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I clasped her gently by the shoulders and placed a kiss on her scowling brow.
Her slender, sure hands are clasped together as they rest on her desk blotter.
She watched him slip back into his shoes and clasped and unclasped her hands as she wondered what to say.
Miriam clasped and unclasped her hands on the table in front of her, uncomfortably aware of her sweaty palms.
He clasped and unclasped his hands as he searched for the right words to say.
Justin clasped and unclasped his hands in his lap but finally decided to look up at Jamie.
Andrew asked, staring at her as she clasped and unclasped her hands in her lap.
The dancers form a circle or a long line, holding their clasped hands high in the air to perform this slow, graceful dance.
One clasped her wrists together, one smacked her arms to her body, one slammed her legs tight and the other wrapped around her ankles.
His thick hair was tied backward into a clasped horse-tail, and his stubble unshaven as ever.
Somehow, the constant, unvarying motion was reassuring, and before long Kat's eyes closed for the night, her hand still clasped in his.
The sudden picture of Bruce sitting so close to her, hands clasped, made his hackles rise.
His smaller arms clasped at the oozing wounds on his back to staunch the flow of blood.
I was planning on staying put and waiting for the kids until Shawn's hand clasped around mine and pulled me along.
Baroness Thatcher, dressed all in black, looked frail as she clasped the handrail for support before being driven away.
Francesca stood at a distance from him, her hands tightly clasped in front of her stomach, feeling somewhat awkward.
There's no catch securing the lid shut, but it's not as if notebooks suddenly flip open by themselves if they're not clasped down.
He grinned and clasped her hand on his shoulder before running and dragging her along to the helm of the ship.
Jordan's hands clasped over the inhaler and pressed the orifice of it and faced it to her mouth.
I clasped the shampoo bottle tightly and squeezed a small portion out of it and slowly worked it in my hair.
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He again turned from me, but this time, he reached out and clasped my hand tightly as he walked.
She put down her book, leaned back, and clasped the paper-knife tightly in both hands.
He clasped her hand tightly and she was immediately fond of his firm, warm grip that felt as if it fit like a glove.
Katherine moaned and clasped her arms around her son, pushing his dark hair away from his face.
One of his arms is clasped around my waist, the other one resting on my shoulder.
She screamed and thrashed about, but he clasped her in his arms and beat the fire on her hands out with his coat.
So I said I had to go and he clasped me in his musty arms and told me I was an incredible person with a fierce inner light of joy.
And I was taken in immediate surprise when I was suddenly clasped and instantly kissed.
She clasped him in her arms and cried, waterfalls of tears spilling on his face and neck.
The boy buried his face onto his father's shoulder and clasped him around the neck tightly.
A while silk scarf was wrapped around her shoulders, and a jade pendant was clasped around her neck.
He carefully undid it, then in one quick, violent motion, clasped it as tightly as it would go.
Hearing their sentences, the defendants smiled at each other and clasped hands.
Men arriving at the embassy in the morning smiled widely, clasped hands and then pulled together in long embraces.
He moved to her side and they clasped hands, allowing themselves to shake for just this time.
She clasped her hands together under her chin and leaned forward through the rising steam of her coffee.
Eventually we were saved by Bill, who walked in and clasped his hands together, in readiness for his announcement.
Her hair is clasped in an imperfect bun, her impatience with its ticklish irritation apparent.
He clasped his thighs, trembling, and Sandrine was sure there would be bruises under those fingermarks tomorrow.
Once the completed manuscript was bound between rigid covers clasped firmly shut, it was well protected.
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I hastily pulled its deep plum colored wool around my shoulders and clasped it as I ran down the stairs.
As soon as his hands were clasped around his bass, his musical memory would shift straight into gear, his hands moving fluently.
Her performance had fine details, like how she forcefully clasped her mother's hands as if to silence her prophecies of doom.
Reaching down, I clasped both zippers with my thumbs and forefingers and pulled them until they met.
Her face crumpled and tears fell silently, as she clasped her husband's arm.
