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Sentences ending with grip

He seized her wrist as it lay on the wall, and she winced from the sudden pain of his grip. [9]
You can do without your grip? [4]
But Anna Mikhaylovna went forward a step or two to keep her hold on the portfolio, and changed her grip. [2]
This largely depends upon English prestige in the Orient, and to lose India is to lose the grip. [4]
They had left their homes in Virginia and the Carolinas in the autumn; an unheralded winter of Arctic fierceness had caught them in its grip. [9]
He saw now Tarboe's eyes fixed on his fingers, and he released his grip. [11]
The next man Stephen saw was big Tom Catherwood, who blushed to the line of his hair as he returned Stephen's grip. [9]
At last I roused my energies and snatched the covers back to their place and held them with a strong grip. [5]
And over every one of them the Mother-Church has permanent and unchallengeable control, upon every one of them Mrs. Eddy has set her irremovable grip. [5]
It is part of the plan of his campaign, and he will cling to it with a desperate grip. [7]

Sentences containing grip two or more times

Then he added to Angelo, "Now hold your grip, hold your grip, I tell you, and I'll land him sure! [5]
When a man loses a pal he loses a grip on the world equal to all that pal's grip was worth. [11]
Instinct will make a sleeping man grip a fast hold of the railing when the stage jolts, but when it only swings and sways, no grip is necessary. [5]

