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Example sentences for "would hold"

  • He promised them his perfect friendship, and that he would hold by and improve the country's laws and rights, if he became supreme king of Norway.

  • Stein replied that he would hold no other female child at baptism, and then they parted.

  • Occasionally at night he would order the wires between the War Department and my headquarters to be connected, and we would hold a conversation for an hour or two.

  • I further directed him to repair the railroad up the Shenandoah Valley towards the advanced position which we would hold with a small force.

  • I told him he could take charge of the whole of it or that he could pick and receive sufficient to cover the fine, and I would hold myself in readiness to assist under his counsel to get the money out of the property.

  • When the printing was commenced, Brother Brigham told me that he would hold me responsible for its correctness.

  • The Indians had agreed with me that they would not fight but would hold out as long as they could, but would give up and go back if pressed.

  • When he had seated himself, he would hold it up, so that the children could see it and would repeat a cautionary formula, "I will give you gum!

  • The wolf had found a dead buffalo, and taking a piece of the meat which smelled bad, he would hold it close to Old Man.

  • Whenever he got some clothing, he wore it as long as it would hold together.

  • I wish it were now on the road, that I might try whether it would hold me--I mean with my clothes on.

  • Giving to this one rightly what that one would hold wrongfully in magistrature not in the abstract, and is only a part of its office.

  • It would hold you, and one a span longer.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    flesh greenish; full career; shall just; would always; would answer; would deliver; would expect; would explain; would get; would give; would gladly; would happen; would haue; would hear; would hold; would laugh; would only; would perhaps; would present; would probably; would recommend; would remember; would see; would suit; would then; would vote