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To keep company with

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See under Keep, v. t.
To frequent the society of; to associate with; as, let youth keep company with the wise and good.
- Ps. xix. 13.
To accompany; to go with; as, to keep company with one on a voyage; also, to pay court to, or accept attentions from, with a view to marriage.

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As the conversation of fellows of this kind is of all others the most detestable to men of any sense, the cloth was no sooner removed than Mr Jones withdrew, and a little barbarously left poor Mrs Whitefield to do a penance, which I have often heard Mr Timothy Harris, and other publicans of good taste, lament, as the severest lot annexed to their calling, namely, that of being obliged to keep company with their guests.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
He looked at the old chair, and thought it quite too shabby to keep company with a new set of mahogany chairs and an aristocratic sofa which had just arrived from London.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The occasion of this interruption we can only explain by resuming the adventures of another set of our characters; for, like old Ariosto, we do not pique ourselves upon continuing uniformly to keep company with any one personage of our drama.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Sir Walter View in context
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