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clasp

«He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.»
Author: I Ching | Keywords: clasp, clasped, clasps, gathers, possesses
«All beauteous things for which we liveBy laws of time and space decay.But oh, the very reason whyI clasp them, is because they die.»
«Meanwhile, in the broad and lofty chamber set apart for occasions of import, the Abbot himself was pacing impatiently backwards and forwards, with his long white nervous hands clasped in front of him. His thin, thought-worn features and sunken, haggard cheeks bespoke one who had indeed beaten down that inner foe whom every man must face, but had none the less suffered sorely in the contest. In crushing his passions he had well-nigh crushed himself.»
«He clasps the crag with crooked hands; close to the sun in lonely lands, ringed with the azure world, he stands.»
«Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week»
«He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.»
«A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.»
«O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, / And with God be the rest!»
Author: Robert Browning (Poet) | Keywords: clasp, clasped, clasps
«One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.»
«That book in many?s eyes doth share the gloryThat in gold clasps locks in the golden story.»