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Example sentences for "still held"

  • Mrs. Blyth felt the hand which she still held in hers, and which had hitherto trembled a little from time to time, grow steady and warm in her grasp, and dropped it.

  • Considering the early age at which he died, his compositions are fairly numerous, and the best, a trio for piano and strings, is still held in high esteem.

  • The midsummer fair established by Reginald de Mohun is still held.

  • This baronetcy is still held by his descendants.

  • And Northrop, Commissary-General, is still held by the President, contrary to the wishes of the whole Confederacy.

  • Dispatches from the West show that we still held Vicksburg at the last dates; and, moreover, Gen.

  • I fear that the port of Charleston is closed finally--if indeed, as I hope, the city will be still held by Beauregard.

  • It makes me feel that I am still held somewhat in the esteem of the people whose friendship I so very much covet and desire to retain.

  • I will not talk longer; I thank you for this magnificent evidence that I am still held in kindly regard by the Republicans of Shelby County, and bid you good-night.

  • Thus Lourdes water, bottled and exported, is still held to possess curative virtue on account of the Virgin's original blessing bestowed upon the Lourdes spring.

  • For souls not yet perfected but still held on earth I have foretold a growth in holiness.

  • But my client was pouring out a stiff helping from the decanter, which he still held in his hand.

  • But when he glanced at her he saw to his surprise that the mood of abstraction into which she had fallen still held her; that the discussion which had aroused Eldon Parr to such dramatic anger had left her serious and thoughtful.

  • I nodded and was starting, but he still held me.

  • When Myles found himself alone with Lady Alice, he knew not where to look or what to do, but twisted the piece of clematis which he still held in and out more industriously than ever.

  • So saying, he saluted Myles with the butt of the spear he still held, and passed by to his end of the lists.

  • The poor fellow dropped from the wall into the garden, and when they found him, he still held a bunch of flowers in his hand, which he had perhaps been gathering for his sweetheart.

  • The naval supremacy of Great Britain was limited, and was for a time menaced, in consequence of the advance of the French armies on land.

  • That city, with Fronsac and Bayonne, still held out; but famine at length compelled them to surrender.

  • She arrived at Oxford with the Earl of Gloucester and a few followers, whom motives of policy, or a regard for their knightly honour, still held attached to her fortunes.

  • Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the subject of those whom the law strikes.

  • He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking.

  • Henry Hill, increased every moment by troops ascending from the valley, still held fast, with no hope indeed of victory, but with a stern determination to maintain their ground.

  • But Jackson, although Ashby had been driven in, still held obstinately to his position, and from Woodstock and Edenburg Banks refused to move.

  • Then her eyes fell on the crumpled telegram I still held in my hand, and she reached to take it.

  • The grip of poverty, which was fiercer than the grip of armies, still held us, and the few stately houses showed tenantless and abandoned in the midst of their ruined gardens.

  • I took her hand, and turning we moved down the walk while I still held it in mine.

  • He looked at me as if he knew not the use of the opera-glass, which he still held, and even had the assurance to offer it to me.

  • Ludovico, gently drawing her towards him by the hand he still held locked in his own.

  • This view was held by the Avatamsaka School of Mahayanism, and is still held by Zenists.

  • Such a view was held by the Dharmalaksana School of Mahayanism, and is still held by some philosophers called idealists.

  • Such a view was held by the Madhyamika School of Mahayanism, and is still held by some religionists and philosophers of the present day.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    greatest breadth; long breath; melancholy tone; soon followed; still called; still extant; still farther; still further; still future; still higher; still keeping; still kept; still larger; still later; still lives; still loved; still observed; still remains; still retained; still retains; still shown; still tongue; still very; still visible; still worse; still young