54 adverbs to describe how to clutched

Betty closed her eyes, clutching her letter and candy box tightly in both hands and letting the reins lie idle on her horse's neck.

He was flung forward on the new impetus, spun over the smooth surface, swept across the verge and under the cloud, clutching wildly at the ragged edge of ice as he went down.

She came, it seemed, a little timidly, as though startled; and I noted that her hand clutched at her apron, nervously. 'Come, Mary,' I said.

Straight as an arrow he heads for the seashore, his hands clutching the air convulsively, his 'sari' streaming in the night-breeze; and behind, like hounds on the trail of the deer, come Rama, the brethren, the sisters, and rest of the community.

nodding toward the brassie, still tightly clutched in West's hand.

The robust Lady of the Bluffs, evidently having some difficulty in keeping her balance, was clutching the side bar desperately.

She clutched frantically at the door-post and looked a last appeal to Mrs. Evelyn Van Wyck.

About daybreak, as Skrymir was taking his last snooze, Thor uplifted his hammer, clutching it so fiercely that his knuckles became white.

The man who had had an income of £15,000 a year, and settled £20,000 on his wife, allowed a poor friend to pay a bill for £5 for him, and clutched eagerly at a £50 note when displayed to him by another.

For a moment Johnny stood panic-stricken; then instinctively he clutched the babythat individual kicking and protesting wildly at being dragged away from luncheonand stumbled toward the other end of the barge.

Long before the first Continental Congress assembled, the backwoodsmen, whatever their blood, had become Americans, one in speech, thought, and character, clutching firmly the land in which their fathers and grandfathers had lived before them.

But she clutched her meat tight and struggled on up the slope.

A moment and it rose to its feet, clutching upward, with an expression of desire upon its face such as I have never seen in this world.

I pitched forward after the youngster into a gulf of darkness, landed on my shoulder upon a mass of volcanic ash, and clutching vainly at the stuff, I rolled at tremendous speed down into the bowels of the earth.

[As Yardsley speaks the portiere is violently clutched from without, and Jennie's head is thrust into the room.

Beneath his left arm he convulsively carries a struggling game-cock, with gigantic gaffs, while his right hand feebly clutches a lance, the napping of whose pennant in his face appears to give him great annoyance and suggests the services of a "Shoo-fly.

Only the Yates full-back threatened, the ball was safely clutched in his right arm, his breath came easily, his legs were strong, and the goal-posts loomed far down the field and beckoned him on.

"Oh, Chet," cried Billie, clutching her brother's arm spasmodically.

The drunkards drank more; the swearers swore more than ever; the unjust shopkeeper clutched more greedily than ever at the last few scraps of mean gain which remained for him this side the grave; the selfish wrapped themselves up more brutally than ever in selfishness; the shameless woman mingled desperate debauchery with fits of frantic superstition; and all base souls cried out together, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!"

Pelletan, his face livid, clutching blindly at the wall for support, stumbled forth into the hall, along the corridor, down the stair, until at last he found Tellier, his face purple, rearranging his cravat before a mirror in the hotel office.

Betty clutched Bobby's arm excitedly.

His hand involuntarily clutched the stick as if it were a sword, and his breath came hard and quick, as if he were eager to rush into battle.

He clutched madly at the banisters, turning his hands and knees into brakes in his effort to save his dignity; but once started he could not stop, and as a consequence he went down like a flash, slid precipitately over the newel-post, and landed with a cry of mortification on the hall floor.

See," pointing with his finger, and clutching me tremulously, "once morethe traces as vivid as ever!

"Same old story, sir," remarked the disgusted Andy, still clutching his bruised toe tenderly.

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