She tore the letter open impatiently, and holding it in both hands, so that I saw her sparkling diamond rings, she began reading.
When he did, and came towards me, he looked at me thoughtfully for a few moments, evidently without thinking about me at all; and then his benevolent face expressed extraordinary pleasure, and he took me by both hands.
I grasped him by both hands, and could not let them go.
Then she flung down the letter, and running up to David, she caught his arm again with both hands.
Grasping it in both hands, he swung it round his head, and made as though he would knock Oolalik down with it, causing that young Eskimo to shrink back in feigned alarm.
You drank with the cup in both hands," said two monks, speaking together.
And Margaret held the hat imploringly in both hands till he inserted the straw once more.
When she came to herself, she saw that she was holding her hair in both hands, each side of her temples, and pulling it.
She laid down the book and sank against the back of the chair, tightly gripping the paper cutter in both hands.
She positively shrank together and flushed to the point of tears, and clutching the ends of her apron in both hands, twisted them in her red fingers without knowing what to say and what to do.
Tiptoing more softly still and holding the skirt of her starched muslin in both hands to keep it from rustling, she at last passed the ordeal and breathed freely as she gained Miss Prudence's chamber.
Marjorie was a big girl, too big for any nonsense, but there were unmistakable tears on her cheeks, and she turned away from sleeping Prue and covered her face with both hands.
With these words Antinous stretched out his legs on the ground, pushed away the dog, and raised his curly head on both hands.
The sweat of anguish stood in large beads on his brow as he finally concentrated his volition, shook back the hair from his face and took up a lump of the wax in both hands.
Laid the mirror hastily down, and held her face in both hands as--as Carteret had held it last night, at the moment of parting, when he had kissed not her lips but her forehead.
And Carteret, following him an instant later, took her by both hands and, from arm's length, surveyed her in smiling admiration he made no effort to repress.
He sat beside her, he held his hat in both hands, and looked perplexed and worried.
When the moon rose, Mavis was seated on the porch with her chin in both hands.
The boy dropped to his seat, dropped his chin in both hands as though to keep his face hidden, but as the sound of her coming loudened he simply could not help lifting his head.
It was not long before she heard a clear shout of "hello" at the gate, and she clenched her chair with both hands, for the voice was Gray's.
She buried her face in both hands, and broke into a fit of weeping.
Taking his courage in both hands, he stepped out upon the pavement and walked briskly downhill to the theatre.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "both hands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
