Use hand in a sentence
Sentences starting with hand
- Hand in hand we will walk hence to the grave, helping each other in all ways, living for each other, being and remaining one in heart and purpose, one in hope and aspiration, inseparable to the end. [5]
- Hand him over to me for a couple of months--I'll put him through his paces.... [9]
- Hand it in through your commander. [2]
- Hand in hand, thrice beatified, Lo we thread the rhythmic, fanciful, Mystical mazes! [10]
- Hand me your tablets; if the others are no worse--" "But they are," Alexander exclaimed, anxiously, and I only regret that I should be the instrument of your tormenting yourself--" "Tormenting? [10]
- Hand me the tablets. [10]
- Hand me that switch. [5]
- Hand over hand on a swaying rail, Sharp in her ears and her heart the wail Of a hundred lives; and she has no fear Save that her prayer be not granted her. [11]
- Hand out your money! [5]
- Hand me the mirror, the maul-stick, and the colors. [10]
Sentences ending with hand
- My Irenia is yours--" "But she does love me, and even should she no longer--" "The test is at hand. [10]
- Now strike with your right hand. [8]
- Mademoiselle, I kiss your hand. [11]
- Pray, give me your hand. [10]
- I will tell your fortune," she suddenly added, reaching for his hand. [11]
- But what have you there in your hand? [10]
- Thus: Wrist, if you please.--I was on his right side, but he presented his left wrist, crossing it over the other.--I begin to count, holding watch in left hand. [6]
- But what are you doing on our premises at night, sword in hand? [10]
- I would mail you a copy now, but have not one [at] hand. [7]
- All that might yet be lacking to the fitting of the restored palace Hadrian himself wished to select and procure and in this occupation so agreeable to his tastes, Gabinius, the curiosity-dealer, was to lend him a helping hand. [10]
Short sentences using hand
- Your hand is shaky. [11]
- How your hand shakes! [10]
- Dyck's hand was quicker, however. [11]
- She took his outstretched hand. [11]
- There's my hand on it. [5]
- There's my hand on it. [11]
- That one oversizes my hand. [5]
- He caught his mother's hand. [11]
- The hand attracted me. [11]
- Hand up the lever! [2]
Sentences containing hand two or more times
- Roughly proportioned, if you will allow your entire hand to represent the British Empire, you may then cut off the fingers a trifle above the middle joint of the middle finger, and what is left of the hand will represent Russia. [5]
- I know that you believe that a political system should go hand in hand with the great commercial system which you are engaged in building. [9]
- The imagination associated with it the cheerful nature which, like a loyal comrade, goes hand in hand with success, deserved and undeserved good fortune, woman's favour, doughty deeds, the highest and strongest traits of character. [10]
- Mr. Jervas Bellamy, who laid dead with his son, the lieutenant, hand in hand, near the southernmost wall of the prison. [5]
- Magnificence of display went hand in hand with a taste for cruel and barbarous amusements. [4]
- The well-trained and well-armed Romans seemed to have an easy task with their naked opponents, who, in a hand to hand fight, could not avail themselves of either their arrows or their spears. [10]
- He began his weird, wild love-song, but soon felt that he was cold, and as he reached back for his blanket, some unseen hand laid it gently on his shoulders; it was the hand of his love, his guardian angel. [5]
- Here a wine-skin was passed from hand to hand, there a joint was roasting on a wooden spit; farther on a party were throwing dice for the booty they had won, or playing at morra. [10]
- And so there was no parting, for in his fancy I went with him; he knew not but I went with him, my hand in his--my young soft hand, not this withered claw. [5]
- A feeble hand was clasped in the burly hand of the factor, and then they all fell into line again, Cloud-in-the-Sky running ahead of the dogs. [11]
More example sentences with the word hand in them
- By St. Patrick, you've made yourself captain with the good-will of all, and your iron hand has held the thing together. [11]
- And now again your hand, and a thousand, thousand thanks. [10]
- The key is--put your hand under my pillow. [6]
- If you let your hand tremble so, we can never get away from them, but if you're only quiet now, we shall do so, easily. [12]
- Well, I touched your hand then, and you looked at me and nodded, and went musin' into the fire again, not seemin' to hear our gabble. [11]
- When I hold your hand I feel that life's worth living--I want to do things. [11]
- You must keep your hand and arm so. [8]
- And I'll hold your hand all through it--yes, I will! [11]
- Charles Emerson, the younger brother, who was of the same type, expresses the feeling in his college essay on Friendship, where it is all summed up in the line he quotes:-- "The hand of Douglas is his own. [6]
- If I were younger and very strong I would dearly love to spend a season in London--provided I had no work on hand, or no work more exacting than lecturing. [5]
- Indeed, an audacious young praetorian had put out his hand to pull away her veil, but an older officer stopped him. [10]
- I recognized the young officer who had put a hand upon Alixe. [11]
- On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped. [2]
- When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers. [6]
- But when the young count held out his closed hands, saying: "If you choose the red stone, you shall throw first," he pointed to his companion's right hand, and, as it concealed the red pebble, began the contest. [10]
- I could lick you with one hand tied behind me, if I wanted to. [5]
- The last time you saw me you offered me your hand and heart. [11]
- Then--need I assure you of it?--my blood boiled with righteous indignation; but instead of being ashamed of the outrage, he raised his hand to my head and pulled the veil. [10]
- But what do you let a person look at your hand for, with that awful thing printed on it? [5]
- The sweet violet you inclosed came safely to hand, but it was so dry, and mashed so flat, that it crumbled to dust at the first attempt to handle it. [7]
- Submit to what you cannot avert; just as I never complain when, if I make a mistake in reading, she snatches the book from my hand, or flings it at my feet. [10]
- In the battle you are alone, but the hand to heal the wounds may be another's. [11]
- I will see you all go down, and hand of mine shall not be lifted for you! [11]
- You promised her yonder at the Red Mansion that you would help him--him that never wronged you, him you always wronged, and you haven't lifted hand to help him in his danger. [11]
- And yet, and yet!--Where shall I find resolution enough to ask of her who excites me to the height of passion no more than a kind glance, a clasp of the hand, an intelligent interest in what I say? [10]
- With what tender yet pitiless hand had she laid bare the lives of her husband and her son! [11]
- He could feel yet her hand upon his brow. [4]
- In another four years... then I will ask for your hand. [2]
- I am 59 years old; yet I never had a friend before who put out a hand and tried to pull me ashore when he found me in deep waters. [5]
- Thirty or forty years more carry you to the time when this incumbent began the duties of his office; his hand was steady then; and the next volume beyond it in date betrays the work of a still different writer. [6]
- And now, ten years later, he did not regret that he had stayed his hand. [11]
- He who had yearned for the touch of a hand felt the long tremble and the heart-beat of a woman. [13]
- During the past year no differences of any kind have arisen with any of these republics, and on the other hand, their sympathies with the United States are constantly expressed with cordiality and earnestness. [7]
- That Mrs. Eddy wrote that amazing By-law with her own hand we have much better evidence than her word. [5]
- M. Howells had written that he would be glad to help out in the reading of the proofs of Huck Finn, which book Webster by this time had in hand. [5]
- This composition was written in a singular, sharp-pointed, long, slender hand, on a kind of wavy, ribbed paper. [6]
- The orator had written his speech all out, and had it in his hand, though he held it back of him out of sight. [5]
- When your father writes to tell me that you are behaving well I will give you my hand to kiss. [2]
- If when I write, I were to think of the critics who, I know, are waiting for Currer Bell, ready 'to break all his bones or ever he comes to the bottom of the den,' my hand would fall paralysed on my desk. [14]
- I can now write in perfect security to the Emperor that all will be ready for him in Lochias, and as a farewell speech, I can only say, it is folly to be discouraged if only Pontius is at hand to support and assist me. [10]
