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Example sentences for "laying hold"

  • He should also be particularly cautious in laying hold of withered branches, or those that have suffered decay at their junction with the body of the tree, in consequence of the growth of moss, or through the effects of wet.

  • That there is none other way to be justified in the sight of God, but by laying hold of what the Son of Mary (Jesus) did do and suffer in his own person, when he was in the world.

  • Such as preach up free grace,--laying hold on Christ's righteousness and renouncing our own righteousness.

  • The ambassadors in terror stood silent by, but Archelaus endeavored with humble supplications to assuage his wrath, laying hold on his right hand and weeping.

  • This plate is called the hearth; its purpose will appear presently; it may be taken out and replaced at pleasure, by laying hold of the handle in its front.

  • By faith man, laying hold of the personality of God in Christ, becomes a true person.

  • Faith is the soul's laying hold of Christ as its only source of life, pardon, and salvation.

  • This representation rests upon a wrong conception of faith as laying hold of a promise or a doctrine, rather than as laying hold of the living and present Christ.

  • Faith saves by laying hold of God by Christ (1 Peter 1:5).

  • You know what work the Lord, by laying hold of the woman of Samaria, made among the people there.

  • In the seventeenth century William Harvey, laying hold of the central mechanism of the blood stream, opened up a path of inquiry which his own age and the century which followed trod with marked success.

  • The tapuyo overtook it before it had cleared the screening of tree-tops; and, laying hold of a piece of cord which was attached to its stem, took it in tow.

  • As the patron spoke, he reached down, and, laying hold of the captive, drew him close to the side of the dead-wood.

  • Laying hold of the mattress, I pulled it and its burden away from the closet door into the middle of the floor.

  • Now," continued he, laying hold of the coil of sennit, and tossing back one end over an empty water-cask.

  • Laying hold on those pieces that were nearest, he succeeded in forming a rude sort of raft, upon which he and his protege were enabled to pass the remainder of the night.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both sections; compensated emancipation; dear creature; done either; excellent friend; first edition; first period; good thoughts; great prosperity; had never been able; haue said; inches wide; just nothing; laying down; laying duties; laying hold; laying them; mining operations; never goin; rotten wood; sharp lookout; sided warbler; that occasion; this volume; woman called