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

It never occurred to me that he was lending me this money merely to have a hold upon me, and I thought it possible you might care for him.

From Hard Pressed by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)

It is true that I have a hold upon him; but then I am completely at his mercy.

From File No. 113 by Gaboriau, Émile