keep apart

And I understand Mrs. Makely that it is human nature to want to keep apart?

Whenever we were estranged we could keep apart for days; and to begin with, every such separation was a relief.

You will have to go away for a year or two, keep apart from automobile racing and automobile people, and live gossip down.

Once apart from him, I was determined to keep apart; and we walked back, side by side, saying very little more by the way.

Spedding's suggestion is that things are here run together which Shakespeare meant to keep apart.