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Usage examples of holder.

Where the antitrust agenda was concerned, SCAP moved swiftly to clarify its policy of dissolving zaibatsu holding companies and eliminating zaibatsu family members as dominant share holders and officeholders.

Clerkships like the one Albe Cytel had held were as jealously guarded as any guild apprenticeship, and for the same reasons: their holders had an advantage over the hundreds of others who tried to make their living in the trade, and that advantage could be passed from mother to child.

They sat on rolled raffia mats under the awning, their faces lit by a single candle which flickered in a resin holder.

He watched it slash at his own throat now with the stunned incredulity of a house- holder who finds himself savaged by his own bandog, and he threw up his arms as much to shut out the sight as to counter the blow.

Josie reached to the coffee holder and flipped a doggie ear backward on the Beanie puppy.

Meguet chose a sword from the wall of ceremonial swords forged for each Holder, and then held the Cygnet away from the wall until, bending, Hew had carried the fire safely through the small door.

A bunch of socks and Jockey underwear, jeans, shaving and tooth stuff, some black T-shirts, running gear, and a dripless candlestick in a small brass holder.

Mevrouw van Duyl, reading her post and drinking coffee, looked up to wish her a friendly good morning, Estelle was smoking a cigarette in a long holder and listening to a low-voiced monologue from Doctor Peters, and the master of the house sat at the head of his table, making inroads into his toast and marmalade and looking as black as thunder.

A highball on the nightstand was the color of good black coffee as it sat in its fiddly holder.

The SEALs left their two floatation bags with one holder and dove into the restless water no more than eight feet deep here to check for floating mines or steel bars and other obstacles that would rip apart a landing craft.

Preceptors of the militant orders are indeed members of the Hierocracy, and the names of the current holders of those offices have been duly entered in the rolls of this body.

At Many Farms they stopped for breakfast, Thatcher reminiscing about Harrison Houk, cattleman, pillar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, potent Republican, subject of assorted gossip, county commissioner, holder of Bureau of Land Management grazing permits sprawling across the southern Utah canyon country, legendary shrewd operator.

Nevertheless, when Mance spoke to the two servants, he was careful to do so in an undertone, hiding his mouth under cover of the hand with which he removed his cigarette holder from his lips.

A British, Commonwealth, and European gold medallist and holder of the world javelin record, Olympic gold had seemed like an inevitability for the darling of the back pages.

Keeping his peripheral eye on her as he set some tea to brew, he pulled one of his Mundial cooking knives from the maple wood block knife holder and quickly and quietly chopped up some fresh asparagus and set it in a soup stock to cook.