It takes a woman's
hand and heart, or a child's presence to make a home," she said.
I fell in the sand with her, and, when I had recovered, contented myself with putting my
hands under her shoulders and dragging her up the beach to the hut.
Jaggers, giving her a slight nod; "you have been admired, and can go." She withdrew her
hands and went out of the room, and Mr.
They tore at each others' eyes and ears with their
hands and with their gleaming tusks repeatedly slashed and gored until both were cut fairly to ribbons from head to foot.
Set your mind at rest!" Levin heard Lizaveta Petrovna saying, as she slapped the baby's back with a shaking
hand.
But, here a startling right
hand is laid on Edwin's shoulder, and Jasper stands between them.
The story of Wing Biddlebaum is a story of
hands. Their restless activity, like unto the beating of the wings of an imprisoned bird, had given him his name.
"It's not a question of shooting with the right
hand or the left; it's a question of holding one of your
hands as though you were going to pull the trigger of a pistol with your arm bent.
With the tears streaming down her face, she put her two
hands to her lips, and kissed them to him; then clasped them on her breast, as if she laid his ruined head there.
And the lean, fear-stricken girl, like a frightened rabbit in the mouth of its burrow, on
hands and knees peered forth upon the scene from the lazarette and knew that the cooking-pot and the end of time had come for her.
Now the leader of the men was an old captain of Chaka's, who had fought under him in many battles, but whose service was done, because his right
hand had been shorn away by the blow of an axe.
While I was thus looking and wondering, in a calm moment, when the ship was still, Israel
Hands turned partly round and with a low moan writhed himself back to the position in which I had seen him first.
He lay just under the icons; his large thick
hands outside the quilt.
got from me what I had kept these three-and-twenty years and more, defending it against Moors and Christians, natives and strangers; and I always as hard as an oak, and keeping myself as pure as a salamander in the fire, or wool among the brambles, for this good fellow to come now with clean
hands to handle me!"
Always in sublime carelessness had he lived, till now, and now it seemed to him that they had always reached out and dragged at him with vile
hands. This was not just to them, nor to himself.
