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Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?

The Girl With Glass Feet

Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.

Getting the Girl

They understood what had really held the market together before. Violence. After all, what good was a debt if the creditor couldn't compel it to be paid?

Guardian

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

House Made of Dawn

She realised she was whimpering. Sir held her closer, his hard grip reassuring. This wasn't a dream; he really was here.

Breaking Free

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life

. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]

The Bay of Noon

Seeing how I've held your penis in my hand, I think that puts you firmly in the not a stranger category.

Because of You

I finally became a scuba diver at age 15 or so, and a couple of years after that, I attended a dive show that is held every year in Boston. It's the oldest one in the world and it's still going on - it's called the Sea Rovers.

Brian Skerry

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

K'naan

The wind held the door open for me, and I appreciated it. Who knew the breeze was such a southern gentleman?

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.

Angelica

Yellowdog, where does sorrow go?” He held his heart. “Lives here, in each of us.

A Horse Named Sorrow

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

State of Fear

The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.

Serial Killers

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

I am a walking disaster held together with beauty.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

You told me once that freedom was my right.” I held his gaze. “Maybe you should do something with it.

The Mime Order

Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.

Nightwoods

One deep breath, one last step and out into oblivion where death held out its arms into a welcoming embrace.

The Last Step

And I held her, this girl who had saved me and continued to save me every day.

Light in the Shadows