Citations:clasping


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * At first I attempted to prevent her but she persisted, and entering the room where it lay, hastily examined the neck of the victim, and clasping her hands exclaimed, 'O God!


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "Good Heaven!" said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he looked about him. "I was bred in this place. I was a boy here!"