holden
1 Americanverb
noun
verb
Example Sentences
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Also that it was not here the custom, and that I should be dishonoured, and holden for a fool and light.
From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Tremayne, Eleanor E.
There are few whose eyes are now holden as they used to be, as to the surpassing place in the history of culture of the last three centuries of the Middle Ages.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
On the summit, which commands a very extensive prospect, a fair is annually holden.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
At a Superior Court holden in and for the County of Effingham, in November Term, 1827.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
The two disciples were going to a village called Emmaus threescore furlongs distant from Jerusalem, and while they are conversing Jesus joins them, "but their eyes were holden that they should not know him."
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard
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