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  • And if you ever attempt to go forth again to find out new wonders in the world, I shall clasp you round with my arms, as I do now, and keep you prisoner against your will; and if you say 'Farewell' a hundred times to me, I shall blot out that sad word every time with my lips, and put a better one in its place, until my word conquers yours. A Crystal Age
  • Now the word "prayer" to non-Muslim readers will evoke an image of people perhaps silently clasping their hands together, leaning forward in a pew, and either silently, to themselves, or in a quiet tone, speaking heartfeltly to God. David Horowitz Freedom Center
  • Above the clasped hands are a peace pipe and a tomahawk.
  • The crew snarled like roused curs, and some made as if to stand, hands clasping the hilts of cutlasses and swords, daggers and stilettos.
  • I see nothing wrong with clasping them above the waist.
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  • You can make them more formal with the addition of a diamanté brooch to use as a clasp on the front or the back.
  • Instead of the classic English handshake at the end of matches, players opted instead for the ‘bro, you wuz good out there’ upright handclasp more usually seen on the streets of Harlem.
  • Her golden-spun hair was loosely fastened in a clasp, and she held a small glass in her hand.
  • A baby monkey clasps its mother's fur tightly.
  • Hereupon all folk stared in hugeous wonderment to behold these two champions drop their swords and leap to clasp and hug each other in mighty arms, to pat each other's mailed shoulders and grasp each other's mailed hands. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
  • Quickly grabbing her stuff and clasping the key tightly in her hand she ran upstairs and went to the room at the end of the corridor.
  • Jim was not in the mood for any more liquor or food, and simply sat, trying and failing not to clasp and unclasp his hands nervously. Starcraft II: Devils’ Due
  • There is another couple walking down the street, this one pre-consumerist, their handclasp signifying a ‘right of ownership’ in which she is ‘silently, sadly, complicit.’
  • Jack clasped Maria in his arms and held her to him, kissing her.
  • Clad in a rollneck and forever gently clasping a glass of red wine, Lucont represents all the jokes and illusions we have about the French taken to an exaggerated and absurd level. This week's new comedy
  • He again turned from me, but this time, he reached out and clasped my hand tightly as he walked.
  • I clasped my hands in entreaty, and Uncle Geoff had such a funny look in his eyes that I quite stared at him. The Boys and I: A Child's Story for Children
  • She had seen glances hot with wine and lust, claspings of hands, loosened cyclas, and more lascivious reclinings. The Lion's Brood
  • The only hint of fear in the company was the presence of two tall gorilla bodyguards clasping small automatic fire-arms, who glared at us suspiciously as we approached, but made no attempt to stop us.
  • She was wearing only dark green breeches, belted around her waist and fastened just above the knees by gold clasps.
  • We observe the Admiral, dressed in a cinnamon coloured velvet coat trimmed with elaborate gold clasps.
  • Gwen unclasped her hands and grabbed a handful of nuts.
  • Never thought of _death_, or even looked upon it, for mother told us there was no need of harrowing up our feelings -- it would come soon enough, she said; and to me, who hoped to live so long, it has come _too soon_ -- all too soon; "and the hot tears rained through the transparent fingers, clasped so convulsively over her face. Dora Deane
  • The suspect is believed to have gained entry via the rear garden, by removing a clasp and hasp from the garage door.
  • He clasped her hand tightly and she was immediately fond of his firm, warm grip that felt as if it fit like a glove.
  • You can tell the difference between the sexes not only by their genitals the males have little claspers to help them mate but by other parts of their bodies such as their eyes: the female has small eyes pointing out to either side, while those of the male bulge out so much that they touch over the top of its head. Parasite Rex
  • He caught my interest and I listened closely, my arms clasping tighter around his shoulders.
  • The captain coming up to have a little conversation, and to introduce a friend, seated himself astride of one of these barrels, like a Bacchus of private life; and pulling a great clasp-knife out of his pocket, began to 'whittle' it as he talked, by paring thin slices off the edges. American Notes
  • Keep the summer fires burning and clasp tightly the beauty products that are the epitome of escapes to hot climes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The largest was Basilosaurus isis, which was up to 21 m long, with well developed five-fingered flippers on the forelimbs and the quite unexpected presence of hind legs, feet, and toes, not known previously in any archaeocete; a vestigial use may have been as claspers during aquatic mating. Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley), Egypt
  • Towards the middle of the plain, there lay the bodies of several men who had fallen in the very act of grappling with the enemy; and there were seen countenances which still bore the stern expression of unextinguishable hate and defiance, hands which clasped the hilt of the broken falchion, or strove in vain to pluck the deadly arrow from the wound. The Monastery
  • There, seated in splendid comfort, sat Father Morrison, hands clasped around his belly, feet stretched out, dozing, comfortable as a cat on a hearthside rug. A Small Death in the Great Glen
  • She stayed there, facing away from him, the book clasped to her chest.
