What is "holdouts"

Usage examples of "holdouts".

The holdouts kept him in the cellar whose second story had taken a couple of direct hits from a landcruiser's cannon.

One carried a kerosene lamp to shed more light than the candles the holdouts gave Drucker.

The officer - evidently the leader of this band of holdouts - said, "You were consorting with the enemy.

That Heinrich had joined the band of holdouts in Stargard had probably saved Drucker's own neck.

But those holdouts were at least as fanatical about Party ideology as any 55 men.

Drucker hoped it wouldn't tempt some ambitious band of holdouts into trying a hijacking.

The holdouts kept him in the cellar whose second story had taken a couple of direct hits from a landcruiser’s cannon.

They seemed to take the view that getting rid of the holdouts was worth whatever it cost.

He waved his bannerman forward, and they rode past the last Brigaderos holdouts within the walls of Old Residence and down the wall toward Messer Raj's command post.

Worse, once, when they had shelled a warehouse full of holdouts in Lamoru and the dried copra inside had caught fire.

But was he now spying on a secret and well-established colony, set up while the Xiks were still powerful, or just a hideaway for holdouts who had fled the order to lay down their arms?

Did this handful of holdouts believe Arzor was going to furnish them with a nucleus for a new empire?

And the knowledge of the Xik holdouts must be relayed to the authorities at once.

There was Dumaroy’s crowd, and the posse now headed by Kelson, unless either or both had run into the Xik holdouts, or Nitras, or been ambushed by the aroused and thoroughly angry Shosonna.

There was Dumaroy's crowd, and the posse now headed by Kelson, unless either or both had run into the Xik holdouts, or Nitras, or been ambushed by the aroused and thoroughly angry Shosonna.