What is "holdeth"

Usage examples of "holdeth".

Crystal Heart Holdeth all and every part, And by night or eke by day The Heart-in-Heart all must obey!

Shagpat, the lion in his lair, he that holdeth a whole city in enchantment!

But I would fain learn what we may of the region round about, and of the safety or danger it holdeth for us ere we sally forth.

Nottingham, where the king hath another castle which oft holdeth many prisoners.

Yea, he still holdeth out his golden sceptre to thee, and will not yet suffer his gate to be shut against thee: wilt thou provoke him to do it?

But this thereof I tell thee, that it holdeth firm and fast The life of the body it lappeth, if the gift of the Godfolk it be.

But yet is it held entangled in a maze of many a thing, As the low-grown bramble holdeth the brake-shoots of the Spring.

Parson, enumerating and examining all these in turn, points out how little security they possess and how little ground for pride they furnish, and goes on to enforce the remedy against pride -- which is humility or meekness, a virtue through which a man hath true knowledge of himself, and holdeth no high esteem of himself in regard of his deserts, considering ever his frailty.

And in hir swough so sadly holdeth she Hir children two, whan she gan hem tembrace, That with greet sleighte and greet difficultee The children from hir arm they gonne arace.

And if yow thynketh this is weel ysayd, Seyeth youre avys and holdeth you apayd.

But amongst the Bookes of Lucius Apuleius, which are perished and prevented, howbeit greatly desired as now adayes, one was intituled Banquetting questions, another entreating of the nature of fish, another of the generation of beasts, another containing his Epigrams, another called 'Hermagoras' : but such as are now extant are the foure books named 'Floridorum', wherein is contained a flourishing stile, and a savory kind of learning, which delighteth, holdeth, and rejoiceth the reader marvellously.

Distributive are those that determine the Rights of the Subjects, declaring to every man what it is, by which he acquireth and holdeth a propriety in lands, or goods, and a right or liberty of action: and these speak to all the Subjects.