Crossword-Solution: CLASPED 7 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

She flung her arms round Troy’s neck, exclaiming wildly from the deepest deep of her heart,— “Don’t—don’t kiss them! Oh, Frank, I can”t bear it—I can’t! I love you better than she did: kiss me too, Frank—kiss me! _You will, Frank, kiss me too!_” There was something so abnormal and startling in the childlike pain and simplicity of this appeal from a woman of Bathsheba’s calibre and independence, that Troy, loosening her tightly clasped arms from his neck, looked at her in bewilderment.

Then the boy, Wroth with himself, poor wretch, incontinent Fell on his sword and drove it through his side Home, but yet breathing clasped in his lax arms The maid, her pallid cheek incarnadined With his expiring gasps.

Sooner or later, he must needs be mine.” The eyes of the wrinkled scholar glowed so intensely upon her, that Hester Prynne clasped her hand over her heart, dreading lest he should read the secret there at once.

There were shrieks and shouts, and suddenly a mounted policeman came galloping through the confusion with his hands clasped over his head, screaming.

The pangs of transformation had not done tearing him, before Henry Jekyll, with streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his knees and lifted his clasped hands to God.