From AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE To see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.

Loof, palm.

Sylla nill brook[102], that in so many wars, So hard adventures and so strange extremes, Hath borne the palm and prize of victory, Thus with dishonour to give up his charge.

It is this same paleface who offers in one palm the holy papers, and with the other gives a holy baptism of firewater.

He closed his eyes, and his hand dropped from my open palm to the ground.

With a thin palm she strokes her wind-shorn hair.

" Blue-Star Woman sat with her chin in the palm of one hand with elbow resting in the other.

" "Hunhunhe!" replied the old chief, placing the palm of his hand over his mouth agap in astonishment.

There was a large lock of hair torn out by the roots at the front of the head, and the palm and fingers of the right hand were cut.

Far away on the shores of China, at the port of Amoy, is another scene which, though it must yield the palm to this, is nevertheless one of a similarly wild nature.

And, being upon his feet, he smote his clenched fist down into the palm of his hand with a resounding smack.

When we are asleep, if the palm of the hand be tickled, it closes; when we are awake we can prevent it.

These are most numerous in the palm of the hand and the sole of the foot.

The following is the order of sensibility: tip of tongue, tip of the middle finger, palm, forehead, and back of hand.

Turn the hand over with the palm upwards, and the edge of the ulna can be felt from the olecranon to the prominent knob (styloid process) at the wrist.

Turn the forearm over with the palm down, and the head of the ulna can be plainly felt and seen projecting at the back of the wrist.

Extend the arm with palm upwards and the brachial artery can be felt close to the inner side of the biceps.

The turning of the hand with the palm downwards.

The group of muscles which turn the hand palm downwards.

Enthroned in light and bathed in balm, In lonely majesty the Palm Blesses the isles with waving hands, High-Priest of the eternal Calm.

So Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene II. Ye Gods, it doth amazs me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone.

It is not usual to see palm trees either in the Indies or in China, but they have many other sorts of trees and fruits which we have not.

[Footnote 6: 'Do not make the palm hard, and dull its touch of discrimination, by shaking hands in welcome with every one that turns up.']

One of the negro girls in the negro cabin took an apple out of her lunch sack and began eating it, holding it in her palm after the fashion of negroes rather than in her fingers, as is the custom of white women.

He drew out a pearl-handled knife, closed his hand over it, blew on his fist, then opened the other hand, and exhibited the knife lying in its palm, with the blade open.