Some people consider it to wear a wrist watch.

The wrist mark.

He was very trim and smart, with his white laces about the throat and wrist-bands, his buckled shoes, and the bows on his garters.

The brasses on wrist pin and cross-head will probably require your first and most careful attention, and of these two the wrist or crank box will require the most; and what is true of one is true of both boxes.

Although each of the wrist bones has a very limited mobility in relation to its neighbors, their combination gives the hand that freedom of action upon the wrist, which is manifest in countless examples of the most accurate and delicate manipulation.

Undine was instantly struck by the opportunities which this toy presented for graceful wrist movements and supercilious turns of the head.

Modern fly casting; introducing the free wrist grip and the high back cast.

She fished an explanatory latch-key out of her wrist-bag as she went up the steps.

Sheila noticed that he had been bathing a bloody wrist round which he was now wrapping clumsily a handkerchief.

Mrs. Scudder herself drove, sitting on a seat in front,while the Doctor, apparelled in the most faultless style, with white wrist-ruffles, plaited shirt-bosom, immaculate wig, and well-brushed coat, sat by Mary's side, serenely unconscious how many feminine cares had gone to his getting-up.

I covered the knob with a thickish layer of plaited horsehair, and over this fastened a covering of stout leather; and when I had fitted it with a wrist-strap it looked a really serviceable tool.

The guards unfastened the victim's wrist-thongs and the man staggered to his feet.

We swapped commonplaces, I telling him what my business there was; and for a little while he plied his knife and fork busily, making the heavy gold curb chain on his left wrist tinkle musically.

The draught allayed his spasm; he wiped his broad, purple face, chuckled, tossed off the last of the liquor with a smack, and held out a mottled, fat hand, bare of wrist-lace.

(I am speaking now of the most common form of wrist boxes.

Beholding him coming towards me, decked in golden ear-rings and other ornaments, and wearing on the wrists bracelets of conchs, my heart is afflicted with despondency.

I have done what I could. Farewell!" All that night and the next day the Happy Delivery ran before the easterly trades, and Stephen Craddock lay in the dark of the sail-room working patiently at his wrist-irons.

As I turned, a dagger flashed before my eyes, and I felt the cold wind of it pass my neck and the villain's wrist jar upon my shoulder.

Later come the wrist-joint and the torso.

My sword fell for a moment from my hand, retained only by the wrist-knot, as I placed her gently and tenderly on the ground, resting against the stone which had enabled her to effect the sacrifice I as little desired as deserved.