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held and out
About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade, as best Mike could make out in the moonlight.
Straightening up, his eyes ablaze, he held out the battered Stetson.
One fellow who had liver spots held out his hands to the great healer.
The attack started on October 2, 1643, and the Gortonists held out for a day and a night.
If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.
Young Frederick Seward held out his hand.
He slapped the reins on the back of the powerful gray horse and held on as the sulky's wheels hit a pothole and came out with a jolt and went on.
An old gentlemen next to me held a Boy Scout bugle to his lips and blasted away at every fourth step and during the interim shouted out, `` V for Victory ''!!
) Vernon, however, held out for plain oyster roast, and plenty of it, unadorned by herbs or any seasoning but salt, though he did fancy a bit of lemon.
She held out her hand to show that she had money.
He held the razor well out to one side.
The nineteenth-century immigration, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, was not so much concerned, for very few if any among them held slaves: they were mostly in the Northern states where slavery had disappeared or was on the way out, or were too poverty-stricken to own slaves.
Henrietta held her bouquet out of reach and said it was for Doaty.
They came out and held their games and races.
He held his long clenched foot in both hands, and this and his contorted face -- he was trying heroically not to cry out -- made him look like a large skinny old monkey.
For ships, a kedge may be dropped while a ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat to enable the ship to be winched off if aground or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream.
Taking the title " Margrave of Brandenburg ", he pressed the " crusade " against the Wends, extended the area of his mark, encouraged German migration, established bishoprics under his protection, and so became the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1157, which his heirs — the House of Ascania — held until the line died out in 1320.
During the ensuing fight, the defenders of Constantinople held out against the crusader counterattack of 9 April.
He established the consistent use of the chemical balance, used oxygen to overthrow the phlogiston theory, and developed a new system of chemical nomenclature which held that oxygen was an essential constituent of all acids ( which later turned out to be erroneous ).
In 1152 Baldwin had himself crowned sole king, and civil war broke out, with Melisende retaining Jerusalem while Baldwin held territory further north.
In addition to over, Porter and Duff defined the compositing operators in, held out by ( usually abbreviated out ), atop, and xor ( and the reverse operators rover, rin, rout, and ratop ) from a consideration of choices in blending the colors of two pixels when their coverage is, conceptually, overlaid orthogonally:
Colangelo's group was so certain that they would be awarded a franchise that they held a name-the-team contest for it ; they took out a full-page ad in the sports section of the February 13, 1995 edition of the state's leading newspaper, the Arizona Republic.
Most of the European parties eventually came around to the arguments made by the Americans, but France and a few others held out for a shorter cell length.

held and moment
He thought he saw -- it awakened and, for a moment, interested him -- that Elizabeth held a leash in her hand and that a round fuzzy puppy was on the end of the leash.
For a moment she held her face to the empty doorway ; ;
He could tell them his fears of being involved, he could explain what had happened in the old neighborhood and how Mae had misunderstood and how she had held it over him -- the scene was complete in his mind at the moment, even to his own jerkings and snivelings, and Ferguson's silent patience.
Gun held his breath a moment, pushing the volume and pitch of his voice down under the trapdoor in his throat.
I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.
This position may or may not have been held by the de facto Soviet leader at the moment.
Other theologians defended the expression " Immaculate Conception ", pointing out that sanctification could be conferred at the first moment of conception in view of the foreseen merits of Christ, a view held especially by Franciscans.
Of those three books, the Ragyndrudis Codex shows incisions that could have been made by sword or axe ; its story appears confirmed in the Utrecht hagiography, the Vita altera, which reports that an eye-witness saw that the saint at the moment of death held up a gospel as spiritual protection.
The release cord will be held between finger and thumb to be released at just the right moment.
A moment of silence was held in his memory during the pregame ceremonies.
At the end of the ceremony, everyone in the park held hands and sang " Auld Lang Syne " to Williams, a moment which he later said " moved me quite a bit ".
Until 1970, a coadjutor archbishop, one who has special faculties and the right to succeed to the leadership of a see on the death or resignation of the incumbent, was assigned also to a titular see, which he held until the moment of succession.
Returning to the United Kingdom from an economic summit held in Guadeloupe in early 1979, Callaghan was asked, " What is your general approach, in view of the mounting chaos in the country at the moment?
From the moment that Wyatt and his brothers are discovered on the wide and dusty range, trailing a herd of cattle to a far-off promised land, a tone of pictorial authority is struck — and it is held.
* In a unique moment in Olympic history, the 12-foot dinghy event in sailing was held in two different countries.
Although these five elected officials known as " Los Cinco " only held office for two years, many consider this moment the " spark " or starting point of what became known as the Chicano Movement.
The tenderness an ordinary mother might feel towards her beloved child is captured, evoking the moment when she first held her infant son Christ.
Later that day, the city held a moment of silence at 5: 41 pm, to mark the time the tornado struck.
Furthermore, neither side had deployed the ships which they both held in reserve, of which the Danish reserve was arguably the larger, and the truce effectually prevented this deployment at a moment where the British fleet was exposed.
His body lay in state in the Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres ( Rotunda of Distinguished Men ) and he was honored by many heads of state and the United States Senate, which held a moment of silence for him.
However, U. S. National Park Service historian Jerome Green, in his 2005 history of the siege, The Guns of Independence, concurs with the 1881 centennial account by Johnston, noting simply that when Brigadier General O ' Hara presented the sword to Major General Lincoln, " he held it for a moment and immediately returned it to O ' Hara.
They held that the whole cataclysm had been engineered by some great and mysterious secret society of international Jews, who, in the pay and at the orders of Germany, had seized the psychological moment and snatched the reins of government.
But the Royalists were not masters of the city, for the French in Castel Sant ' Elmo and the Republicans in Castel Nuovo and Castel dell ’ Ovo still held out and bombarded the streets, while the Franco – Spanish fleet might arrive at any moment.
The moment of highest prestige for Mantua was the Council held in the city from May 27, 1459 to January 19, 1460, summoned by Pope Pius II to launch a crusade against the Ottoman Turks, who had conquered Constantinople some years earlier.

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