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Sentences starting with held

Held stanchly to other beliefs, too: that wealth carries with it some little measure of responsibility. [9]
Held against the light, my hands seemed transparent. [11]

Sentences ending with held

The old palace would still be great if there were nothing of it but the spacious and lofty hall where the durbars are held. [5]
His editorial connection with the magazine naturally led to his contributing to it numerous articles besides those which were demanded by the requirements of the position he held. [4]
It was Kutuzov, who had been riding round the position and on his way back to Tatarinova had stopped where the service was being held. [2]
The telegraph wires were thrilling almost hourly with messages of death, and the long pine boxes came by almost every train,--no need of asking what they held. [6]
Our fellow-citizens will unite with us in congratulating the bride, whose previous misfortunes have only increased the respect in which she is held. [11]
Lady Belward's fingers trembled on the lace she held. [11]
His eyes dropped towards the spot of ink at the point of the pen the Duke held. [11]
I had not thought of it before, and it is absolutely at variance with any previous ideas I have held. [9]
The secret of this catastrophe Mrs. Falchion, as I believe, held. [11]
The regiments pitched their camp at Herenthals, and here the election was to be held. [10]

Short sentences using held

A groom held their bridles. [10]
The crowd held their breath. [11]
Alma held up the drawing. [8]
The general held similar views. [5]
Parpon held his peace. [11]
It is held on Sunday. [5]
But I held my peace. [9]
They held the keys. [4]
Presently he held it up. [11]
But I held in. [5]

Sentences containing held two or more times

But one of those plates held red currants, and was covered with a red rose; the other held white currants, and was covered with a white rose. [6]
After the meal they walked into the grove of cottonwoods or up by the lakes, and little Fay held Lassiter's hand as much as she held Jane's. [13]
He held a sealed roll or despatch in his right hand, and, while he bowed respectfully to Cleopatra, he seemed entirely to overlook the hands King Euergetes held out in welcome. [10]
How many a night had she thrown her arm over his shoulder, and sought his hand and held it while in the dark silence, wide-eyed, dry-lipped, and with a throat like fire he had held himself back from falling. [11]
Consequently his brethren held him in the sort of awe in which illustrious survivors of a bygone age are always held by their associates. [5]
He was hearkening eagerly to all she might say, and on a sudden he clapped his hand into hers which she held out to him, and his eyes, which he had held set on the floor, fired up with a flash. [10]
She held her charming, youthful head bent slightly on one side, and her right hand held aside the veil which covered the back of her head and fell lightly on her shoulders, a little open over the throat. [10]
Even as Jethro Bass held the mortgages of Coniston and Tarleton and round about, so his lieutenants held mortgages in every town and hamlet of the state, What was a poor farmer to do--? [9]
Had I been at Louisburg, I should have held it, as I held Ticonderoga last July, and drove the English back with monstrous slaughter. [11]

