120143 examples of hand in sentences

On the other hand, we believe that the use of the subsoil-plough can never do harm upon drained land.

As that young shepherdess had no crook of her own, and did not know how to refuse the one he offered, she took it, though her hand trenbled a little, and looked at Madame Deshoulieres.

She passed her small hand lightly over the snowy neck of the favourite, and looked round to see what the party she had left were doing.

To have refused would have been shameful: so, clearing up his face, he stretched out his hand to Ammalát.

I could perceive that the fair hand trembled, and that the gentle bosom was disquieted.

He dropped her hand, turned quickly, and left her.

Doc Masters last gun hand.

The clutching hand.

Zalim takes a hand.

Hand upon the waters.

Hand upon the waters.

The challenger had been, mousetrap in either hand.

HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT.

HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT.

Yet most of his countrymen remained content to drop corn by hand, to broadcast their wheat, to tread out their grain and otherwise to follow methods as old as the days of Abel for at least another half century.

In Washington's last moments Lear held his dying hand and later penned a noble description of the final scene that reveals a man of high and tender sentiments with a true appreciation of his benefactor's greatness.

Tradition says that on one occasion he found an overseer brutally beating one of the blacks and, indignant at the sight, sprang from his horse and, whip in hand, strode up to the overseer, who was so affrighted that he backed away crying loudly: "Remember your character, General, remember your character!"

On one occasion at Monmouth the General and his staff were reconnoitering the British, and Billy and fellow valets gathered on an adjoining hill beneath a sycamore tree whence Billy, telescope in hand, surveyed the enemy with much importance and interest.

Elkanah Watson relates that one bitter winter night at Mount Vernon, having a severe cold that caused him to cough incessantly, he heard the door of his chamber open gently and there stood the General with a candle in one hand and a bowl of hot tea in another.

On many occasions both in this period of his life and later he went to sleight of hand performances, wax works, puppet shows, animal shows, "to hear the Armonica," concerts and other entertainments.

According to Custis, it was the Farmer's desire to have them so evenly matched and trained that if one leading dog should lose the scent, another would be at hand to recover it and thus in full cry you might cover the pack with a blanket.

" After that I kept a sharp lookout, arguing with myself that a buck close at hand was worth a lot of bears down in the brush.

Thomson, in his poem, "The Seasons," written one hundred and sixty years ago, pays the following tribute to a diet composed of seeds and vegetable products:#/ "With such a liberal hand has Nature flung These seeds abroad, blown them about in winds ...

When served, the potatoes are held in the hand, one end of the paper untwisted, the top of the potato removed, and the contents eaten with a fork or spoon.

When done, drop into cold water for a minute, when the skins can be easily rubbed off with the hand.

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