It tried to hold my dress and keep hold, but the fingers were too weak to close.

"And what has you so jittery you can't hold your dress still?"

Something about the whole configuration bothered me, a tall creature holding a little girl's crumpled dress.

Above all of which she held her dress in great silky folds.

The one who'd been stripped held her dress to cover herself.

She was holding her ruined dress in place.

David Riccio ran behind me and held my dress.

She kept holding her dress up and then turned around so that I could see her behind.

She was walking across the floor, holding her dress daintily.

She stands transfixed, holding her dress up, showing what little girls are made of.