hands (n.)
- administration
- authority
- claws
- clutches
- command
- control
- disposition
- domination
- dominion
- empire
- firepower
- forces
- governance
- government
- grasp
- grip
- gripe
- hand
- helm
- hold
- jurisdiction
- mastership
- mastery
- men
- personnel
- power
- raj
- regnancy
- reign
- rule
- sovereignty
- sway
- troops
- units
hands (v.)
The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
We know her woof, her texture; she is given
In the dull catalogue of common things.
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd,
By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd,
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd,
By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourn'd!
The glories of our blood and state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour against fate;
Death lays his icy hands on kings.
Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
Establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Their fatal hands
No second stroke intend.
Some force whole regions, in despite
O' geography, to change their site;
Make former times shake hands with latter,
And that which was before come after.
But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other's sake;
For one for sense, and one for rhyme,
I think's sufficient at one time.
To keep my hands from picking and stealing.
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
Many hands make light warke.
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
And raw in fields the rude militia swarms,
Mouths without hands; maintain'd at vast expense,
In peace a charge, in war a weak defence;
Stout once a month they march, a blustering band,
And ever but in times of need at hand.
But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other's eyes.
Our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.
The right hands of fellowship.
Hands promiscuously applied,
Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.
They love their land because it is their own,
And scorn to give aught other reason why;
Would shake hands with a king upon his throne,
And think it kindness to his Majesty.
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd,
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there!
Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd
The wild waves whist.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
Two hands upon the breast,
And labour's done;
Two pale feet crossed in rest,
The race is won.
Seem'd washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water.
An idler is a watch that wants both hands,
As useless if it goes as if it stands.
Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare,
With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way,
And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Behold, whiles she before the altar stands,
Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes,
And blesseth her with his two happy hands.
