Example Sentences
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She knew me, and acknowledged me her heir, Pray'd me to pay her debts, and keep the Faith: Then claspt the cross, and pass'd away in peace.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
She even claspt my hand in her's, and said, "O Charles! is he very, very miserable?"
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace
But the youngest Goddess claspt the Ball to her breast.
From The Dales of Arcady by Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una
"What name?" an he put it i'th' book,— An shoo hardly seemed able to stand; As shoo tottered, he happened to luk saw summat claspt in her hand.
From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John
He looked soe rapt, with claspt hands and upraysed eyes, as that I coulde not but look on him and hear him with solemnitie.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
