The lieutenant kept riding his horse out into the fields and saying to him, “I’m drunk, I tell you, mon vieux.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— past tense and past participle of KEEP
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Macmillan
— the past tense and past participle of keep
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Other Word Forms
keep
keeping
keeps
Usage
2 uses of ‘kept’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
17 uses of ‘kept’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
12 uses of ‘kept’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
18 uses of ‘kept’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle