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Jim McCullar, 68, took hold of the oversized check, marveling at all the zeros in $190m, and promptly handed it over to his wife.

Such a state is similar to the state of being experienced by the original seeded red race before any distortion took hold.

His heart began a crazy rhythm, and an intense anxiety took hold of him.

Then Androcles grew so bold that he took hold of the lion's lame paw to see what was the matter.

He furrowed his brow, took hold of his nose, held it a while in his large hand with the yellow hair.

She took hold of my hand as she said just the words "thank you" and she died.

The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

Finally, they came up close to him, and took hold of him.

His girlfriend advised him to get out of his bad habit of smoking before it took hold .

The servant took hold of me by the cloak behind, and said: "Polemarchus desires you to wait. "

Tears ran down her cheeks and she took hold of the ax and tried to pull it out of her father's hand.

He took hold of what had been a wrist, lifted what proved to be eyelids, flourished a nonchalant stethoscope.

But He took hold of her hand and called out, saying, Child, arise!

Needless to say, that did not happen, and as the recovery took hold last year, so the imbalances began to open up again.

And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.

He took hold of one foot gently and held it until the boy woke and turned and looked at him.

He made a big kite. He took hold of the kite string and ran with it. The wind took the kite up into the air. Then he jumped into the river.

And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

Later, the power of the Holy Spirit took hold of her so strongly that her body shook and she began to levitate.

And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.

And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him and said to him, You of little faith, why did you doubt?

Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them apart.

So she took hold of the frog with two fingers, carried him upstairs, and put him in a corner.

He took hold of the kite string and ran with it.

The fires took hold on Saturday, after a week of temperatures of up to 45º Celsius marked the height of Australia's summer.

He took hold of the creature's fin-like arm. It felt like his father's raincoat when it got wet.

he took hold of a branch that was hanging over the rock.

He took hold of the shoe on the dead woman 's foot. It resisted and came off with difficulty .

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. . . Each day on her own went perfectly, and a wild gaiety took hold of Susan.

When she found the lawyer stuck to the wash-stand, which was very large and heavy, she took hold of him with both hands to pull him away.

Both of my companions took hold of my hands and off we went, running faster than I had ever imagined possible.

Fear took hold, and I opened my eyes and ears to the world, desperate to find my friends.

Then David and all the men with him took hold of their clothes and tore them.

Mary Martinson caught me at the post office the other day, took hold of my arm, and lectured me for fifteen minutes on the virtues of emus .

There was a long string on the ball. Clifford took hold of the string and ran.

He took hold of the letter very roughly, and threw the verses away, so that the Flower fell on the ground.

But when the crowd had been put out, He entered and took hold of her hand, and the girl rose up.

When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet.

But since the crisis took hold, the macroeconomic gyroscope has begun to level out dramatically.

The idea of being a writer had come to me off and on since childhood, but it wasn't until recently that the possibility took hold.

"The Lord reached down from above and took hold of me; He pulled me out of the deep waters" (Psalm 18: 16 TEV).

Big li excited took hold door, let everybody east around that this good thereafter.

Management consultants took hold of these ideas and converted them to a coherent strategy for business.

When the crunch first took hold, the Aston Villa-supporting governor insisted it was not about to become an international crisis.

snuggle She took hold of his hand and snuggled up to him.

The equivalent of a royal warrant was invisibly hoisted over British high streets this week as "the Kate effect" took hold.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. . . Each day on her own went perfectly, a wild gaiety took hold of Susan.

and the sound of his voice took hold upon the hillside and set the air shaking in the leafy glens.

Race: The Power Of An Illusion reveals how the myth of race took hold and retains its power.

And in high school, another form of acting took hold of me.

Her critics damn her for a lack of European zeal and for dithering when panic took hold in the financial markets.

Angela Merkel, the chancellor, has twice dithered, arguing about conditions for a rescue even as the flames took hold.

He took hold of the rope tightly.

With nimble feet she ran like a kitten a few steps, and took hold of the cold door-handle.

And throughout that century, ideologies of violence and malice took hold in Asia, as they did in Europe, and caused terrible harm and grief.

And behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and took hold of his feet, and worshipped him.

They bounced back in late 2008, well before a strong recovery took hold.

Seemingly overnight, IBM was supplanted by Microsoft and its Windows operating system as the PC revolution took hold.

The improvement came as Iraqi forces assumed the lead in offensives in three cities and a truce with Shiite extremists took hold.

But then signs of an improving economy and company earnings that consistently bettered expectations took hold, helping drive market gains.

he took hold of the rope and saved his life.

the blind man took hold of my arm, and i led him across the street.

After the age of discovery, the ideas of democracy took hold in Europe.

As many as five people have been killed and many injured since the craze took hold in the summer.

The two tried to share air, but panic took hold of the out-of-air diver.

Once the stem cells took hold and grew on the scaffold, the tracheas could be transplanted into the patient without fear of rejection.

Starting in 2004, Adidas widely promoted that " Impossible is nothing" , and the notion took hold.

Starting in 2004, Addidas widely promoted that "Impossible is nothing, " and the notion took hold.

