The council did what it could to hold things together.

But he did hold things back about himself, she reflected.

She must be having a hell of a job just holding things together.

It is about their struggle to hold things together: the men, the land, themselves.

"If they do that, we can make up for his absence and hold things together until he gets back."

Now he needed the series more than ever as a kind of glue to hold things together.

"And after a while you begin to hold things to yourself."

She wrapped her arms about herself, as if trying to hold things together.

That held things together for a little, kept them busy.

But when I came here it got kind of hard to hold things together, you know?