Involuntarily, he grasped for the memory, and finding nothing, he roared in frustration. |
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I grasped his muscular arms and tried to stand upright, but as I began to straighten up, I felt dizzy again, and everything went black. |
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With a few quick steps, she grasped the extinguisher, and rammed it into the glass door of the vending machine, breaking the glass. |
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The result is spectacular, breathtaking, and needs to be seen to be grasped fully. |
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By means of this algebraic method of thinking, objects are grasped spatially, in the blink of an eye. |
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Studying it, I finally grasped the connection between the story of the bulrushes and Moses' death before entering the Promised Land. |
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To remove a leaf from its sprig, Patten grasped it gently by the stalk and pulled it back towards the branch of the limb to prevent tree damage. |
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Our four-year-old twins have fought and squabbled since they grasped the concept of owning anything. |
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Helen grasped the young cat tightly in her arms, where it began to squirm nervously. |
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I grasped his hands in mine, so tightly they almost cracked under the pressure. |
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But after eight years of more or less permanent warfare, tit-for-tat raiding and headhunting, he grasped a rare opportunity for freedom. |
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Her hands had grasped the chair's cushion and ripped out part of the stuffing that was put inside. |
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Without hesitating, she strode to the pillar supporting the glass chalice and firmly grasped the goblet by the stem. |
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He grasped the handle of the shield and the hilt of the sword, and felt himself being pushed along. |
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His left hand grasped the hilt of his sword and his right hand tightened at his side. |
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He has grasped the fact that it is absurd for conservatives to have allowed issues of conservationism to be hijacked by the left. |
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Misfields, dropped catches, a wide that went for four and overthrows gave the visitors renewed vigour and King quickly grasped his opportunity. |
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My heart raced and emotions surged before I consciously grasped the meaning of what I was reading in that footnote. |
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He grasped the sword and traced the sword's point on the stone with a slow clangor. |
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The book also suggests ways of taking on this problem in a clear and direct manner that can be grasped easily by any reader. |
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Joven shrieked angrily and grasped it, clenching it greedily between her long, trembling fingers. |
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Second, he accuses scientists of cold-heartedly trying to reduce humanity to a few easily grasped principles. |
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At the end the sense is of having fully learned a lesson which had before been only imperfectly taught or imperfectly grasped, or both. |
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Ben grasped Maya's legs and stood, proceeding to carry her piggyback down the apartment's short corridor to the kitchen. |
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Nyna felt absolutely feverish with energy as she grasped the controls of the ship. |
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Kant believed that the parts of concepts are grasped through a mental process of conceptual analysis. |
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I met him last year, and he impressed me as a cop who had quickly grasped that racing inquiries needed forensic detection skills. |
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I picked it up with my other hand and firmly grasped the blade between my index finger and thumb. |
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He grasped the diploma firmly in his hand and walked proudly across the stage. |
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When she was certain that the embrace intoxicated him enough, she moved quickly and grasped the knife from his belt and pulled away harshly. |
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Somehow they have intuited the existence of a Threat, and instinctively grasped the need to meet it. |
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Reaching out he grasped the berry noticing it's plumpness, he tried his best to pluck it. |
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As early as 1931, he had fully grasped the kind of inwardness that the camera required for the expression of maximum behavioral intimacy. |
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His right hand grasped slightly against the three match books, and their delicate paper flexed slightly. |
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Then he grasped the greasy neck of the flinching little monarch and proceeded to strangle him. |
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In America, in 1917, the administration grasped, for the first time, that war, like pop-up toasters, was a marketable commodity. |
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Instead, they grasped the cosmopolis head on, and the result was the Roman world. |
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He grasped the gilded footboard and straightened his elbows, such that he hovered over the bed rather than sitting on it. |
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I grasped for landmarks, as we ascended the foothills of the Dublin Mountains. |
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He fled to his cistern to bring back water, but though the fledgling grasped the cup and strove to drink, he could not force it down. |
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To steer drivers grasped a tiller poking out of the dash, starting the car involved cranking a handle by the driver's side. |
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He stretched out, his arm bent and crooked, and grasped the paper in between his fingertips. |
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They've managed to do it by bumbling their way through a free enterprise system they haven't fully grasped. |
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Michael stretched out his arms to either side and grasped the edges of the beam, the metal studs on the cuffs of his gloves biting into the wood. |
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He grasped his hands together and shook them above his head as if in a title prizefight. |
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The protruding end of the ovipositor was grasped with fine tweezers and the whole reproductive tract pulled out. |
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I stared at his hand, and after a beat of silence, grasped it firmly, my eyes twinkling dangerously. |
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Robin reached out, grasped it firmly again, and started to take a step forward. |
