" Dr. Grayson heaved a long sigh, and muttered something about "the fell clutch of circumstance.

Here she grasped her close again with a sudden clutch, and cried out, "If this is what you say, where is God?" "Are you afraid of him?"

She told him with a little clutch of embarrassment and resolution, about another incident that happened somewhat later, attributing an importance to it which he conceded while he reflected with a smile that most people, men and women virtuous or otherwise, would have regarded as ridiculously disproportionate.

The sea had a tight clutch upon those who followed it, and there was no power on earth that could dissuade him.

She drew up the panting, staggering pony with a convulsive clutch on the reinsand waited, trembling and scarcely daring to breathe.

A keen, breathless scrutiny, a frenzied clutch with both hands, and then he was upon his feet again, holding close to the lantern the thing he had found.

Roy made a desperate clutch at the figure as it raced past, evidently fleeing from an unseen peril.

"I'll writeI'll write: that must be what the whole thing means," he said to himself, with a vague clutch at some solution which should keep him a little longer hanging half-way down the steep of disenchantment.

" She lurched against him, then saved herself from falling out at the other side by a frantic clutch.

The cold was no longer felt, but her arms did not at once relax their instinctive clutch, and the little one slumbered on.

A minute portion of this drug, which is dangerous only in large quantities, was found in the stomach of the deceased; but not enough to cause serious trouble, and she died, as we had already decided, from the effect of the murderous clutch upon her throat.

I had snatched Dolores from his foul clutches, I had punished him without depriving Dolores of my protection, and I had avenged the stain on my honour.

"Oh-h!" cried the girl in soft despair, and made a futile clutch; but she could not arrest the flight of Clarence, she merely upset him, turning him for an instant into a furry pinwheel, whirling through mid-air, landing in her yard, rebounding like a rubber ball, and disappearing, with one flying leap, into a narrow opening in the basement masonry.

For Adoration, beyond match, The scholar bulfinch aims to catch The soft flute's ivory touch; And, careless on the hazle spray, The daring redbreast keeps at bay The damsel's greedy clutch.

Without a word, but with a good deal of apparent reluctance, he took the long, bony hand in his, and probably, would have instantly dropped it again, had not Mrs Keswick given him a most hearty clutch, and a vigorous and long-continued shake.

When a true woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby, and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heart-strings, she is born again with the new-born child.

Oh, then she screamed with terror, and the poor governess ran screaming too, and making idle clutches from the bank, but powerless to aid.

The mites of hands fluttered at his sleeve and made ineffectual clutches.

Miss Ringtop held him with an inexorable clutch.

Consciousness flooded him, and he made another effort to cry out, to free his arms from an invisible clutch that held him powerless.

This vortex, moving often a hundred miles an hour, takes hold of the Bombax ceiba like an enormous proboscis, pulls it from the thin soil of the tropics despite the great lateral clutch of its knotty roots, and swallows it up.

Must he, for the sake of some farfetched moral principle, throw himself into the merciless clutch of Simon Craft?

Life must be full of snap when you have to dash your will up against old Dame Fortune and wrest what you want out of her miserly clutches.

If you popped him off now, how would we know where to look?" Brodie snarled at Benny and whipped the rifle clear of the nervous clutch.

One man peering from a bedroom window saw his face, saw him staring, with a grimace of weeping dismay, at the blood upon his hand, and then his knees bent under him, and he came crashing to the earth, the first of the giant nettles to fall to Caterham's resolute clutch, the very last that he had reckoned would come into his hand.