" Then Roger grasped that strong, uplifting hand, and stood upon his feet, yet spake he no word; and presently they went on along the road together.

A sententious statement gives feelings or opinions in a strikingly pointed or axiomatic way, so that they can be easily grasped and remembered; if sententious is unfavorably used, the statement may be filled with paraded platitudes.

Then throwing the shutter back, he leaned out, grasped my hands, and pulled me into the house without a scratch.

And Prometheus picked up the forsaken sandals of Hermes, and bound them on his own feet, and grasped Elenko, and they rose up by a dizzy flight to empty heaven.

" Mr. Lawton grasped the cards uncertainly.

The Colonel grasped his son's hand as Clive fondly put the other hand on his father's shoulder.

" At the word treasure, Aladdin forgot his fears, and grasped the ring as he was told, saying the names of his father and grandfather.

As the boys were no simpletons, they readily grasped the essential qualities of Obed's little scheme.

I thought he grasped my hand while he was muttering something about his Childhis Daughter (starting as if he heard a noise).

" Afrásiyáb, enraged at this reproof, Replied by a foul deedhe grasped his sword, And with remorseless fury slew his brother!

The crowding slaves his awful nod obey, And silver moons around his banners play; What Chief, or Prince, has grasped the hostile sword?

But there was an entire absence of sincerity about their proposals, which were not thought out, but obviously only superficial expedients hurriedly grasped at by a party in distress.

Suddenly, Mrs. Panel staggered, and might have fallen had I not firmly grasped her arm.

I grasped the forward end of our weapon, Ajax, being the heavier, took the other, and we charged that door with such hearty goodwill that at the first assault it yielded, lock and hinges being torn from the woodwork, and the door itself falling flat with a crash like the crack o' doom.

Without knowing much of aerial navigation, I grasped the fact that we were being swept into the fog, and that if we intended to descend on land there was not a minute to be lost.

Books can only direct us where to look and what to look for, but we must do the finding for ourselves; therefore, if you have really grasped the principles of the science, you will frame rules of your own which will give you better results than any attempt to follow somebody else's method, which was successful in their hands precisely because it was theirs.

he shouted as Corbett entered, and he grasped him by the hand and wrung it hardly.

It was as gentle as it was swift, and it stood oscillating its long neck and gazing round with its large brown eyes, whilst Anerley coiled his legs round the peg and grasped the curved camel-stick which Abbas had handed up to him.

To New York!" CHAPTER VIII THE AMERICAN BLUEBIRD AND ITS SONG I wish I could convey the singular feeling of freedom and adventure that possessed us as Colin and I grasped our sticks and struck up the green hillfor New York.

No! at the battle cry, A host prepared to die, Shall arm for fight But not with martial steel, Grasped with a murderous zeal; No arms their foes shall feel, But love and light.

" Old Simon grasped his cane by its foot and raised it above his head.

" It was a full half-minute before Bachelor Billy's dull mind grasped the situation.

He thought how the man had grasped his hands, crying, in a voice deep and earnest with conviction: "Ralph!

She grasped the situation on the instant, and on the instant she acted.

Some of them ran and hid in their houses, while others climbed upon the wall, and still others grasped their weapons in alarm.