Graspers

The other party which was at this time in power, as I have said, was named _Raspanti_, which is to say graspers, and of them Dino della Rocca was head. ❋ Edward Hutton (1922)

Sinewy graspers now emerged from the floor of the cell, positioning the frozen water bear in an active pose as if it had been caught midleap with its specialized tail. ❋ Tony DiTerlizzi (2010)

For a while, I vainly imagined that The Post had killed "Real Housewives" by exposing its allegedly glamorous stars as bankrupt graspers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Below the confluence of antennae an array of hooked claws and bristled graspers flexed in a steady rhythm. ❋ Tony DiTerlizzi (2010)

The monster reared up, cocking its powerful graspers back. ❋ Tony DiTerlizzi (2010)

Since profit-driven corporations are now people, too -- corporations who cut corners to protect their own profits, and end up polluting the waters upon which life on earth depends top my current list of self-graspers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One employs a thermoelectric phenomenon, called the Peltier effect, to cool the graspers handling the cloth (and thus the cloth itself) well below zero by passing current through them … ❋ Unknown (2006)

Amplified Bible: unrighteous and wrongdoers; impure and immoral, idolaters, adulterers, homosexuality, cheats swindlers and thieves, greedy graspers, drunkards, revilers and slanderers, extortioners and robbers ❋ Unknown (2007)

The true straw graspers tell me they are big readers. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

Many of the latter group of pint graspers had their origins in the United Kingdom. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So Schopenhauer (Leben, etc., by Wilhelm Gewinner) furiously shows how the “English nation ought to treat that set of hypocrites, imposters and money-graspers, the clergy, that annually devours £3,500,000.” ❋ Unknown (2003)

All those graspers want is to reclaim their lost estates, their lost serfs. justice is not in them, and you know it. ' ❋ Michener, James (1983)

So, too, it is through function-change that certain of the ambulatory appendages of Arthropods have become transformed into jaws -- their function as graspers of food has gradually prevailed over their main function as walking limbs. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

There was always fighting, always plundering; and the successful graspers for governmental power were always pawning ports and custom-houses, or trying to put them up as guarantees for loans. ❋ Unknown (1913)

Compared with these beaked and taloned graspers of the world, saints are herbivorous animals, tame and harmless barn-yard poultry. ❋ Unknown (1902)

"Does she want to kill him?" asked the honest graspers of the obvious. ❋ Anthony Hope (1898)

Those graspers hate the poor, from whom they spring, ❋ Charles Mair (1882)

The objects (in the second passage) are the objects which are (in the former passage) designated as the roads of the senses; that the objects are beyond (higher than) the senses is known from the scriptural passage representing the senses as grahas, i.e. graspers, and the objects as atigrahas, i.e. superior to the grahas ❋ George Thibaut (1881)