Grasped

Grasped the theoretical concept of using one’s connections with officials in positions of authority to obtain preferential treatment, but evidently wasn’t any good at actually getting the preferential treatment.

Scott Feschuk 2010

Grasped the shaft with the towel and flipped it far out into the backyard; discarded by a fleeing intruder.

Birth of a Tiger 2010

Grasped the max– £23,083 – on his Parliamentary allowances for the 2nd home.

Shaun Woodward MP(Labour) Grasping cuntbubble. FIDO The Dog 2009

Grasped in my Swedish hands, I saw the great, heroic spur – strap – buckles!

Peer Gynt 2008

Grasped in my Swedish hands, I saw the great, heroic spur – strap – buckles!

Peer Gynt 2008

Grasped, made her vail her eyes: she looked and saw

Idylls of the King 2004

Grasped the rail as she released her skirts and raised her hand to wave —

The Ideal Bride Laurens, Stephanie 2004

Grasped in two hands garments were poised for a moment high in air, then dropped into place, blotting out faces in the transit.

Growing Pains 2003

Grasped its handle end with the dexterity of desperation and swung towards Angelo in one continuous movement from twisting foot through legs, trunk, arm and hand to bat, bringing the weight of the wood down towards the hand which held the pistol with the whole force of my body.

Twice shy Francis, Dick, 1920- 1981

Grasped, then, as an underlie in each order of Being, it can be no actualization of either: all that is allowed to it is to be a Potentiality,

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952