要挟 | yāo xié | to threaten; to blackmail | |
挟持 | xié chí | to seize | |
裹挟 | guǒ xié | to sweep along; to coerce | |
挟带 | xié dài | to carry along; to carry on one's person; to carry secretly | |
挟制 | xié zhì | forced submission; to exploit advantage to force sb to do one's bidding |
1 | "Yes, mother, " answered Pearl, "But if it be the Black Man, wilt thou not let me stay a moment, and look at him, with his big book under his arm? | |
2 | The vicar having opened it and found it to contain a book, read a few pages; whereupon he jumped up from his seat and went straight to the shop with the book under his arm. | |
3 | The sands in your way beg for your song and your movement, dancing water. Will you carry the burden of their lameness? | |
4 | This is, effectively, the opposite of the other type of bandwagon, but usually provokes the same results. | |
5 | We first saw smoke rising up in the valley, then the rocks and mud gushing out. |