hold in respect
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Georgie guessed that Hermy was making a humourous allusion to Foljambe, who was the one person in Riseholme whom his two sisters seemed to hold in respect.
From Queen Lucia by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
The run of luck did not hold in respect to this; there was no key; and the combination dial was smug with ill-grounded confidence in its own inviolable integrity.
From Alias the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph
He could not hold in respect the man who, it seemed to him, had betrayed his friends.
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by Bartlett, D. W.
Do they really hold, in respect to every act of will, that, in the circumstances of its occurrence, that one act only is possible, and that cannot but arise?
From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa
This was in order to grant them forgiveness together with the warning that in the future they should hold in respect the troops and the Fathers.
From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Cook, Sherburne Friend