More example sentences with the word held in them

By St. Patrick, you've made yourself captain with the good-will of all, and your iron hand has held the thing together. [11]
He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna. [2]
But when the young count held out his closed hands, saying: "If you choose the red stone, you shall throw first," he pointed to his companion's right hand, and, as it concealed the red pebble, began the contest. [10]
Well, how do you suppose your lower limbs are held to your body? [6]
When they suspected you I held my peace. [11]
I didn't know you held me so cheap. [8]
Indeed, for many years, if there was any exception to the general toleration it was in the social ostracism of those who held and expressed extreme opinions in regard to immediate emancipation, and were stigmatized as abolitionists. [4]
The orator had written his speech all out, and had it in his hand, though he held it back of him out of sight. [5]
Every body has written about the Grotto del Cane and its poisonous vapors, from Pliny down to Smith, and every tourist has held a dog over its floor by the legs to test the capabilities of the place. [5]
King Ptolemy was writing the history of the conqueror of the world, and needed the aged comrade of Alexander, the sole survivor who had held a prominent position in the great Macedonian's campaigns. [10]
He caught her wrists with his great hands, big enough for tall Medallion, and held her. [11]
And beneath this wrath, stimulating and energizing it the more, was the ache in his soul from the loss for which he held these enemies responsible. [9]
I had been wounded lately, and was not able to ride without help; but the good Dwarf took me on behind him, and I held on to him and was safe enough. [5]
He had been wounded in the battle, and here was one who held out the hand of healing to him. [11]
Tom and I would have preferred to sleep in the woods near by, with our feet to the blaze; this was partly from motives of economy, and partly because Tom, in common with other pioneers, held an inn in contempt. [9]
How gladly she would have held back the sun which was bringing on the day of death to this kindest of mistresses, and have spent the rest of her own life in perpetual night, if only her yesterday's deed could but have been undone! [10]
How admiringly they would gaze up at him in his high seat as he gloved himself with lingering deliberation, while some happy hostler held the bunch of reins aloft, and waited patiently for him to take it! [5]
My cousin, who would fain have hindered her from coming in, held her by the arm; and her efforts to shake off the old lady's grasp were all in vain till she caught sight of Herdegen. [10]
Humiliation, in Mr. Worthington's eyes, had an element of publicity in it, and this episode had had none of that element; and Jethro Bass, moreover, was a highwayman who had held a pistol to his head. [9]
Every idea the world then held has been since dissolved and recrystallized. [3]
The first few words had little or no significance for Guida, but presently she was held as by the fascination of a serpent. [11]
I held the woman I hated in my grasp, and thanked the immortals for the boon; but you two--it is not difficult to guess the secret you are still trying to keep from me--you aided her to escape. [10]
She held it without glancing at it, and invited me in. [9]
He was not without emotions in this, but he held himself firm. [11]
Melissa had succumbed with the rest; she had shouted and waved her kerchief, and had not heeded Andreas when he held her hand and asked her to consider what a criminal this man was whom she so eagerly hailed. [10]
Only the soldiers with swords at their sides held their heads erect. [10]
Prince Andrew sighed with relief, smiled, and held out his hand. [2]
The wounded, bandaged with rags, with pale cheeks, compressed lips, and knitted brows, held on to the sides of the carts as they were jolted against one another. [2]
She was smiling with joy, too, and she held out her wasted hands and drew me toward her, kissing me on both cheeks. [9]
Radiant, excited, and with flushed cheeks, he held out both his hands to her. [10]
Makar Alexeevich, frowning with exertion, held on to the pistol and screamed hoarsely, evidently with some heroic fancy in his head. [2]
He crouched down with bated breath and held the bristling dog. [13]
He met me with an expression I failed to fathom, and then my eye was held by a letter in his hand. [9]
But at length, with a grunt of satisfaction, he produced a form and held it under my eyes. [9]
Smith professed himself willing to retire to England, but, seeing the new commission did not arrive, held on to his authority, and began to enforce it to save the whole colony from anarchy. [4]
What it held will, perhaps, never be known, until they are dead and gone, and same curious eye lights on an old yellow letter with the fossil footprints of the extinct passion trodden thick all over it. [6]
But--but see, I will forgive; yes, I will follow thee with good wishes, if thee will promise to help David, whom thee has ever disliked, as, in the place held by thee, thee can do now. [11]
I think you will find that you are held responsible for your husband. [9]
During this the wife's teeth held together as though they were of a piece. [11]
At this the widow held Mary's ankles more tightly, asking, while she wiped the drops from her brow: "What is going on? [10]
My husband is wickedly held a prisoner; I ask for entrance to him. [11]
I know not why it was, but the last three names held my eyes. [11]
Perhaps that was why he had lived so near the person of the Prince, had held office so long. [11]
The strong man, whose powers were doubled by his rage, struggled furiously to escape, but Joshua and his companion held him in an iron grasp. [10]
The man at whose bidding this merrymaking was held stood in a corner watching with folded arms, and none to look at him might know that he was playing for a stake. [9]
The Comtesse Chantavoine, who still held her hand, pressed it, though herself cold as ice with sickness of spirit. [11]
Woe betide him, who received a blow from the two-handed sword the Eletto still held over his shoulder, now with his left hand. [10]
A tawdry constable, who held with a trembling hand the bridle of the tired horse, alone remained. [9]
Thus the Magister, who had waited so long, held back even yet awhile. [10]
A young lady, who had listened to a solemn sermon of Dr. Posthelwaite's, slipped out of Church before the prayers were ended, and hurried into that deserted portion of the town about the Court House where on week days business held its sway. [9]
It, was he who had held back, a fact that in the retrospect caused him some amazement. [9]
Edward Bliss Emerson, who graduated at Harvard College in 1824, three years after Ralph Waldo, held the first place in his class. [6]
Among the youths who at that time enjoyed the hospitality of the Waldstromers, Herdegen's friend, Franz von Welemisl, held the foremost place. [10]
Presently, seeing the whiteness of his face but not the look in his eyes, she turned to the table, and pouring out a glass of water from a pitcher there, held it to his lips. [11]
