Hold

Famous quotes containing the word hold:

    This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
    Saul Bellow (b. 1915)

    Then when he saw it could hold no more,
    Bishop Hatto, he made fast the door;
    And while for mercy on Christ they call,
    He set fire to the barn and burnt them all.
    Robert Southey (1774–1843)