Clasps
[klɑ:sps]
Examples
- These are again the words of Jarvis Lorry, as he clasps his hands, and looks upward. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- His feet had sandals of the same fashion with the peasants, but of finer materials, and secured in the front with golden clasps. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The trooper starts up, clasps his mother round the neck, and falls down on his knees before her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But their garments were mere wraps; there are no clasps or catches to be found. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- How he suddenly and vehemently clasps in both arms the form he dared not, a moment since, touch with his finger! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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