More example sentences with the word grip in them

But you hold your grip, and we'll see what can be done. [5]
It is not worth while to try to get any grip upon the cloud of minor gods, there are too many of them. [5]
But the grip with which he tore away Venters's grasping hands was that of a giant. [13]
The human thing with the grip of real life was necessary. [11]
They clenched there with a power like that of three men; for this was the kind of grip which, far away in the country of the Yang-tse-kiang, Li Choo had learned in the days when he had made youth a thing to be remembered. [11]
Early in April, while the wilderness was still in the grip of winter, Delphin had been summoned from a far-away lumber camp to Saint Hubert, where several packing-cases and two rolls of lead pipe from Montreal lay in a shed beside the railroad siding. [9]
The grip, with which I flung him, I learned--how long ago?--from the chief-gymnast at Delphi. [10]
They realized they were helpless in the grip of harsh circumstance. [11]
Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
Certainly the master-carpenter was not unpopular, and people could not easily resist the grip of his physical influence, while mentally he was far indeed from being deficient. [11]
It's the biggest vice ever tuk grip of a man. [11]
Their way was unobstructed until they approached London Bridge; then they ploughed into the multitude again, Hendon keeping a fast grip upon the Prince's --no, the King's--wrist. [5]
The struggle began under the direction of the older pupils, and the grip on which I had relied did not fail. [10]
The Honourable Hilary, towering above him, and with that grip on his arm, was a formidable person. [9]
The next ascent took grip of fingers as well as toes, but he climbed steadily, swiftly, to reach the projecting corner, and slipped around it. [13]
Would you like to grant me the privilege of placing the whole jacquard business of the world in the grip of a single Company? [5]
It was hard to get a grip on him that would hold. [5]
There's plenty of time to go up-town and get your grip and catch the afternoon train. [4]
And at the time she had been caught up by an excitement in the grip of which she still found herself. [9]
His cool mood tightened under grip of excitement as he reflected that, whoever the approaching riders were, they could not be friends. [13]
Owning the property through her Board of Waxworks was safe enough, still it was sound business to set another grip on it to cover accidents, and she did it. [5]
You probably know this already, but I mention it for your own good if you do not, in the hope that, through you, the Northeastern Railroads may be induced to relax their grip upon the government of this State. [9]
Oh, he had them--and he just settled his grip and squeezed them. [5]
He noticed that the tight grip of the hand on the little statue of the riverman had made the fingers pale. [11]
Somehow, he saw the other had a grip upon essentials lacking in himself; he had his tooth in the orange, as it were, and was sucking the juice of good profit from his labours. [11]
Then he felt the old man's strong grip upon him, and a wild cry of "Help! [5]
The grip of the honest hand, quite, and the clinch of an honest waist? [11]
From the day that she set her masculine grip on Shelley he was to frisk no more. [5]
You see, yourself, that I was in his grip and couldn't get out. [5]
I don't like that dynamite talk of his; but any man that's given his hand to the country has got mine in his grip for good. [8]
The man had taken off his boots and stockings, and his bare feet seemed to grip the floor; also the sleeves of his jacket were rolled up a little. [11]
Carnac began to take a grip on himself. [11]
The youth was still standing; his feet were on the sand of the arena; but he had a firm grip on the right-hand spiral ornament that terminated the bar round the chariot. [10]
He was a small man, slovenly in dress, his tone confidential, his manner wholly void of animation, all his features below the forehead protruding--particularly the apple of his throat--hair without a kink in it, a hand with no grip, a meek, hang-dog countenance. [5]
We jogged along, six in the party, at a moderate and comfortable gait, and in conversation learned that my lord Grip was a very great personage in his own region, which lay a day's journey beyond Cambenet. [5]
Our companions, those servants, had done it; my lord Grip stood looking on. [5]
That is to say, take a grip on one villainy of it at a time, leaving that one half learned. [5]
At length he said: "Marmion, I said suburban innocence and original sin, but you've a grip on the law of square and compass too. [11]
See the gray regiments marching silently in the tropic heat into the folds of that blue army whose grip has choked them at last. [9]
King thought himself quite in love with Forbes--there was the warmest affection between the two--but when he hauled the artist up a Catskill cliff there wasn't the least of this sort of a thrill in the grip of hands. [4]
If he could prevent it, there should be, where he was concerned, no jealousy, such as Mazarine had shown towards the Mayor, in connection with this helpless, exquisite creature in the grip of hard fate. [11]
He was not prepared to have Gaston catch him by the shoulders with a nervous grip, search his eyes, and say: "You damned little fool, I'm not worth it! [11]
It reminds a person of those dentists who secure your instant and breathless interest in a tooth by taking a grip on it with the forceps, and then stand there and drawl through a tedious anecdote before they give the dreaded jerk. [5]
No thing, little or big, that contains any seed or suggestion of power escapes her avaricious eye; and when once she gets that eye on it, her remorseless grip follows. [5]
One day, the old man stormed at Fabian because of a mistake in the management, and was foolish enough to say that Fabian had lost his grip since his marriage. [11]
Once there was occasion for O'Ryan to catch Fergus by the arm, and Fergus winced from the grip. [11]
Well, he didn't need to do anything at all but sit in the cabin of his ship and hold his grip and sail straight on, and America would discover itself. [5]
There were also narrow ledges, lumps of stone, natural steps and little pinnacles which the fingers could grip and where man might rest. [11]
For me--they take me by the throat--" He put his hand up as if to free his throat from a grip, his tongue touched his lips, his hands grew restless. [11]
It was not many sentence's after his first before he began to hesitate, and break, and lose his grip, and totter, and wobble, and at last he slumped down in a limp and mushy pile. [5]
She seemed to lose a grip of herself. [11]
Sugar is the life of Mauritius, and it is losing its grip. [5]
