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Grasped in sentence

153 examples of Grasped in a sentence

Her hands, hardened by the haulage, grasped without fatigue the uprights that were too big for her.
"And note well, even when one has grasped all this, one still knows next to nothing, because these families are subdivided into genera, subgenera, species, varieties--""All right, Conseil my friend," the harpooner said, leaning toward the glass panel, "here come a couple of your varieties now!""Yes!
At last, when he had eaten his soup, put on his cloak, lighted his pipe, and grasped his whip, he calmly installed himself on his seat.
And, shaking him by both hands that she grasped tightly, she added—"Listen, I want eight thousand francs."
Julien, without exactly knowing what he was doing, grasped her hand again.
'Stay with me,' Fouque said to him; 'I see that you know M. de Renal, M. Valenod, the Sub-Prefect Maugiron, the cure Chelan; you have grasped all the subtle points of their natures; you're ripe now to put yourself up for auction.
Julien went to her assistance; he was admiring that elegant figure, which suggested anything rather than strength, when suddenly, without help, she grasped the ladder and picked it up as she might have picked up a chair.
He grasped her wrist once more, she tolerated it now and, in that way, lead him to the door.
"No!" she shouted, remained sitting where she was and grasped K.'s hand, which he failed to pull away fast enough.
Before he realised it, K. grasped for her hand but failed to catch it.
Nonetheless, the man cried out as if K. had grasped him not with two fingers but with red hot tongs.
K. grasped his uncle under the arm to prevent him stopping still and said, "I thought you'd think all this is less important than I do, and now you're taking it so hard."
The odd thing about the picture was that this judge was not sitting there in dignified calm but had his left arm pressed against the back and armrest, his right arm, however, was completely free and only grasped the armrest with his hand, as if about to jump up any moment in vigorous outrage and make some decisive comment or even to pass sentence.
He was almost aghast as he looked up at her, now that she was so close to him there was a bitter, irritating smell from her, like pepper, she grasped his head, leant out over him, and bit and kissed his neck, even biting into his hair.
When they grasped the idea, they said they feared they did not know how to wash up.
George said he never saw so much thoughtful sadness concentrated into one glance before, as when, at the lock, that young couple grasped the idea that, for the last two miles, they had been towing the wrong boat.
Montmorency went for that poor cat at the rate of twenty miles an hour; but the cat did not hurry up - did not seem to have grasped the idea that its life was in danger.
But although the suddenness of the alarm and the cry of Caesar had impelled the freebooters to so hasty a retreat, they grasped the hoard with a hold that death itself would not have loosened.
Three of the band grasped him by the neck and arms, with an intent to clog his efforts, and pinion him with ropes.
He turned from the kneeling suppliant, but could not, or would not, extricate that hand that she grasped with frenzied fervor.
The composed features of the officer relaxed into a smile of benevolence, and he grasped the hand of the peddler firmly.
He grasped the situation, and did his best to please the company, so as to make himself acceptable to them at once.
Laurent grasped the skulls.
Then Laurent rose and grasped Camille round the body.
Laurent grasped him tighter, and gave a jerk.
As soon as he had grasped her hand, he pressed it vigorously, retaining it until they reached the Rue Mazarine.
Then he feverishly grasped the hands extended to him, and entered the room, clinging to the door like a man under the influence of drink.
Then, all at once, with the clutch of a wild beast, he grasped the head of Therese in his two great hands, and by force brought her lips to the bite he had received from Camille on his neck.
She was grasped, raised and carried along by the assassin; she experienced the anguish of feeling herself feeble and abandoned in the arms of the murderer of Camille.
He threw the window of the dining-room wide open, and advancing to where the cat was seated, grasped him by the skin at the back of the neck.
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