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How often, when he lay Reclining on mine arms and breathing gently, I thought I held the graspless image of Beauty light-born, and said: "What is there more For me to hope?"

From Life Immovable First Part by Phoutrides, Aristides E. (Aristides Evangelus)

He took the pen in his graspless hand, and essayed to write.

From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

In writing of the man of the "graspless hand," the biographer's own hand in time grows graspless on the pen; and in reading of him our hands too grow graspless on the page.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

How often, when he lay Reclining on mine arms and breathing gently, I thought I held the graspless image of Beauty light-born, and said: "What is there more For me to hope?"

From Life Immovable First Part by Phoutrides, Aristides E. (Aristides Evangelus)

I think often with Coleridge: Sloth jaundiced all: and from my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls like hour-glass sand.

From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir