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Definition of Keepers
1. keeper [n] - See also: keeper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keepers
Literary usage of Keepers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications (1848)
"of U« civil magistrates, be custodes, keepers of the church and worship of God,
... If the Roman emperors were keepers, what keepers were the apostles, ..."
2. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Keeper of Oriental Printed Hooks and Manuscripts. Assistant keepers ... ES Edwards
Asii<lanl keepers, *TGH James; AF Shore. Keeper of Western Asiatic ..."
3. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1901)
"The keepers were to be chosen from the four-and-twenty, and the keepers and ...
The burgesses having elected the keepers, and perhaps also the council, ..."
4. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore (1910)
"Accordingly on the 2^th of October last, we presented to the Agents of the three
corporations, a petition signed by some fifty of the Boarding House keepers ..."
5. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1864)
"Assistant keepers and guards are required and expected to be ever alert and ...
At meals it is the business of the keepers to attend to the wants of the men ..."
6. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"If one of these lions enraged is going to assail the spectators, the lion-keepers
hold under his nose the confiture of Gazelles' meat with opium, ..."
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