  • He switched channels with the remote, clasped his hands behind his head.
  • She clasped her hands, and glancing upward, seemed to implore divine assistance.
  • Long are the "times" of Heaven: the orbits of angel messengers seem wide to mortal vision; they may enring ages: the cycle of one departure and return may clasp unnumbered generations; and dust, kindling to brief suffering life, and through pain, passing back to dust, may meanwhile perish out of memory again, and yet again. Villette
  • Annie was kneeling, too, her fine, unringed hands clasping one of her mother's hands. The Beloved Woman
  • I stood there, clasping the door handle.
  • She popped the clasp on her clutch and plucked out her mobile phone.
  • Her sister, Rachel, sat on the couch, her hands clasped tightly together.
  • She clasped her hands over a brand-new blowse, with something under it that jumped and fluttered orful. The Dop Doctor
  • As she did so she unclasped her fingers and revealed a silver locket.
  • Nicon called at the sense of it and the rest hurrahed and backs were slapped and hands clasped and, yes, there were still hard feelings, but those would be paid later, individually. The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber
  • But first undo me these clasps — for I have not worn this corselet since the battle of Saint Quentin Durward
  • Dense guitars, keyboards, and occasional handclasps and miscellaneous noise add to the controlled maelstrom.
  • Jean made two deep bows, the Americans two little ones, after which they foraged in their bags, from which each drew a 'rouleau' of 1,000 francs, daintily inclosed in green sheaths of serpent-skin, clasped with gold. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • Once the completed manuscript was bound between rigid covers clasped firmly shut, it was well protected.
  • alleluia;" they clapped their hands, leaped up, fell down, clasped each other in their free arms, cried, laughed, and went to and fro, tossing upward their unfettered hands; but high above the whole there was a mighty sound which ever and anon swelled up; it was the utterings in broken negro dialect of gratitude to God. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • The baby monkey clasped its mother's fur tightly.
  • He leaned forward, his hands clasped tightly together.
  • The baby monkey clasped its mother's fur tightly.
  • He pulled from within his robe a beautiful piece of craftsmanship, a magnificent silver filigree forming beautiful designs on the neck clasp but flawed by only one thing.
  • She had just finished hooking the last clasp when Loretta turned to her holding up a delicate silver chain and smiling triumphantly.
  • Robert shook it, immediately appreciating the firm clasp.
  • The three sit silent for a moment, hands clasped in identical attitudes, staring at the table.
  • If neither contestant withdraws during a contest, males engage in discrete wrestling bouts, in which they attempt to clasp and submerge their opponent.
  • Australia found twined round its boughs, the misletoe, with its many home associations -- the elegant cedar -- the close-growing mangrove -- and strange parasitical plants, pushing through huge fungi, and clasping with the remorseless strength of the wrestler, and with the round crunching folds of the boa, the trees they were gradually to supplant and destroy. A Love Story
  • The portrait photographer had me clasp my hands like an opera singer and look straight into the camera.
  • The hip is a strong joint: a bossed knuckle of bone clasped deep into a hollow of the pelvic skeleton. Christianity Today
  • Fifteen minutes into the usual volley of questions and answers, he suddenly stops, looks appalled and clasps a hand to his face.
  • As a nun she is beatific, her head, in a wimple, tilted toward heaven, a prayer book clasped to her breast.
  • I saw that she lay in the position of old knightly tomb figures, her legs crossed at the ankles, a long black sword clasped between her breasts and a red sandstone bowl on her chest from which rose a willowy plume of smoke. The Skrayling Tree
  • At the whispered word Jocelyn loosed the dagger and, clasping her instead, kissed her full-lipped. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
  • His hands hurried to undo the clasp of his cloak and spread it out on the grass.
