clasping


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clasp·ing

 (klăs′pĭng)
adj. Botany
Denoting a leaf whose base partially or completely surrounds a stem.
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talk of me if you like," cried Edna, clasping her hands beneath her head; "but let me think of something else while you do."
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"It isn't father and Priscilla?" said Nancy, with quivering lips, clasping her hands together tightly on her lap.
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A Puritan only adores virgins, and he adores them by clasping his hands.
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"Alone!" she cried, clasping her beautiful hands sorrowfully.
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The elephant grunted out his satisfaction, and, clasping Passepartout around the waist with his trunk, lifted him as high as his head.
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