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At thrillingly precarious moments — in one, the electrician’s legs dangle above a vertigo-inducing drop — the player must squeeze both controller triggers as if Caz’s hands are clasping onto the splintering rig.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024

Both hands grasp the under garment, and the eyes are evidently turned in eager expectancy upon the folds which the hands are clasping, in the hope that the roving tormentor has at last been captured.

From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason

His daughters are clasping him wildly, and the sky seems mustering the thunder and fire in which the tragic bard has made him disappear.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub

Fancy that you are clasping the hand of the kind friend who has been generous or thoughtful for you, and then write, even as you would speak.

From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Hartley, Florence

Then, still without a word, we are clasping hands.

From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)