Held-out Sentence Examples

Alex held out a hand.

Carmen held out a hand.

She gave him a puzzled smile and reached out to take the phone he held out.

A smile escaped despite Jenn's wariness, and the model held out a manicured hand.

Sofia gave a faint smile and held out her hand, palm up.

She stumbled up the dune behind him and stopped when he held out a hand.

The spokesman held out his hand for the fifty.

He held out his hand.

His face was excited as he held out the contents of his hands.

He held out his hand to Talon, who plunked a gun into it.

He held out a hand.

Dusty held out a hand.

The Black God held out his hands.

He held out his hand, and she deposited a small trinket in it.

Jonny held out a hand, and Dusty reluctantly let her go.

When she returned fully dressed and armed to the teeth, he held out his hand.

She held out her hand.

It was her turn to roll her eyes but she held out a hand to Jule.

Darian held out his as well, and Jule took both their hands, at once bombarded with Bianca's cool energy and Darian's hot energy.

Xander held out his hand.

He held out his arm.

His eyes lingered on her face for a moment, and then he held out his hand.

She held out a hand to him, and he took it.

He held out a hand, and she hugged him instead of taking it.

He held out his hand, and Yully went to him.

He held out a bottle of red water.

Damian held out his hand to her.

She moved closer and held out her hand.

Visitors held out their hands like this, Dusty said, indicating his outstretched hand.

He held out his hand, and Dusty clasped his wrist, allowing Damian to Travel them both to Tucson Sector HQ.

They exchanged a greeting in a foreign language that sounded like Russian before he held out his hand to her.

She swallowed hard and held out her hand to another woman in red.

Linda's brow furrowed, but she held out her hand.

He looked at the charm dangling from her necklace and held out his hand to her, palm up.

She held out her hand and drew near.

Darkyn held out a hand to her.

He held out something to her.

Deidre rose and held out her hand.

She held out the hourglass.

He reached into his pocket and held out his hand.

Cringing, she held out her hand.

She held out a hand to Past-Death.

When at last they arrived at the trail's end, Westlake parked, placed a rock behind his wheel, and held out his polka-dot umbrella.

She held out her hand again.

Dean simply held out his hand.

She held out a hand to Deidre.

After a moment, she stepped forward and held out her hands to Destiny.

Tamer held out his hand.

She held out a saucer and cup.

She held out something that looked like a compass.

He held out his fist.

She'd faced the reality but held out some hope it wasn't inevitable.

As if sensing her fear, Darkyn held out his hand once more.

Death held out her hand, and an hourglass with black sand appeared in her palm.

Gabriel held out a vial he'd last seen in the hand of a furious Death.

He held out his hands.

Andre held out his hand.

He held out an arm she ignored, instead marching past him.

He held out a hand, motioning toward the door.

She sighed and held out her arm, setting the perfume on the table as she sat.

She held out a hand.

Gabriel crossed to him and held out the healer.

For once, she hadn't corrected his English, only nodded once more and held out her arm for the bracelet.

She held out her arm instead.

She held out her hand for him to take the sword.

A'Ran held out his arm as well, saying, "I agree."

Fred O'Connor reluctantly held out the century-old notebook.

She held out the money.

Fred reached in his shirt pocket and with a smile and a flourish, held out a check.

He held out his American Express.

She turned and held out her hand.

He held out his hand to shake.

He held out his hand for the dog to sniff, but Nikolai nuzzled his nose into it instead.

Alex held out a hand and smiled.

He held out his hand to her, and when she accepted it, he pulled her close in a comforting embrace.

Major Brady Hanson held out a hand to the man dressed in the PMF's gray uniform beside him.

Elise held out a meal bar, which Lana accepted.

He held out his arm towards a closed door leading to another corridor.

Arnie held out his fist to her without opening it.

He held out his hand, and Lana held out her wrist.

He held out a hand to her, and she withdrew further.

He held out her micro.

Dan snorted, and Brady joined Elise as she held out her micro.

He held out a familiar dagger.

Kris opened the portal to the shadow world and held out his hand to his mate.

It was dark.  The dual moons of the underworld were high overhead, another sign she hadn't slept more than an hour or two.  The trees overhead hissed as the branches moved like snakes in a soft breeze.  Gabriel held out a hand and pulled her up, silent despite his size and small armory of weapons.

