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Meanings of keep in confinement in English

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Usage of keep in confinement in English
1
I must pass over several days, during which we were kept in confinement.
The Two Supercargoes; Or, Adventures in Savage Africa
2
He had heard of the moral sufferings of men who are kept in confinement.
Sant' Ilario
3
Evidently he was to be kept in confinement with a view to quickening his resolution.
In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India
4
Those I kept in confinement pupated on a bed of baked gravel, in a tin bucket.
Moths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost Cabin
5
Feedlots are where cattle are kept in confinement and fed intensively until they are ready for slaughter.
Reuters
6
Was he not still kept in confinement?
The Great Lone Land / A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the...
7
The house or hut in which he was kept in confinement had only very lately gone into ruins.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17,...
8
He had been kept in confinement all night, and in the morning his terms of peace had been accepted.
Manasseh: A Romance of Transylvania
9
His protector, Duke John Frederic of Saxony, was also captured and kept in confinement in Austria until his death.
The Age of the Reformation
10
I was kept in confinement two months, and afterwards in arrest under three thousand dollars bail for five months.
Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
11
They were kept in confinement about three weeks, when it was whispered among them that deliverance was at hand.
Across India; Or, Live Boys in the Far East
12
In this country (England) we have rather more than thirty, most of which I have kept in confinement.
The Junior Classics, Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories
13
Instantly a bright light, which had been kept in confinement, escaped, flooding the world with daylight for the first time.
Short Sketches from Oldest America
14
Only this morning I signed an order that he should be kept in confinement till he died, here or elsewhere.
The Wanderer's Necklace
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The girl they kept in confinement, on the pretext that by so doing they should prevent me from betraying Egypt to Cambyses.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07
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After being kept in confinement for five days they were released, and told to get back into Kansas as rapidly as possible.
My Native Land / The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, a...