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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
hold .
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Examples
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Eden of the East – What mystery dost thou holdeth?
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Eden of the East – What mystery dost thou holdeth?
Two steps forward, one step back, another year survived! « Undercover 2010
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Eden of the East – What mystery dost thou holdeth?
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Eden of the East – What mystery dost thou holdeth?
Eden of the East – What mystery dost thou holdeth? « Undercover 2009
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Eden of the East – What mystery dost thou holdeth?
Eden of the East – What mystery dost thou holdeth? « Undercover 2009
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Somewhere a tiny voice reminds us (as in Proverbs 18: 28) "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise ...."
Gerald Sindell: Signs of Intelligent Life: Group Smarts 2009
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And so the serpent did holdeth a meeting with his executives and return to Eve with the Fully Prepared Apple Bite.
What's Going On Mark Steel 2009
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They are not worth more than thou hast spoken; but justice is a treasure of inestimable price, and it must be imparted by him who holdeth power to all who require it at his hand.
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For it is assured that Heaven always holdeth us in the least esteem when we deem of ourselves most highly, and also, on the other hand, it may be that we have somewhat departed from what became our high seat in this Abbey, in suffering ourselves to be too much guided, and even, as it were, controlled, by the voice of our inferior.
The Monastery 2008
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And after they fall to the earth crying, for to rest, and when they sit on the ground, to keep and save them, they ordain watches that they may rest the more surely, and the wakers stand upon one foot, and each of them holdeth a little stone in the other foot, high from the earth, that they may be waked by falling of the stone, if it hap that they sleep.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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