- He pinioned her wrists with one hand and drew her towards the door, determination and anger in his face. [11]
- He rubbed his wrist, which had been squeezed by Pentaur's iron fingers, and said in a tone which betrayed all the bitterness of his feelings: "Thy hand is hard, Priest, and thy words hit like the strokes of a hammer. [10]
- One of the wounded, an old soldier with a bandaged arm who was following the cart on foot, caught hold of it with his sound hand and turned to look at Pierre. [2]
- He had been wounded in the battle, and here was one who held out the hand of healing to him. [11]
- He clasped the wounded arm with his left hand as the surgeon came forward. [11]
- He tapped the wound lightly, and said with irony: "This is my note of hand for my debt, Shon McGann. [11]
- But the shot wouldn't hurt anybody, it would only drop into your hand. [5]
- Often Mr. Carvel would run across one which seemed to bring some incident to his mind; for he would drop it absently on his desk, his hand seeking his chin, and remain for half an hour lost in thought. [9]
- I could not, would not, go under the poor-law and accept you, with the lash of a broken pledge in your hand, as my guardian. [11]
- That gentleman, however, would not be talked to, but came running over to Jethro and seized his hand, leaving Mr. Worthington to walk on by himself. [9]
- Even as he would have understood the peasant's murder of King Louis, so he would have seen a logical end to a terrible game in Bigot's death at the hand of Voban. [11]
- But when he would have taken it away, the little hand still clung, though the eyes were scarce opened upon life. [11]
- The young Seigneur would have followed him, but the avocat laid a restraining hand upon his arm, and Medallion said: "Dear Seigneur, see, you can't fight him. [11]
- And the viper would fasten on his hand--it had fastened on his hand, and he had struck it off; but it would come again, the dark thing against which he had fought in the desert. [11]
- The man who would face a cannon's mouth would falter before the face of a woman whom he could crumple with one hand. [11]
- And thus he would die--out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came. [5]
- Mademoiselle, if you would but have your portrait painted as you are, with your hand on the post, by Sargent or Carolus Duran, there would be some noise in the Salon. [9]
- This broken and worthless thing, it is true, was powerful to justify her in the opinions of her judges and her enemies; with this in her hand she would easily confute her accusers. [10]
- Mr. Isaac D. Worthington stood erect beside the table, his hand thrust into the opening of his coat, and spoke at the rate of one hundred and eight words a minute, for exactly one hour. [9]
- But, still, the works which his great and untiring hand had already thoroughly finished will remain to attest his learning and genius, --a precious and perpetual possession for his country. [6]
- He went on working at the cupboard under his hand. [11]
- Pausing from his work, he leant on his spade, and put his hand to his dull ear. [12]
- As the peace-maker's work was already drawing to a close, the wounded lad, pointing with his sound hand in the direction of the school, suddenly called warningly: "There comes Herr von Nordwyk. [10]
- It was the work of the faro-bank man, whose sleight of hand deceived the man that carried the gun. [11]
- So the summer wore away, while we lived from hand to mouth on such scanty fare as the two of them shot and what we could venture to gather in the unkempt fields near the gates. [9]
- Hardly were the words spoken, when Dorothy ran to my bedside, and seizing my hand, faced him. [9]
- At the first words O'Ryan put a hand on himself and tried to grasp the meaning of it all, but his entrance and the subsequent applause had confused him. [11]
- She had one word which she always kept on hand, and ready, like a life-preserver, a kind of emergency word to strap on when she was likely to get washed overboard in a sudden way--that was the word Synonymous. [5]
- He fell back, wondering how he could so greatly have offended, when she put her hand on his sleeve. [9]
- The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house. [9]
- It seemed too wonderful to be true--a free hand in Egypt, and under Imshi Pasha, the one able Minister of them all, who had, it was said, always before resisted the irrigation schemes of the foreigners, who believed only in the corroee and fate! [11]
