Famous quotes containing the word held:
“Even he was abashed
and I laughed
and held him close
when he went for the knot
of my underclothes
and Id already untied it.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“He held the world upon his nose
And this-a-way he gave a fling.
His robes and symbols, ai-hi-hi
And that-a-way he twirled the thing.
Sombre as fir-trees, liquid cats
Moved in the grass without a sound.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“... he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a mans pre- eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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