kapes

I don't know but wan house where they kapes more, and their own b'ys does the drivin ', and that wouldn't do us no good.

The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

Why, either his sperit, or the devil in his shape, kapes watch over it; and all the money in Dublin wouldn't timpt me there agin after dark. '

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

Praise kapes Pat and Moike and Andy doin 'their best to get more of it.

The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

Jim says he'll be one of the rich men of the town if he kapes on as he's begun.

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

They make a purty couple, bedad! an 'they do say she kapes him in order.

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

But first do you notice how clean Jim kapes things?

The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

An 'a fine muss she'll be in ef she kapes on, indade and indade!

A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day Helen M. Winslow

Fer t'is be the help av Shtromberg that Moncrossen kapes a loine on th 'men an' gits by wid his crooked wor-rk.

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

It's her poor, thin face an 'her smile that kapes yer mind from the rale doctorin'.

Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road 1921

No matther how quick a man is, if he kapes at ut long enough he meets up wid some felly that bates him till it -- wanst.

Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters 1916