witholds

Updated: May 6, 2025

With cries and stumbling they went forth into the cabbage patch, where they all possessed themselves of stalks which they straightway brought in to the light of the jack-o'-lanterns to interpret. "My lady love will be tall and slender not to say thin," began Dr. Watkins. "I see no information here as to the color of her hair and eyes. Fate cruelly witholds these important facts.

Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith - Ethel Morton's Holidays

In case a Bill is accepted by two Orders and is rejected by the other two, a deadlock is averted by each of the Orders appointing fifteen delegates; these sixty delegates, meeting without discussion, vote by ballot, and a bare majority carries the day. Measures are then referred to the Grand Duke, who, after consulting the Senate, gives or witholds his assent .

John Holland Rose - The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)

Here, however, it is plainly the sun itself which witholds its light and leaves the world to darkness. This inconsistency, which has greatly exercised the native theologians, is not peculiar to Japanese myth."

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era