Her face became white, and almost mechanically she put the letters she held on a writing-table near; then coming to the bed again she looked at the rose with a kind of horror. [11]
La Tremouille turned white with anger, but he pulled himself firmly together and held his peace. [5]
In that moment, while he still held her hand, she experienced the greatest joy that woman ever knows--the bliss of absolute surrender. [4]
The dread in which their sort was held was apparent in the fact that everybody gave them the road, and took their ribald insolences meekly, without venturing to talk back. [5]
The same law which organized the Supreme Court in 1824 also established and organized circuit courts to be held in each county in the State, and five circuit judges were appointed to hold those courts. [7]
The little hand which held the radishes would not have shamed Aurora. [6]
It is disunion which has held our empire together for centuries, and what it has done in the past it may continue to do now and in the future. [5]
Descartes was asked where was his library, and in reply held up the dissected body of an animal. [3]
But at last, when over half a mile of rope had slidden away, it stopped gliding and stood absolutely still--one minute--two minutes--three--while we held our breath and watched. [5]
There were moments when I held and kissed them, when something within me melted: moments when I was away from them, and thought of them. [9]
I suspected it when I heard that she had succumbed to death, which I--yes, I here--had held back from her with severe toil through many a sleepless night. [10]
I thought of what would be best for the country; and besides, Monsieur Coulon Villiers pitched upon my name at once, and held to it. [11]
Fran Lerch perceived what was passing in her mind, and instilled courage until she had finished her work and held up the mirror before Barbara. [10]
Now, who and what the young man is, and the esteem in which he and his father are held by men--" "I know well," interrupted Apollodorus, "and my house has never been so highly honored as in your visit. [10]
Their charming heads were wreathed with flowers too, and looked very like the lovely rosebuds which one of them, on seeing the young men come up, held out to their notice. [10]
Among these images were two statues of Dexter himself, one of which held a label with a characteristic inscription. [6]
Among the latter were Mrs. Tynan and her daughter and Malachi Deely; among those who held their breath in suspence were John Sibley, Studd Bradley the financier, and the Young Doctor. [11]
Councils of war were held over the advisability of seizing Mr. Carvel's house at Glencoe, but proof was lacking until one rainy night in June a captain and ten men spurred up the drive and swung into a big circle around the house. [9]
No post-mortem examinations were held in any of these puerperal cases. [3]
First her horses were driven almost at a gallop; then they were held down to a slow walk; then they were stopped altogether, and she sat in the shade of the trees on the road to her home, pondering--whispering to herself and pondering. [11]
These men present were Catholics, and held religion in superstitious respect, however far from practising its precepts. [11]
On Sunday I went to the Spanish Ambassador's Chapel, where Cardinal Wiseman, in his archiepiscopal robes and mitre, held a confirmation. [14]
Mrs. Falchion's arms went out suddenly, and she caught the wrist that held the dagger. [11]
Hardly a month went by without one of these tramps arriving; and generally loaded with a tale about some princess or other wanting help to get her out of some far-away castle where she was held in captivity by a lawless scoundrel, usually a giant. [5]
They remembered perfectly well the omniscient snobbishness of Thomas Mavick when he held a position in the State Department at Washington and was at the same time a secret agent of Rodney Henderson. [4]
Blame me if we wouldn't have run plumb by it if twilight had held on a little longer. [5]
When daylight came, we found our boat, though badly wrecked, still held together. [11]
He turned this way and that, appealing to every face for help and sympathy; and held out his supplicating hands toward Holmes and began to plead: "Don't, oh, don't! [5]
Then a handkerchief waved a greeting from the vessel to the men on shore, but the hand that held it was a woman's. [10]
He kept close watch over her, and at the least indication of restlessness, that he knew led to tossing and rolling of the body, he held her tightly, so no violent move could reopen her wounds. [13]
She held her watch before her. [5]
Venters knew he wasted time in pondering the question, but it held a fascination not easily dispelled. [13]
Some instinct taught Washington that his present lack of money would be an obstruction, though possibly not a bar, to his hopes, and straightway his poverty became a torture to him which cast all his former sufferings under that held into the shade. [5]
That is, Johnny was--but I held his hat. [5]
The house itself was well-fitted by its unusually palatial size and antique splendor to be the residence of the emperor's viceroy, and the Mukaukas, to whom it all belonged, had in fact held the office for a long time. [10]
The enormous monster was weaving its gray net over Tennis, and all the islands in the water, the Pelican Island, and she herself upon the seat of turf, and held them all prisoned in it. [10]
The old gentleman was weak still, so feeble that he had to be carried to his barge in a chair, a vehicle he had ever held in scorn. [9]
A young gentleman was walking at her side, and reading to her from a paper he held in his hand. [6]
A noble peace was upon it, and the eyes were like lamps of dusky fire, as though they held all the strength of the nerveless body. [11]
His one desire was to know what was happening and at any cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, an exemplary officer of twenty-two years' service, who had never been censured, should not be held to blame. [2]
The ex-Minister Stein was there because his advice was useful and the Emperor Alexander held him in high esteem personally. [2]
What he held was that the artificial differences springing from the social union were disproportionate to the capacities springing from the original constitution; and that society, as now organized, tends to make the gulf wider between those who have privileges and those who have none. [4]
His love, indeed, was that of a father for a daughter; but it held within it as a core the revived love of his youth for Cynthia, her mother. [9]
And though I was somewhat awed by the strangeness of that dark, ill-smelling room, and by the rough company in which I found myself, I held my ground, and spoke up as strongly as I might. [9]
Even the senator was so choked with laughter that he was forced to cast loose one of the buttons which held on his turn-down collar, and Farrar retired into the woods. [9]
Not until he was returning--not, indeed, until he entered the house did the whiff of its degrading, heated odours bring home to him the tragedy which it held, and he grasped the banister on the stairs. [9]

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