168 Metaphors for hand

HAND.In heaven the right hand is the good of man's ability, and the left the truth thereof, 316.

At night when work is done, Her hand in mine, The hope of happier days, And this is wine.

Here, then, was the situationon the one hand was the enthusiastic inventor; on the other was the conservative banker.

All the other drill-press hands and the "shapers," too, were Americans whose husbands, old employees, were now "over there."

It was as if I were the activity, and my hands and feet were only experiments for my spirit to work upon.

"Poor Bob, who was almost as frightened as I was, and who lay shivering under the wagon, was killed by a shot by his own master, whose hand was the most unsteady of all.

Those hands were most expert in various amusing and adroit feats of legerdemain, though Mr. Britt's modesty led him to a becoming, if unusual, reticence in this regard.

And with hands of truth to have been a link 'Twixt mine and the parent knee; And with eyes to pierce to the further brink Of things I cannot see!

it looks like the plumage of a mackaw; and what a claw his hand is!

The payment is trifling; but I was told that the hand of woman is the softest, most pliable, and most accommodating tool which has yet been discovered for conferring the finest polish on the refractory substance of steel.

Her hands were perfectevery finger and every nail

The General in Chief has received from the Department of War the following orders: The President with deep regret announces to the Army that it has pleased the Disposer of All Human Events, in whose hands are the issues of life, to remove from the scene of earthly existence our illustrious and venerated fellow-citizen, Thomas Jefferson.

The hand she feels upon her is the gods', That reacheth her e'en here, with bloody gripe!

In assuming responsibilities so vast I fervently invoke the aid of that Almighty Ruler of the Universe in whose hands are the destinies of nations and of men to guard this Heaven-favored land against the mischiefs which without His guidance might arise from an unwise public policy.

What if the real Black Hand is any gang of criminals who choose to use that convenient name to extort money? Is it the less real?

The hands of the captured monarch were straightway bound behind his back.

He, in whose hands are the lives of His creatures, sent aid when aid was so needful.

"Hands," says Wemyss, in his "Clavis Symbolica," "are the symbols of human actions; pure hands are pure actions; unjust hands are deeds of injustice."

His hands, which held up the paper, while he seemed to be searching for something in the columns, were thin to emaciation, almost transparent, and very carefully kept,a fact which might have argued that he was not an ordinary, hard-working parish priest of the people, even if his presence in a fashionable café had not of itself made that seem improbable.

CHAPTER XVIII AND SO, GOOD-BY Well, a right hand is a little price to pay for the love of a wife like mine, and if I have made no name in the world, I at least live happy in it, which is perhaps a greater thing.

The Widow Skenk lived in San Lorenzo, hard by the Congregational Church; and it was generally conceded that the hand of one of her daughters in marriage was a certificate of character to the groom.

HANDS, FINGERS AND TOES The size and shape and general configuration of the hands, fingers and toes are details that tell an endocrine tale.

He'd said it every spring fer a number er years, and I didn't mind it no more'n the breakin' up er the river; not so much, jest then; fer the gret spring drive was comin' on, and my hands was tew full to quit work all tew oncet.

His hand, hanging inert by his side, became suddenly the receptacle for a moist nose.

But in whose hands is equity?

168 Metaphors for  hand