Word: hand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...could only love, you wouldn't say that!" cooed the fond one. Her head drooped as though it would sink upon his shoulder; her eyelashes trembled in suspense; her hand clutched at space...
...student, whose head towered up so high that it was unnoticed by the maiden. Her thoughts, indeed, were running upon pickpockets; and the probability that even she might be robbed of her small sum and the locket that contained the picture of her lover led her to thrust her hand hastily into her pocket to secure her purse. Horror! she finds a hand already there. Surely it is the hand of a thief. Grasping it bravely and holding it fast, she looked up for the owner, and was surprised to find that the villain had such a gentlemanly face...
...Conductor, this man has his hand in my pocket...
Balance on hand...
...least his own, and which is as much the private concern of individuals, as whom they get to cut their hair, it is not unreasonable to ask that the Faculty, and especially the gentlemen on whose precepts we base our position, should take the matter in hand...