Nay, that hand which aforetime had wielded the terrific club, and slain therewith Antæus, and dragged the hound of hell from the lower world, was now content to draw the woolen threads spun from Omphale's distaff; and the shoulders whereon had rested the pillars of the heavens, from which he had for a time freed Atlas, were now clasped in Omphale's arms, and afterward, to do her pleasure, covered with a diaphanous raiment of purple.

"I don't know how to thank you," she said, giving me a feverish clasp of her hand.

Among the exceptions to the general sociability were the bishop, still pacing up and down with his hands clasped behind him, and a young girl who sat looking far out over the waves, utterly heedless of the noise and confusion around her.

Then, wondering and amazed, she made her obeisance to Beltane and with her babe clasped to her bosom went forth into the night.

Although he fastened the clasp with a workman's firm touch, he thrilled.

She lay asleep, and her face shone white As under a snowy veil, And the waxen hands clasped on her breast Were full of snowdrops pale; But a holy calm touched the baby lips, The brow, and the sleeping eyes, The look of an angel pitying us From the peace of Paradise.

The older man handed him the paper, and sat back in his chair, with his fat hands clasped over his rotund person, and an expression of deep disgust in his heavy gray eyes.

Leaning back with his hands clasped about his knees, he lazily watched Little John rolling a stout bowstring from long strands of hempen thread, wetting the palms of his hands ever and anon, and rolling the cord upon his thigh.

" He sat back in his chair, his elbows on the arms and his hands clasped before him.

If Norine, during the first few months, had often wearied of spending her days in pasting little boxes together, if even thoughts of flight had at times come to her, she had always been restrained by the puny arms that were clasped around her neck.

And then Lou Macon was on her knees with her hands clasped at her breast and her face glorious.

Why, Fortune is only a woman, you know, and what woman could have refused him anything if he had smiled at her like that when he asked for it?" Miss Stapylton gazed up at the portrait for a long time now, her hands clasped under her chin.

Imagine them in one of the flashes, solemnly raising their glasses, hands clasped across the table, earnest gleaming eyes holding each other above it.

The ankles and feet were entirely bare, save for sandals with an embroidered velvety covering for the toes, and silver bands clasped round the ankles.

With hands clasped above this central object, as if exchanging vows upon an altar, stood the young human pair.

So slept he, clasped within Roger's mailed arm.

I sent them back to the stair with affected sternness, but I got a second hand-clasp from Dorothy as she passed me.

He held her clasped against his breast, one of her hands in his.

Their hands remained clasped for a moment.

Sophy's hand had never been clasped like that before.

"And one in heart, as one in blood, Shall all her peoples be; The hands of human brotherhood Shall clasp beneath the sea.

They were side by side, with hands clasped as a matter of course, things taken for granted that he formerly never dreamt of.

He stayed on the chair arm however and their hands remained clasped through a recollecting silence.

But Marcia's senses were preternaturally sharpened; weak as a vine without its trellis, instinct seemed to guide her to clasp by every tendril the support to which she had been wont to cling.

They abandoned themselves upon the green stuff, whatever it was, and, with their lean hands clasped outside their knees, sat and stared, silent and hopeless, at the eastern sky, at the heart of the terrible furnace, into which in those days the world seemed cast to be burnt up, while the child which the younger woman had brought with her feebly wailed unheeded at her side.