  • They lounge in their chairs, arms enclasped, sometimes kissing, sometimes patting one another. Nights in London
  • The cover of his black-bound tech-heavy book about the architectonics of nuclear war features a photo of two hands in a firm handclasp, each hand touchingly identified as, respectively, “United States” and “Russia.” How the End Begins
  • One of my favorite albums, just barely held together with a gold clasp, is no bigger than my palm.
  • He was awarded the Crimean War Medal, three clasps and the Turkish Crimean War Medal.
  • Flowers 3½ inches across, produced from the end of July to the end of September, bright golden yellow; leaves large, ovate, tapering from the middle to both ends; stalk leaves sessile and nearly connate, that is, clasping the stalk by their opposite base. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
  • The balcony is a slight open-work wrought-iron structure, connected to a small roof by three slender voluted pillars, two at the ends, one in the middle: and at the middle one I saw someone, a woman -- kneeling -- her arms clasped tight about the pillar, and her face rather upward-looking. The Purple Cloud
  • Shaking his head, he plopped him onto his horse with extreme difficulty then rose up behind him, clasping the flaccid body to his chest.
  • Look at those hairy knuckles clasped firmly around the neck of the bass. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'Is it serious?' she asked, clasping the doctor's wrist.
  • Over his shoulders, clasped at the neck with a large gold-and-precious-stone buckle of the same mysterious form as the hieroglyphic crest at the head of the Programs, he wore a wonderful burnouse of white and gold fleece, the gold predominating over the white, and flashing fiercely, gorgeously in the sun. The Mark of the Beast
  • She was clad in brocades befitting Kings; her breasts were like twin pomegranates, a woven zone set with all kinds of jewels tightly clasped her waist which expanded below into jutting hips; and her hinder cheeks stood out as a mound of crystal185 supporting a silvern shaft. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And I somehow managed to clasp her rock-steady, outstretched hand. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • The sleeves were immense, turned back at the cuff and held with diamond clasps to reveal the plain white silk of the undersleeve; her wrists were hidden beneath frothing white lace.
  • When Mr. Power has finished, the sociable, peaceful Mr. Bloom, though an object of amusement to the other men in the carriage, merely unclasps his hands ‘in a gesture of soft politeness.’
  • The finishing touch was a dummy clasped in her gloved hand. The Sun
  • Generally he sat clasping one knee, staring directly in front of him, and puffing regularly on a "meerschaum" pipe he had earned by saving the tags of Spearhead tobacco. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
  • Surely the worst asps in this world are the ones one has clasped to the bosom.
  • And Carrots stood beside auntie's knee, clasping his little mother Floss's hand tight, and looking up in auntie's face with those wonderful eyes of his, which auntie had said truly one could not deceive; and when he had been told all there was to tell, he just said softly, Oh poor mamma! "Carrots": Just a Little Boy
  • I purposely put in all those big words because I hoped while he was figuring them out, I could get out of his very tight clasp.
  • At first, the inner leaves clasp the heads and protect them from the sun, but even after they burst out, they yellow only slightly.
  • After discovering there was no DNA left to check on the knife or the bra clasp, the experts retraced the steps taken by Stefanoni, concluding that the DNA trace of Kercher on the blade was so weak it could not be reliably matched – or was at best the result of contamination – and quoted Stefanoni admitting in court she should have double-tested her result to be more convincing. Amanda Knox DNA appeal sparks legal battle by forensic experts
  • Father and son, hands enclasped, staring at each other for the first time ever.
  • Placing both hands under the clasp, he used his remaining energy to unhinge it and throw the top of the box up.
  • On her feet were strappy black stilettos, and she was holding onto a matching silver clutch, with a black square clasp.
  • He climbed down over her, and somehow she twisted enough to clasp her arms about his middle.
  • ‘I got toothache,’ I said, as clearly as I could with my hand clasped firmly to the left side of my jaw.
  • Schofield and Mother hit the western wall of the hall and unclipped clasps on their chains—causing the chains to unreel from the ceiling, lowering the two of them to the floor of the room right in front of the doorway leading back to the elevator shaft. Hell Island
  • He might well be rechristened John Octopus, reflecting his unstoppable urge to enclasp any passing female in a sweaty tentacle.
  • Lean backwards and clasp your right ankle with your left hand. The Sun
  • She was leaving her husband; what was more grievous to her, she was leaving her home; she was on the streets of New York, with her small savings in her greasy purse -- clasped tightly in her two hands under her "Sunday cape," that was trimmed with fringe and tassels in a way to remind you of a lambrequin. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908
  • As soon as his hands were clasped around his bass, his musical memory would shift straight into gear, his hands moving fluently.
  • Buttons hadn't been invented in the 5th century so sleeves were held together with elaborate bronze clasps, and at last there was an explanation for the ivory rings.
  • A deer mouse stands with forepaws clasped, a soulful-looking grizzly peers across a stream, and a gray jay picks at a half-eaten salmon lying in the snow, one perhaps caught by the same grizzly we see elsewhere loping after spawning chum, its fur shagged with ice. Photo-Op: Yukon Ho
  • The groom, who had a roguish side, pulled Alison into a showy clasp, and the priest stepped back and led the quick applause for the couple, forestalling the biddies who would later complain that the ceremony had lacked dignity.
  • A while silk scarf was wrapped around her shoulders, and a jade pendant was clasped around her neck.
  • She stood still, head bowed, hands clasped in front of her.
  • She clasped the photo to her heart.
  • She fell upon her knees, her head upon her couch her hands clasped upon her head, overcome by anxiety and terror; and gipsy, idolatress, and pagan as she was, began with sobs and tremblings to ask mercy of the God of the Christians, and pray to Our Lady, her hostess. I. The Little Shoe. Book XI
  • He was conspicuous also for being the only recruit with three long service badges and a long service medal with clasp!
  • Shrieking with excitement she hugged her father, clasping him tightly in her thrilled rush.
  • He slid his hand down her arm until he could clasp her hand.
  • He offers a handclasp that Fiedler can scarcely feel: ‘I stood there baffled, a little ashamed of how I had braced myself involuntarily for a bone-crushing grip, how I must have yearned for some wordless preliminary test of strength.’
  • Jordan's hands clasped over the inhaler and pressed the orifice of it and faced it to her mouth.
  • He added an affirmatory nod, and continued to gaze upon me with a kind of irate solemnity, holding his substantial stick between his knees, with his hands clasped upon its head. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • She clasped her arms around her legs, peering up at the man.
  • Happily, the horsemen had caught the glimpse of some bright ornament, clasp, or aiguillette, on Kate's dress. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 1
  • Why is it then that recipients have to wait for periods any greater than one month to receive their medal or clasp?
  • Hands beginning to unclasp, Steve took a step towards a table on which stood an open box of cigarettes. A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
  • One hand was thrust between the buttons of his morning coat, the other clasped its lapelle, his head was flung back, and one foot rested on the fender. Enter Bridget
  • The tea was always brewed and he poured with great delicacy, his long and tabescent fingers clasping the handle of the silver teapot.
  • Whenever obliged to walk around the large, open-plan office, I clasp my hands firmly behind my back, rather in the manner of the Duke of Edinburgh.
  • She clasped a bracelet round her wrist.
  • She took the pendant and clasped the chain around her neck.
  • He was sitting down on a chair, elbows on his knees, his hands were clasped with his chin resting on his thumb and his forefingers extended, touching the tip of his nose.
  • At last she sighed heavily, closed her magazine and sat back in her chair with her hands clasped in her lap.
  • She found bronze cloak pins, clasps, bead amulets and hair-combs.
  • Mordecai, clasping it eagerly, seemed to feel a new instreaming of confidence, and he said with some recovered energy -- "This is come to pass, and the rest will come. Daniel Deronda
  • She clasped him tightly to her and jumped off.
  • For posterity I'd clasped the necklace Lily had given me around my neck.
  • He clasped my hand warmly in welcome.
  • One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
  • She clasped her hands together on her lap.
  • The SF Bible has a Full metal Jacket, to be kept in top left pocket, next to your spare mags, compass, i pod, clasp knife, maps. notebook and pencil, china graph, chewing gum, and all the other clag you keep in there. Army Rumour Service
  • At each shoulder was a silver clasp in the shape of a star.
  • I clasped the shampoo bottle tightly and squeezed a small portion out of it and slowly worked it in my hair.
