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How To Use take hold of In A Sentence

• Upon these un-Lady-like private consultations, whether the window shewed the signa or no; it is no matter belonging to my charge: I say, husbands are unwise, to graunt such ill advantages, and wives much worse, if they take hold of them, onely Judge you the best, and so the Tale is ended. The Decameron
• Take hold of the slide by one corner and pour on to it a sufficient quantity of the balsam and benzole to cover it. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892
• Just take hold of the tube and squeeze.
• The only way to unlock the evil powers of Bos Kreuz was to let the evil and darkness of the sword corrupt you and let it take hold of your soul.
• Just take hold of the tube and squeeze.
• The only modern pictures that accomplish a higher end than that of pleasing the eye -- the only ones that really take hold of my mind, and with a kind of acerbity, like unripe fruit -- are the works of Hunt, and one or two other painters of the Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete
• While the risk that deflation will take hold of the Western economies is small, it is not trivial. Times, Sunday Times
• Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it. Garrison Keillor 
• One of the first lessons anyone gets is how to take hold of and swing a mallet.
• One of the greatest services it can render is to take hold of this unusual talent, no matter what its property qualifications or its social condition may be; for wherever talent is found, it should be developed and put to the use of the state. The Influence of Canadian Universities in Canadian Development