Famous quotes containing the word held:
“Lacustrine man had never been assailed
By such long-rolling opulent cataracts,
Unless Racine or Bossuet held the like.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“And knew that nature could not more refine
What it had given in a looking-glass
And held there, after the living bodys line
Has moved wherever it must move ...”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was trembling, because Id got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: All right, then, Ill go to helland tore it up.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
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