Trees grow there also, but the wind's power is so great that trees have to transform themselves into clinging vines, that they may get a firm hold on the steep precipices.
He took a firm hold on the clasp, and pulled it off.
If we are fortunate enough to obtain a specimen of a louse, human or otherwise, we must not fail to notice its strong grasping claw, used for taking a firm hold of the hair of the creature on which it lives.
On this account potato disease and many other fungus diseases are rendered more serious in that the farmer is not and cannot be aware that his crop is attacked till the disease has taken a firm hold.
THE FOOT OF A FLY The two claws enable the fly to walk up rough surfaces, whilst the suckers between the claws give it a firm hold on smooth surfaces.
The old gods of Latium still retained a firm hold on the devotion of the simple masses, as crowds of inscriptions record.
But the Cynic movement, as a whole, rested on no scientific tradition, and the most serious and effective preacher of its doctrine needed only a firm hold of a few simple truths, with a command of seizing and incisive phrase.
The government must have a firm hold on the purse and sword.
A firm hold of the head will thus be gained, and the jaws are prevented from being closed by the pain which every effort to shut the mouth produces.
On these the pups can take a firm hold; and as they are the most capacious, no doubt they present temptations against which the lesser glands anteriorly placed cannot compete.
Lasse had to take a firm hold of him, for it looked as if he would throw himself into the fight.
She wanted him to stay in bed for a few days and try to get rid of the cold before it took a firm hold.
She should take a firm hold of the upper crutch of the saddle with her right knee; sit well into the saddle, and not on the back of it, because the further back she sits, the greater the concussion when the horse alights.
The reins should be passed into the right hand, with which, holding the crop also, the rider should take a firm holdof the upper crutch of the saddle.
The hunters who ride upon the Elephant sit in a kind of box called a howdah, which is strapped firmly upon the animal's back, or else merely rests upon a large flat pad furnished with cross-ropes for maintaining a firm hold.
It prefers hot and dry situations, its feet being defended by a thick coating of stiff hairs, which serve the double purpose of protecting it from the heat, and giving it a firm holdon the ground.
It is an exceedingly active creature, leaping from rock to rock with wonderful rapidity, its little sharp hoofs giving it a firm hold of the hard and irregular surface of the stony ground.
In practical administration this historic distinction was sometimes observed, at others ignored, but in religious tradition it had a firm hold.
Not less active was Sir Edgar Vincent, the financial adviser, who kept a firm hold on the purse-strings and ruthlessly cut down expenditure in all departments except that of irrigation (see S Finance).
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firm hold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
