Two or three times, the impulse to troll out a trooper's song was so strong in me, that I had to clap my hand over my mouth, to keep it in.
Hand over hand, the strong and patient workman is drawing the beam slowly and surely toward the top of the plant.
A Spider Drawing up a Swathed Grasshopper to its Leafy Den, "Hand Over Hand.
Up they went, hand over hand, everyone trying to beat his leader to the top, which they were not long in reaching.
He knew perfectly well, before I left, that I had been instructed to make a survey, but he had never offered to hand over to the General the map he had in his possession.
I have caught a whale--a shark at the very least" and I pulled him in, hand over hand.
I was curious to see what she would do, but I was not certain how the dog might relish the intrusion; so I put my hand over my quatre, and snapping my finger and thumb, Sneezer immediately rose and came to my bedside.
Very well; as you please," she said; and Tom proceeded to hand over to her all his ready money, except a shilling or two.
He was mounted on something deuced like a thoroughbred, and gained on me hand over hand.
It is true that he had drained the treasury of India; but he believed that he was about to hand over no embryo war to his successor, and that, therefore, the treasury would soon replenish itself.
Felix is severely blamed, and ordered to hand over what he has fraudulently appropriated to the official, who is charged with the execution of this mandate.
Any prisoners we take we are to hand over to the pasha at Smyrna if they are Moslems; if they are Greeks, the fewer prisoners we take the better.
I forbid you, in my capacity as commandant of the troops, to hand over to the enemy any war material, except in my presence.
The proposal was accepted; the Holy Kuran was brought in; and those present, placing their hands on the sacred volume, swore that it was their duty to hand over to the Khalifa all their Black soldiers and arms.
Tell me now," said I, well knowing how jealous they were of each other, "to which of you should I hand over my arms and my horses?
He put a hand over it, to reassure it and at the same time to detain it.
With 4 hand over heart, sign Consider; point slowly in two or three directions for Ways; sign That by vigorously swinging the right G index out, pointing down; then add So by raising it slightly up and then down.
Hold out left arm level, bent; sweep flat right 5 hand over it from shoulder down.
She determined to begin by paying him one hundred pounds at once, and wondered if the time would ever come when she would have so much as one thousand pounds to hand over to him.
When you have the money to spare you can pay it, and when you have not any to hand over, nothing shall be said.
Mr. Hamilton was expected at Bernard's home on the day following, when both trustees would meet to hand over to the young man the securities of the money they held in trust for him.
When he speculated with Bernard Cameron's money, of course he thought it quite safe to do so, and anticipated a big profit, which no doubt he intended to hand over to Bernard.
I hand over to you the title from France, as I hand over to you the rule from Spain.
As reparation for the destruction of the library of Louvain, Germany is to hand over manuscripts, early printed books, prints, etc.
John gave a sudden jerk and began to pull in rapidly, hand over hand.
Then bravely, as should any one who finds himself in such straits, he swung out and rapidly began to climb up the rope, hand over hand, sailor fashion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hand over" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
