He clung desperately to Caradoc's hand, his grip weakening, his senses swimming with the feeling of an awful void beneath him.
Madden's grip was about to break under the strain the Teuton put on it, but his fingers clung desperately to the fellow's throat, for one shout would bring a hornet's nest around the fugitives.
His face was bloodlessly sallow, and Madden could see his grip slipping on the canvas buoy.
This came to him dimly as his left hand, which had been struggling to fend off the sword, gradually lost its grip on the German's sweaty slippery wrist.
All their artillery fire had failed visibly to shake our soldiers' grip on the hill; from the rear of their firing line, as from ours, there was a procession of unwounded but faint-hearted men.
It was a noble and inspiring picture; the fallen soldier prone in the grip of death; the priest upright and serene; around on every side the tumult of battle and the rush of the storming line.
A dancer who could symbolize purity, now in the grip of red passion.
At the same time he snatched up Philip's hand in a grip of steel.
Without disconnecting that grip of his glittering eyes, Keane leaped back to the ledge.
Shut your mouths and drop that howling," Hiram said, "and grip hold of the tree; the boat will sink under our feet in another minute.
When I got her fixed, I would chop away one of these arms that grip her, and let her float free.
From what was at first a wide circle, the troops gradually closed their lines, forcing the Indians into a narrow ravine, and charging them on all sides until the grip of iron had been completed.
I became suspicious of him that he might be waiting for an opportunity to grab my gun, which I had in my right hand; I kept an eye on this Indian and a firm grip on the gun.
To have entered into that atmosphere would have defeated my purpose, which was to show a great and genuine progress in Christendom in these few later generations toward mercifulness--a wide and general relaxing of the grip of the law.
Turkey was forced in a measure to loosen her grip on Christian Europe.
He is not easily excited, and he has the grip of a bull-dog.
Before he had taken the second step Lansing laid his hand on his shoulder and spun him around, his grip tightening like a vise.
He had to take a firm gripon himself to keep from forcing his way into the neighbouring room and wreaking personal vengeance on the author of so bestial an outrage.
She watched curiously the sort of rapturous twist of the patient's body, the convulsive grip of her hands on the rim of the couch.
For even yet his suspicions were not all at rest, already he rode with reins and quirt in the grip of his left hand, the right caught in the loose band of his chaps.
Impulsively her hand crept into the bosom of her dress, her face going steadily white as her fingers curved and tightened about the grip of the small calibre revolver she carried there.
Its grip was as strong as his own, the muscles like rock.
Their trades were of the past--their vitality had oozed out, their grip on life was relaxed; if it ever tightened again, the first result of it would be another grade of surroundings.
As men fixed in the grip of nightmare, we were powerless--unable to do anything but wait.
By that hour our troops had regained their grip of themselves and also of the enemy, and the firing of the Turks was growing feeble.
He had quite a grip of the battle and seemed to hope I might let the Manchesters try and stick it out through the night, as he thought the Turks were too much done to do much more.
Such an attack should force the enemy to relax their grip on Sedd-el-Bahr.
Thus they will be at a loose end and we shall be free to bring them back to the West; to land them at Odessa or to push them up the Danube, without weakening the Allied grip on the waterway linking the Mediterranean with the Black Sea.
In sea warfare, the Fleet lies in the grip of its Admiral like a platoon in the hands of a Subaltern.
Winston in his hurry to push me out has shown a more soldierlygrip than those who said there was no hurry.
With just one more Brigade at our backs we would have taken Yeni Shahr and kept our grip on Kum Kale; helping along the Fleet; countering the big guns from Asia.
We have only to keep our grip firm and fast; Turkey will die of exhaustion trying to do what she can't do; drive us into the sea!
Now he's able to get a firm grip in case he thinks we'll heave him out of it.
Peter sufficiently to enable him to grip the span of wood.
In five minutes nothing remained of the raider but a mass of gaunt and twisted girders from which fluttered the remains of the envelope in the grip of the now howling wind.
No fear," asserted Barcroft firmly--so emphatically that Entwistle almost relaxed his grip upon the steering wheel and narrowly avoided collision with a brewer's dray.
Before the luckless German had lowered himself fifty feet his grip relaxed.
Pull the rug away, Caesar," said Murray, as soon as the men had been ordered to advance, which they did after making a great show of spitting in their hands to get a good grip of the cutlasses they drew.
The grip tightened, Jean was being strangled to death.
Trudeau, ever in the grip of the enemy that could be held at bay, but never conquered, labored year after year to save the lives of others.
If you have no net or gaff and have succeeded in bringing a large fish up alongside the boat, try to reach under him and get a firm grip in his gills before you lift him on board.
The grip for this curve should be tight and the back of the hand turned downward.
The grip of the ball for the drop is very similar to the out-curve, but in delivery the hand is brought almost directly over the shoulder.
A loose grip will absolutely prevent a player from becoming expert, as the accuracy and quickness that are a part of tennis can never be obtained unless we have the racket under perfect control.
Folding the vest lengthwise, he took a firm grip on the collar, and cautiously descended the ladder.
But she has told them all that she wishes no one to enter her room so long as her sickness maintains its grip with its accompanying pains in her heart and head.
So Alexander had to die; for a disease caught him in its grip from which he could obtain no relief.
It was thegrip of a strong healthy hand made vigorous by constant use.
Rose let hers fall from its grip on the mantel-shelf.
In truth the girl was emaciated to skin and bone: her small face seemed all eyes; yet, though she swayed as she stood from sheer weakness, there was energy and to spare in her grip on the Ayodhya pot.
Dan forgetting even his joy in the keen effort of steering a runaway through the trees; a runaway unheld, free to go as fast, nay, faster than it chose, yet obedient to that grip to right or left.
Small wonder, when all Nature seemed in the grip of heat.
There was a grip on one shoulder, a thin brown hand over the other pointing accusingly at the wheel.
Once before Chandni had felt a girl's grip on her throat; a hot, straining grip.
Fellows like you are get rid of it in words--all froth and fuss; but if that sort of thing ever got a real grip on me--Hullo!
Told it with fire and spirit; and even as the words fell from his lips, felt the sudden chill of disbelief that seemed togrip the room in its cold hand.
Cleek bowed, and his hand went out suddenly to Ailsa Lorne, who had stolen up beside him, went out and caught her hand and held it in a grip that hurt.
The youth felt on his shoulder the grip of a hand hard as steel.
Lewis stood looking curiously at the man before him, the power of whose grip he had felt in his own.
As he did so the other figure stepped forward, and coming within the deadly gripof the quicksand began to sink.
I was awed and shocked, and felt the cold perceptibly grow upon me till it seemed to grip me by the heart.
Sin, wrath death, death spiritual as well as physical, these are the dangers which lie in wait; and the enemies which have laid their grip upon us.
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