Darkyn held out his hand.

The angel sighed, dumped out the food and sorted through it.  He held out a can finally and Rhyn took it.

The messenger held out a small thumb drive with what Kris hoped contained a report identifying the two shapeshifter demons.  He left, and Kris plugged the thumb drive into his small PDA.  A single file was on the drive, and he opened it.

Kiki shook his head and stalked off into the brush.  Kris held out his hand to Hannah, unable to shake the small part of him that was grateful he had one ally, even if she shouldn't have come.

He held out a hand that contained a small talisman.

Death held out her closed hand to Rhyn.  He crept forward warily and extended his.  She dropped a small green gem into it.

He hesitated and then held out a hand.  She took it.  His warm hands were rough and large.  He squeezed hers.  He led her away from the courtyard and lights into the dark night.  They walked hand in hand for a few moments, alone under the full moon.  She'd walked with him before, but this night, it was different.  She felt the shift between them.

Hunter held out a small scrap of paper.

Cynthia Byrne held out her hand and said, with what Dean hoped was at least a hint of reluctance, I guess I won't be seeing you again.

Dean didn't answer, but held out his wallet to show his ID.

A very tall, per­fectly proportioned black man, looking like the front page of a fashion magazine, smiled and held out his hand.

Dean said, but the federal agent held out a hand and stopped him.

The two ushered Baratto into the house before he could change his mind, while Winston held out his hand to Dean.

He nodded and held out his hand.

While Dean held out no illusions of leading the pack through the mountains, after turning out 73 miles of rolling hills on a humid Saturday, he felt more confident of his chance of least not embarrassing himself.

The old man held out a cup of coffee to his stepson, who continued trying to catch his breath.

He crossed to the bed and held out his hand as casually as a con­ventioneer.

He held out his left hand.

Jenn stepped closer to him and held out the bloodied hand.

The Watcher held out his hand.

He led them into the cold morning, looked around then held out his hand.

Damian held out his hands and helped her to her feet.

He held out his hand as soon as she appeared.

He held out his hand, and she shook her head.

Bianca held out a hand.

The Oracle strode forward, hand held out.

She held out one hand to him and another to Sofi.

Darian held out his hand to Yully.

He held out his hand to Charles, pushing the location into his mind.

Darian held out his hand for his necklace.

She held out her arm.

He held out a hand to Jenn.

He held out his hand, and she took it without question.

He held out as long as possible before his watering eyes forced him to lower his eye-band.

He held out a hand to her, and she accepted it, barely forewarned by the buzzing in her ears before she fainted.

She dismounted and held out the reins to him.

The woman held out her hand for the list.

She held out the necklace.

He held out a black cord with a red gem.

She crossed to him cautiously and held out her hand for the phone.

He held out his arms.

Xander held out an arm to block her path.

She joined him and held out the keys.

Sensing she offended the petite beauty, Jessi held out her hand as directed.

At the end of her wits, Jessi held out her hand to the tall brunette.

He held out his hand to Jessi.

He held out a hand to Darian, who in turn held his fist out to Xander.

He held out a hand to help her out of bed.

Xander chuckled and held out his hand.

He held out his hand to Jessi, and she took it.

The one time he took a chance on someone … "We're meeting D there," Jule said and held out one fist to Xander, the other to Darian.

Damian held out an arm to stop him.

Her children he adopted as his own; and it was chiefly for her sake that he desired the peerage which was twice held out to him.

The Greeks held out for a considerable time, but had finally to surrender, probably from want of food, to Simon Maccabaeus, who demolished the Acra and cut down the hill upon which it stood so that it might no longer be higher than the Temple, and that there should be no separation between the latter and the city.

The German army invaded Italy in August 1132, and occupied Rome, all except St Peter's church and the castle of St Angelo which held out against them.

Irish in a league against the supporters of the parliament, and only a few scattered forts held out for the Commonwealth, while the young king was every day expected to land and complete the conquest of the island.

Gaeta, however, held out stoutly against the French.

She held out gallantly, but was at last forced to surrender on the 22nd of January 150o; Cesare treated her with consideration, and she ended her days in a convent.

Cesare's dominion at once began to fall to pieces; Guidobaldo, duke of Urbino, returned to his duchy with Venetian help; and the lords of Piombino, Rimini and Pesaro soon regained their own; Cesena, defended by a governor faithful to Cesare, alone held out.

They promised an easy expiation for crimes to both living and dead on payment of a fee, undertook to punish the enemies of their clients, and held out to them the prospect of perpetual banqueting and drinking-bouts in Paradise.

The city held out until Peter III.

In his relations with the Slays the emperor displayed the same conciliatory disposition as in the case of the Magyars; but though he more than once held out hopes that he would be crowned at Prague as king of fiohemia, the project was always abandoned.

At Sennacherib's approach, Ashdod, Ammon, Moab and Edom submitted; Ekron, Ascalon, Lachish and Jerusalem held out strenuously.

There they held out for three months, succumbing finally because in obedience to the Law (as interpreted since the time of Antiochus Epiphanes) they would only defend themselves from actual assault upon the sabbath day.

Neither in the Social War, nor in the rising of Spartacus, who held out a long time in the Sila (71 B.C.), do the Bruttii play a part as a people.

In Asia Minor, Syria and Mesopotamia there is little to record of progress in material development beyond the promises held out by the Euphrates Valley railway concession to a A s i a German company.

The same prospect was held out to Charles IV., the queen and Godoy, with the result that the rivals for the throne proceeded to the north of Spain to meet the arbiter of their destinies.

In spite of the fact that the French field-pieces at once made practicable breaches in the mud walls of the fort, the defenders held out with desperate valour.

It is very probable that the versions of this letter which we possess, and which are to be found only in later writings like Guibert de Nogent, are apocryphal; Alexius can hardly have held out the bait of the beauty of Greek women, or have written that he preferred to fall under the yoke of the Latins rather than that of the Turks.

In the great civil wars Athens sided with Pompey and held out against Caesar's lieutenants, but received a free pardon " in consideration of her great dead."

There ought, he says, to be held out to the slave the hope of liberty as the reward of his service.

Herzegovina, where Vukcic offered a desperate resistance, held out until 1483; but apart from the heroic defence of Jajce, the efforts of the Bosnians were feeble and inglorious, many of the Bogomils joining the enemy.

The Herzegovinians, under their leaders Peko Pavlovic, Socica, Ljubibratic, and others, held out for a year against all the forces that Turkey could despatch against them.'

At this period the state of the Byzantine Empire was such as to render its powers of resistance insignificant; indeed the length of time during which it held out against the Turks is to be attributed rather to the lack of efficacious means at the disposal of its assailants than to any qualities possessed by its defenders.

While the fortress held out with difficulty Bayezid fell upon the besiegers like a thunderbolt.

The town surrendered; but the citadel held out until, on the 8th of September, it was relieved by Andrea Doria.

Nelson's destruction of the French fleet at the battle of the Nile disconcerted Bonaparte's plans; he hoped to pursue his designs through Syria, and laid siege to Acre, which, however, successfully held out.

Thus held out at some distance from the body, it is cautiously advanced by the male spider to the genital aperture of the female.

The garrison held out till the 30th of July 1885 when owing to lack of food they capitulated.

Further causes for alarms were the secret meeting between General Smuts and Count Mensdorv, to discuss a separate peace between Austria and the Entente (Dec. 1917) and the public pronouncements of President Wilson and Mr. Lloyd George in favour of " autonomy " for the subject races, instead of the independence held out to them by the Allied pronouncement of Jan.

In 1808 the Marquis La Romana, who with a body of Spanish troops garrisoned the fortress for France, revolted from his allegiance, and held out till he and a portion of his men escaped with the English fleet.

In December 1880 it was invested by the Boers, but held out until the conclusion of peace.

The strong fortress of Euryelus held out for a time, but, being now isolated, it soon had to surrender.

All hope for the city being now at an end, the Syracusans threw themselves on the mercy of Marcellus; but Achradina and the island still held out for a brief space under the Syracusan mercenaries, till one of their officers, a Spaniard, betrayed the latter position to the enemy, and at the same time Achradina was carried and taken.

His most important military operation, how ever, was when in 1346 he successfully held out in Beauvais.

