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Definition of Clutching
1. clutch [v] - See also: clutch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clutching
Literary usage of Clutching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... in dust he fell, 380 clutching with outspread fingers at the earth : And Argos
with glad shout dragg'd off her slain, And stripp'd the armour off them, ..."
2. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Deronda, in his pained feeling, and under the solemn urgency of the moment, had
to keep a clutching remembrance of their relationship, lest his words should ..."
3. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"sitting position, clutching his injured hand. Davey dangled by his armpits in
the implacable hands of one of the golems, face contorted into ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... is höre represented in the act of clutching tho base of the cartridge case,
which is withdrawn as the locks retreat down the slope of the cam, ..."
5. Li Hungchang by Robert Kennaway Douglas (1895)
"VI clutching HANDS SOME fifteen years ago Lord Charles Beresford paid a short,
but breezy visit to the far East, and when he went home he wrote a book about ..."
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