clasped

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 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 together, the group of three were, and when they were halfway to the glassy ceiling of the ice, three more left the rent in the submarine and followed likewise.

From Under Arctic Ice by Winter, H. G.

The English girl lay sleeping in his cart Clasped to the Dutch vrouw's breast.

From Provocations by Bristowe, Sibyl