That morning she wore a pretty carnation pink dress, a belt clasped perfectly around her waist.
My hand was clasped around hers, and the light of the gibbous moon set a silver path out before us.
A short, demure girl stepped away from the teacher, her hands nervously clasped in front of her.
Adeline watched, hands clasped together on her lap, at the goings and comings.
To evoke the Deities, raise the clasped hands to the center of the forehead.
Fortuna bid her goodnight, adjured her to behave and clasped her hand and kissed it before she made her way back to the inn.
Hung on the walls were beautiful dagger hilts shaped as hawks and dragons, one a ravening wolf with a great diamond clasped in it jaws.
Brenner clasped his hands behind his back, his gaze locked on the tumbling image of the People's Way.
As a nun she is beatific, her head, in a wimple, tilted toward heaven, a prayer book clasped to her breast.
She clasped a white hand to the black alabaster, sinking down to the floor.
The redhead was staring at him intently, his hair hanging in his eyes a bit and his hands clasped at his elbows.
She clasped the revolver tightly and looked in the direction where the wrestle for the sniper's gun continued between Alex and the captain.
Milton stood at the window, hands clasped behind his back, his shoulder-length hair limp and lank.
He leaned his elbows on the table, and then rested his chin on his clasped hands.
Fifty thousand devotees praying to the lingam and weeping passionately with hands clasped around their necks were massacred in cold blood.
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Have we, as a Nation, in our liberality, clasped an asp to our collective bosom.
Surely the worst asps in this world are the ones one has clasped to the bosom.
I adjusted my sitting position into a lotus position and clasped my hands over my head, then bent over, stretching as far as I could go.
As we walked side by side through the park Jacob reached out and clasped my hand in his.
I put on my white tights and clasped my black patent leather Mary Jane's around my ankles.
They clasped each other in a bear hug, both laughing until tears started to squeeze out of their eyes.
Rocking to and fro on his heels, he clasped his hands behind his back and waited for him to speak.
We'd clasped hands and spun around, but I'd fallen off balance and crashed into the table.
He gave the lid a strong push and then clasped the latch, shutting the trunk.
Sara clasped her hands around his and leaned in closer so that they were walking side by side, both smiling and blushing.
As she said this she clasped the bracelet and there was a bright twinkle of gold.
Very rarely and very few blessed mortals are clasped by death in a peaceful embrace.
She clasped the sword tightly and started to walk back to the tavern.
He shook Matt 's hand and then clasped Sarah's hand for a moment.
But even so I clasped the necklace around my neck and smiled happily.
He pleaded sweetly, shaking his clasped hands at her beseechingly.
Robyn stood back and clasped her hands together, miming maidenly awe.
He clasped my mouth shut before I could scream in my tribulation.
The blond man stared down at the bottle clasped gently between his hands.
She clasped it tightly in her brown fist, and grinned in satisfaction.
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She sat with her knees together, hands clasped in silent prayer.
I clasped Kyle's hand tightly as we headed towards the front door.
Closing his eyes tightly, he clasped his head in his hands in deep regret.
For posterity I'd clasped the necklace Lily had given me around my neck.
He clasped me in a rough hug as I stood from picking up my bags.
As they tightly clasped the bewildering ballot papers bearing the names of 111 parties across the country, some shed tears of joy, some danced in the streets.
Hernandez clasped his hands behind his back, the fingers slender, almost delicate, needing a weapon to have conveyed any menace.
The way she clasped the stalks, her slouchy but upright posture, even her incessant munching were all banal facts of her life that instantly became bewitching to me.
He was sitting down on a chair, elbows on his knees, his hands were clasped with his chin resting on his thumb and his forefingers extended, touching the tip of his nose.
Pehlya clasped a hand over her mouth to hold back a very unmaidenly oath.
He fell to his knees, hands clasped in a prayer of thanksgiving.
She stayed there, facing away from him, the book clasped to her chest.
She clasped her arms around her legs, peering up at the man.
