They rub elbows and bellies and backs, and together they hold winter and its wolves at bay.

Jeremy P. Bushnell, The Weirdness: A Novel

Consider also:

  1. Hold Up Your Severed Head That Some May Drink
  2. “Some old magical writer, I forget who, says if you wish to be melancholy hold in your left hand an image of the Moon made out of silver, and if you wish to be happy hold in your right hand an image of the Sun made out of gold.”
  3. “Tale that we hold of all fair gifts the best; Gift of the Law, with Love as thy refrain!”
  4. “Through their mediumistic acts, spiritists sometimes get hold of disintegrated pieces of the mental apparatus of a man or woman who has died recently.”
  5. “The manhood in me wakes. The absolute desire hath hold of me. Death were most welcome in that solemn sea; So bitter is my life.”