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. “Thy death shall be the seal of the promise of our age-long love. Hast thou not striven to the inmost in thee? Death is the crown of all. Harden! Hold up thyself! Lift thine head! breathe not so deep — die!”
  2. “a system of ethics founded on a reasoned argument from the known facts of life to what must surely follow, if the universal laws we see in operation in the world about us shall continue to hold good also in the Kingdom of the Mind.”
  3. “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.”
  4. “Tale that we hold of all fair gifts the best; Gift of the Law, with Love as thy refrain!”
  5. If on a winter’s night a traveler