At any moment I expected a hard grip upon my shoulder.

He had taken a hard grip on the arms of his chair.

"She had a hard grip," Dad said, almost to himself.

Slowly he slipped down as the stones began to lose their hard grip.

When he only grinned at that, she took a hard grip on her temper.

He set down the shotgun and took her by both arms- not a hard grip, just firm.

His hand was taken in a hard grip, the elbow also held.

She held the man to her with a hard grip of thighs and arms.

He started to move forward but Ransome caught his arm in a hard grip.

The warm, hard grip of his hand was on her hand.