death-griped

Updated: June 26, 2025

In the careening of the boat, when the stricken Cholo sprung overboard, two of their oars had slid into the water; and together with that death-griped by the half-breed, were now floating off; occasionally lost to view, as they sunk in the trough of the sea.

Herman Melville - Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I