Heereat the true king stept forth, and commanded to lay handes on the lozell, and that he should be tortured to confesse the truth, for he was a spie and nothing else.
His bases embelisht with open armedhandes scattering golde amongst tranchions, the word Cura futuri est.
Nothing at his handes wee sought, but that the curtizan might be more narrowly sifted and examined.
The King having taken the oathes, with inuocation of the name of God, laying his handes vpon the Gospel, which he kist with greate reuerence.
The kéeper of Bées which mindeth to handle and looke into hiues, ought the day before to refraine the veneriall acte, not a person fearefull, nor comming to the hiue with vnwashed handes and face.
And if any washeth the handes with snowe, it doth then make them stedie, in that the snowe is ingendered of a vapour somewhat drie and earthly.
The shoters haue envyed him and chyde with him ad hated him/ and yet his bowe bode fast/ & his armes and his handes were stronge/ by the handes of the myghtye God of Iacob: out of him shall come an herde ma a stone in Israel.
Delyver me from the handes of my brother Esau/ for I feare him: lest he will come and smyte the mother with the childern.
And as they preased sore vppon Lot and beganne to breake vp the doore/ the men put forth their handes and pulled Lot in to the house to them and shott to the doore.
Moreover I geue vnto the/ a porcyon of lande aboue thy brethern/ which I gatt out of the handes of the Amorites with my swerde and wyth my bowe.
And he sayde: laye not thy handes apon the childe nether do any thinge at all vnto him/ for now I knowe that thou fearest God/ in y^t thou hast not kepte thine only sonne fro me.
Ismaelites/ and let not oure handes be defyled vpon him: for he is oure brother and oure flesh.
And Ruben sayde moreouer vnto them/ shed not his bloude/ but cast him in to this pytt that is in the wildernes/ and laye no handes vpon him: for he wolde haue rydd him out of their handes and delyuered him to his father agayne.
This same shall comforte vs: as concernynge oure worke and sorowe of oure handes which we haue aboute the erthe that the LORde hath cursed.
When Ruben herde that/ he w[~e]t aboute to ryd him out of their handes and sayde/ let vs not kyll him.
And he knewe him not/ because his handes were rough as his brother Esaus handes: And so he blessed him.
I wilbe suertie for him/ and of my handes requyre him.
Howe he ambycion, and gyleful Couetyse With innocent blode hishandes dyd defyle But howbeit that fortune on hym dyd smyle Two yere or thre: yet god sende hym punysshment By his true seruant the rede Rose redolent.
Madox's statement that the natives sang "one dauncing first wh his handes up, and al ye rest after lyke ye prest and people" verifies Fletcher's description of the singing and dancing at the time of the great ceremony of June 26.
And make hym blessyd in erthe here levyng, And preserve hym in al manere thyng, And special among kynges alle, In enemyes handes that he nevere falle.
Quod Gyrthe; oure meanynge we ne care to showe, Nor dread thy duke wyth all his men of myghte; Here single onlie these to all thie crewe Shall shewe what Englysh handes and heartes can doe.
Dennis, and handled the horne with hishandes as long as he would.
And in another yle are men that go on theyr handes & feete lyke beasts & are all rough, and will leape upon a tree like cattes or apes.
And finallie by their practises and deceit, we finde auncient realmes and nations geuen and betrayed in to the handes of strangiers, the titles and liberties of them taken frome the iuste possessors.
The same God, who did execute this greuous punishment, euen by the handes of those, whom he suffred twise to be ouercomen in batel, doth this day retein his power and iustice.
In witnes whereof, the partyes abovesaid to theis present Indentures have interchangeablie set to their handes and seales the daye and yere above written.
In witness whereof, the parties abovesaid unto these present Indentures interchangable have sett there handes and seall the daie and yere abovesaid.
And thanne the seid man desired to have ageyn the writtis, and toke hem a geyn; and whanne he had theym he seid they shuld not come in their handes a vii.
Natheles, handes of some men hadde corven that cloth by violence and by strengthe; and everiche man of hem hadde born awey swiche peces as he mighte geten.
Regulus hadde taken in bataile many men of Affrike and cast hem in-to feteres; but sone after 50 he moste yeve his handes to ben bounde with the cheynes of hem that he hadde whylom overcomen.
Enter the Empresse sonnes, with Lavinia, her handes cut off, and her tongue cut out, and ravisht.
Entered for his copye under handes of bothe the wardens a booke intituled, A Noble Roman-Historye of Tytus Andronicus.
How moch moare then shuld greue myne herte/ the losse of so greate a multitude of innocētes as are in Niniue/ which are all myne handes werke.
It was synne to eate wyth vnwashen handes or on an vnwashen table/ or out of an vnwashen dish: but to eate out of that purifyed dysh that which came of brybery/ theft & extorsion/ was no synne at all.
BOthe a like, Demosthenes and Tully wer put to death, Demosthenes died, Antipater gouernyng by the handes of Archias.
But if we waie the State of oure bearth, oure countrie cha- lengeth more at oure handes then frindes or parentes, so [Sidenote: Plato.
His handes also were cutte of, with the whiche he wrote the vehement Oracions against Marcus Antonius.
By lawes, his state maketh hym as a God, emong menne, at whose handes the preseruacion of eche one, of house, citee and countrie is sought.
I must nowe saue this vilaines lyfe in any wise, And yet at hym already my handes doe tickle, I shall vneth holde them, they wyll be so fickle.
In faith then, must thou needes be welcome to me, Let vs for acquaintance shake handes togither, And what ere thou be, heartily welcome hither.
To thehandes are resemblyd both craftysmen and warryarys.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
