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Sloth jaundiced all! and from my graspless hand   Drop friendship's precious perls, like hour-glass sand.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph

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

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

The hatchet dropped from Ewan's graspless fingers, and he covered his face.

From The Deemster 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