Her hands, which had formerly been clasped in her lap, were now being wrung nervously, her fingers gripping and squeezing those of the other hand and vice-versa.
She pulled her knees to her chest and clasped her arms around her shins.
Elizabeth clasped her hands together behind her back and walked in a full circle around the buggy, looking it up and down from all angles before she answered.
She then donned the bracelets and anklets, clasped the necklace about her shoulders and the wrapped the girdle about her waist, fastening it with the knot of Auset.
My mother danced with the captain, clasped to his big chest.
Women often tied their veils together so as not to get lost, or clasped hands in an unyielding grip that made it impossible to pass through a group in closed formation.
I stood with my hands clasped in front of my stomach nervously.
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Jack clasped Maria in his arms and held her to him, kissing her.
As the pipe and tabor joined in the tune, Loraine and her partner clasped hands high and walked three steps before turning and going back the other way.
Sara clasped her fingers tightly around the tatting shuttle and thread.
I walked in the company of bearded, cassocked monks, then a pair of elderly pilgrims whose fingers flicked worry beads in hands clasped behind their backs.
Big-bellied and slope-shouldered, he is suspended delicately in mid-air, his hands clasped patiently behind his back, his twin shadowing him close behind.
Then she clasped him by the waist, and they swept toward Earth.
She clasped me in her arms and the coldness encapsulated me like a fog.
Snapping out my arm, I clasped the narrow wood between my fingers.
Exhausted, her lovely face streaked with dried tears, she clasped my hand.
Did you notice the dog which in the winter sports scenes is clasped in the arms of the child-star, Nova Pilbeam?
Closely followed by fizzy frothiness streaming into a giddily clasped glass.
The rovings when extended passed through two horizontal bars of wood that could be clasped together.
The Boy Scout wore a red neckerchief, the ends clasped with a sliding knot ornament.
Gasping, Nancy clasped her bedjacket to her ample bosom as, amid coarse laughter, her husband disappeared into the breaking dawn.
The poor dear lady shivered, and I could see the tension of her nerves as she clasped her husband closer to her and bent her head lower and lower still on his breast.
And when the Boy dropped off to sleep, the Rabbit would snuggle down close under his little warm chin and dream, with the Boy's hands clasped close round him all night long.
Maisie, quitting Sir Claude, went over to them and, clasped in a still tenderer embrace, felt entrancingly the extension of the field of happiness.
Then he became aware of a princely figure in a caftan of green sarcenet clasped about his loins by a long tongued belt from which hung a scimitar hilted in ivory and gold.
He wore his dolman slung over one shoulder and clasped at his throat with a gold chain, and carried his Hussar's bearskin busby under his right arm.
With Kate by his side, William looked thoughtful as he clasped his hands and stared at the white flowers of the orchid named Dendrobium Memoria Princess Diana.
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Throngs of pilgrims, young and old, women and men, rich and poor, ritually circumambulated around the statue in prayerful silence, hands clasped at their chests.
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She said this violently, but she let her clasped hands fall in discouragement.
Silently, the manikin clasped the nearest table leg, shinnied up and hauled himself over the top.
She was clad in a shift of spotless linen, and above her snowy kirtle was set a mantle of royal purple, clasped upon her breast.
In the palm they must be graven, and round the joints be clasped, and the disir prayed for aid.
The Rat sat up on his sofa bed in the old way with his hands clasped round his knees.
As she spoke, the girl let go Mary's hand and clasped her own together ecstatically.
Among the latter, sitting as we boys used to say on her hunkers, with hands clasped about her knees, was the old woman.
With clasped hands, and in ringing tones, Hus begged in vain for a hearing.
The venerable Persian gazed at her for an instant, and then clasped her to his bosom.
She placed her hand in his, and responded to the impulsive pressure with which he clasped it.
Corydon was sitting with her hands clasped, and a look of enthrallment upon her face.
Perhaps the clasped hands and the ecstatic look were hardly necessary, for even so interesting a subject as stockbreeding.
