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Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.

Can I have a hold of the baby?

Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book.

We have a hold here for you.

The Judge accepts the payment, the law no longer has a hold on you, and therefore you are free to walk out of the court a free man or woman.

Despite their seemingly strong hold on life, as indicated by the persistence of movement in decapitation tests, rattlers are relatively frail creatures and are easily killed.

Sculpturing gels provide stiffer hold than styling gels, which provide better hold than mousses.

He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat.

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So I felt my way down the passage back to the vault, and recked not of the darkness, nor of Blackbeard and his crew, if only I could lay my lips to liquor. Thus I groped about the barrels till near the top of the stack my hand struck on the spile of a keg, and drawing it, I got my mouth to the hold.

A hold facility is available; H holds, and S restarts.

Given that there is an average on-hold time of more than five minutes while enquiries are being dealt with, the telephone hold system provided the best opportunity.