The greatest emotion his royal mind displayed at the loss of a servant so faithful and so ruined, was a particular desire to lay hold of fifteen hundred pounds which the Cardinal was reported to have hidden somewhere.
Queen Mary's next object was to lay hold of Elizabeth, and this was pursued with great eagerness.
You can have it now, and there is only one way to have it, and that is to lay hold of Him who is the Life.
And that is exactly what you have to give to Jesus Christ, simply to lay hold of Him as a man lays hold of the heart that loves him, and leans his whole weight upon it.
Let us lay hold by true faith on the mighty work which He has done on the Cross, then we shall rejoice to see our Brother on the throne, when the 'judgment is set and the books are opened.
How is it possible for one person to lay hold of and to come to another?
There are multitudes of this kind in all ages, honestly wishing to lay hold of eternal life, able to point to virtuous conduct, anxious to know and do anything lacking, and yet painfully certain that something is wanting somewhere.
And much more is that the case in regard to religion, which is the highest object of pursuit, and in regard to those capacities and powers by which we lay hold of God.
When you rate him you may lay hold of an ear and shake it, but not with violence.
Then he stumbled, and he had to lay hold of the bedpost.
Then a mad desire seized him to lay hold of her--by the arms, by the shoulders, by the throat.
They abused each other badly in their efforts tolay hold of his money-bags.
He wanted to fall on Pete; to lay hold of him, to choke him.
They are told to believe, it is true; but what their faith is to lay hold of, and what the Lord requires them to do that they may serve him acceptably, is not made clear to their minds.
These statements the simplest mind can lay hold of.
And, indeed, in our low and contracted state of mental power here we are barely able with our highest and broadest reaches of thought to lay hold of more than the hem of salvation's garment.
I wish that I could implant in the heart of every sinner here to-day such a fear of sin and its awful consequences as would lead him to flee for refuge, to lay hold of the hope set before us in the Gospel.
A right saving faith, is, for a man to be enabled of God's holy Spirit, to lay hold on what the man Christ hath done in his won person, when he was in the world?
When this law with its thundering threatenings doth attempt to lay hold on thy conscience, shut it out with a promise of grace: cry, The inn is taken up already; the Lord Jesus is here entertained, and here is no room for the law.
I am only able to see a truth sparkling here and there, and to try to lay hold of it.
Thereupon he went to the bed to lay hold of him and shake him.
And never more, save in twilight dreams, did he lay hold on his childhood again.
But regeneration, and not re-organization, is experienced by him when he is enabled to lay hold of God's Covenant.
On the promise of eternal life the heirs of it lay holdin Covenanting; and to this they were chosen.
Naaman, heathen-like, wanted something sensuous for his confidence in the prophet's cure to lay hold upon.
Everything has two handles, and it depends on ourselves by which of them we lay hold of it, and whether we shall receive a shock that kills, or blessings.
But there was nothing in the injunction given for his superstition to lay hold of.
No soda in camp, and this gum don't seem to lay hold of me!
Nevertheless, his long fingers itched tolay hold of the strangers and put an end to this tale which threatened ruin.
His own name was being pronounced in shocked tones; the splash from an oar filled his face and strangled him, but he managed to lay hold of the blade, and was drawn in until outstretched hands seized him.
Nobody awaketh themselves out of their deadness and security, to lay hold on thee.
We trouble ourselves to find the operations of a spiritual life, before we lay holdon Christ, who is the life of our souls.
Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the eternal life, unto which thou wast called, and didst make the good profession before many witnesses.
And they sought to lay hold of him, but feared the multitudes, since they held him as a prophet.
And his betrayer had given them a signal, saying: Whom I shall kiss, that is he; lay hold of him, and lead him away securely.
And they sought to lay hold of him, but feared the people; for they knew that he spoke the parable against them; and they left him, and went away.
And hearing of it, his kinsmen went out to lay hold of him; for they said: He is beside himself.
But as Wych Hazel's little foot passed slowly up from stair to stair, one thing in her mind came out in clear black and white, of one thing she was sure: she must lay hold of those immutable things after which she had striven before.
And so, reaching her hands out blindly through the dark, the girl did now and then lay hold of the Eternal strength, and for a while sometimes found rest.
Besides, the governor of Mergui would probably be glad to lay hold of any plausible evidence against you, as affording him the best chance of avoiding any future reckoning either with you or his superiors.
At first all seemed to go on very well; but just as he was about to lay holdof the gaudy prize, there arose a sudden squall, which threw both him and his supporters into confusion, and the whole living pyramid came to the ground together.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lay hold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
