Example Sentences
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Grasped by a dozen toil-hardened hands, and surrounded by the rest of the survivors of the justly exasperated inhabitants, the two lads were hurried towards the village.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
Grasped rigidly in his left hand the fallen man held the telephone!
From The Green Eyes of Bâst by Rohmer, Sax
Oh Heaven!" he cried, "Has avaricious Ruin's hand denied The parents of my heart a grave with those Of their own kindred?—have their ruthless foes Grasped this last, sacred spot we called our own?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
She was born Of a high race, and laid upon the knee, With her soft eye perusing listlessly The fretted roof, or, on Mosaic floors, Grasped at the tessellated squares, inwrought With metals curiously.
From Fugitive Poetry by Willis, Nathaniel Parker
Grasped in his hand was the red and yellow favour that Wayne wore as Provost of Notting Hill.
From The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Robertson, W. Graham (Walford Graham)
