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.

The holding of these races was an elderly institution, and was followed at night by a servants' ball given by one of the squatters.

We only say that the effect of their judgment is cruel, and it shows that the holding of unpopular opinions is, in the eye of the law, an offence which, despite all we had thought to the contrary, may be visited with the severest punishment a woman and a mother can be possibly called on to bear."

No member's conscience need be injuredThe qualification for membership remains the same, "the belief that slave-holding is a heinous crime"No new test has been set

There must have been numbers of such cases with every possible complexity of title; and even if the class that would be actually affected was not large, it was powerful, and every landowner with a defective title would, however small his holding (provided it was over 30 jugera, the proposed allotment), take the alarm and help to swell the cry against the Tribune as a demagogue and a robber.

Throughout this latter part of the century the average holding on the sugar estates was about 180 slaves of all ages.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler, but is moral or unmoral as the duties of the relation of master, parent, employer or ruler are rightly used or abused.

He tells me he was not aware that the holding that there are great defects in the morality of the New Testament, and much imperfection in the character of its Founder, was a question pertaining to God.

It may be that the holding of land will become a prerequisite to active citizenship.