But the common tricks that soldiers use, being weak in numbers, to appear from the tracks to be strong, or being strong to appear weak, these were for me so common and I held them so cheap that I care not to tell of them.
He held them up to look at them in the light from the doorway of the connecting rooms.
Jean's eyes met the grey ones, held them--and suddenly he smiled, accepting the challenge.
She did not let them slip from her guidance; held them close as dogs to the trail.
For a still second a strange seriousness, having no place in the scene, held them.
She was proud of her beautiful face and figure and held them as divine gifts, the surest tokens of the fulfilment of her desires.
He held them in one hand and with the other swept her magnificent hair around her throat, grasped it in his iron fist, and thus choking her, thrust the shivering figure backward into the chair.
When he rose in a church assembly his commanding figure, with its high nervous voice, caught every eye and ear and held them to the last word.
Illustration: “HE HELD THEM UP SO THAT THE BOY OVER THE FENCE COULD SEE THEM.
He held them up so that the Boy Over the Fence could see them, and said, “So there!
I held them up into the form of human shoulders, and through a rent his lantern beat directly on my face!
He would not sleep; his eyelids almost ached with the intensity with which he held them apart.
He held them up with a dramatic gesture of admiration.
Again and again the Germans were launched to the assault, but such a withering fire did we keep up that we held them constantly in check.
The only solid facts were that the Germans held the great cities of England, and that the millions of Great Britain were slowly but surely preparing to rise in an attempt to burst asunder the fetters that now held them.
She sighed at first, as she looked at these things, and then smiled with rather an air of triumph, and, coming to where Agnes reclined on the wall, held them up playfully before her.
He held them a moment; she tried to withdraw them, and he let them go.
He was not a coming captain but a boy again, and he began to think about pleasant ways of passing the time while the ice held them.
It yet seemed incredible that the enemy, who for four terrible years had held them at bay, was about to lay down his arms.
Drake caught his arms, held them tight; "that's not the way to save her!
All too short was the check, but once more we held them--and again.
The fact that he held them is indeed important, for it shows how strongly he had established himself in Tennessee.
But very little need be said of what he did while he held them.
These were all high places for so young a man, and one naturally expects his biographer to linger for many pages over his course while he held them.
But he held them in his hands only a little while so that only the bellies of the reindeer became dry and white.
He held them in his hand until they were dry, and then he called Man to come and see them.
He held them in his hand until they were partly dry, then told Man to look at them.
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