Over a jutting ledge he drew himself up by sheer strength and the rubber-like grip of his lacerated fingers, and now he lay flat and breathless upon the ground. [11]
If you get it into your hands, you will read it again, and then you will do some foolish thing, for you have lost grip of yourself. [11]
As Tarboe grasped it in his own big paw, he was conscious of a strength in the grip which told him that the physical capacity of the "painter-fellow," as he afterwards called Carnac, had points worthy of respect. [11]
Nevertheless it was intended for an eye that would be swift to see it; and it was meant to move a kind heart to try to effect the liberation of a poor reformed and purified fellow lying in the fell grip of consumption. [5]
She lay there, inert, bewildered as in the grip of an unknown force, until presently she was aware of the beating of his heart, and a glimmering of what he felt came to her. [9]
She has wisdom in the raw, and a real grip on life, and yet all the men she has known have been river-drivers and farmers, and a few men from town who mistook the sort of Suzon she is. [11]
She could remain in the house, for the mortgage was paid off, though the government and not poor Solomon Isaacs had the mortgage-money in its grip for the present. [5]
The Company holding in its grip all these patents would collar $50,000,000 of that, as its share. [5]
So we took in a good fresh breath at the broken pane, calculating to hold it till we got through; then we went there and bent over that deadly cheese and took a grip on the box. [5]
By and by I felt a faint tug, and took a fresh grip. [5]
In half an hour an old woman passed by, carrying a grip: I caught the familiar whiff, and followed with my grip, for it was Fuller. [5]
When one makes his first voyage in a ship, it is an experience which multitudinously bristles with striking novelties; novelties which are in such sharp contrast with all this person's former experiences that they take a seemingly deathless grip upon his imagination and memory. [5]
At last, through her personal testimony, we have a sure grip upon the following vital facts, and they settle the authorship of Science and Health beyond peradventure: 1. [5]
As he passed her mother's tomb, she felt as though a cold hand laid a grip on her beating heart. [10]
Aleck sternly held her grip and "put up" as long as she could, but at last there came a call which she was powerless to meet, and her imaginary brokers sold her out. [5]
With one hand he caught their two necks together in his powerful grip, with the other he grasped their tails, tore them in two, and threw them out onto the cliffs above the lake. [10]
Very few people have a grip like Gabriel--the prints of his monstrous fingers, two inches deep, are to be seen in that rock to-day. [5]
Some one always has you by the throat, unless you have some one else in your grip. [8]
But that little handful of English officials in India set their sturdy and confident grip upon it, and ripped it out, root and branch! [5]
And when he had returned it, with a strong grip of the iron hand that held his, and met the gray eyes, he knew that Lassiter and he were to be friends. [13]
Merlin held his grip, but he was astonished clear down to his corns; he had never seen anything to begin with that, before. [5]
Ze snag, he grip you like dat," and Xavier twined his strong arms around Nick until he was helpless. [9]
She has a grip on herself like--like--" "Like Mr. Crozier with a broncho under his hand," interjected Kitty. [11]
It was the grip of men who knew each other--knew each other's faults and weaknesses, yet trusted with a trust which neither disaster nor death could destroy. [11]
So here's the grip av me fist, an' y'll have it. [11]
Judge Howland would go, but can't get away from engagements; Professor Sloane would go, but is in the grip of an illness. [5]
To the dramatic French mind, ceremonial is ever welcome; and for a moment it had them in its grip, as old Gabriel Druse read out in his ringing voice, the trenchant royal summons. [11]
From his marriage-day forth, Aleck's grip had been upon the purse, and Sally had seldom known what it was to be privileged to squander a dime on non-necessities. [5]
It's a pity, for when we grip there'll be a heavy fall. [11]
You keep feeling for a thousand things instead of keeping your grip on one. [11]
And on the first day her languor appeared to leave her in a renewed grip of life. [13]
He suddenly caught Fabian's shoulder in a strong grip. [11]
The dull, questioning eyes of the old commentator and writer of many books now blazed with the hot fire of youthful passion and, like a wrestler who seeks the right grip, he measured Apollonius and his companions with wrathful glances. [10]
Dyck had been drinking a good deal, but this knowledge of a French invasion, and a sense of what Boyne was trying to do, steadied his shaken emotions; held him firmly in the grip of practical common sense. [11]
Just at broad daylight I felt a grip on my shoulder that brought me to my senses suddenly. [5]
Thrue it is, Coolin, that the hand uv mortial man has an ugly way uv squazin' a woman's heart dry whin, at last, to his coaxin' she lays it tinder an' onsuspectin' on the inside grip uv it. [11]
It doesn't all come at once, the grip of the thing. [11]
Yes, sir, that coat-tail was used not only for General Jackson himself, but has been clung to, with the grip of death, by every Democratic candidate since. [7]
He jumped and caught Buckmaster's wrist in a grip like a vice. [11]
I am small, but I have a grip. [11]
Not Arcady this, but a land of industry in the grip of industrialists, whose determination to achieve riches is, in spite of themselves, chastened by the magnitude and orderly process of nature's travail which is not pain. [11]
This gives a body's mind a good substantial grip on the dimensions of the place. [5]
Mrs. Eddy was Autocrat of the Church before, with limitless authority, and she kept her grip on that limitless authority when she took that fictitious title. [5]
More than once, as she waited in the office for old John Grier to come, she had a strange, intuitive feeling that Tarboe might suddenly grip her in his arms. [11]
He caught Whalen's arm in a grip of friendship. [11]
Its concretest things are filmy abstractions to me, and when I lay my grip on one of them and open my hand, I feel as embarrassed as I use to feel when I thought I had caught a fly. [5]
It startled her; and yet, though she was tempted to grip her breast, she did not. [11]
The King raged and stormed, and promised to hang the two the moment the sceptre was in his hand again; but they kept a firm grip upon him and enjoyed his impotent struggling and jeered at his threats. [5]

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