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Sentences starting with grasping

Grasping his bag, the only baggage he possessed, he started off at a swinging stride for Hanover Street, pausing only to shake the hands of the few who recognized him, unconscious of the wild-fire at his back. [9]
Grasping his grandson's right hand in his, he pointed with his left to the necropolis, exclaiming in tremulous tones: "The dead are too great a multitude. [10]
Grasping his stick he prepared himself for an attack. [11]
Grasping the ducats, he gave Ulrich two handfuls, exclaiming: "This one is for your work here, the other to relieve you from any care concerning means of living, while pursuing your studies in Venice and Florence. [10]
Grasping the iron firmly just below the arms of the cross, the tailor held it up again. [11]

Sentences ending with grasping

And how much was she capable of grasping? [9]

Short sentences using grasping

Was everybody grasping and selfish? [4]

More example sentences with the word grasping in them

The answer to your arguments is to be seen on every side, atheism, hypocrisy, vice, misery, insane and cruel grasping after wealth. [9]
But the grip with which he tore away Venters's grasping hands was that of a giant. [13]
It was Paul who had liberated that message of rebirth, which the world has been so long in grasping, from the narrow bounds of Palestine and sent it ringing down the ages to the democracies of the twentieth century. [9]
Why mourn that we, the favored few Whom grasping Time so long has spared Life's sweet illusions to pursue, The common lot of age have shared? [6]
Crozier bowed and turned, again grasping the rail of the witness-box with one hand, while with an air of cogitation and suspense he stroked his chin with the long fingers of the other hand. [11]
She went up to the mischievous Irene and grasping her arms from behind, bent them until she cried for mercy. [9]
He drew himself to the gratings, grasping them with his hands, and looking out through them, sat waiting till the officer was passing once more, and then said: "Sweetness, you'd better mind your eye, now, because you beats have killed this cuss. [5]
In contrast with this foreigner, confronting him, a young lieutenant stood motionless, his head cocked on one side, his hand grasping the club held a little behind him, his glance meeting the other's squarely, but with a different quality of defiance. [9]
His brain wouldn't then be grasping what his eyes saw. [11]
She was grasping the truth, when suddenly there came, in inward constriction, a hardening of gentle forces within her breast. [13]
I don't know that Henderson changed much, accented as his grasping selfishness was on occasion; prosperity had not impaired that indifferent good-fellowship and toleration which had early gained him popularity. [4]
Groaning and tottering she pushed her way through the door into the garden and hobbled down to the sea, grasping her temples in her hands. [10]
Rivervale was a self-respecting town, and principled against luxury and self-indulgence, and judged with a just and severe judgment the world of fashion and of the grasping, wicked millionaires. [4]
Kutuzov looked at Rostopchin as if, not grasping what was said to him, he was trying to read something peculiar written at that moment on the face of the man addressing him. [2]
With a moan Philip swayed and fell forward into the arms of Damour, still grasping his weapon. [11]
She stood with one hand grasping the back of the chair. [4]
After two days of this struggle with the grasping enemy, it was evident to Dr. Longstreet that Ruth's will was beginning to issue its orders to her body with some force, and that strength was slowly coming back. [5]
Don't you speak of it," she added earnestly, grasping his arm. [5]
He was aware of grasping those sweeping horns, conscious of a blow which tore the flesh from his chest; and then his knife--how came it in his hand?--with the instinct of the true hunter. [11]
The youth had no ill to fear from her, so grasping her hand, he whispered that he had escaped from his guards and come to ask counsel from her mistress and herself. [10]
For some time neither could succeed in grasping the other. [10]
Yes, that man is somehow closely and painfully connected with me," thought Prince Andrew, not yet clearly grasping what he saw before him. [2]
You do it in this way: you hop along behind it on your right foot, resting the other on the mounting-peg, and grasping the tiller with your hands. [5]
Torn with pity, I saw them reeling through the water, now grasping trees and bushes to try to keep their feet, the strongest breaking the way ahead and supporting the weak between them. [9]
Mr. Sutton accused himself of having been stupid in not grasping at once that the tables were turned, and that now he was the one to dispense the gifts. [9]
Tears hung at her eyes, and presently dropped on her cheeks, a sob shook her, and then she was still, her hands grasping his shoulders. [11]
If her manner had been merely one of indifference, it would in a way have been easier to bear; she was simply incapable of grasping the significance of the event, the meaning to me of the years of unceasing, ambitious effort it crowned. [9]
That is the great danger everywhere in this world (it may not be in the next): things are too thick; we lose all in grasping for too much. [4]
The judge, still grasping his Adam's apple, stares at the newcomer in amazement, and recognizes her in spite of the years, and trembles. [9]
What prevented her from grasping the gold, giving the hint, issuing the command? [10]
Pontius, Pontius," she exclaimed, grasping his broad, right hand in both her own. [10]
But we rose, each fighting, grasping whatever he could first reach--a scythe, a pitchfork, a chopping-ax, or a butcher's cleaver. [7]
It wasn't war," declared Jowett spasmodically, grasping the rail of the fire-engine as the wheel struck a stone and nearly shot them from their seats. [11]
Out of the corner of his mental vision--without grasping it--the Honourable Hilary perceived this vaguely. [9]
And by and by, when the sun made me drowsy, I lay down on my face on top of the coach, grasping the slender iron railing, and slept for an hour or more. [5]
He stood trembling, both hands grasping the arms of the chair. [11]
The Greek's slender body had contracted, her delicate arms and narrow braids of hair changed into spider legs, and the many-jointed hands were already grasping for their prey like a spider, or preparing to wind the murderous threads around another living creature. [10]
He rode in angry agitation toward him, firmly grasping his whip and fully prepared to take the most resolute and desperate steps to punish his enemy. [2]
She was leaning against a tall chair, both hands grasping the back of it, her chin just level with the top. [11]

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