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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Held

Held on like a summer cold.
—George Ade

Held back like a hearse horse.
—Anonymous

Held on like grim death.
—Anonymous

Held on to him like a life-belt.
—Lloyd Osbourne

Held you …
As flesh holds flesh, and the soul the soul.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne