Example Sentences

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His world is full of Him, only men's eyes are holden that they do not know.

From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Marsland, Cora

The tenour whereof thus followeth: In the Parliament holden at Edinburgh, the 20th day of December.

From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various

The two disciples were going to a village called Emmaus threescore furlongs distant from Jerusalem, and while they are conversing Jesus joins them, "but their eyes were holden that they should not know him."

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard

There are few whose eyes are now holden as they used to be, as to the surpassing place in the history of culture of the last three centuries of the Middle Ages.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

I have thee holden In what Scotia calls a "grup," All my fleeces now are golden, Full troy weight—for wool is up!

From The Coo-ee Reciter by Various