What he did notice was two hands gripping the window-sill from outside.

Without seeing him move, I found the big man gripping my shoulder, his dark eyes an inch from mine.

The reference was to the period of radicalism that gripped China from 1966 to 1976.

He stood up and gripped tightly Nikitas from the shoulders.

Their presence in the courtroom seemed to announce what it was about this case that gripped people from the start.

He wanted to stay close and listen, but just then a hand gripped him from the gloomy hall.

One hand gripped the staff only a foot down from the butt, the other in the middle.

The war of independence gripped the West African country for 11 years from 1963.

The books gripped me from the outset, and have never really let go.

Ilna gripped the silk from the other side and fell into step.