In more recent years tobacco has been grown in Ireland, but up to 1910 it had been found impracticable to obtain from the government sufficient relaxation from fiscal restrictions to encourage the home cultivation, though in 1907 the prospect of licences being issued was held out.

Of more importance were the two sieges by the Turks (1529 and 168 3), when the city was saved on the first occasion by the gallant defence of Count Niclas von Salm (1459-1530), and on the second by Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638-1701), who held out until the arrival of the Poles and Germans under John Sobieski of Poland.

Bribery was the first weapon employed, and a car- y p dinal's hat was held out as a bait.

Had it held out even forty-eight hours longer events before Paris and Orleans might have taken a different turn.

The town, as Gray (who, like Horace Walpole, at first held out against the furore) declared, was " horn-mad " about him.

Twenty thousand Carlist volunteers laid down their arms at Vergara; only the irreconcilables led by Cabrera held out for a while in the central provinces of Spain.

In his fidelity to Duke Robert he seems to have there held out for him against his brother Henry, when the latter obtained the Cotentin.

The king of Prussia had some reason to complain of the sudden desertion of his ally, but there is no evidence whatever to substantiate his accusation that Bute had endeavoured to divert the tsar later from his alliance with Prussia, or that he had treacherously in his negotiations with Vienna held out to that court hopes of territorial compensation in Silesia as the price of the abandonment of France; while the charge brought against Bute in 1765 of having taken bribes to conclude the peace, subsequently after investigation pronounced frivolous by parliament, may safely be ignored.

The Russians, having had a month wherein to intrench themselves, held out all along the line; but after two days and one night of fighting amongst rocks and on precipitous hill-sides, the Japanese broke through on the night of July 27-28.

The conquest of the mainland was speedily effected, though Gaeta, Reggio and the rock of Scylla held out for some months.

The death of Ali of Iannina had been followed by the suppression of the insurgent Suliotes and the advance of Omar Vrioni southwards to Missolonghi; but the town held out gallantly, a Turkish surprise attack, on the 6th of January 1823, was beaten off, and Omar Vrioni had to abandon the siege and retire northwards over the pass of Makrynoros.

The monastery held out for two days longer, when the Albanian garrison surrendered on terms, but were massacred by the Greeks as they were marching away under escort.

Jeffreys having suggested that his mind was disordered, he held out his hand and bade the chief-justice feel how calm and steady his pulse was.

Against overwhelming odds the United States troops held out until honour was satisfied; they then surrendered the ruins of the fort and were conveyed by warships to the north.

She could not marry Philip II., but she held out hopes to more than one of his Austrian cousins whenever France or Mary Stuart seemed to threaten; and later she encouraged two French princes when Philip had lost patience with Elizabeth and made Mary Stuart his protegee.

In November, however, he was obliged to sail for Spain, where the sons of Pompey still held out.

The devil here assumes very much the characteristics of the punishing and just God of the Old Testament, and the prospect is even held out of his ultimate pardon.

Again during the wars of religion the castle held out successfully after the town had been occupied by the troops of the Protestant captain Gabriel, count of Montgomery.

The attack upon it by the Prussians in 1793 was repulsed; in 1815 they had to be content with blockading it; and in 1870, though it was closely invested by the Germans after the battle of Worth, it held out until the end of the war.

To a province which at the time contained a population of only 36,000, and but half of this white, the inducement thus held out was immense.

In 1864 the defences of Mobile were taken by a Federal fleet, but the city held out until April 1865; in the same month Selma also fell.

The town held out until Nov.

The promise held out of future bounty was never fulfilled, and More left office, as he had entered it, a poor man.

From 1523 to 1524 it held out for Christian II.

There he found an asylum till the 20th of May 1520, when he chartered a ship to Kalmar, one of the few Swedish fortresses which held out against Christian II.

In a very short time Conrad and the archbishop of Mainz submitted, and although Ludoli held out a little longer he soon asked for pardon.

With the aid of Russia Frederick William held out a while longer, but after Napoleons decisive victory at Friedland (June 14, 1807) the tsar came to terms with the French emperor, sacrificing the interests of his ally.

Syracuse, under its amir Benarvet, held out stoutly.