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On the way, Daryn's hand snaked over to mine and grasped mine firmly, giving it a squeeze, which I returned. |
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I stepped forward and grasped the letter-opener firmly, then pulled it out of his hands. |
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She ran her pencil down the paper that was firmly grasped in her left hand. |
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Sarah grasped Matthew firmly round the waist, pulling him towards the stairs. |
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Use the most accessible implement at your disposal which can be grasped firmly by hand. |
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But as Jack drew near, he saw that the reins were firmly grasped in one hand, as if the rider had been riding Western style. |
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Avon grasped the Divine Crystal firmly in his hands and scanned the landscape, but was unable to see anything. |
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There is a warning there that we could fall behind, but there is also an opportunity to be grasped. |
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Better still, it provided the facilities to get to know them better and we grasped the opportunity to quiz some of this year's new faces. |
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The Party eagerly grasped the opportunity to use his celebrity status to raise its public profile. |
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As with an ancient ritual, the meanings of this game cannot be fully grasped. |
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I sensed that she had fully grasped what I was proposing, and she was already mentally writing a floor speech in support of such a bill. |
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Here again, the significance of this development can only be fully grasped on the basis of Marx's analysis of the commodity form. |
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It was all so above her understanding, but somehow she knew that they loved each other, in some way that could never be fully grasped. |
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Further, what is infinitely great cannot be fully grasped by our finite minds. |
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That is something that I think some previous speakers in this debate seem to have not grasped as fully as they might. |
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I know that this state of affairs is not fully grasped by the general public in Europe and North America. |
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I don't think people have fully grasped the significance of what's occurred. |
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Although the basic ideas can be grasped relatively quickly, the full method takes longer to absorb. |
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At that time, this fact had not been fully grasped by some of the more traditional sporting bodies. |
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I think the Government has really grasped the nettle, because this is a major issue for everybody now. |
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The Government has not grasped the full enormity of what is happening to this industry. |
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Her strength dwindled as four men grasped hold of her and dragged her away. |
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But only in that precarious exilic realm can one first truly grasp the difficulty of what cannot be grasped, and then go forth to try anyway. |
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The guards standing on either side of the door grasped the doorknobs and pulled back, clearing a path for the duo. |
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I don't think I grasped much of the concept of where to place accents in the Spanish language, but oh well. |
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I reached the foot of the doors as the tide grew and I grasped each plate with my fingers and it inched open but suddenly jammed. |
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Once people have grasped the concepts, the bar graphs can be used in financial planning and accounting. |
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Keighley Town grasped victory from the jaws of defeat thanks to a brilliant last minute individual try from Man of the Match Neil Kennedy. |
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For there is no knowledge of things insofar as they are external in effect, but insofar as their nature and quiddity is grasped by the mind. |
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She weakly grasped the lapels on his jacket and sobbed quietly into his chest. |
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He grasped the toast from the toaster, gently jiggling them in his little hands, as it was still a little hot. |
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Young men in white shirts and red sashes grasped each other round the shoulders to form a ring fifteen feet across. |
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He reached up and grasped the wooden frame, and lifted it off of its wall hook. |
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She reached over, grasped his forearm, and gave it a light reassuring squeeze. |
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He smiled sadly and I reached forward and grasped his hand, squeezing it slightly. |
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Yet commanders quickly grasped the ability to use aircraft or airships to threaten deep behind the front line. |
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The plant was filled with workers who barely knew their way around, let alone grasped the dangers they faced. |
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Lacey turned around and darted for the coffee table and grasped a reel of duct tape, holding it up in her hand. |
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Then, I was grasped by my shoulders and shoved against a thick post that had once been an ash tree. |
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The man seemed to have grasped the essence of standing aloof from worldly anxieties and vexations. |
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In his right hand he grasped his sheathed sword, and his left arm he held close to his body. |
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It is assumed that this opportunity to feature the special attributes of a grand country house will be grasped by the operator. |
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The ovary was grasped with a hemostat, a ligature was placed around the oviduct and blood vessels, and the ovary was removed. |
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As she reaches for the drink, it is grasped by a darkly handsome man, dressed in a dinner jacket, who smiles appetizingly. |
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The knowledge, then, is transformed either through intention or extension and grasped either by comprehension or apprehension. |
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They might just about have grasped the rudiments of e-mail, but they haven't a clue about the new media. |
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She grasped at the ground under her right hand, taking a huge lump of wet, lumpy dirt up with it. |
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Buddha was born as his mother grasped the branch of a sal tree, and he achieved Enlightenment beneath the Bodhi tree. |
