21.   Lucker holds my hand with the kind of grasp that men at sea learn as a last resort.

22.   Margarett took a beau to their apartment for dinner and scandalized her old friends by visibly holding his hand.

23.   Nelo said, holding her hand, patting it like a gerbil.

24.   Past leaders of the pack have even been known to hold hands in order to cross the finish line together.

25.   She had slept in the chair in his room, night after night, holding his hand.

26.   She had trained them to hold hands, walk straight to school and not to talk to strangers.

27.   She sat beside the hospital bed, holding his hand as he struggled for life.

28.   She saw Kurt and Eileen coming back from the beach, kissing and holding hands.

29.   The couple held hands, the hearing officer remembered, and seemed intent on resolving the issue short of a criminal prosecution.