He would have fallen but for the girl behind him, who caught his sword-belt in a desperate grasp.

Wrenched her wrist free from Vortka's desperate grasp.

Roughly, he shook off the other's desperate grasp, "Stay here!

Then, with a desperate grasp, a death-clutch, he caught one arm of the grapnel, holding fast as the shock came.

Spinning, she broke free of Sulu's desperate grasp and ran for the doorway.

I was the Landsgraves' last desperate grasp for power, and with that failure, their day was over.

Then little by little she tried to draw her hand away from Port's desperate grasp.

The conqueror bent and tore the stiffening fingers from the object they crumpled in their desperate grasp.

He knew that Sang-drax knew every scheme, every desperate grasp.

She maintained her desperate grasp on his neck.