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He felt as though someone had grasped his heart with a cold, taloned hand and was slowly squeezing. |
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As she grasped hold of a rail, her mind seemed to haze as her wounds were pained by every push and shove. |
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He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock. |
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I would have clung to his every word, followed him everywhere, grasped those truths that so often got lost on the thick-skulled apostles. |
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Kicking herself already, she grasped the battleaxe she had bought on the way to Tuqsan. |
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She grasped the hilt of her sword and thrust it at the stones, wedged it between the planks on the door. |
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Rather than melting away like normal frost, the coldness lingered where Bruetar had grasped the hilt of the sword. |
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He still grasped a ragged and naked branch of the tree with hands clenched in desperation. |
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Training opportunities are also grasped, from the routine business of minehunting to casualty-handling, salvage and firefighting. |
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She reached out and grasped the silk, gasping as it unfurled into a thin cloak, shimmering softly. |
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A Black-throated Green Warbler dropped into view, a tiny green caterpillar grasped in the vise of his slender bill. |
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As before, the facilitator grasped my objection in a trice, and even though I sense that she's inclined to side with the material, she gets it. |
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Romulus grasped the trident, an attractive weapon of golden bronze with a grip midway down its shaft. |
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Since the standard algorithm has already been introduced, the treatment of short division is easily grasped. |
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Despite being a novice at commanding armoured units, he quickly grasped the great potential of mechanised and armoured troops. |
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In one case a skier took off his gloves and grasped a ski lift pole with his bare hand. |
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In one of her hands she still grasped a firearm-a smooth, sleek affair of deadly black metal. |
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Dimas reached down to the table and grasped the cube in his own, ungloved hands. |
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The popular elements are graphically depicted in its literal plot, which represents the level that can be grasped by the unlearned audiences. |
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There could be no solution, they claimed, until the mind first grasped the necessary idea. |
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It is especially useful for objects with high water content, such as grapes, and friable objects that may otherwise disintegrate when grasped with forceps. |
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The wooden balls grasped by huge bronze talons are the size of softballs. |
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The woman who grasped Britain's unions by the neck and hurled them repeatedly against the wall, like some floppy rag doll. |
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I quickly grasped, however, that if not the factotum of the city, he was very well connected in a certain subculture whose existence I was just, by hearsay, becoming aware of. |
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These international alliances, Edwards argues, constitute diaspora in practice, and that its inner workings can be most tangibly grasped in translation. |
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Experiences are grasped through either apprehension or comprehension. |
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Steve merely shook his head, reaching forward across the train coupling and grasped the door, yanking hard on it and allowing it to slide off to the right. |
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But what she grasped better than so many Ph.D.s was the role that emotion and human frailties played in the sweep of history. |
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For a flash, I grasped the Holy Grail of my endless tap, tap, tapping on the door. |
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A boy put his hand into a jar of filberts and grasped as many as his fist could possibly hold. |
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He rushed to the scene with the container firmly grasped in his hand. |
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She turned and grasped him firmly, making ready to fly him to safety. |
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The magnitude of the task was overwhelming, the costs intimidating, yet even if had they been grasped there was not the talent within government to deliver. |
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They have grasped their limited opportunities and made the most of them. |
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In an era when battlefield telegraphy was impractical, sound was the primary means by which commanders grasped what was happening on the battlefield. |
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We grasped kelp to anchor us, so as not to be taken out in the backwash, and clambered over its slimy fronds to the jumble of boulders that constituted the beach. |
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He groped out blindly and grasped one of the dog's front legs. |
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Then, squaring his shoulders, he grasped the door handle with resolve. |
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Similarly, the opportunity should be grasped to ease internal tensions. |
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A map showing the way to the Ark of the Covenant was burned into the palm of his hand when Washington grasped a medallion from the counter of a burning barroom. |
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The crucial connection between high calibre jobs and high quality leisure and cultural facilities may have been grasped earlier in Dundee than other cities. |
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Yet he has grasped his opportunities and appears genuinely keen to learn from the opportunity to work with some of the most established stars in the industry. |
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The uncertainties and hazards that made war so unpredictable and uncontrollable were not barriers to be eliminated but opportunities to be grasped and exploited. |
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Her hands grasped the tiniest cracks and protuberances and without thought to where they would take her, her feet scrambled for the slightest toehold! |
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If heathen philosophers grasped something of the three transcendentals and of the law of human nature, they grasped nothing of these three virtues. |
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And while straws can still be grasped at up to that moment, the chance of man or machine breaking down is almost unimaginable, though, admittedly, not entirely impossible. |
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I grasped the bar tightly in my fists lest I flew off by accident. |
