1877 examples of fist in sentences

"Ve is 'appy ov de same," replied Henri, swaggering up in the joviality of his heart, and seizing the trader's hand in his own enormous fist.

Little Scoutbush, who is the kindest-hearted of men, clasps the great brown fist in his little white one, and shakes hands heartily with every one of them, saying,"If your forefathers were as much taller than mine, as you are than me, gentlemen, I shouldn't wonder if they took their own freedom, without asking his leave for it!" A lord who begins his progress with a jest!

Brahminism had the terrors of hell fire on its side; feminine influence was its secret ally; the world is governed by brains, not muscles; and spiritual authority can defy the mailed fist.

"You son of a pig!" roared Amarendra Babu, shaking his clenched fist close to Jogesh's nose.

So saying, he shook his fist at Nagendra who started from his seat as if to attack him.

A silent ump pumped his right fist.

On the word "object" he brought his great fist down on the table in front of us with such a crash that everyone in the room turned to look.

she answered, holding up her clenched fist.

"You just let me catch you booin' my girl!" shouted Albert, springing in frenzy upon the seat, and shaking his fist close to Mr. Clarkson's eyes.

But"he reached out at this point and smashed a burly fist into a palm hardly less

"Is this square?" growled one of the men clenching his fist on the edge of the table.

He wasn't there when the fist of Ferguson come along.

I knocked him off with my fist and fumbled for my barker, but shot wild and did no more damage than to singe the hair off another brute's back; but I managed to edge a bit closer to Stee, who was getting it rough, and hadn't even a chance to draw his knife.

Mrs. Jenkin has a good heart, but her head is as soft as blubber, so I was pretty careful not to say much," Miles answered, with a wag of his own head, which he thumped with his fist to show that at least he was not topped with blubber.

So thou with thy cold devil's fist, Still clench'd in malice impotent, Dost the creative power resist, The active, the beneficent!

He clenched his powerful fist, and declared that he would resist unto death, before he would be arrested by those savage men, even if they promised not to flog him.

Then drive it back again and then with your fist drive the key down as far as you can.

And when the other daughters-in-law were with the crowd of workers eating at the feast, she went up to them, and to each daughter-in-law who had kicked her she gave a flour foot, and to each daughter-in-law who had struck her with her hands she gave a flour fist.

Chip clutched the gauzy sheets in his fist, closed the door as softly as possible, and yielded himself a doomed captive to temptation number two.

The spelling of the homely name of this well-known plant is to be altered in the Kew List to Foch's-glove; the suggestion of an interned German botanist that Mailed Fist would be more suitable not having met with the approval of the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society.

He sat shaking his fist at me, and swearing for nearly half an hour.

The former is called a long-winged hawk, or one of the lure; the latter, a short-winged hawk, or one of the fist.

What was the railroad-force which put the Sixth Regiment in Baltimore on the 19th of April but a contraction and extension of the arm of Massachusetts with a clenched fist full of bayonets at the end of it?

Fetch on the fellah that makes them long words!he said,and planted a straight hit with the right fist in the concave palm of the left hand with a click like a cup and ball.

[Fist] Devis's Grammar, spoken of in D. Blair's Preface, as being too "comprehensive and minute," is doubtless an other and much larger work.

1877 examples of  fist  in sentences