The cable will hold your weight: you could carry a piano down with you if you wanted.
Six cables, three at each end, hold the tower in position.
We were seven, and in the cable hold there were possibly four men.
The cable held, both vehicles shook, and then the pilot looked back again.
The cable held fast to the cylinder, hardly flexing at all.
The motor worked, but the cable held firm.
No cable or chain will hold in such storms as they have here.
As long as this cable holds, I don't see why not.
The cables holding him break and he falls on Ratchet.
But the cable which draw him hold, so they fall twenty metres and do not touch earth.