Time alone, it seems, will not free a society from the grip of the past.

He released David from his grip and let him go.

This was new land, released only recently from the grip of night.

When he finally looked up, they were free from the grip of dreams.

As if it dropped from her grip when she fell.

She broke free from his grip and fell back a step.

He withdrew his hand from the grip of the other man.

Perhaps seeing the boy would shake him from its grip.

He released her hands from his grip but she made no attempt to use them.

Instead I pulled it from the grip of the soil.