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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Hold
 
  Hold on like grim death.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Hold him, like an eagle that has seized an eaglet in his talons.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  2
  Hold together like burrs.
            —William Camden (Remains Concerning Britain)		  3
  Holds as tight as a horse-leech.
            —Charles Dickens		  4
                Holds him fast
As a night-flag round the mast.
            —George Meredith		  5
        Her arms the master hold,
As on wounds the scarf winds tight.
            —George Meredith		  6
  Hold like colors of a shell.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  7
  Taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth.
            —Old Testament		  8
  Holds … together as the shell does the egg.
            —John. C. Van Dyke		  9
 
 
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