Noto held out till 1090.

Heracleopolis Magna, however, with its petty king Pefteuaubasti, held out against Tefnakht, and Pankhi coming to its aid not only drove Tefnakht out of Middle Egypt, but also captured Memphis and received the submission of the princes and chiefs; in all these included four kings and fourteen other chiefs.

By this time the Mabdi was master of the greater part of the Sudan, but Khartum and some other fortified points still held out.

Khartum had been taken and General Gordon killed on the morning of the 26th of January 1885, having thus held out thirty-four days beyond the date when he had expected the end.

Only the little town of Parga held out against him on the coast; and in order to obtain this he once more in 1807 entered into an alliance with Napoleon.

Percy and Clifford led the English forces to suppress him, and (7th July) made terms with the bishop, the Steward and Robert Bruce, who submitted; but Wallace held out in Ettrick Forest.

Stirling still held out for England.

Incidentally it held out the hope, to those who believed in it, of a mode of escape from the miseries of transmigration.

Owen himself still held out and even continued to intrigue with the French.

Alphonso abdicated, his son Ferrandino and his brother Frederick withdrew to Ischia, and only a few towns in Apulia still held out for the Aragonese.

But the Royalists were not masters of the city, for the French in Castel Sant' Elmo and the Republicans in Castelnuovo and Castel dell' Uovo still held out and bombarded the streets, while the Franco-Spanish fleet might arrive at any moment.

The conquest of Maine, Touraine, Anjou and Poitou in 1204 and 1205 was little more than a military promenade, though the castles of Loches and Chinon held out for a year.

A gallant detachment (Alpini and details of the Etna brigade), finding retreat impossible, held out for days on Monte Nero till the battle had gone far to the W., and all their food and ammunition were gone.

The new chancellor proposed the continuance of the land tax at four shillings in the pound, while he held out hopes that it might be reduced next year to three shillings, whereupon his predecessor, William Dowdeswell, by the aid of the landed gentlemen, carried a motion that the reduction should take effect at once.

By prodigies of energy the Spanish commander held out till August 1791, when the Spanish government having made terms with the bey of Algiers, he was allowed to set sail for Spain with his guns and ammunition.

The Uplanders, however, still held out against it, and Adalhard, though he succeeded in destroying the idols in his own district Vestergotland, was unable to persuade Steinkel to destroy the old sanctuary at Upsala.

When he dismissed the estates, the speech from the throne held out no prospect of their speedy revocation.

The people flocked to his standard; Bahram Cobin was routed (591) and fled to the Turks, who slew him, and Chosroes once more ascended the throne of Ctesiphon; Bistam held out in Media till 596.

Moreover, the family divisions among the ruling houses of Afghanistan grew from day to day more destructive to that patriotism and sense of nationality which Ahmad Shah had held out to his countrymen as the sole specifics for becoming a strong people.

The Spanish general Olaneta, with a diminished army of 2000 men, was confined to the province of Potosi, where he held out till March 1825, when he was mortally wounded in an action with some of his own revolted troops.

Delhi, once more attacked by a Mahratta army under the Mahratta chief Holkar in 1804, was gallantly defended by Colonel Ochterlony, the British resident, who held out against overwhelming odds for eight days, until relieved by Lord Lake.

But Sture's widow, Dame Christina Gyllenstjerna, still held out stoutly at Stockholm, and the peasantry of central Sweden, stimulated by her patriotism, flew to arms, defeated the Danish invaders at Balundsas (March 19th), and were only with the utmost difficulty finally defeated at the bloody battle of Upsala (Good Friday, April 6th).

Then, however, the Russian government held out inducements to settlers, and these have been responded to by Russians, Greeks, Armenians and Rumanians, but the process of repeopling the long deserted territory is slow and difficult.

The city held out obstinately against the pretensions of the stadtholders, and in 1650 opened the dykes in order to prevent William II.

From the 6th to the 27th of June the handful of British soldiers, who composed the garrison of a fortification that could not have resisted a serious assault for a single hour, held out with the greatest gallantry in hope of relief.

During those two months every device was employed, by direct assault and by mining operations, to reduce the garrison, who held out nobly, meeting assault with sortie and mine with countermine.

