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Meanings of real hold in English

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Usage of real hold in English
1
A friendless creature who had no real hold upon any one.
Joyce of the North Woods
2
The farm has been his only real hold on life the last five years.
Swastika Night
3
Our real hold on even earthly good is the choosing of God for our supreme good.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
4
Liverpool, meanwhile, celebrated a victory that gives them a real hold at the Premier League summit.
BBC
5
I tried, for the first time in my life, to get a real hold on the idea.
Herland
6
Ms Potaka said she was on home detention when the drug got a real hold on her.
Radio NZ
7
Yes; if they could rob Blum's, it would be a real hold-up, in more senses than one.
Native son
8
Do not tell me that cats never love people; that only places have real hold upon their affections.
Concerning Cats: My Own and Some Others
9
Then some lad is given up to us, the language learned, and a real hold on the island obtained.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melan...
10
He was to learn how little real hold upon society has the man who can only instruct and delight it.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long
11
I felt it more because you're the only kind of woman that could ever get a real hold on me.
The World for Sale, Volume 2.
12
The people, having no real hold on their hereditary Creed, accepted, by tens of thousands, that of the Mussulman invaders.
Alexandria and Her Schools / Four Lectures Delivered at the Phil...
13
The New Idea seems to have less real hold in Italy-atleast among the governing class-thanin any other European country.
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
14
As long as even upright men's thoughts run in that mould, Christianity cannot pretend to have any real hold on the nation.
Three Dramas
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He had never permitted it to take a real hold of his mind, and he resented anybody's attempt to bring it closer to him.
The Soul of a Child
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Once the Church gets real hold of a thing-ora man-worth while, she holds on so fast that all hell can't pry her loose.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
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