Meanings of strongest hold in English

I thought that was the sacred time, when magic had the strongest hold.

Their strongest hold was on Syria, and in the end their only hold.

Your word is your strongest hold-nextto eating.

Her worship flattered him, and in this flattery she had, perhaps, her strongest hold on his heart.

That is, the things that have taken strongest hold of my mind young girls rarely hear or understand.

Of all countries in western Europe, it was in Germany and German Switzerland that this superstition took strongest hold.

He drew and painted, played and composed, at intervals; but plastic art seemed to have the strongest hold upon him.

Strange to say, the land of Huss and Jerome became henceforth the strongest hold of Austrian despotism and papal superstition.

Here we have the secret of what I believe to be the great Swedish dramatist's strongest hold on our interest.

On the one hand, we put knowledge into their hands, and on the other, we remove our strongest hold upon them.

But it was among the mountains of Thrace that this gloomier element in the being of Dionysus had taken the strongest hold.

All four sculptures are noble works of art; the fine, dignified figure of St. Augustine somehow takes strongest hold of the imagination.

All four sculptures are noble works of art; the beautiful, dignified figure of St. Augustine somehow takes strongest hold of the imagination.

Presently I heard him say: "Of all the pictures in the entire exposition, this takes the strongest hold upon me."

But what probably gave slavery its strongest hold upon the favor of Northern people was the animosity toward the negro that prevailed among them.

It was this last consideration which took the strongest hold on Stanwell-hefelt Caspar's sufferings chiefly through the thought of his sister's possible disillusionment.