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They also discovered that the host animal must have a healthy immune system for infection to take hold.
This can reduce symptoms, but permits infections to take hold more readily.
The only way to unlock the evil powers of Bos Kreuz was to let the evil and darkness of the sword corrupt you and let it take hold of your soul.
It is this lack of knowledge and understanding which allows the racial vilification and dehumanisation of fellow human beings to take hold.
What pre-existing thoughts, feelings, values or perceptions paved the way for depression to take hold of you?
Some patients cannot imagine vividly or sustainedly enough for therapy to take hold.
Instead of the intensely supercharged work experience I was expecting, I was invited to relax, sit back, let the weekend take hold and just be.
Straggly dusk-colored casuarinas, lush pisonias, and coconut palms take hold as the island grows large enough to nourish them.
Sadly, the disease really started to take hold at the end of November and she was in and out of hospital.
You don't say when you planted the vines, but if they had not had time to take hold, the dry spring and early summer may have been a factor.
I suppose that they would take hold of Bonny just in case she might cut up rough with the strange foal.
It will not stop them from assuming that, as the clock strikes twelve, you want them to take hold of your face and plant a smacker on your lips.
Andrea miscarried on her first attempt and the second attempt didn't take hold.
As many of your readers will know, meningitis can take hold rapidly with devastating and sometimes fatal effects.
In soils laid down by ancient seas, blue grama, western wheat grass, and little bluestem thrived where deep tree roots cannot take hold.
In Marshallese and Yapese, spelling reforms promulgated in the early 1970s have yet to take hold.
One of the first lessons anyone gets is how to take hold of and swing a mallet.
This encourages other bacteria to take hold, then termites discover the soft wood, further adding to the damage.
Before initiating vast new carnage abroad, the government wants its propaganda siege to take hold at home.
The workshops and manufactories became breeding grounds for radical ideas to take hold.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They sat listening till, growing fidgety, Steve turned to lean over the stern and take hold of the rope which held the beluga.
Will you shove the centerboard down by the iron handle, and then take hold of the tiller, Miss Haldane?
Hereafter truth will take hold upon the pen of history and rewrite much that has been miswritten of this great son of the South.
If he likes, he may take hold of the feet of a looser and compel him to walk on his hands to secure this missel.
The medium takes the head-axe, and then the two women take hold of the winnower with their free hands.
But when I was going to take hold of serry she slipped away.
And the very spirit of Satan seemed suddenly to take hold of him in his dealings with the slaves.
If the hands did not fasten and take hold, how then should we eat?
And then, in the lonesomeness and misery, fear began to take hold of him.
The tractor beam that would take hold of them had never been designed.
For insofar as the poet's consciousness can take hold of words, their demonism only leads to hopelessness.
The Sikh was to take hold a yard or two below him, and aid him as he swam.
Be good enough to take hold of the lower part while I take this end.
I cannot take hold of Him, and hold Him fast, but by the Spirit.
We had up a lot of whisky, and went to playing high-low-jack for dimes, and as soon as the whisky begun to take hold of Bud we stopped drinking, but we didn't let him stop.
Then, with a judgment peculiarly antic, then take hold of opposite ends of that grasshopper leg a nd begin to tug with all their might in opposite directions.
When I realized this, I was so angry that I had to sit down on the floor and take hold of something to keep from lifting the roof off with an explosion of opinion.
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