  • And Mr.C. clasped me in his arms and called me his 'guardian angel;' and all I have to pay for this restoration of peace and quietness is giving a lesson three times a week, in syllables of two letters, to a small Irish boy! Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Mrs. Peterkin clasped her hands to her head and exclaimed: "I am thankful the lady from Philadelphia is not here! The Peterkin Papers
  • Catherine just stared at them both in shock and anger, clasping and unclasping her hands in a steady rhythm.
  • The dressmaker, with her hands still clasped, looked affrightedly from the one to the other of her two companions. Our Mutual Friend
  • She clasped it tightly in her brown fist, and grinned in satisfaction.
  • Then he'd take out his bargee 's clasp knife and cut more bread into chunks. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • James fidgeted in his chair, nervously clasping and unclasping his hands.
  • The radical leaves are lyrate and roughish when young; those of the stem clasping, or heart-shaped, at base, and of an oblong form, -- all somewhat fleshy, of a dark-green color, with a glaucous bloom. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
  • He may have survived the initial impact and it was possible he had unclasped his seatbelt, as there was no sign of it being forced.
  • He reached out and gripped my arm in an iron clasp.
  • I sent for my cases, and find my chain of diamonds, my gold etui set with diamonds, my Turkish clasp with emeralds, and other things disappeared with my Venus. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
  • The clasp makes contact with the other terminal of battery to energize the light source.
  • I found her lying on a silken divan in the deserted house, her hands clasped over a little white flower like an odontoglossum, which lay on her breast. Fire-Tongue
  • He grasped her wrist and clasped the bracelet around it.
  • Schumer made a show of clasping his hands and accused the officials of being ideologically 'handcuffed' to the far right — which the officials found highly insulting. You Could Bank on It
  • Fifty thousand devotees praying to the lingam and weeping passionately with hands clasped around their necks were massacred in cold blood.
  • With a ring ding dong, they raise clasped hands and advance more steps to retire to the saum. Finnegans Wake
  • He stared straight ahead, hands clasped tightly in his lap, back straight, head up, shoulders squared.
  • He still held Owyn's hand in a firm clasp; he used that now to draw Owyn forward and to one of the two inglenook seats at the hearth. Brightly Burning
  • Justin clasped and unclasped his hands in his lap but finally decided to look up at Jamie.
  • While the strong arms of Union enclasp them around. Poor Joe
  • He unhooked the clasps and allowed the mask to fall down.
  • I just held her hand still as I slipped the bracelet over her wrist and fastened the clasp.
  • What things you do say, granp," she protested, and clasping her bouquet in her other hand, she skipped along by the old man's side. The Story of Jessie
  • Yes, here was every one of them, from the enclasped loving-cup to the chance trinkets he had purchased for her just as they happened to attract his eye. Prince Fortunatus
  • Huge iron-clasped books lay before this ominous specimen of pinguitude -- the records of the realm of misery, in which office he officiated as prime minister; and had Peveril come thither as an unconcerned visitor, his heart would have sunk within him at considering the mass of human wretchedness which must needs be registered in these fatal volumes. Peveril of the Peak
  • For door experts, it is made of four plain oak boards, held in place by an edging frame and four half-round ledges, all fastened by neat clasping elongated roves.
  • Need right now inside, surgeon clasp, handle ketosis acid actively at the same time toxic, cooperate next undertaking in anaesthetic doctor at the same time rescue operation.
  • She pulled her knees to her chest and clasped her arms around her shins.
  • She turned and glared balefully at Thomas Fraser, serene under his helm, with the hilt of his sword clasped under crossed hands. Dragonfly in Amber
  • If doing up necklaces and bracelets is difficult, check out these magnetic clasp converters. Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2009 » December
  • We'd clasped hands and spun around, but I'd fallen off balance and crashed into the table.
  • Objective To investigate the elastic limit and relevant enclasp force of the non - precious metal casting clasp.
  • She was sitting with her knees pressed close together and her hands clasped tightly in her lap.
  • Then, going to the bag, her compressed lips twitching, her gray eyes piercing into its clasp with a kind of distrustful optimism, she lifted the pincers and tweaked it hard. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
  • A baby monkey clasps its mother's fur tightly.
  • She grasped his hand in a firm clasp, and he was surprised to find hard calluses on her palm, like those gained off hard work with ship and sword.
  • Male sharks have structures known as claspers located on the underside near their anal fins. ScubaBoard
  • This ‘snap’ would soon supplant the button, the clasp, straps, and lacings as the primary method of fastening gloves.