Novello himself, besieged in his capital, although repeatedly offered favourable terms, held out for some months hoping for help from Florence and also from certain Venetian nobles with whom he was intriguing.

Some of Rupert's foot regiments made their way to York, but the dispirited garrison only held out for a fortnight.

In June 1796 it was besieged by Napoleon; but in spite of terrific bombardments it held out till February 1797.

The hope that they will yield fossils has been held out but not yet fulfilled.

Any threat or inducement held out to a person to make a confession renders the confession inadmissible, even if afterwards made to another person, it having been held that the second confession is likely to be induced by the promise held out by the person to whom the first confession was made.

John finally absconded to England in December 1203; he failed to return with an army of relief, as he had promised, and before the summer of 1204 was over, Caen, Bayeux and Rouen, the last places that held out for him, had been forced to open their gates.

In all the south country only Dover and Windsor castles held out for him.

Isolated castles in several districts held out in, the kings name, and the whole March of Wales was never properly subdue,d.

In the end of 1408 Prince Henry captured this place, and six weeks later Harlech, the greatest stronghold of the rebels, where Sir Edmund Mortimer, Owens son-in-law and most trusted captain, held out till he died of starvation.

Bordeaux, though left to defend itself, held out for Loss of eighty days after Talbots defeat and death, and then Ouleune.

But the citizens held out against him, and presently the ap,proach of the royal army was reported.

The Union, then, was in his view the necessary preliminary to Catholic emancipation, which was at the same time the reward held out to the majority of the Irish people for the surrender of their national quasi-independence.

Those members who stood out were, indeed, bought by a lavish distribution of money and coronets; but the advantages to Ireland which might reasonably be expected from the Union were many and obvious; and if all the promises held out by the promoters of the measure have even now not been realized, the fault is not theirs.

The course which Gladstone took, and the bait which he held out to the electors, were generally condemned.

It was the last stronghold in North Africa which held out against the Arabs.

After the arrest of Gloucester, Warwick and Arundel, the archbishop was impeached by the Commons with the king's consent, although Richard, who had not yet revealed his hostility, held out hopes of safety to him.

He was drawn once more into affairs by the hopes of reform held out by Emile 0111vier, accepting in 1869 the presidency of an extraparliamentary committee on decentralization.

The north and Iona on the other hand refused to give in until Adamnan induced the north of Ireland to yield in 697, while Iona held out until 716, although by this time the monastery had lost its influence in Pictland.

Indeed, fresh pork was one of the inducements held out to visitors to the Irish Elysium.

The lord-lieutenant twice tried to have Shane murdered; once he proposed to break his safe-conduct; and he held out hopes of his sister's hand as a snare.

He burst into tears, not of grief, but of vexation at not having held out for better terms.

It was at Patras that the Greek revolution began in 1821; but the Turks, confined to the citadel, held out till 1828.

Marshal Campos, who very soon succeeded Jovellar as governor-general of Cuba, for the first time held out to the loyalists of the island the prospect of reforms, fairer treatment at the hands of the mother country, a more liberal tariff to promote their trade, and self-government as the crowning stage of the new policy.

Its acropolis long held out against Alexander in 333 and surrendered to him at last by arrangement.

The Genoese held out resolutely in the hope of relief from home.

Had it not been for the presence of Gordon the city would also soon have fallen, but with an energy and skill that were almost miraculous, he so organized the defence that Khartum held out until January 1885.

The authorities planned extensive questioning in the vicinity but held out little hope anyone else saw the vehicle.

Molly held out her hand and passed muster allowing this new person to scotch down and pat him.

He held out his hand, and the Grey God tossed it to him.

Jule shifted forward as the vamp held out his hand, palm up, in the traditional greeting to an Oracle.

He held out his wrist, and she grudgingly took it, drinking from him while smelling the scents of the feast being prepared for his guests.

The women counted four doors, and Kiera held out her bracelet to the access pad.

He raised his head to the sky then held out his arm across what he'd figured out was the boundary of his buffers' influence.

She held out her hand.  Toby smiled grudgingly and took it.  Katie led them around the island, trying to find some part of the chasm that was narrow enough to jump or a log they could roll across the gaping ravine.

