He slowly took off a metal band from his arm and held it out to me.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

These companies brought in mining machines that could dig out the gold from deep underground and separate it from the rock that held it.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

I placed my hand over his heart and held it there many minutes.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Jones and his men seized Monterey and held it for two days.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Ben lifed the bird and held it close against his body.

VOA: special.2010.03.20

He picked up her picture and held it before my eyes.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

It was the first time a presidential election was held on the same day in all parts of the country.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

It was held in a huge tent on the grounds of a famous house called Astor Courts overlooking the Hudson River.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

It was the Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree, which is held every four years at Fort A.P.Hill army base.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

It held for a while. Then Union soldiers acting without orders forced their way to the top of the hill.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

It was a jail that held the famous English pirate Stede Bonnet and his crew before they were hanged.

VOA: special.2010.10.04

It recreates television interviews that British performer David Frost held with former president Richard Nixon after he left office in nineteen seventy-seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

It did not free all of the slaves in the United States, only those held by the rebels.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

It was held for eleven days earlier this summer in a park along a lake in Milwaukee,Wisconsin.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

It was one of the few United States forts in the south still held by federal forces.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

It was my teacher. I held her with all my strength then shook with joy to feel the solid earth under my feet."

VOA: special.2009.11.15

It must give up Alsace-Lorraine, a part of France it had held for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2010.10.28

It has an interesting history. The first Jamboree was supposed to be held in nineteen thirty-five.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

It is the first time that the world's biggest sports event will be held in Africa.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

After death,the person's body is usually embalmed to preserve it until the funeral is held.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

It is her picture. I went to a little black shelf that held a small picture of the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

It was the first time a national political convention was held that far west.

VOA: special.2009.05.07