Possible Clues:

• Grasping
• Able to grasp floating sphere with line
• Good for grasping, as possums' tails
• Power line here’s flapping, ready for grasping
• Capable of grasping vacuous ideas, help ne'er arranged
• Such a gripping tale we hear
• Able to grasp an object — Helen is rep (anag)
• Gripping but deplorable, banning book and introductory note
• With girls in peril trembling, Earl's able to seize ...
• Used to hold her in sleep when upset