In his left hand he clasped a bulgy umbrella, the badge of his dignity and the symbol of his authority.
I thought so, as my quondam friend clasped my hand in farewell that morning.
Angelique had listened to all this calmly, with her hands listlessly clasped in her lap.
Taking off the blue-black tea-gown, she clasped it in her arms and kissed it.
The Oxonian, half sighing, unfolded his clasped hands, one of which he reposed upon the shoulder of Lionel.
But at the vicarage Paul and Greta sat alone in silence and with clasped hands.
In the fervency of his feelings, Alonzo flew to him and clasped him in his arms.
His hand, reclined on the coverlid, was clasped in his wife's who was praying fervently.
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The girl took a step forward, her slim, tanned, ringless fingers clasped loosely about a book she held.
He clasped his head in his hands and strove to clear his mind for a moment from obsession.
She also purchased a box of paints, and while Mrs. Laue clasped her hands in dismay, she set to painting bravely.
A two-headed iron serpent with golden eyes clasped the upper arm and gartered the knee, but no jewels of any kind were to be seen.
The dwarf Erculio sank down cross-legged on the tabletop, his long arms clasped around his knees, watching Manfred sombrely.
Ten minutes afterward, when she reappeared in a tea gown, she clasped her hands in a perfect ecstasy.
There was a crash, then lino and Hermosa stood facing each other, clasped hand in hand.
Percy gave up the Little Dipper and lay back on the sand, his hands clasped under his head.
She threw herself down on the terrazzo floor and clasped the contessa around the knees.
I handed each parcel to gip as it was ready, and he clasped them to his chest.
He clasped his hands, pressed them till the fingers of one gouged the back of the other.
She clasped her hands, suddenly carrying her urgency to plaintive entreaty.
When she came to the surface, I was still clasped tightly in her arms, and manaia cried to her to swim to the canoe.
Chester lay on his back, his hands clasped behind his head, staring up at the green roof.
As soon as we were out of their sight, Colonel royale clasped my hands with rapture.
For, if there were a God, how could he let purity be clasped in the arms of defilement?
With her yellowed love letter clasped to her heart, and a raptured shining in her eyes, Miss Sally went out of the room.
She was even fainting, when I clasped her in my supporting arms.
She came to him suddenly and swiftly, and clasped him close to her.
He clasped his hands behind his head, and looking up at the ceiling began to hum a little, trying his voice like a musician tuning an instrument.
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Her hands lay on her lap motionless, one in the other loosely clasped.
Mrs. Lorraine clasped her hands, and moved restlessly on her seat.
They clasped me tightly around the trachea, stopping my breath.
Miss Trevor clasped him close to her and kissed him maternally.
It represented a gaunt, ascetic-looking monk, in a tattered gown and cowl, kneeling with clasped hands and pulling a portentously long face.
He produced his wasted forearms from under the sheet which covered him and clasped his fleshless claws.
She stooped to kiss the child, and fondly clasped her arm round his neck.
He sat down by the side of his amine, and clasped her in his arms.
She clasped her knees with her arms and looked at Nick amusedly.
But she clasped the boy to her breast protectingly, and whispered an Ave.
A thin, washed-out, pretty woman stood up, and clasped her hands in front of her.
As he stood in the doorway, the poor old careworn wayworn woman burst into tears, and clasped her hands, as if in a very agony she prayed to him.
Mayo trod carefully down the bilge and clasped the mate's hand.
John clasped it, and bolted out of the bank as a burglar might have done.
Mr Pecksniff looked up to the ceiling, and clasped his hands in rapture.
But his wife, her face aglow, clasped her hands in an ecstasy of delight.
Springing forward, she would have clasped her in a close embrace.
With these words she ran to her mother, and clasped her in her arms again.
He drew back his chair, clasped his hands over his head, and gave himself up to dull and arid musings.
Rebecca clasped her Quackenbos's Grammar and Greenleaf's Arithmetic with a joyful sense of knowing her lessons.