She held out her hand again.  A hologram-like image appeared in her hand.  Rhyn saw the demons pouring from the skies over major cities in the mortal worlds.

Major League, good guys team, Philadelphia franchise, Dean thought to himself, as he held out his hand.

He held out his hand, palm up, to the Oracle in the typical greeting – and permission for her to check his future.

The one time he took a chance on someone … "We're meeting D there," Jule said and held out one fist to Xander, the other to Darian.

When winter fell, Alexander had captured indeed the city itself, but the two citadels still held out against his blockade.

In that article it is mentioned that a Scotsman in 1594 in a letter to Tycho Brahe held out some hope of logarithms; it is likely that the person referred to is John Craig, son of Thomas Craig, who has been mentioned as one of the colleagues of John Napier's father as justice-depute.

Sessions of Chicago in November 1887, covered a housing in combination with a vertical metallic plate frame of the general contour of the central passage-way, which projected slightly beyond the line of the couplings and was held out by horizontal springs top and bottom, being connected with the platform housing by flexible connexions at the top and sides and by sliding plates below.

Antiochus contrived to get possession of the person of Achaeus (see Polybius), but the citadel held out till 213 under Achaeus's widow and then surrendered.

Ibrahim Pasha replaced Tusun in command, and on reaching Arabia in September 1816 his first aim was to gain over the great Bedouin tribes holding the roads between Hejaz and his objective in Nejd; having thus secured his line of advance he pushed on boldly and defeated Abdallah at Wiya, where he put to death all prisoners taken; thence rapidly advancing, with contingents of the friendly Harb and Muter tribes in support of his regular troops, he laid siege to Ras; this place, however, held out and after a four months' siege he was compelled to give up the attack.

Of more importance were the two sieges by the Turks (1529 and 168 3), when the city was saved on the first occasion by the gallant defence of Count Niclas von Salm (1459-1530), and on the second by Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638-1701), who held out until the arrival of the Poles and Germans under John Sobieski of Poland.

In the latter, in which the Apocalyptist looks forward prophetically to the issue, the assurance held out is of ultimate victory, but of victory through death or martyrdom.

When accused by Sulla (to whom he had been quaestor in 81 B.C.) of having squandered the public money, he refused to render any account, but insolently held out the calf of his leg (sera), on which part of the person boys were punished when they made mistakes.

In 375 it again joined the Athenian alliance; two years later it was besieged by a Lacedaemonian armament, but in spite of the devastation of its flourishing countryside held out successfully until relief was at hand.

Of the four crystal glasses engraved with the count's monogram that stood before his plate, Pierre held out one at random and drank with enjoyment, gazing with ever- increasing amiability at the other guests.

And he held out his cheek.

And he held out his hand to the captain.

Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him.

Curving her arms, Natasha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes.

Prince Andrew recognized her without looking and held out his hand to her.

Still laughing, Speranski held out his soft white hand to Prince Andrew.

She held out her hand to him, and with a mixed feeling of estrangement and tenderness pressed her lips to his forehead as he stooped to kiss her hand.

She felt sorry for her and held out her hand with a glance of gentle inquiry.

His handsome face assumed a melodramatically gentle expression and he held out his hand.

The great redoubt held out well, by my pipe! continued the Frenchman.

He smiled and held out his hand to her.

Prince Andrew sighed with relief, smiled, and held out his hand.

In Smolensk, at the Malakhov Gate, he had hardly dozed off in a paroxysm of fever before he was awakened by the bombardment of the town--and Smolensk held out all day long.

The princess rose quickly to meet him and held out her hand.

When they left the table and went as usual to thank the old countess, Countess Mary held out her hand and kissed her husband, and asked him why he was angry with her.

Ragged men crouched in doorways held out their tweed caps.

Especially on smooth floors, it is easy for them to move forward using only their arms or elbows and pulling their legs along, which are held out straight behind them.

The hand must be held out to align with the forearm, and the forefinger must be extended while the other fingers remain flexed.

For women, it will consist of a long skirt held out by hoops or petticoats, a long-sleeved fitted blouse, capelet, bonnet and muff.

When Leo 'died' and left Greenlee in mourning, fans held out hope that he would someday return, but Duhamel's continued success in other projects soon dimmed that hope.

I held out my hand; nothing.