  • He accepted her gloved hand to give it a quick and firm clasp.
  • York egorge on a threshold, and clasping a large back-kitchen key? Burlesques
  • To ride their horses and take away their possessions, To see the faces of those who were dear to them bedewed with tears, and to clasp their wives and daughters in his arms.
  • Meg kept silence a while, then she said coaxingly, 'Si is a pretty name eneuch; 'tis short an' sweet; gie me a kiss, Si, 'she wheedled, with a gentle clasp about his waist. Border Ghost Stories
  • She clasped the bracelet around her wrist.
  • The day-long event climaxed at 7pm when organisers called on demonstrators to clasp hands and sing ‘Hatikvah,’ the national anthem.
  • These clasps released, in older times, the lovely bosom of Phryne; and they now belong to one who could do better homage to the beauties they concealed or discovered than could the cynic Diogenes. Count Robert of Paris
  • Check out the irresistible floral and tweed sequined skirts, tweed platform sandals and brooch-clasped cardigans.
  • Johnson ambled over from his side of the stage to offer a few encouraging words, a smile and a handclasp that appeared to settle the heart of The Head And The Heart. Michael Bialas: Show and Tell: The Head and the Heart, Priscilla Ahn Live in Denver
  • Page 39 put two silver half-dollars into a hand which clasped the coins gladly, in the knowledge that no master could take them away, but whatever was earned by the laborer would remain his own. Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator.
  • No specimens with male claspers, either fully or partially developed, were detected.
  • Hee goeth alwaies upon his legs, and carrieth his hands clasped in the nape of his necke when he goeth upon the ground. Essays
  • He had ridden into town another way, teth-ered his mount at a public post in the lower of the two town squares (Rusher had offered a single puzzled nicker at this treatment, but no more), and had since been tramping the empty, sleeping streets with his hat yanked low over his eyes and his hands clasped into an aching knot at the small of his back. Wizard and Glass
  • She was seated upon the edge of it, and I was beside her, with one knee on the floor, clasping both her hands in one of mine, while the other still encircled her body, holding her tightly against me in that rhapsody of love which overawes all sense of understanding. Princess Zara
  • She held the clasps of the necklace up.
  • I clasped her gently by the shoulders and placed a kiss on her scowling brow.
  • ‘Rob,’ I called, attempting to tap him on the shoulder, but by mischance hitting him on the head with the paddle still clasped in my hand.
  • And now instead of bursting forth into cries of delighted wonder, as I had expected, my companion stood mute and still, her hands tight-clasped, viewing now the splendour of these falling waters, now the foam-sprent deeps below, like one quite dumbfounded. Black Bartlemy's Treasure
  • He paced the corridor, hands clasped behind his back.
  • His smaller arms clasped at the oozing wounds on his back to staunch the flow of blood.
  • Her slender, sure hands are clasped together as they rest on her desk blotter.
  • I helped her unclasp the mirror, her swollen and bruised fingers trying to hold tight. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
  • A typical male will clasp the lateral edges of the female's elytra with his prothoracic and mesothoracic legs, while his metathoracic legs are extended behind to serve as stabilizers when they drag on the substrate.
  • The clasp on his belt had broken.
  • Adeline watched, hands clasped together on her lap, at the goings and comings.
  • I projected on the building's domed theater the image of a man with his hands clasped behind his head - the position taken during an arrest and search.
  • How did the faces of those women look like as they clasped their children to their bosoms as the heat and the smoke slowly ate through their skins and their young died in their arms screaming till they were silenced?
  • Gov Zaldy clasping my hand said: “Ipaubaya ni amah si Datu Unsay sayo” and turned over Datu Unsay to me. Philippines: Martial Law Declared in Maguindano Province
  • Back in the woods a little patch of harebells grew, and lower down, in a protected hollow, were bleeding-hearts and adder's-tongue, closely guarded by the clasp of their furry silvery leaves. My beloved South,
  • And at the top of the glen, there beside the tree where he'd earlier sat to meditate, Lord Tellin Windglimmer stood, a long sword clasped in his two hands. Dalamar the Dark
  • That fat man was probably sitting in his office, spinning in his chair with his hands clasped together in his lap and a huge grin on his face as he imagined me going out there and forgetting the notes or misreading the words.
  • To evoke the Deities, raise the clasped hands to the center of the forehead.

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