What is "holds"

Usage examples of "holds".

In shaking hands both demonstrate that his right hand holds no weapon.

The investigation, resolution and exploitation of the mystery cost him much that he holds dear, including his mistress, his career and temporarily his life, but open the stars to mankind.

That is, when it later holds a weapon, how formidable might this hand be?

Chatterford holds parties from time to time, attended by nobility -- yes, parties of exactly that type.

It was the power of such blows that had broken their holds upon each other.

Were fortune other, then it were bad for those who have trusted, for I come to my friend when he call me to aid those he holds dear.

There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross, save a mountain and a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hands counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or lose it as Heaven above may order.

The red blood of the former runs to her knee, but still the brave girl holds the old witch, who fights like a wild cat.

The mineral and organic substances which it holds in suspension heightens its transparency.

We take the proffered right hand of friendship nor inquire if the hidden left holds a knife!

Holmes, however, is, I fancy, of a different way of thinking, and holds to this day that, if one could find the Grecian girl, one might learn how the wrongs of herself and her brother came to be avenged.

At length, sick with longing for those glittering sunset streets and cryptical hill lanes among ancient tiled roofs, nor able sleeping or waking to drive them from his mind, Carter resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark to where unknown Kadath, veiled in cloud and crowned with unimagined stars, holds secret and nocturnal the onyx castle of the Great Ones.

The reason for this is that Inquanok holds shadows which no cat can endure, so that in all that cold twilight realm there is never a cheering purr or a homely mew.

Carter did not wonder at the monstrous evil imputed to them by vague legend, or the fear in which all dreamland holds their abhorrent frozen plateau.

Carter, hitherto wholly passive, now gave that man a terrific push with all the wild strength of fear, so that the victim toppled at once into that gaping well which rumour holds to reach down to the hellish Vaults of Zin where Gugs hunt ghasts in the dark.