grasping

“Bless my heart!” exclaimed the new arrival, grasping both the other’s hands with his own.

Matthew, however, was spared the ordeal of speaking first, for as soon as she concluded that he was coming to her she stood up, grasping with one thin brown hand the handle of a shabby, old-fashioned carpet-bag; the other she held out to him.

Her hands were grasping the arms of her chair, and I saw that the pink nails had turned white with the pressure of her grip.

I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralyzed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog.