Instead, he held both hands hard across his mouth until the need began to pass.

Fighting for air, wheezing, holding hard on to that table.

Reaching the wall of the house, I held hard against it and eased one eye around the corner.

The hand in the glove reached between his legs and closed, holding hard.

Yes, but hold hard a minute, publicity's the best thing out in a case like this.

"Hold hard, for a little longer yet," the Prince says.

She thought she was going to fall, but something hard held her by the waist.

"I also am holding hard on to the thing I never saw."

His expression was kind, concerned, but she sensed fury in him, taut and held hard.

She managed very well indeed, holding hard on the rope.