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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
inhold .
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Examples
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For anyone who was waiting with inheld breath - Roll Them Bones did not win the Stoker this year in long fiction - Mr. Jack Ketchum took home the honors (Cheers, Jack).
The Bram Stoker Awards - Charlie Grant - and another long weekend deep_bluze 2004
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The Keeper of the Soul and the Keeper of the Book waited in the small room, listening with inheld breath and fast-beating hearts for the sound that neither had ever thought to hear.
The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993
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When the silence was so profound that it hung from every blade of grass, poised like an inheld breath, he brought out the pouch of Weirdin that he had retrieved from the museum.
Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990
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She had even paused, crouching, with inheld breath, at a spot from which she could watch the door of the elevator, until Jerry had made his dash.
A Pagan of the Hills Charles Neville Buck 1904
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