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hold it to stop doing something or to wait before continuing Hold it ! You're putting too much pepper in the stew. Usage notes: usually used as an order, as in the example See also: hold How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I knew that the island was not so large but that I could easily find the sea if I did but move in a straight line, but there came the difficulty as there was no way in which I could direct my course and hold it, the sun, of course, being always directly above my head, and the trees so thickly set that I could see no distant object which might serve to guide me in a straight line. Clean or tainted, hot or stale, Hold it as it were the Trail, Through the day and through the night, Questing neither left nor right. Why does the Lombardy poplar hold its branches straight up in the air like that, when all the other poplars hold theirs out or hang them down? |
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