clasped

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Clasped by gardeners, game wardens, footmen, chefs, guests, Queen Mary reeled and pivoted in twelve of the 14 Highland flings, polkas and Circassian circles that were on the program.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clasped in his arms, Janey rallies her swooning senses with ingenuity worthy of true American girlhood.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clasped in his fingers was only a single strand of Nuwa's hair, a tiny drop of blood falling from it.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

Clasped on each other's breast, Brother to brother pressed, Tara, tantara, teino!

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin

That their faces shine Betwixt the solemn clasping of their wings Clasped high to a silver point above their heads,— We only guess from hence, and not discern.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett