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Clasping in sentence

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But there are some gentle scenes as well, especially the impressive use of close-ups of hands - hands feeling the sun,wind and rain, hands reaching up, hands reaching out and clasping in love and friendship.
Alexis Alexandrovich, my dear friend!' she continued, firmly clasping his hand in both hers and gazing with her beautiful dreamy eyes into his.
'Yes, it was she,' he said and, clasping his head with his hands, he ran downstairs.
My two companions, safe and sound, were at my bedside clasping my hands.
cried Madame Homais, clasping her hands.
Although greatly moved himself, he was struck by the icy coldness of the hand he was clasping; he pressed it with convulsive force; a last attempt was made to remove it from him, but finally the hand was left in his grasp.
His only answer to her reproaches was to fling himself at her feet, clasping her round the knees.
Clasping you in my arms, for the last time perhaps, I could never have discussed the matter calmly, as I do when I am alone.
Seated by the side of a woman whom he adored, clasping her almost in his arms, in this room in which he had been so happy, plunged in a black darkness, perfectly well aware that for the last minute she had been crying, feeling, from the movement of her bosom, that she was convulsed with sobs, he unfortunately became a frigid politician, almost as calculating and as frigid as when, in the courtyard of the Seminary, he saw himself made the butt of some malicious joke by one of his companions stronger than himself.
'It will take them twenty-four hours to discover the peasant who sold it to you'; and flinging herself into Julien's arms and clasping him in a convulsive embrace: 'Ah! to die, to die like this!' she cried as she covered him with kisses; 'but I must not let you die of hunger,' she added with a laugh.
'What guarantee, what god will assure me that the position which you seem disposed to restore to me at this moment will last for more than two days?''The intensity of my love and of my misery if you no longer love me,' she said, clasping his hands and turning her face towards him.
He freed his hands which Mathilde was clasping in her own, and with marked respect withdrew a little way from her.Human courage can go no farther.
'So I am altogether unworthy of you,' she said, clasping his hand.
On that day and the days that followed, he managed to conceal the intensity of his bliss; there were moments in which he denied himself even the pleasure of clasping her in his arms.
'Allow me to manage our affairs,' she cried to him with a transport, clasping him in her arms.
"I have ruined him!" cried Frances, clasping her hands in terror.
As I stepped forward to say this, towards the door, he was just got to the door, and clasping me in his arms, as if it had been by chance, 'Oh, Mrs. Betty,' says he, 'are you here?
Next he fancied that the drowned man came to sleep between them so as to prevent them clasping one another, and he ended by understanding that Camille was jealous.
While they were so employed there happened to come by a youth passing on his way, who stopping to examine the party at the spring, the next moment ran to Don Quixote and clasping him round the legs, began to weep freely, saying, "O, senor, do you not know me?
Scipio on coming to Africa stumbled as he leaped on shore; his soldiers took it as a bad omen; but he, clasping the soil with his arms, exclaimed, 'Thou canst not escape me, Africa, for I hold thee tight between my arms.'
'You shall have it,' replied Mr. Snodgrass, clasping his friend's hand.
'"I have wronged you," shrieked the old man, falling on his knees, and clasping his hands together.
He fell backward in his chair, and, clasping his hands together, gazed on the apparition with a mingled look of abhorrence and fear.
Come; out with it, Sir; we must have it, sooner or later.''The defendant, Mr. Pickwick, was holding the plaintiff in his arms, with his hands clasping her waist,' replied Mr. Winkle with natural hesitation, 'and the plaintiff appeared to have fainted away.''Did you hear the defendant say anything?''I heard him call Mrs. Bardell a good creature, and I heard him ask her to compose herself, for what a situation it was, if anybody should come, or words to that effect.''Now, Mr. Winkle, I have only one more question to ask you, and I beg you to bear in mind his Lordship's caution.
'"Oh!" said the unhappy Bladud, clasping his hands, and mournfully raising his eyes towards the sky, "would that my wanderings might end here!
'Ah, indeed,' said Sam.'Ve thought ve should ha' been obliged to strait-veskit him last night; he's been a-ravin' all day; and he says if he can't see you afore to-morrow night's over, he vishes he may be somethin' unpleasanted if he don't drownd hisself.''Oh, no, no, Mr. Weller!' said Arabella, clasping her hands.
'I know so little of the gentleman,' said Mr. Pickwick, hesitating, 'that I--''I know you do,' interrupted Smangle, clasping Mr. Pickwick by the shoulder.
cried the young lady, clasping her hands.
Mr. Pickwick would unquestionably have suffered severely for his humane interference, if Mr. Weller, attracted by his master's cries, had not rushed in at the moment, and, snatching up a meal--sack, effectually stopped the conflict by drawing it over the head and shoulders of the mighty Pott, and clasping him tight round the shoulders.
Now, whether the shake had jumbled the fat boy's faculties together, instead of arranging them in proper order, or had roused such a quantity of new ideas within him as to render him oblivious of ordinary forms and ceremonies, or (which is also possible) had proved unsuccessful in preventing his falling asleep as he ascended the stairs, it is an undoubted fact that he walked into the sitting-room without previously knocking at the door; and so beheld a gentleman with his arms clasping his young mistress's waist, sitting very lovingly by her side on a sofa, while Arabella and her pretty handmaid feigned to be absorbed in looking out of a window at the other end of the room.
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