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Example sentences for "hands upon"

  • I also laid my hands upon them, and pronounced many great and glorious things upon their heads.

  • Better a cross-roads and a stake through a dead heart than a hangman's hands upon a live one.

  • When I went last to his lodge and stood before him, his eyes burned me like the coals the Monacans once closed my hands upon.

  • I felt pretty sure I could lay my hands upon him, provided he came near enough, just as I had done already; but I was in no humour to repeat that performance.

  • My knife, therefore, would not be needed at first starting; and putting it aside, where I could easily lay my hands upon it again, I ducked my head and crawled into the empty box.

  • More than half this immense force were quartered above three months on the poor inhabitants; they were like a cloud of locusts, devouring all they could lay their hands upon, shooting all that dared to oppose them.

  • And so we are to understand that which the Apostle there saith of the presbytery’s laying on of hands upon Timothy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cold beef; drove back; duty bound; fight the; foot thick; glass bottle; hands and; hands clasped; hands employed; hands together; hands upon; hands were; handsome girl; handsome house; handsome present; handsome woman; handsome young; handsome youth; handsomely bound; himself had; meat offering; particular form; readers will; regarded the; second class; suddenly said