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Example sentences for "hold him"

  • She would continue to hold him in her silken string, and keep him under the spell of her fascinations.

  • She could not utter more, but her hand grasped his with a fierce pressure, as if wanting to hold him fast in the very moment of refusal.

  • Oh, I am not afraid of losing him, we hold him by a strong triple cord, spun by the Devil.

  • He threw the villain down, and then wouldn't hold him.

  • He ambled Dollard, bulky slops, before them (hold that fellow with the: hold him now) into the saloon.

  • BELLO: Hold him down, girls, till I squat on him.

  • Sad however because it lasts only a few years till they settle down to potwalloping and papa's pants will soon fit Willy and fuller's earth for the baby when they hold him out to do ah ah.

  • Yes, in a few months the woman had learnt to hold him up high in her arms, for with care and quiet she had grown stronger.

  • Afterwards he was for ever wanting to pull me about, and his mother noticed that that pleased me, for when I brought home anything good, an egg or a flower or a cake, she used to hold him up and place his little hands on my beard.

  • I dread they will not be able to hold him chained; in which evil case I fear me I shall have to go, my lord, and take the perils of the time as they come.

  • My spirit hath of late been driven to hold him company, my lord.

  • I had but half a right to hold him, and he deserves his freedom.

  • We on our side had taken Horry Sims a prisoner, and were striving to hold him, while the king's soldiers were much the same as depriving us of our liberty now that they no longer allowed us to make our way through the lines.

  • While we hold him he is a menace, and but for the necessity of keeping watch over the cur we would be at liberty to move around at will.

  • We are forced to hold him, as a matter of course.

  • Such preparations did not daunt the spirits of Leonidas and his men, and his wife, Gorgo, not a woman to be faint-hearted or hold him back.

  • There is a disposition in many persons just now to deny the poet his benefit of clergy, and to hold him no better than other people.

  • At that moment Pollux began to rear and kick, so that it took both the 'ostlers to hold him.

  • And it was all that gentleman could do to hold him.

  • They can't hold him a day--can they, Lige?

  • You ought to hold him in he can't work as hard as he used to.

  • He wound up in a remarkably foolish position with the back of his neck on the back of the chair, his arms in a highly strained position to hold him there, and his feet touching the deck of the cabin a good five feet away.

  • He sat before a group of radar screens, with thigh grips across his legs to hold him in his chair.

  • He sat in a chair with thigh grips to hold him in place, and he wore a gravity simulation harness.

  • The boy was still hitting out in all directions; the policeman had to hold him off at arm's length.

  • They got him on his legs again, but had to hold him upright; he stood as limp as though asleep, and his eyes were staring stupidly.

  • Gustav had to hold him firmly so as to manage him.

  • He was full of audaciously high spirits; he threw his cap on the ground outside the door, and rushed into the bedroom as though some one were trying to hold him back.

  • They used to hold him up to the portrait.

  • If you are alone, and manage him rightly, it will not require any more force to lead or hold him than it would to manage a broken horse.

  • As soon as he will allow you to hold him by a tolerably short strap, and to step up to him without flying back, you can begin to give him some idea about leading.

  • I hold him but a fool, that would endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.

  • I remember he was so bewildered by his unexpected victory that one of his backers had to hold him fast in the saddle, or he would have dismounted before riding to scale, and so lost the stakes.

  • Nor can he take us by surprise: you know, I hold him all-encompassed by my listeners.

  • The Duke must never leave This strong hold on free footing; for I have Pledged life and honour here to hold him prisoner, 55 And your assistance 'tis on which I calculate.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been produced; being seen; fiscal agent; follow him; fought like; fresh troops; great abilities; hold good; hold him; hold office; hold property; hold their; hold them; hold themselves; hold together; hold water; holding her; holding the; holds good; hour agone; incised lines; raise them; third mate; while sitting; who stood; young brother