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Tom knelt before him, with clasped hands, and with an absorbed expression of love, trust, adoration, on his quiet face.
He tried to disengage her hands that were clasped behind his neck.
On a table near her is a rich bauble of a casket, barred and clasped like an old strong-chest.
He smiles in a benedictory way at all of them, his hands clasped behind his back.
Pierre clasped his trembling hands, and at once tried to entreat him.
And he walked away up the dark avenue towards the house, his hands clasped behind him and his big head bent in cogitation.
He sighed and clasped his hands on his stomach with exemplary resignation.
The Blood Brothers image features two arms with hands clasped above the Liverpool waterfront, with the Three Graces clearly visible.
Matthews, with knees hunched up and clasped by his arms, was absorbed in the flight of a gunie.
It was The seraph who spoke at last, his hands clasped across his stomach.
It was red, blade and haft, and so was the hand that clasped it.
There haint no need for a verse of poetry and clasped hands.
Her little hands were clasped, and enclosed by Sir James's as a bud is enfolded by a liberal calyx.
As their hands clasped and she felt the teamster callouses on his palm, her quick eyes saw a score of things.
Catherine sat down by the bed and clasped her mother's hot hand.
He clasped her gently, imagining that he might calm her by his embrace.
He has one arm over the back of the chair, and he seems to be looking down at his clasped hands.
Her lips closed, and her clasped hands tightened mechanically round her knees.
She clasped her hands, and her eyes were lucent with mistiness.
And the poor creature dropped on his knees before the stolid murderer, and clasped his appealing hands.
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He was sitting upon a knoll, his hands clasped about his knees.
Villefort ran to her and seized her hand, which convulsively clasped a crystal bottle with a golden stopper.
A flower was in her right hand, and her left clasped an enamelled collar of white and damask roses.
Falk clasped a hand, hard as a beetle, and received a vinegary smile.
His long, thin fingers were clutching her clasped hands as with a vise.
They were, in fact, clasped around the leg of the weathercock.
Meanwhile, Cis was parading, her bouquet clasped to her breast.
She knelt down upon the platform where they were standing and lifted her clasped hands to the sky.
She clasped her hands easily above her head, and it was thus she fell asleep.
Quasimodo remained on his knees, with head bent and hands clasped.
Then Ask stepped forward on the printless shore And touched the woman's hand, who clasped fast his.
Saxon murmured, her hands tightly clasped in anguish of incomprehension and vital need to know.
With clasped hands, in breathless suspense, Mercy looked at that inspiriting face, and listened to those golden words.
The hand holding the candle protruded from that envelope which the other invisible hand clasped together under her very chin.
Rotational rubbing of left thumb clasped in right palm and vice versa.
Andrews with his swivel chair tilted back, his hands clasped behind his head, his cigarette hanging from his lips, regarded the man dispassionately.
Alicia Faxon has shown how he adapted the design of clasped lovers for his Blessed Damozel of 1875-78 from the embracing figures at the bottom of the Botticelli.
Hepzibah, her hands convulsively clasped, stood gazing at the entrance.
After an instant of amazement, he sprang to her and clasped her in his arms, and she, against her will, and protesting voicelessly, stumbled into his embrace.
The eyes of the wrinkled scholar glowed so intensely upon her, that Hester Prynne clasped her hand over her heart, dreading lest he should read the secret there at once.
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Seeing that the hand was not withdrawn, she clasped it firmly and warmly.
March, looking at the plump little hand, with the band of sky-blue stones on the forefinger, and the quaint guard formed of two tiny golden hands clasped together.
They stood clasped thus in the blind night, bracing each other against the wind, cheek to cheek and lip to ear, in the manner of two hulks lashed stem to stern together.
You can sit, with your knees drawn up to your chin and your arms clasped around them, but you are bound to turn over presently, because you are top-heavy in that position.
Some wore penknives clasped on their kinky locks for safety.
And then, after a few make-believe attempts, Bob actually did whirl and caught Daylight napping again and landed him in the old position with clasped arms around the neck.
