have a hold upon

Example Sentences

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Make a popular audience laugh, and you have a hold upon its attention.

From Denzil Quarrier by Gissing, George

By means of this we have a hold upon him which nothing can destroy unless he escape by death.

From Pauline's Passion and Punishment by Alcott, Louisa May

I won't trust him till I have a hold upon him.

From Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Optic, Oliver

The old man then treated them well, and she seemed to have a hold upon his affections.

From The Warden of the Plains and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west by Maclean, John

She was hesitating; the world did have a hold upon her.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins