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Example sentences for "strong hold"

  • I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope, and my strong hold: my God, in him will I trust.

  • Be thou my strong hold, whereunto I may alway resort: thou hast promised to help me; for thou art my house of defence, and my castle.

  • Be thou my strong hold, whereunto I may alway resort: thou hast promised to help me, for thou art my house of defence and my castle.

  • And so it will be found, that in all the religions that have taken strong hold of the mind of man, the element of a vigorous humanity has mingled, in the character of its gods, with the theistic element.

  • Superstition takes a strong hold of the mind in circumstances such as those in which I was at this time placed.

  • And the LORD shall roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be a refuge unto his people, and a strong hold to the children of Israel.

  • The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that put their trust in him.

  • On their part, they have retired into the judiciary as a strong hold.

  • The principal of them have retreated into the judiciary, as a strong hold, the tenure of which renders it difficult to dislodge them.

  • Notwithstanding temporary bickerings have taken place with France, she has still a strong hold on the affections of our citizens generally.

  • A sisterhood of the Grey Nuns have also taken a strong hold of the North-West.

  • Especially to the Lords of the Admiralty, on whom he had a strong hold, did he represent the glory and value of fitting out an expedition to Hudson Bay on this quest.

  • And he marched with his army to Bethsura, which was a strong hold of the Jews: but he was repulsed, he failed, he lost his men.

  • And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

  • And they sounded the holy trumpets: and Cendebeus and his army were put to flight: and there fell many of them wounded, and the rest fled into the strong hold.

  • And the Philistines heard that they had anointed David to be king over Israel: and they all came to seek David: and when David heard of it, he went down to a strong hold.


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