90 Verbs to Use for the Word grip

When the Female Samson had got a good grip of the Giant's belt, and had raised him about five feet from the floor, the Dwarf leaned a little bit forward and ran a pin into the Female Samson's ankle, or thereabouts.

The dog struggled to get away, the Boy's stiff fingers lost their grip, and "the best leader in the Yukon" was running down the bank as hard as he could pelt, to the camp fireto the cooking-pot.

Never before, in the face of any mystery, had I felt so blind and helpless, and the feeling took such a grip upon me that it kept me awake for a long time after I got to bed.

" She tried to loosen the grip of the boy's firm little fingers on her dress and to calm him, but she did not succeed, and he kept on crying louder and louder: "Come back!

" Then Mac thrust his hand in between the two, and gave the Colonel a monkey-wrench grip that made the Kentuckian's eyes water.

And as I realized this I felt the grip of my arms growing slacker, and knew that in a second or two I should feel that long Indian steel.

Mrs. Homan tightened her grip on the pancake turner; Sarah Jane uneasily moved her long fingers within reach of a sturdy little red-and-white pepper-pot.

Harris pulled the man he held by the arm close; then released his grip, but before the German could stagger away, seized him, too, by the throat.

There came a moment of desperate, confused struggle; and then, as the man lost his balance at last, he relaxed his grip quite suddenly, flinging him headlong over his shoulder.

But the case for the Allies is that this great argument by which, and by which alone, the German Imperial Government keeps its grip upon the German people at the present time, and keeps them facing their enemies, is untrue.

The winter was advancing, as was evidenced by longer hours of daylight and hotter sunshine; but when night came the frost was more severe than ever, as if loath to loose its grip on the lakes and streams of that wide white land.

And still King held his grip, both hands sunk deep into the thick throat.

"Well, I don't know about that," he said as he broke Frank's grip.

We exchanged grips, and for once in my life I found a man whose fingers seemed as strong as my own.

Heywood shifted his grip, drew back the spear, but found the stranger bounding lightly alongside, and muttering, "To the west-south, quick!

I paused for a moment, renewed my grip on George's collar, and took a quick look round.

There were few boys in town who had not felt its weight; and his more familiar acquaintances knew the touch of it far better than they knew the grip of his fingers.

Bad habits secure a grip upon us that we are sometimes powerless to shake off.

I happened to be carrying the grip, and that helped a bit.

" Billie giggled, caught her grip on the arm of one of the seats, rescued it again, and finally made her way with the others to the platform.

The young man returned the grip with interest, but Midshipman Dalzell struggled to the surface with him.

Samuel picked up his grip, trudged through the heavy sand of the narrow beach, and entered the sweet-smelling pine wood.

Headforemost he dove into space, but the clutching hand found something at lastthe projecting hook of an old eaves-trough that had long since been removedand to this he clung fast in spite of the jerk of his arrested body, which threatened to tear away his grip.

To shake loose Marie's grip, to run away from her, would make him ridiculous.

There was no regaining his grip.

90 Verbs to Use for the Word  grip