284 collocations for clasp

"Oh, you can help me," she said, clasping her hands and speaking in a slightly theatrical manner.

After struggling and clasping his arms for a moment around the great branch of the tree, his hold relaxed, he reeled from side to side, and then fell heavily to the ground, with three balls within an inch of each other, right through his vitals.

Then she sank down at his feet, and clasped his knees in an agony of grief.

she criedand she clasped the child to her breast, and imprinted one passionate kiss on its cheek' Take my Ludovico, and save his life, and I will return to my husband and father.

" "And pledge yourself to your part, leaving me to attend to mine?" Her two hands clasped my fingers, her eyes uplifted.

Yes, the world shall know that I would die not only for the bliss Of clasping thee in love's embrace and kindling at thy tender kiss.

She clasped his neck and gave him kiss for kiss.

And beholding the reproachful sadness of those clear, virgin eyes, Beltane, abashed by her very beauty, bowed his head, and turning, stumbled away and thus presently finding himself within the cave, threw himself down and clasped his head within fierce hands.

And then, just 'cause I couldn't say coker-whacker" "There, there, don't feel so bad, you precious sister," said a soothing voice; and a soft cheek was pressed to Dotty's, and a pair of loving arms clasped her close.

But what did it matter, since they were about to clasp again their son in their arms?

Her okendokenda of bright colors was slightly open at the neck, and revealed brooches of brass and silver that covered her bosom; a heavy necklace of crimson beads hung around her throat; bracelets of brass clasped her wrists, and her long plaited hair was ornamented at the end of the braids with trinkets of silver.

She thought of the father torn from his wife and child; of the child fatherless, though not an orphan; of that child's future; and as it presented itself to her, she clasped her own little girl closer to her heart, almost fearing that it was to share that future.

"Never you mind, honey," she choked as she clasped Deanie's thin little form closer, and the meagre small arms went round her neck.

When, Antioch blazing to her topmost towers, You rushed into the murderous flames, returned Blind as the grave, but, as you oft have told me, Clasping your infant Daughter to your heart.

In order to avoid this grammatical inconvenience, the two distinct forms of thou and you, are often used promiscuously by our modern poets, in the same paragraph, and even in the same sentence, very inelegantly and improperly: 'Now, now, I seize, I clasp thy charms; And now you burst, ah cruel!

I saw, too, the tiny chain that clasped her fair throat, her dress of pale blue, and, most wonderful of all, two tassels that danced from the tops of her trim little boots.

You will not leave me too!" Valencia dashed it on the ground, clasped her sister in her arms, and covered her head with kisses.

As for his vixen she was dead, though he was still clasping her dead body in his arms.

"Served you right," said his aunt, still clasping her foot.

" The General, while clasping his wife in his arms, whispered in her ear, "There is artillery in the courtyard, try and fire a cannon.

Mechanically, Elizabeth turned her moistened eyes from Edward to Edward's brother, and suddenly clasped her infant closer to her bosom when she caught the glittering and fatal eye of Richard, Duke of GloucesterWarwick's grim avenger in the futurefixed upon that harmless life, destined to interpose a feeble obstacle between the ambition of a ruthless intellect and the heritage of the English throne!

She adds, demonstratively clasping the little woman round the neck and leaning her bright cheek against her whitening hair, "Haven't we been smart?"

" Closer and closer the big bachelor arms clasped their burden; unashamed, there with the others watching him, he kissed her.

" She was leaning across the table, her hands clasping its edge, her small, plump face even pinker.

It is gone now, and was out of use then, being fastened once for all by an iron staple clasping the cross-bar and driven into the post.

284 collocations for  clasp