1 Against the dark background of the kitchen she stood up tall and angular, one hand drawing a quilted counterpane to her flat breast, while the other held a lamp.
2 She held the light at the same level, and it drew out with the same distinctness her slim young throat and the brown wrist no bigger than a child's.
3 Perhaps Zeena had failed to see the new doctor or had not liked his counsels: Ethan knew that in such cases the first person she met was likely to be held responsible for her grievance.
4 Ethan's hand dropped from the door-knob, which he had held clenched since he had drawn the door shut on Mattie.
5 She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.
6 Her lips, groping for his, swept over his face, and he held her fast in a rapture of surprise.
7 Coastal Georgia was too firmly held by an entrenched aristocracy for him ever to hope to win the place he intended to have.
8 Here in north Georgia was a rugged section held by a hardy people.
9 John Wilkes always held his barbecues there, on the gentle slope leading down to the rose garden, a pleasant shady place and a far pleasanter place, for instance, than that used by the Calverts.
10 He held her fan in one hand and his untouched plate of barbecue in the other and stubbornly refused to meet the eyes of Honey, who seemed on the verge of an outburst of tears.
11 However, ladies have seldom held any charms for me.
12 He yelled just as loudly when she held him as when Prissy did.
13 Little Wade had to be held up time and again, so that ladies who ventured as far through the ooze as their carriage blocks could exclaim over him.
14 "Mrs. Bonnell's children have the measles," said Mrs. Merriwether abruptly, showing plainly that she held Mrs. Bonnell personally responsible for permitting such a thing to happen.
15 Pitty fumbled at her skirt and held the vial to her nose.