Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Grasp
Grasps, like death.
—Ebenezer Elliott
Grasp as firm
As his whose arm is nerved by glory’s zeal.
—Gerald Griffin
Grasp like a scourge.
—T. Buchanan Read
Grasps as in water, the more she grasped the less she held.
—Sir Philip Sidney