53 examples of hold-ups in sentences

The hold-up of railroad trains is now of frequent occurrence, and is not confined to the unsettled sections of the country.

Twenty years ago some hold-up men from New York robbed a bank in Delaware, and were caught, and given 50 lashes apiece on the bare back, by a big negro, and there has never been a burglary in Delaware since.

They laid up on the worn benches of the Silver Dollar or the Same Old Luck like beached vessels, and their talk ran on endlessly of "strike" and "contact" and "mother lode," and worked around to fights and hold-ups, villainy, haunts, and the hoodoo of the Minietta, told austerely without imagination.

they evidently anticipated a hold-up, and no doubt arrived home with a breathless tale of two suspicious-looking characters hanging about the neighbourhood.

The temptation to do something startling is almost irresistible; robberies will be planned, hold-ups thought of, abductions contemplated; the life of a desperado entertained.

So that first day was a specimen in the matter of hold-ups and arrests.

Thirteen, we calculated, was our average number of hold-ups on our early "marching days"; that is to say, during those wanderings which led us by foot, train, ox cart, and automobile past the double sector of Antwerp's fortifications, through the Belgian fighting lines to Ghent and Termonde, and thence into the arms of the German pickets on the outskirts of Brussels.

Because a large part of the railroad line between Eschen, Cappelen, and Antwerp had been torn up, because there would be many hold-ups, and because I couldn't speak a word of Flemish, I decided against the overland route.

Horse-thieves and hold-ups and Lord knows what-all they are.

"They'd pull off a couple of hold-ups, then they'd ride off to one of these squatter places and lay up for ten days, maybe, drinkin' and feedin' up themselves and their hosses.

It was high noon, but they found during the hold-up, a bit of shade and breeze on a commanding hill.

The Split Canyon hold-up.

" "Well, Lord Ralles," I said, "I hope for your sake, then, that you'll never be in a hold-up, for I should feel about you as the runner of a locomotive did when the old lady asked him if it was'nt very painful to him to run over people.

That fellow standing in the ditch is Jack Drute, who was concerned in the D.& R.G. hold-up three years ago.

"That is the queerest hold-up of which I ever heard," I remarked to Miss Cullen.

It was a run of seven hours, getting us in a little after eight, and in those hours I had done a lot of thinking which had all come to one resultthat Mr. Cullen's party was concerned in the hold-up.

"They're gettin' the fellers together, and sayin' that yer shot a woman in the hold-up.

It was easy enough to see that it was a hold-up, pure and simple.

The attacked party unearthed ugly looking guns and opened fire on the hold-ups instead.

"The broken country to which the hold-ups headed was a delusion as far as safety was concerned.

There was an early train out of town that morning, and at a place where they stopped for breakfast he sat at the table with several drummers who were in the hold-up, a most attentive listener.

The place is little more than a watering-station on that line, but it was an inviting place for hold-ups.

Dick Turpin and Jonathan Wild never were fonder of having the daring hold-ups that other highwaymen perpetrated laid to their doors, than are these modern bandits of being credited with ruthless deeds that they did not commit.

Each man ran his own machine without the slightest expert assistance; the men in over-alls with kits of tools lurking along the roadside were modern brigands seeking opportunities for hold-ups; now and then they would spring out upon an unoffending machine, knock it into a state of insensibility, and abuse it most unmercifully.

"Oh, that's all right, my man," the "held-up" one answered cheerfully.

53 examples of  hold-ups  in sentences