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Clasp

noun

A fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together.

The act of grasping. Synonyms: clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold. "He has a strong grip for an old man" , "She kept a firm hold on the railing"

verb

(past & past part. clasped; pres. part. clasping)

Hold firmly and tightly.

Fasten with or as if with a brooch. Synonym: brooch.

Fasten with a buckle or buckles. Synonym: buckle.

Grasp firmly.

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"Clasp" Quotes from Famous Books

... went into the parlor. The angels that loved her must have followed her there. They would desire to see her joy. For there, with glowing, tender face, stood Richard. She asked no questions. She spoke no word at all. She went straight to the arms outstretched to clasp her. She felt his tears, mingling with her own. She heard her name break softly in two the kisses that said what last the hour for which she had hoped and ...

— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr

... Andes to seize her? Her dreams that had opened sullenly to the sound waited for no answer, but closed again into pompous darkness. Happily, the horsemen had caught the glimpse of some bright ornament, clasp, or aiguillette, on Kate's dress. They were hunters and foresters from below; servants in the household of a beneficent lady; and in some pursuit of flying game had wandered beyond their ordinary limits. Struck by the sudden scintillation from Kate's dress played upon by the morning ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

... all was lost. Aileen's arm was around her; and Tildy's red hand groped among the butter chips till it found the warm clasp of ...

— The Four Million • O. Henry

... doted on follies, and left those undeceived who sought to explain and justify all thy errors? Then came the days of thy later passions, terrible like the love of a woman of forty years, with a fierce cry thou hast sought to clasp the whole universe in one last embrace—and thy universe ...

— Christ in Flanders • Honore de Balzac

... cleaves Through the swirl and the flow of the leaves, As a swimmer stands with his white limbs bare to the sun For the space that a breath is held, and drops in the sea; And the undulant woodland folds round me, intimate, fluctuant, free, Like the clasp and the cling of waters, and the reach and the effort is done,— There is only the glory of living, exultant ...

— Songs from Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey

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