Which preposition to use with grasps

of Occurrences 446%

I raised both hands, felt steel, and knew that I was in the grasp of Handy Solomon's claw.

at Occurrences 159%

Suddenly, I turned faint and giddy, and had to grasp at the table for support.

in Occurrences 67%

With a copy of Putnam's Magazine still grasped in his honest right hand, good Mr. DIBBLE slept like a drugged person; nor could the young girl awaken him until, by a happy inspiration, she had snatched away the monthly and cast it through the casement.

with Occurrences 59%

One whose instep was not very strong seemed in danger of being blown down, or of being struck by others in case they should fall; another was branchless to a considerable height above the ground, and at the same time too large to be grasped with arms and legs in climbing; while others were not favorably situated for clear views.

on Occurrences 49%

He is a big dog, with longish thin legs, and I suppose the water had less grasp on them, than upon mine.

for Occurrences 16%

But the day following, weak and too soft for the lift, straining to remove the great dish-pan high with crockery from sink to table, she let slip, grasping for a new hold.

as Occurrences 8%

She's as grasping as a caterpillar.

after Occurrences 8%

He declares that "those things which are most valued are empty, rotten, and trifling,"these are his very words; and that the real life of the people, even in the days of Trajan, had ceased to exist,that everything truly precious was lost in the senseless grasp after what can give no true happiness or permanent prosperity.

to Occurrences 7%

Still the chiefs did not lose sight of one another, but beating off their inferior foes as well as they could, each refusing to loosen his hold, clung with mortal grasp to his antagonist.

without Occurrences 6%

To solve problems of this sort requires, no doubt, a great ideal of study and labor, if only to get at the facts; whilst on the path where the greatest and most widespread fame is to be won, the facts may be grasped without any labor at all.

by Occurrences 6%

Even if those who wished to consult him were so fortunate as to find him, all their efforts to force him to exert his gifts of prophecy were useless, for he was endowed with the power of changing himself into all things, and he eluded their grasp by becoming a flame of fire or a drop of water.

like Occurrences 6%

Wordssymbols that represent the noises that human beings make with their tongues and lips and teethlie within our grasp like the fragments of a jig-saw puzzle, and we fit them into faulty pictures until our hands grow weary and our eyes can no longer pretend to see the truth.

from Occurrences 5%

" As he spoke, his arms were suddenly seized by a powerful grasp from behind, and, striking the pistols from his hold, the earl snatched up Amabel in his arms, and, mounting the ladder, made good his retreat.

between Occurrences 3%

With the head slightly bent forwards, grasp between the fingers of the right hand the edge of the left sterno-cleido-mastoid, just above the collar bone.

within Occurrences 3%

On each boat or raft are ten or a dozen birds, which, at a signal from the owner, plunge into the water; and it is astonishing to see the enormous size of the fish with which they return grasped within their bills.'

than Occurrences 2%

In the third place, his works abound in concrete ideas, which are more readily grasped than abstract ones.

into Occurrences 2%

He accomplishes for us what we should in vain attempt for ourselves, enables the puny hand to lay hold on what is vast, and brings even coarseness of grasp into a real contact with what is subtle and ethereal.

across Occurrences 1%

His broad-brimmed hat fitted so well that it kept its place on his head without any fastening; but his own long, dark locks fluttered over his brawny shoulders, while the trusty Winchester was held in a firm grasp across the saddle in front, where it could be used on the second needed.

through Occurrences 1%

He seemed more and more to feel the need of grasping through books the hand of erring humanity.

under Occurrences 1%

An epic requires oral delivery to the many by a single individual; dialogue, speech in private company, where the multitude may, to be sure, be listeners; drama, conversation in actions, even though perhaps presented only to the imagination; stage play, all three together, inasmuch as it engages the sense of vision and may be grasped under certain conditions of local and personal presence.

until Occurrences 1%

The general trend of German diplomacy in Turkey was not grasped until very much later, a fact which redounds to the credit of the German ambassadors at Constantinople.

against Occurrences 1%

To my utter amazement it reached out two skeleton arms and clutched me with a grasp against which I struggled in vain.

Which preposition to use with  grasps