"No--nothing, except he seems so scary, and
keeps his doors locked night and day both, and when you knock he won't let you in till he opens the door a crack and sees who it is."
Around and over it whirled, this way and that, and a few moments later the chicken-coop dropped far away into the sea, where the big waves caught it and slid it up-hill to a foaming crest and then down-hill into a deep valley, as if it were nothing more than a plaything to keep them amused.
Just now she was tossing on the bosom of a big ocean, with nothing to keep her afloat but a miserable wooden hen-coop that had a plank bottom and slatted sides, through which the water constantly splashed and wetted her through to the skin!
Beth and I can keep house perfectly well," put in Amy, with an important air.
He and Jo keep us merry, for we get pretty blue sometimes, and feel like orphans, with you so far away.
Meg is a great comfort to me and lets me have jelly every night at tea its so good for me Jo says because it keeps me sweet tempered.
"Well, it will be all the easier to keep the resolution," argued Peter.
"That would be too hard to keep. There are times when I HAVE to cry.
"I will keep my finger-nails neat and clean," I wrote.
But the Ho^tel de Ville's old excellent reputation still
keeps its dreary rooms crowded with travelers who would be elsewhere if they had only some wise friend to warn them.
"And remember," said the Doctor, "that if you do not
keep your promise--if you start killing and stealing again, I shall hear of it, because the canaries will come and tell me.
The squire raised his gun, the rowing ceased, and we leaned over to the other side to
keep the balance, and all was so nicely contrived that we did not ship a drop.