- No man or woman could look into his face, take his hand, sit by his side, without feeling that he was as dependable as the stars in their courses. [9]
- Worse than the wolf that licked the hand of the man who bandaged its wounds, he would have shown his teeth to the preserver of his life. [10]
- Eye and ear witnesses had reported that, notwithstanding his Majesty's positive orders to avoid her old home, she had entered the house and the knight's apartments, knelt beside his couch, and even kissed his weak, burning hand with tender devotion. [10]
- He left her without so much as a touch of the hand, because she had wished it. [9]
- A half-mad woman, without memory, knew again whence she came and whither she was going; and bewildered and happy, with a hungering tenderness, moved her hand over the head of her poor dwarf, as though she would know if he were truly her own son. [11]
- A thin hand, without any preliminary knock, now opened the door and old Fraulein Van Hoogstraten walked up to her niece. [10]
- He started forward without a word, but came back again and caught her hand. [11]
- Had one stood within "the Hunter's Room," as it was called, a little while before, one would have seen a man's head bowed before a woman, and her hand smoothing back the hair from the handsome brow where dissipation had drawn some deep lines. [11]
- Ought we to withhold from them a protecting hand? [10]
- I wish"--but she withdrew her hand. [11]
- The powerful hand with which his servant had promptly controlled the fiery spirit of the animals excited his approbation, and seemed to inspire him to put a clog boldly on the wheels of speeding fate. [10]
- How lovingly and with what enthusiastic reverence Ottavio was now gazing up into the face of his imperial father-in-law, and with what grateful fervour, as the youngest Knight of the Fleece, he kissed his hand! [10]
- It was hung with various garlands, and Melissa, before she prayed and anointed the stone, examined them with eye and hand. [10]
- No smoke mingled with this clear and genial blaze, but it compelled her to shade her dazzled eyes; and as she lifted her hand she woke to see Medius standing in front of her. [10]
- The Bavaria stands with the right hand upon the sheathed sword, and the left raised in the act of bestowing a wreath of victory; and the lion of the kingdom is beside her. [4]
- Melissa had succumbed with the rest; she had shouted and waved her kerchief, and had not heeded Andreas when he held her hand and asked her to consider what a criminal this man was whom she so eagerly hailed. [10]
- Everybody began talking with the person sitting next at hand. [6]
- Both were familiar with the house, and, while the servants bore Wolf up the narrow stairs, the proud Spanish grandee lighted their way with the lantern, supporting the wounded man's injured head, with his free hand. [10]
- I was trying with the help of Pretty Pierre to get out of the country"--and he waved his hand towards the half-breed. [11]
- She beckoned Fulkerson with the hand outstretched behind her, and said, "Go and ask him. [8]
- Inside the house, with the bearskin blind dropped at the window again, and the fire blazing high, Loisette sat with the Governor's reprieve in her hand. [11]
- Then he said, with the back of his hand to his mouth to hide a yawn: "The manner of her death will please the Mudir. [11]
- You--" Abruptly and with surprise she withdrew her hand, and, without any visible emotion save a quicker pulsation of her breast, which might have been indignation, spoke. [11]
- His voice broke with sheer grief; nevertheless his serving lad was carrying his lute after him, and as he gave me his hand to bid me good-day he told me that Ann was above tending her father. [10]
- Prince Andrew sighed with relief, smiled, and held out his hand. [2]
- Cyrus pointed out with pride and pleasure the trees he had planted with his own hand. [6]
- He had waited with patience, hoping stubbornly that she might come to put her hand in his one day. [11]
- Yet even while, with one hand resting on the back of the chair and the other pressed upon her panting bosom, she was striving to find the right words, Don John's glance brightened. [10]
- What I take with one hand I give with the other. [11]
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