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Hold up your head, and look at me.

We need to find a beam in the wall, so we can put some screws in to hold up the shelving.

The branch we found had the necessary rigidity to hold up our tent.

Mmmmn .

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maybe I'll have a hair of the dog.

Whoa, hold up a mo! Here, I cooked roast fish for this morning.

You ought to be able to eat this OK.

To hold up a morsel of this mass, and tell some one not in the secrets of pond-lore that its dripping threads were objects of beauty, surpassing human productions, in brilliant colour and elegant form, would provoke laughter, and suggest the notion that you were poking fun at them, when you poked out your stick with the slimy treasure at its end.

' Most of the company felt such misplaced penitence and submission, as they deemed it, beneath contempt; but while Eleanor had pride enough to hold up her head so that no one might suppose her to be disappointed, she felt a strange awe of the conscientiousness that repented when others would only have felt resentment-relief, perhaps, at not again coming into contact with one so unlike other men as almost to alarm her.

“Once more I can hold up my head before my fellows; once more I can feel that I am not wholly dependent on my son.

Other professors there are who hold up the light of this science, and hand it down to posterity undimmed; but none with such an ardent love for their work as Professor Climo.

Hold up your head, Josephus.

Only hold up your head, and remember that you are enjoying the title.

Stephen suffered him to pull out and hold up on show by its corner a dirty crumpled handkerchief.

(Several highly respectable Dublin ladies hold up improper letters received from Bloom.

Hold up your head, boy, and be forever grateful unto them which so did do.

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