"How long do you think they mean to keep us here?"

And mean to keep so, for the matter of that.

Which meant to keep the peace I had to be willing to talk about it.

"And so you truly mean to keep this girl in service?"

And I mean to keep that fresh all the time.

He meant to keep on going, right down to Florida.

But I can tell you they never meant to keep their agreement.

I meant to keep my date without its other half.

And he means to keep them at arm's length in other ways as well.

It was the voice of a man who meant to keep on living.