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He scowled and the fear exploded inside as he reached out suddenly and grasped me by the chin again, pulling me so that we were face to face, only inches apart. |
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I grasped my arm tightly where the pressure point was, to stop the bleeding because if I had died there and then, I wouldn't have been able to go on my journey. |
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Until and unless this fact is grasped, along with the profound moral inversion that it has caused throughout the west, we will not win this fight for civilisation. |
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Whilst at first the Shakespearean tongue was hard to handle the talented young actors soon grasped it and are set to wow the audience come show time. |
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The one grasped the other's arm and jerkily pulled her away from me. |
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Bullae or blebs were identified and grasped with an empty sponge stick. |
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It was there, sitting in the neurologist's waiting room, when Mitt grasped the severity of what his wife was up against. |
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Quickly scaling up another two floors, Alanis took her hands off the drainpipe, reached up and grasped the gutter above her head, then flipped herself onto the roof. |
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It was because I hardly understood and grasped the situation myself. |
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Thus far, especially in Scotland where the slavish adherence to the received wisdom of the unions is strongest, there is little sign of that thistle being grasped. |
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I tensely grasped the smooth control handles in both of my sides. |
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He felt along the ground and grasped onto what felt like a metal pole. |
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Donovan reached out and grasped the old woman's gnarled hand. |
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She grasped his hand in a firm clasp, and he was surprised to find hard calluses on her palm, like those gained off hard work with ship and sword. |
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They grasped each others' hands and stood wreathed in smiles. |
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John grasped Rob firmly by the wrist and moved toward the door. |
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Linda believes nurses must be sensitive, have good personal resources, including humour, and have grasped their own perspective on death and dying. |
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He stood up, and grasped a fiery brand in either hand, and flattened himself against the big boulder, alert and ready for the attack when it should come. |
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The children grasped at their mother's hands as tightly as ticks and the men's eyes showed their depthless darkness beneath the brim of their straw hats. |
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The soldier gasped, grasped the life vest and pulled one arm into it. |
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I grasped the end of the rope and pulled as hard as I could. |
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In the other method, a wire positioned in the deepest part of the sinus was grasped with a small hemostat at the orifice of the sinus. |
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Having campaigned for a better deal for para showjumpers and mentored blind showjumper Karen Law, she grasped the opportunity. |
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The difference is subtle but was fully grasped by those who entered the treaty. |
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It can leap to evade attackers and the skin of its tail is readily detachable and slides off if grasped by a predator. |
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In the 19th century, biologists grasped that species could evolve given sufficient time. |
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Once he had grasped the controls, he unleashed a demonic laugh that made his hostages shudder. |
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As the next five-foot peeler rolled by, Lee grasped his board and clenched his teeth. |
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A small thyroidotomy exposed one end of the serrated bone, which was simply grasped and pulled straight out toward the pyriform fossa. |
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From the very beginning of her reign, Isabella fully grasped the importance of restoring the Crown's finances. |
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It speaks well for Barrett's presence of mind that he had grasped the situation and decided on his line of action before Welch went. |
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She stretched forth her hands, and would have grasped the form within, but it was graspless as air. |
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President Truman, when at last he grasped the nettle and dismissed MacArthur, knew well enough the outcry that would follow. |
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Were our modern instrumental sloppery conceivable, had they really grasped the most essential thing in Beethoven's tone-poems? |
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As an interviewer, i quickly grasped that the key was to ingratiate myself with the subject, to be admiring, even humble, but not Heepish. |
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Absoluteness of freedom and responsibility culminates in awareness that my facticity cannot be grasped directly, but only projectively reconstructed by narration. |
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Their objections were ignored and Halder argued that, as Germany's strategic position seemed hopeless anyway, even the slightest chance of decisive victory should be grasped. |
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This cannot be otherwise acquired or grasped by any work, law or merit. |
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He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore. |
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With quick presence of mind, Ootah grasped the rear upstander of the sled, which had begun to slide to and fro, and planted his harpoon in the ice. |
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A blinded tester grasped the scapular lateral border and applied force in the posterior direction to prevent scapular protraction and abduction movements. |
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In each case, the tonsil was grasped in routine fashion with a tenaculum, and the TWF was applied to the mucosa above the superior pole of the tonsil. |
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Wynyard Golf Club managing director Gary Munro said the club had simply grasped the opportunity to hold its own ball when the Wynyard Crystal Ball switched venue. |
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Sharman had a bye to the final and he grasped the opportunity with both hands, giving a brilliant display to outclass Eetu Viitanen from the strong Finnish TVS club. |
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But the Goswami seems to have got her drift and instead of bristling at her snub, he realized that here was an enlightened bhakta who had grasped the essence of the Lord. |
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