The mud and earth beneath her feet held her solid.

"It's almost as if at times like that, the whole earth holds its breath."

"The earth holds no nobler woman than you."

As if the earth were holding her breath.

The neat rows of rectangular holes dug into the newly turned brown earth would hold some 300 graves, workers said.

The earth held still, but heaven itself was moving.

Fafhrd became aware of a profound silence above, around, below, as if the very earth were holding her breath.

It doesn't seem to me that earth can hold a dream like that!

The current earth may hold more species than ever before, but most are iterations upon a few basic anatomical designs.

The earth held her outstretched arms, her bent head.