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  • Do we outlaw guns in all places with small kids for the risk they will get a-hold of the gun and hurt someone?

    On Guns In Bars 2009

  • Do we outlaw guns in all places with small kids for the risk they will get a-hold of the gun and hurt someone?

    On Guns In Bars 2009

  • When asked about lobbying by the United Nations for control over the Web as an alternative to Icann, Ms. Dyson correctly calls this a "fate worse than death" and quotes this warning from a poem by British poet Hilaire Belloc: "Always keep a-hold of Nurse / For fear of finding something worse."

    A New Challenge for Web Freedom L. Gordon Crovitz 2012

  • I think maybe people ` s imaginations started to get a-hold of them.

    CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2009 2009

  • I think maybe people ` s imaginations started to get a-hold of them.

    CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2009 2009

  • MARIAN CONAWAY, COLLEEN CONAWAY'S MOTHER: All I know is she was alone, no ID, no means of getting a-hold of us or anyone in a big city where she didn't know anyone.

    CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009 2009

  • MARIAN CONAWAY, COLLEEN CONAWAY'S MOTHER: All I know is she was alone, no ID, no means of getting a-hold of us or anyone in a big city where she didn't know anyone.

    CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2009 2009

  • And clearly this person ` s decision-making was so poor, so flawed, drug-induced and once that inherently compulsive drug gets a-hold of somebody, all rational, reasonable decision making goes out window.

    CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2009 2009

  • “And always keep a-hold of nurse/For fear of finding something worse.”

    What are we to make of this? Helen 2007

  • “And always keep a-hold of nurse/For fear of finding something worse.”

    Archive 2007-08-01 Richard 2007

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