Her fingers clutched his wrist, then slid upward to the crook of his elbow.

It was a hearty, full-lunged howl that Rack Slimson uttered as he bounded erect and clutched at his trousers.

At the instant that her free hand clutched at the rope it tightened with a jerk as the cow pony at the other end, feeling the strain and knowing his business, braced his legs and swayed backward.

" She suddenly clutched his hand with both of hers and then fell back out of sight among the cushions.

" The deacon gave a gulp, as if gasping for breath, at the same time that he clutched the bag.

"The young man looked in a pitiable state of mental distress; his hand clutched nervously a copy of the St. James's Gazette, which contained the fatal news.

His voice located him, and before we could either of us stop him, Kitwater had sprung forward and clutched him in his arms.

Glaring down at the crimson animal that was pawing at his knees, he clutched at his reason for one second as a drowning man clutches at a life belt.

Don't you feel it?" and clutched Doyne by the arm.

" The little hands clutched hold of his coat sleeve tightly, but not a word did Milly say.

" Margaret clutched his arm.

"A backwoods superstition" began Simpson, moving hastily toward the tent in order to shake off the hand of the guide that clutched his arm.

In the twilight of evening, he clambered down over the wall into the garden of the enchantress, hastily clutched a handful of rampion, and took it to his wife.

In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snip, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground.

Wesley Blair joined him, and with scarce a word they watched St. Eustace revert to her previous tactics, and tear great gaping holes in the Hillton line, holes often large enough to admit of a coach and four, and more than large enough to allow Allen or Jansen to go tearing, galloping through, with the ball safe clutched, for three, five? or even a dozen yards!

One of his hands was held up to his ear and clutched a great red handkerchief, which was fixed to his neck.

Then he opened me and looked down me, and clutched hold of my wrist, and then hit me over the chest when I wasn't expecting ita cowardly thing to do, I call itand immediately afterward butted me with the side of his head.

A compromise which embargoed the free laborer of the North and West, and, clutched at the staff he leaned upon, to turn it into a bludgeon and fell him with its stroke.

"] As he sank to the ground M. Paul tried to save himself, and seizing his opponent by the leg, he held him desperately with his failing strength; but the spasms of pain overcame him, his muscles would not act, and with a furious sense of helplessness and failure, he felt the clutched leg slipping from his grasp.

She snatched at it with a curious desperationas though, sinking in deep waters, she clutched at a straw.

I clutched and clung to him, dragging myself along against the wall, my whole mind intent upon getting back.

" "I suppose it is something like a rare manuscript or a singular gem: these virtuosi have no rest till they have clutched it.

From the bough he got to a branch, and finally clutched the stem of the tree, just as his feet were lifted up by the rushing water, and both lives hung upon that willow-tree.

Then Hope clutched the tree with his left hand, pushed Mary on shore with his right, and very soon had her in his arms on terra firma.

Hope, who had collared Ben Burnley, had sunk to the ground with him, but still clutched the assassin.