hold up to ridicule

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"You shouldn't hold up to ridicule the shepherd of your soul."

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann

Neither does Dryden neglect to hold up to ridicule the slips in Latin and English grammar, which marked the offensive Preface to the "Duke of Lerma."

From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George

Or did he seek to hold up to ridicule all manifestations of human enthusiasm in general, military heroism in particular?

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

Many of these reviews took occasion to pick out and hold up to ridicule the illogical sentences, the grammatical solecisms, and general imperfections of technique which marked and disfigured the Siege of Corinth.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

"Who's Blackie!" said the boy, repeating the question, as if to hold up to ridicule the absurd ignorance which it implied.

From Geordie's Tryst A Tale of Scottish Life by Rae, Mrs. Milne