"Grasp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... exclaimed M'Ginnis, tightening his grasp, "you sure are some class, Kid, in that stiff collar an' sporty tie. How's the stock market? Are ye a ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... suppressed groan, of unutterable anguish, struck on Madeleine's ear; and the hand Maurice held dropped from his grasp. ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... Jefferson Worth's face became a gray mask from behind which his mind reached out as though to grasp what Texas would say before the man put it into words. "Well?" The single word came with the colorless sound of ...
— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright
... sure, and this is Gold I grasp. I could not see this Devil's cloven Foot; Nor am I such a Coxcomb to believe, But he was as substantial as his Gold. Spirits, Ghosts, Hobgoblins, Furies, Fiends and Devils, I've often heard old Wives fright Fools and Children with, Which, once arriv'd to common Sense, ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn
... among them who looked double the size of the average adult—and must have been double the weight, at any rate—whose sport was to chase the young females. They, knowing his game, fled before him, but he caught them readily. But before he could have his will of any, she would bound from his grasp as if stung, and always escape, as this sudden spurt of energy was more than he ...
— The Position of Woman in Primitive Society - A Study of the Matriarchy • C. Gasquoine Hartley
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