Approaching the bed, I saw that one dangling hand retained a precarious grip on some white paper, perhaps a clue.

She tightened her precarious grip on the knife.

His body dropped downward; gone from view, he swung in pendulum fashion, depending solely upon that precarious grip.

There was fire on her but she couldn't even slap at it without losing her precarious grip on the gutter.

In fact, as "Siam" progresses, Claire's precarious grip on her life begins to slip.

Larissa was so startled she nearly tost her precarious grip.

The Shadow's left hand nearly lost its precarious grip upon the door.

Using her precarious grip and swinging her body in desperation, she swung over his surprised head to the next beam she saw was free.

The skirts of her coat fell over her head, but she dared not move, knowing that it might break his precarious grip on her ankle.

And below that was Teel's face, barely out of the water; his other hand clinging to the rock with a precarious grip.