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Tellingly, she waited until her father had died before she published her own book, which lacerated Barbara Sinatra, her father's wife of 22 years, as a grasping, gold-digging wench not worthy of the family name.

Stuart Hogg then put more pressure on the Aussie defence with a looping kick that evaded the grasping arms in gold shirts.

Jerry Tuthill, an owner, whose necklace features a gold crab grasping a shark's tooth, says it best: "Once people come out here in Greenport, it's like they leave all their troubles behind".

The design of the Reichsmarschall standard, on a light blue field, featured a gold German eagle grasping a wreath surmounted by two batons overlaid with a swastika.

Here the influence of Sotatsu, who specialized in moody seascapes, seems clear, though Korin's image of the ocean is very much his own, a monstrous, rearing, grasping force brushed in ink on a gold ground.

Investors distracted by talk of recovery may find that instead of the giant beanstalk of fairytale fame that allowed Jack to climb into the clouds and steal the giant's gold, they'll have ended up grasping at straws.

Jones's Olympic reach exceeded her gold medal grasp, but she established herself indisputably as the world's greatest female sprinter.

Beijing 2008 Surging through with the fastest time in heat two of women's quad sculls, Grainger and her team had gold within grasp for most of the race before China surpassed them 500m from the finish.

And rounding off the ensemble are Zoe Saldana's green-skinned no-nonsense warrior, and a bluish-grey muscleman whose failure to grasp metaphor is comic gold: "Nothing goes over my head; my reflexes are too fast".

When we're really young, it seems hard to grasp this nugget of gold because receiving is such fun.

Jane Fonda, flanked by Marlo Thomas and grasping a champagne flute for dear life, oversaw the wheeling-out of an enormous, ostentatious gold cake; at her urging, the room cheered and warbled "Happy Birthday" en masse. .

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