At last his hand closed upon it, gripping it so tightly that the hundreds of little nicks and scratches made by the contact of the tacks and nails which he had hammered with it nipped and bit into his palm like the teeth of tiny mice.
It was so sudden that it was as if some enemy had leaped upon his back, springing out of the shadow, gripping him from behind, holding him close.
Vandover was sitting bolt upright in his chair, his hands gripping the table, his eyes staring straight before him.
He advanced to the very edge of the rocky shelf, still gripping the rope with his right hand.
We seemed the first men who had ever been there: that was the most gripping thing about it.
Great paw-like hands they had, toughened with the gripping of cables; eyes that had that way of looking through and far beyond things.
I caught myself tightly gripping the ledge and shrinking with a shuddering instinctive fear.
But the hero had his sack held over his left arm and the stones and earth fell harmlessly upon it, and, tightly gripping his iron hammer, he rushed in and struck the giant to the ground.
To Bas Rowlett it should have been an indictment, or perhaps an excuse, with its testimony of blood strains stronger than himself--but from its moral his mind was wandering to a more present and gripping interest.
Old Jim Rowlett leaned forward gripping his staff head with eyes of incredulity, and from the chest of the others sounded long-drawn breaths, inarticulate yet eloquent of scorn and sneering repudiation.
He stole towards the bed, gripping the camp-stool firmly with his right hand, and slowly turning down the bedclothes with the feet of the chair.
Craig sat where he had been ordered, his fingers gripping the arms of the chair.
He lay there, crouching, gripping wherever he could, his fingernails breaking, an intolerable pain in his knee, death spinning on either side of him.
Then suddenly he found himself gripping the window-sill in a momentary thrill of rare excitement.
By gripping of thy butler, by his breech to jock him down, Was it for this!
Once more bygripping of my breech, and tossed me down the stair!
I saw a young bird fall to the water, and this mishap was from no attack, but due to his tripping over his own feet, the claws of one foot gripping those of the other in an insane clasp, which overbalanced him.
So the fallen tree, still gripping the nutritious bank with a moiety of roots, turned slowly in its fibrous stiffness and directed its life and sap and hopes upward.
Men in their stupidity constantly mistake strong patience for weakness or indifference or lack of a gripping purpose.
Such is the heart-touching, heart-gripping tale of God's ideal for man, His creature and companion and friend.
Halfway up a perpendicular wall of rock hung the ash and the wild cherry, gripping the bare cliff with roots that looked like crippled hands.
Per Kofod spoke as though he had taken part in all of them; he had quite forgotten that he used always to stand still gripping on to something and bellowing, if the others came bawling round him.
He himself was half out of the door, gripping his gun with one hand, warding the relentless Marshal off with the other.
For the second time that day I set out along the lonely mountain road leading to Luray, but this time with a vague feargripping at my heart.
Two shells hit and burst below the bridge, and the third--the coxswain swung round the binnacle, gripping the rim with his left hand.
Bracing his feet and gripping the rail with wet-gloved fingers he held his breath in an intensity of listening concentration.
Then with the candle in his hand and followed by Nobby, gripping his rifle, he went into Cherriton's bedroom.
His assailant leaped through the air, clasped two strong hands round his neck, and fell into the road, still gripping for all he was worth.
He spoke abruptly and without any preamble, gripping the back of a chair in his hands.
He had to scale them, gripping with his hands and feet to things that slipped, to rope-ladders which, possessing no points of support, gave way beneath him.
But, when Patrice wanted to replace the telephone, his fingers were gripping it so hard that it needed an effort to relax them.
Gripping his prize, he twisted away, turned, and bounded for the window.
Thakur was in the cage, gripping a big shotgun and flanked by Chandra and Kamuka, each armed with a spear.
Grimly, he found himselfgripping the chamois bag in his pocket, wondering if the Light of the Lama could save him now.
Hand in his pocket, Biff was gripping the packet that he had transferred from his own clothes, wondering if the Light of the Lama again had saved him from an enemy!
Anthony was still gripping the reins, his knuckles white, when Briggs broke the silence.
The three seamen in the boat jerked backward, all still grippingtheir smoking muskets, then splashed into the bay.
He was still gripping his flintlock, knuckles white, as the other militiamen dragged him back into the trench.
He was still gripping her hand as he led her into the companionway, a dark hallway beneath the quarterdeck illuminated by a single lantern swaying in the gusts of wind.
Atiba had moved beside her, grippingthe handle of his cutlass.
He slipped up the companionway, gripping each weathered board with his toes, and stood over the man, wondering if he should kill him, lest he waken suddenly and sound an alarm.
She was gripping it with both hands, rock steady, aimed at them.
Governor Dalby Bedford was across from her in the close, airless carriage, angrily gripping the silver knob of his cane.
Carefully she picked up the curved wooden mallet used to play it and, gripping the drum tightly against her body, tapped it once, twice, to test the fluctuation in pitch as she pressed the cords.
Gripping her wrenched arm, she tried to get to her feet and could not.
Beside her, on the right, sat the over-painted woman, her hands gripping the arm rests so hard that her knuckles showed white.
Gripping him by both shoulders she shook him as a terrier shakes a rat.
He was not only shrinking as close to her as he could get, he was gripping her arm with convulsive fingers, which she could feel were trembling.
He rose, and with his hands gripping the bars of the open door, drew a long breath.
She noted, with a feeling of fear gripping her heart, that two or three of them had rifles in their hands.
The youths, gripping tightly their rifles and muskets, waited.
Gripping the scabbard with his left hand, Hal drew out the handsome blade with a flourish.
Gripping Bunny Hepburn by the collar, Hal dragged the fellow to his feet and instantly planted a blow that closed the other eye.
Stop that choking, Carroll," says Shock to the little quarter, who is gripping The Don hard about the throat.
The handgripping Perault's throat opened quickly, allowing the Frenchman to fall to the floor.
The great strike, with Chicago and Pullman as its storm-centers, was gripping the land in its frenzied fist, and the press despatches were greedy of space.
Ardea forgot him, forgot Nan, thought of nothing but the passionate yearning that was drawing her like gripping hands toward the man who had bared his inmost heart to her.
Thomas Jefferson did his best to keep the pace, being driven by a new and eager thirst for knowledge mechanical, and by a gripping desire to be present at all the assemblings of all the complicated parts of the threefold machine.
In former times, with grim rebellion gripping him as it gripped him now, Tom would have run away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gripping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
