15 Verbs to Use for the Word holt

If I hadn't got a holt of his wrist and whanged him over the head with my Colt for all I was worth he'd 'a' had me laid out cold.

He came up smilin'used to say He made his fortune that-a-way; He had hard luck a-plenty, too, But settled down an' fought her through; An' every time he got a jolt He jist took on a tighter holt, Slipped back some when he tried to climb But came up smilin' every time.

" "I'd be the Russian Bear myself, Samantha, with our old buffalo robe, only I've got everything else to do; I could grasp holt of things and squeeze 'em tight and growl and paw first rate.

I've handled every weepon I know how to lay holt on.

No sooner would I git ready to declare a dividend than one of my outside customers would come in and take that dividend and wipe both feet on it, roll on it, stomp it, fly ten foot in the air and come down on it, bite chunks out of it, and then I'd light a match, gather the crumbs from the floor, and wisht I could git holt of something at once easy and reliable.

Let's anybody look at it, and keeps a holt o' the stem-winder.

If you disturb him now he'll desert his holt, and we may have a blank day.

In the meantime it had gripped holt of my hand with fervor.

Raisin children is a bizziniss which haint every mans best holt, and as long as you've got into the bizziness, excoose me for givin you a little wisdom, which you as a parent must swaller without makin up a face.

'What d's she mean?' an' old Mr. Larrabee ketched holt of her arm.

See a team of Skyes racing up a hillside after a fugitive rabbit, tirelessly burrowing after a rat, or displaying their terrier strategy around a fox's earth or an otter's holt, and you will admit that they are meant for sport, and are demons at it.

At one school the teacher did take him out behind the school-house one day to whup him; an' although teacher is a big strong man, Sonny's mighty wiry an' quick, an' some way he slipped his holt, an' fo' teacher could ketch him ag'in

And on one purple tower the moon Hangs her white lampthe night wind's rune Floats faint o'er holt and black lagoon.

"Pete had gained a holt on this lady's affections by falling into the flume and allowin' himself to be piped over the waste-gate.

As he said, it made him glad to think he'd got holt of a man who had the history of the country at his fingers' ends.

15 Verbs to Use for the Word  holt