high-held

Cast this 3/8-ounce white - and-silver version beyond a flooded tree trunk orlog, for example, and use a fast retrieve and high-held rod to bring the lurechurning back within inches of the cover's edge.

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Pop, there went a rakish fellow with mustaches, even as he poured wine in a long red stream from a high-held pitcher into his cup.

In the Garden of Iden 1997

His high-held lantern showed the bulge of water surging over an obstacle just below the surface, and he kneed King forward.

Chronicles of Pern, First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993

Others emerged from caves to join the nucleus until the top of the palisade was alive with motion, with high-held triangles of giff wings, claw-fingers wriggling in agitation.

Survivors McCaffrey, Anne 1984

A hunched, catlike shoulder twisted; a sinuous neck, a high-held head that was not quite human.

The Door Through Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

Mounted on another gray -- a mare with a dainty, high-held head -- was a woman, her figure trim in a habit almost the same shade of green as the fields.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

Veiled girls with water jars on their high-held heads from which the shawls trailed down to the dust filed past from the villages like a Parthenon frieze.

The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley

He knew now the reason for Jean's high head and burning cheeks, and in spite of his sense of agonizing humiliation, he was glad to think of that high-held head.

The Tin Soldier Temple Bailey

Beyond the pool which reflected the little star was the dark outline of the box hedge, and beyond the hedge, the rise of the hill showed dark against the dull silver of the sky -- a shadow seemed to rise suddenly in that dim brightness, the tall thin shadow of a man with a clear-cut profile, and a high-held head!

The Trumpeter Swan Temple Bailey

But because there was pride and spirit behind her delicate loveliness she shut the door hard upon those imps of hysteria and with high-held head and palely smiling lips she thanked the Captain for the hospitality he was extending in his sister's name.

The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley