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Sentences starting with hands

Hands clutching money, were thrust aloft out of the jam by men who hoped this eloquent appeal would cleave a road their strugglings could not open. [5]
Hands and fingers were steady, and she felt for the heart with firm fingers. [11]
Hands were flung up that were past counting, and men who were barely rested from the hardships of the Wilderness Trail shouted their readiness to go. [9]
Hands on hips, they swung along erect, with baskets of cakes and sweetmeats on their heads, musically crying their wares. [9]
Hands off the prisoner! [10]
Hands and feet from Nature. [6]

Sentences ending with hands

As I said, you've only run away from one master to fall into another master's hands. [11]
It is in your hands. [2]
I--" "Put up your hands! [5]
Why, Burlingame, as your family physician, I shouldn't hesitate even to present my account against your estate if, in a tussle with the devil, he got you out of my hands. [11]
He was a young man with a praiseworthy ambition to get on in the world, and during his apprenticeship in the office of the Honourable Hilary Vane many letters and documents had passed through his hands. [9]
Are any of you younger people old enough to remember that Irishman's house on the marsh at Cambridgeport, which house he built from drain to chimney-top with his own hands? [6]
That's right, Ephraim, you know how to use your hands! [10]
He had not yet been admitted to Dion's presence, but this did not appear to vex him, for he stood leaning quietly against the wall beside the door, gazing at the broad-brimmed sailor's hat which he was slowly turning in his hands. [10]
Being about seven years younger than Waldo, he must have received much of his intellectual and moral guidance at his elder brother's hands. [6]
At all events write me all about it, till I can somehow get it off my hands. [7]

Short sentences using hands

Damia clenched her trembling hands. [10]
Clubs fallen from their hands. [6]
Our hands grasped silently. [11]
We were warming our hands. [5]
Call all hands on deck--shout! [11]
Keep your hands off. [11]
Shake hands with me, father. [11]
Ah, and those luckless hands! [10]
Krool's hands had knowledge. [11]
The miller raised his hands. [9]

Sentences containing hands two or more times

Now impetuously, now with dignified calmness, now with devout exaltation, hands were raised to take the oath, and whoever clasped hands did so with fervent warmth. [10]
It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help; the government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the government. [7]
When they were together, one moment she wanted to take his hands in her hands, and in the next she wanted to push him over some great cliff--he was so maddening. [11]
His hands were thrust down in the pockets of his linen coat; her hands opening and shutting her parasol slightly. [11]
But to offset this average deficit the very profitable trade of India, which is mostly in British hands, swells the national wealth; and this trade would not be so largely in British hands if the flag were away. [4]
The chief of the Jain delegation read his paper of congratulations, then pushed it into a beautifully engraved silver cylinder, which was delivered with ceremony into the prince's hands and at once delivered by him without ceremony into the hands of an officer. [5]
Under her hands the estates in Virginia have developed even more than under the hands of my brother. [11]
She paced the room, her face now in her hands, her hands now clasping and wringing before her. [11]
So when the ring of dancers had loosed hands, a troop of petitioners rushed in upon Boges, kissing his hands, stroking his cheeks, whispering in his ear all kinds of requests, and trying by flattery to gain his intercession with the king. [10]
I said something pretty rough, and made as if I was goin' to break her in two--just fetched up my hands, and went like this!--" With a singular simplicity he made a wild gesture with his hands, and an animal-like snarl came from his throat. [11]

More example sentences with the word hands in them

You see it yourselves" They gazed at each other awe-struck, and lifted their hands and said in unison: "It's per-fectly wonderful. [5]
You live by your smallness, another makes his living with his hard hands, I earn my scanty bread by the thoughts of my brain. [10]
I enclose for your perusal a scrap of paper which came into my hands without the knowledge of the writer. [14]
He is licking your hands, that means, 'I thank you. [10]
She says, "Take your hands away, Huckleberry; what a mess you are always making! [5]
Ah, I see-- your hands are tied, they cannot aid you. [5]
You are inside, your hands are outside; so there you are; nothing but iron between. [5]
While still a young man, he had a manner of folding his hands and smiling which is peculiar to capitalists, and he knew the laws concerning mortgages in several different states. [9]
There was a young man cordially and unconcernedly shaking hands with her father and Captain Lige. [9]
Later, when the young ladies were asleep, he carried his manuscript to the Democrat office, and delivered it into the hands of his friend, the night editor, who was awaiting it. [9]
And now, my young friend, let-us shake hands and stop our discussion, which we will not make a quarrel. [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]
One of these young brains is like a bunch of India crackers; once touch fire to it and it is best to keep hands off until it has done popping,--if it ever stops. [6]
But I, I--If you--" At the same he threw up his hands and gave a dull, painful cry. [10]
You look around you and you see a nation of sixty millions-- apparently; but secreted in their hands and brains, and invisible to your eyes, is the true population of this Republic, and it numbers forty billions! [5]
While he was yet speaking, Caracalla, leaning on the table by his couch with both hands, fixed his eyes on his face, without a word. [10]
It has never yet granted me any great, complete success, and if I was occasionally permitted to pluck a flower, my hands were pricked by thorns and nettles! [10]
Could this awkward, yellow man with his hands behind his back be he whom he had worshipped? [9]
In seven hundred years wages will have risen to six times what they are now, here in your region, and farm hands will be allowed 3 cents a day, and mechanics 6. [5]
And even the year before, a bill for Nebraska itself was within an ace of passing without the repealing clause, and this in the hands of the same men who are now the champions of repeal. [7]
I was a year and a half in London and Sweden, in the hands of that grand old man, Mr. Kildren. [5]
He caught her wrists with his great hands, big enough for tall Medallion, and held her. [11]
The hands were wrinkled; the face was cold; the body was wet: the man was drowned and dead. [11]
While speaking, the wretched mother, with trembling hands, tore out a locket which she wore on a little chain around her neck. [10]
She had carefully woven the cloak with her own hands, and that, she cried, was the way her labor was valued! [10]
But suddenly the woven roof parted; invisible hands drew away the two halves. [10]
As for his wound, how could it do otherwise than well under such hands? [6]
I wish you would learn of Everett what he would take, over and above a discharge for all the trouble we have been at, to take his business out of our hands and give it to somebody else. [7]
This woman's hatred would lead her to destroy them rather than let them fall into the hands of her imperial enemy; and who can blame her? [10]
And how they would fly around when he wanted a basin of water, a gourd of the same, or a light for his pipe!--but they would instantly insult a passenger if he so far forgot himself as to crave a favor at their hands. [5]
As the patient would be confined for a good while, he might find it dull work to sit with his hands in his lap. [6]
Every thing was worn out--every block of stone was smooth and almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders of loungers who devoutly idled here in by-gone centuries and have died and gone to the dev--no, simply died, I mean. [5]
And everywhere were workshops, factories, and all manner of industries; and intent faces and busy hands were to be seen wherever one looked; and in one's ears was the ceaseless clink of hammers, the buzz of trade and the contented hum of drums and fly-wheels. [5]
There were no works of human hands save a little Temple of Poseidon, an altar of Isis, the large house owned by Pyrrhus, solidly constructed by Alexandrian masons, and a smaller one for the freedman's married sons and their families. [10]
Are they the work of your hands? [12]
And all the work of this he did with his own hands, even to the polishing of the floors and the carved work of the large fireplaces. [11]
He saw the work of his hands, the things he had made with adze and plane, with chisel and hammer, but nothing seemed familiar save the smell of the glue pot, which brought back in a cloudy impression curious unfamiliar feelings. [11]
I went to work now to learn the shape of the river; and of all the eluding and ungraspable objects that ever I tried to get mind or hands on, that was the chief. [5]
On hearing these words, Bartja and Sappho each took one of her hands, and gazed entreatingly into her face. [10]
There are no words to express how grateful I am that she did not meet her fate in the hands of strangers, but in the loving shelter of her own home. [5]
Mr. Marmaduke was wont to rise at noon, and knew not wheat from barley, or good leaf from bad; his hands he kept like a lady's, rendering them almost useless by the long lace on the sleeves, and his chief pastime was card-playing. [9]
Thinks I, it won't do to paddle; first I know I'll run into the bank or a towhead or something; I got to set still and float, and yet it's mighty fidgety business to have to hold your hands still at such a time. [5]
But it was wonderful to see how Mahommed Seti took the kourbash at the hands of Fielding, when he shied from the medicine bottles. [11]
For you, old woman, have done everything with your own hands for so long, that you deserve to have some one to wait on you for once. [10]
It was a woman, between forty and fifty years of age, who rose slowly to her feet as the Avocat entered, and, without preliminary, put into his hands a document. [11]
When the old woman had once more disappeared indoors, he asked the paraschites: "Whose heart is it that you have brought me, and how did it come into your hands? [10]
Our weal and woe are in your hands alone. [10]
He was a wizened little man with faience-blue eyes, and sat habitually hunched up with his hands folded across his shins. [9]
He rubbed his withered hands with satisfaction as he seated himself in his accustomed chair, and when Mary came to call him to dinner, it was a pleasure to him to jest with her. [10]
He shook hands with, and nodded good-humouredly at, Medallion and the Little Chemist, bowed to the avocat, and touched off his greeting to Monsieur De la Riviere with deliberation, not offering his hand--this very reserve a sign of equality not lost on the young Seigneur. [11]
Away, I say, with your accursed desires and sacrilegious hands! [10]
But the grip with which he tore away Venters's grasping hands was that of a giant. [13]
His large hands with the square-pointed fingers had obtrusive veins, but they were not common. [11]
He shook hands with the man, then turned to her again. [11]
A spy, mingling with the crowd, had laid hands on him, and the captain of the watch had forthwith hurried to the Serapeum to boast of a success which might confirm him in his yet uncertain position. [10]
It was answered, with sentiments of the highest consideration, that there were constitutional and other objections to the Nation's laying violent hands upon itself. [6]
Her hands trembled with rage, and stammering rather than speaking she desired the praetor to order a composing draught for her. [10]
Her bosom heaved with quicker breathing as she remembered the ignominy he had subjected her to in Rome, and she clenched her small hands. [10]
Clapping her hands with pleasure and running on before me for a short distance, my little acquaintance stopped at a door and remaining on the step till I came up knocked at it when I joined her. [12]
Some burst out with one thing, some another; the German nurse put up her hands and said, "Oh, Schade! [5]
I kill Mazaline--gloddam, with my hands I kill. [11]
He shook hands with Mazarine deliberately. [11]
Then he retired with less assurance than he had come, and John Paul sprang to his feet and laid his hands upon my shoulders, as was his wont when affected. [9]
The gallery shook with laughter, and honourable members with slips of paper in their hands were made as conspicuous as if they had been caught wearing dunces' caps. [9]
She was smiling with joy, too, and she held out her wasted hands and drew me toward her, kissing me on both cheeks. [9]
Parpon, however, sat with his head in his hands. [11]
He was sitting, with his head bowed on his hands, opposite to the large portrait of her dead mother in her bridal robes. [10]
Beside my couch, with his hands on his hips and his feet thrust out, stood Gabord, looking down at me in a quizzical and unsatisfied way. [11]
And he's clever with his hands he bought an old abandoned farmhouse in Silliston and made it all over himself until it looks as if one of our great-great-grandfathers had just stepped out of it to shoot an Indian only much prettier. [9]
Exactly opposite Weyrother, with his glistening wide-open eyes fixed upon him and his mustache twisted upwards, sat the ruddy Miloradovich in a military pose, his elbows turned outwards, his hands on his knees, and his shoulders raised. [2]
He was kneeling with his forehead against the rocky wall and his emaciated hands were closely clasped over Magdalena's ring. [10]
He sat long with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands, meditating. [5]
There he sat with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands when Burlingame entered the room. [11]
An' buried her with her own hands at night, no one knowin' till the mornin', she did. [11]
But she stood with her lips parted and her hands dropped, staring at my companion. [9]
Marie started forward with her hands on her temples and a sharp cry. [11]
Then she said, with her hands firmly clenching at her side,--"I'll do it. [11]
She was standing with her hands behind her, her back against a great walnut trunk, the crusted branches of which hung over the bluff. [9]
All now stood with hands uplifted and eyes fixed in anxious expectancy on the curtain. [10]
The Governor sat with hands clinched upon his chairarm. [11]
Radiant, excited, and with flushed cheeks, he held out both his hands to her. [10]
The wizened Elder, with eyes upon the ceiling and his long white chin like ivory on his great collar, began to pray, sitting where he was, his hands upon his knees. [11]
Now shake hands with each other. [10]
So it was with Cynthia leaning against the entry wall, her arms full length in front of her, and her hands clasped as she prayed for strength to withstand the temptation. [9]
I stand here with clean hands, impelled solely by the impulse of my heart, to plead for the Queen. [10]
The widow, kneeling with clasped hands, never took her eyes off the face of the youth, nor moved for fear of disturbing the deacon who, as she knew, was praying--praying for the salvation of the heathen soul snatched away before it could repent. [10]
All knelt silently, with clasped hands, beside the couch, until Eva, as if roused from a dream, shrieked, "She will never come back again! [10]
As it was, with all hands at the pumps the water gained on her, and she moaned and creaked and ached her way into the night with no surety that she would show a funnel to the light of another day. [11]
Tom looked on with a grin, while little Tom and Peggy reached out their hands in delight, their mother vigorously blocking their intentions. [9]
But whatever I wish, you two have your destiny in your own hands. [4]
I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me. [7]
As if on wings, he went from man to man, shaking hands with his comrades. [10]
You have the will, your rights are in your hands. [11]
I suppose he will prove a superfluity, but I have got him on my hands, and I mean that he shall be as little in the way as possible. [6]
I put the will into his hands. [11]
In their hands will I place the decision and, because I feel that the Most High beholds my heart, let me confess that I have thought of thee with secret rancor. [10]
I know you will hold out loyally and would look death in the face as fearlessly as your sister did in Haarlem; but I, I cannot endure the thought of seeing you fall into the hands of our butchers. [10]
But Judge Douglas will have it that all hands must take this extraordinary decision, made under these extraordinary circumstances, and give their vote in Congress in accordance with it, yield to it, and obey it in every possible sense. [7]
Many a gardener will cut you a bouquet of his choicest blossoms for small fee, but he does not love to let the seeds of his rarest varieties go out of his own hands. [6]
And these creatures will compare these pins together, and if one is a shade finer than the rest, they will all be thrown on my hands, and I will have to order a new lot to keep peace in the family. [5]

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