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