Word: hand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...word "ready," remove your scarf (every one is obliged to put one on during an "easy"), settle yourself in your seat, grasp the handle of the oar, thumbs under, about a hand's-breadth between the hands, the outside hand an inch from the end of the oar. At the word "forward," slide up to your stretcher, knees well apart, body down between them as much as possible, arms at their fullest extent, wrists depressed slightly so as to have the outside edge of the blade an inch above the water, and the inside edge resting on the surface...
...know-I-that is-should like-charmed-never so long-long time (I really beg pardon)-again-" Tom floundered helplessly and stopped, panting, the apology being addressed to an ubiquitous mucker, who had grabbed the bouquet falling from Tom's nerveless hand, and run off, yelling savagely...
...Hard enough it is for clergymen in general to lift themselves out of the sermonizing ruts that their fathers and grandfathers wore deep for them; yet that some do so we all know; and when once we find the large - hearted, great - souled preacher, who seems to have his hand ever on the pulse of humanity, and whose words fire us with ambition for true manliness and greatness, we feel how infinitely more effective might be the words of the great mass of preachers would they but be a little less ready to tread the way their fathers trod. This...
...with experimental practice in the analysis of liquids and solids. Mineralogy is also a laboratory course of blow-pipe analysis; it requires a good memory and some experience in drawing crystals and geometrical figures. In it a good memory is sure of success. Quantitative analysis is for the steady hand and patient brain. It teaches and requires delicacy of manipulation; is concerned with the measuring by weight of the compounds studied. It requires and trains the hand and eye to great nicety, and is of some service to the physician, as well as both of the two laboratory courses above...
...wintry storms, with nature's matchless hand...