One or the other of the fighters was sure to go down before the holds were broken, and they but awaited that fatal fall as a signal to leap in to the death.

Both had holds.

The waxed thread fills the hole better too, and what is of as much consequence as anything, it sticks so that the last stitch doesn't slacken before the next comes, but holds so tight that, although the leather is very springy, it cannot make it slip.

Suppose Mrs. W, adopts it, the next time she holds the pen for you.

I wonder how my misused carcase holds it out.

And the same holds good for twenty citizens, or a hundred, or a thousand.

It is considered peculiarly grateful, and gently stimulating to the stomach, after hard drinking or night-watching, and holds among soups the place that champagne, soda-water, or ginger-beer, does among liquors.

And that cabin of ours holds so little!

Thy tears and love of virtue have the power To make me at an instant true and false: True to distressed beauty and rare chastity; False to King John, that holds the sight of thee Dearer than England or earth's empery.

My heart cannot contain The grief it holds: my eyes must show'r down rain.

[He holds it up.

My weaker senses cannot apprehend The means this stranger us'd to make her speak: There is some secret mystery therein, Conceal'd from Dunstan, which the heavens reveal, That I may scourge this bold, blaspheming man, Who holds religious works of little worth!

Methinks as yet the jest holds pretty well.

Miller, thou art my neighbour, and therein charity holds my hands; but methinks you, having a water-gap of your own, you may do as other millers do, grind your grist at home, knock your cogs into your own mill; you shall not cog with her.

The population of the kingdom not only holds its own, but shows a slight increase which seems remarkable because of the continual drain of young, able-bodied men and women who have removed to our western states.

The father of athletic sports in Sweden is Lieutenant Colonel Victor Gustaf Balck, who holds a military position in the garrison at Stockholm.

He who will not confess a wrong, holds to the wrong.

Through many centuries; and under many vicissitudes this ancient chamber had performed functions of the highest moment, until of late it had come to occupy a position not dissimilar to that which the Supreme Court of the United States yet holds.

To give an example or two from the "Life Drama:" His heart holds a deep hope, As holds the wretched West the sunset's corse Spit on, insulted by the brutal rains.

To give an example or two from the "Life Drama:" His heart holds a deep hope, As holds the wretched West the sunset's corse Spit on, insulted by the brutal rains.

This currency can be of no value to the thieves, as the bank holds a list of the numbers, and their circulation has been ordered stopped.

The girl yields and goes to be his slave, or she holds out stoutly, sometimes taking her own life as the alternative.

"Most of their chants in relation to the other sex are erotic, not emotional; and this holds equally true of those which in some tribes on certain occasions are addressed by the women to the men.

She tries to escape, and when the king holds her, she says: "Son of Puru!

But he holds on; and though he isn't so tall, he is bulkier and denser than his brethren.