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Meanings of kept the stage in English

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Usage of kept the stage in English
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Should we have prohibited the railways and kept the stage-coach drivers?
My Life and Work
2
All through life they kept the stage waiting without punctilio.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 / Little J...
3
That night Nur-el-Din kept the stage waiting for five minutes.
Okewood of the Secret Service
4
The Monody does not seem to have kept the stage more than five or six nights;-noris this surprising.
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — ...
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He had not only poetical, but dramatic genius; and his "Emilia Galotti" has kept the stage until to-day.
The Unseen World, and Other Essays
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His plays, in one form or another, have always kept the stage even in the most degenerate condition of public taste.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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If "The Good-Natured Man" can scarcely be said to have kept the stage, it is still the delight of the student in his closet.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III
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"You have alarmed us beyond measure- keptthe stage waiting, and now it is gone!"
From Sand Hill to Pine
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