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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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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 Aristides E. (Aristides Evangelus) Phoutrides
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 Joseph Cottle
He took the pen in his graspless hand, and essayed to write.
From The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance by Sir Hall Caine
A moment later it fell from his graspless fingers to the floor.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
