grasp
verb (used with object)
to seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers or arms.
graspless
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a word derived from
grasp.
Example Sentences
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A moment later it fell from his graspless fingers to the floor.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 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
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
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
