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‘he was afraid she might vanish if he did not lay hold of her’
‘This is what the author is clearly reaching out for in this section, but does not fully lay hold of.’
‘‘In all the districts I visited every opportunity of collecting the folk-lore was laid hold of, and a good deal of it […] was gathered ’.’
‘The real revolution in philosophy would be to regard the contingencies of history as the means by which we lay hold of reality.’
‘The war is fundamentally an attempt by the US to lay hold of these natural resources by force of arms.’
‘But lay hold on this inescapable fact - one day, all death will be abolished.’
‘Boyle argued that only by laying hold of atomist ideas could the occult and teleological influence of the alchemists be removed from the subject.’
‘One thing is especially proved by the Paris Commune, that the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery and wield it for its own purposes.’
‘Then you will notice that the original founders of religion, admirably laying hold of pure simplicity, were the bitterest foes of literary learning.’
‘Ever since the emergence of the early state, various handfuls of people have been laying hold of inordinate amounts of wealth and power.’
‘The monster laid hold of him, but Beowulf kept in mind his strength, the precious gift’