which does not in right belong to his customer. Of course he cannot be convicted by law; but in a moral estimate he is comparable to a lottery-keeper who accepts from shopmen money which he suspects is taken from their master's till, or to a receiver of goods which he ought to suspect to be stolen. Such is the immoral aspect of traders, who now claim "compensation," if the twelve- ...

— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking

... pig keeper. "Here goes! The dragon grows small at night! He sleeps under the root of this tree. I use him to light ...

— The Book of Dragons • Edith Nesbit

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