"The last time federal spending was at 18-percent of GDP [gross domestic product] was 1966, before Medicare took hold, " Harkin noted.

Dr. Munshi-South gently took hold of the animals so his students could measure them with a ruler along their backs.

So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.

From that point on, a slow reversal took hold as the dollar lost its grip on its new found highs.

When motivation struck on a Tuesday morning, I took hold of it, and I finished by Thursday.

With her forced support, the Scourge took hold of the Sunwell, the source of the elves' arcane power.

But Jesus took hold of his hand and raised him, and he stood up.

And in high school, another form of acting took hold of me. I wanted to learn how to be appealing.

The executioner reached down, took hold of the man's short braid, and yanked it over to one side.

Gradually the desire for notice took hold of her.

As the new ideology took hold it spun off radical interpretations that came to threaten the region's existing regimes.

But since then credit dramatically has outstripped economic growth, as securitisation took hold.

Treasury also took hold of the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, dedicating $250 billion to capital investments in banks.

An idea took hold. I plunged into the swamp. . . Actually, I slipped in. Quietly. Crocodiles abound here.

The second wave came in the twenties, as electrification transformed manufacturing, and the modern consumer economy took hold.

For instance, as the industrial revolution took hold, America transformed our economy and our role in the world.

Ps 48: 6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Two of the doctors took hold of my right leg very gingerly and bent it .

China cut interest rates several times between September and December 2008 as the financial crisis took hold.

Just then the mistress came home, quickly took hold of a stick, drove them off the table and gave them a good beating.

He clubbed at heads and heard the jaws chop and the shaking of the skiff as they took hold below.

But the conditions for the Arab Spring already existed before American decline took hold.

As the hippie movement took hold, the natural girl-next-door look became popular.

He stooped and took hold of one of the handles of the coffin.

As the years passed, the personal computer revolution took hold.

Both have most recently shown consumer confidence clambering back to levels last seen in early 2008, before the financial crisis took hold.

Without saying a word, she took hold of my arm and marched me off to the headmaster's office.

The music took hold of her slowly.

When the credit crisis took hold in the fall, Russians - and even some Western economists - thought it was mostly a U. S. problem.

Cawan his son took hold, sitting in one of the two, father and son.

The snipe quickly rushed over, stuck out its great beak and took hold of the clam's flesh.

and Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing and tore it into twelve pieces.

The latter theory was largely abandoned as Darwin's, and later Mendel's, theories took hold.

But as drought took hold, to survive they would have to adapt.

One of them took hold of my arm.

During the twelfth century a non-canonical branch of Christianity called the Cathars took hold in the south of France.

So as deflation took hold after 1929, effective tariff rates climbed, discouraging imports.

But the increasing demand for customised programmes soon took hold.

Soon, however, a new standard took hold: Clothed monuments were safer.

Unfortunately, once this became cool, a new wave of pornography took hold.

etc. In the Baltic sea also took hold, achieved to European trade shortcuts.

Fagin took hold of the Dodger's collar and shook him violently.

She took hold of the little tree.

Beijing re-established the peg in mid-2008 as the global recession took hold.

It took hold incredibly quickly, with flames 100ft high. It ripped through the house very quickly.

I wake up knowing simply that I took hold of the knob and turned it.

A kind of gold rush took hold as developer after developer started writing simple applications.

Then the bubble burst and the global economic crisis took hold.

To show my gratitude, I took hold of his collar and said, "Come on, boy, let's go home and get something to eat. "

And fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet has been raised up among us, and, God has visited His people!

His hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name.

People were told that Ivory was "so pure that it floats, " and the notion took hold.

That slowly changed as economic reforms took hold after the death of Chairman Mao in 1976.

A smile took hold of Amy when the idea first came to her.

The newly planted vines quickly took hold.

It was this kind of scare that took hold in the late 1980s.

The two movers took hold of the opposite ends of the table.

Affectionate birthday greetings. Birthday says a new beginning or a new time to took hold on life.

Mark took hold steady cash flow, strategies for their own capital laid a solid foundation.

but segregation then took hold in the South.

As nazism took hold of Germany, however, he saw nazism for what it was.

But the contagion from the crisis in finance took hold in the autumn of 2007.

A serious flaw is that the G20 abuses the principle of universality that took hold with the League of Nations after the first world war.

The school was granted the 10-year term credit in October, just after the global financial crisis took hold in Russia.

And that is how faithlessness stalked me and took hold over me slowly, till I became totally disbelieving.

I don't know why I took hold of the rope , but I did .

The rule of law never took hold.

The products made in China used to be cheap toys, T-shirts, etc. , and the impression took hold until Haier started to change it.

The banking system was diversified and the Chinese stock markets started to develop and grow as economic reforms in China took hold.

As the economic downturn took hold in 2008, sexual harassment filings by men and women jumped by 10. 8% to 13, 920 claims.

Mortgage lending in China has grown quickly since it took hold in 1998.

And Jesus, seeing the reasoning of their heart, took hold of a little child and stood him beside Himself,

They took hold in 18th-century Europe only when war and famine meant there was nothing else to eat;

The way Ashtanga Yoga took hold in the western world

And as the psychoanalysts ideas took hold in America,