11 Metaphors for held

His hold upon France is the sword, and he has no other.

The hold of the supply-ship mentioned at the head of this chapter was a vast refrigerator, but no ice was used except that produced mechanically by the power in the ship.

Whilome [it] hath been taught, that Fortune's hold is tickle; She bears a double face, disguised, false and fickle,

Speechless he sat, despair forbade to rave This hold was now their dungeon and their grave.

The hold of the ship is a fiery furnace.

A ship's hold is such an omnium gatherum, stowage being necessarily so close, that it usually requires time for who does not know where to put his hand on everything, to ascertain how much or how little is to be found in it.

He could not wage war against a feeble creature, whose hold on life was still an uncertainty; he could not forget his promise to Marian, that no harm should come to her husband through any act of his.

" "Hold, Beekmanthere yet remains a melancholy tale to be toldnay, start notI left our Beulah, and your boy, in perfect health, less than a quarter of an hour since.

Already the heat was increasing, it would soon be unbearable; at this rate their hold on life was a matter of minutes.

Sudden and hard Crowther's answer came; his hold became a grip.

This holding back of the normal evolution of Hebraism was the function of the Priestly Reactiona curious parallel to the function of Catholicism in Mediæval Christianity.

11 Metaphors for  held