After a frugal breakfast of two small cups of tea and four small cakes of Indian meal, he mounted his horse, and rode about his plantations; seeing to every thing with his own eye, and often lending a helping hand.
This, however, gave the savages but a momentary check, as he could not follow it up; there being no one by ready and willing to lend him a helping hand.
Give him a helping hand, and we'll call the thing squared.
Then, if an accident happens, there's some chance for the others lending a helping hand.
That devil of a sea-calf is the cause of all this storm, and is the only man who doth not lend a helping hand.
Yes, he had slept more than sufficiently; the noise called him and he must go down and give a helping hand to keep it going.
Now that he had been set free in that way, the thing would have been for him to have given a helping hand to that poor fellow, Long Ole; for after all it was for his sake that Ole's misfortune had come upon him.
They had held out a helping hand to the needy, and the latter had struck it away--now they must accept the consequences.
Steve; "who under the sun could be wanting us to give him a helping hand, d'ye think, Max?
He was human like themselves, though built on different lines; and they could never hold their own respect if they refused to hold out a helping hand to an enemy in dire distress.
But the slightest acquaintance with the place is enough to make it plain that Shanghai, as it has been and still is, is not likely to extend a helping hand to anybody.
It is of course peculiarly unfortunate that Shanghai, when the great opportunity came to extend a helping hand to China in the opium fight, should have failed, utterly, ignominiously.
Turning to Britain for a helping hand in her effort to check the inroads of opium, she hears this cheerful doctrine from the one British colony which China can really see and partly understand, Hongkong--"It is up to China.
At the same time, Elmer wondered whether it might not be the irony of fate if the same man who had helped "down" the father, were to stretch out a helping hand to the son.
They did not want to lose a single thing of all that was going on around them, and were often called upon by Elmer to lend a helping hand.
And, Owen, old chap, I'm mighty glad I happened to be around to give you a helping hand.
Now Nick was lending his companion a helping hand.
She bids her Lord Elijah bide a faithful servant by her side, To aid her with a helping handto raise poor, wretched, fallen man.
Teach him the way, the live-long day, To lend a helping hand, And never turn or even spurn Those wrecked on life's hard strand.
Their Coffin always sits close by to lend a helping hand, And faithfully their trust does keep--a leader of their band.
But what we want to hear from you is this--will you stand by Moses at this pinch, and lend his friend a helping hand to get into the servants' hall?
And how could one explain that generations had heedlessly witnessed such things without thought of putting forth a helping hand?
Indeed, she had become so well acquainted with the various phases of Guillaume's delicate operations, and their terrible possibilities, that she would occasionally give him a helping hand.
She herself, however, at last began to feel her legs and arms aching, though she would not admit it, but hastened to every patient whom she heard calling, ever ready as she was to lend a helping hand.
However, it was not their duty to succor and protect my family, and I have no right to complain because they lent her no helping hand.
We see them struggling in the billows of adversity, and as our proud bark of wealth glides swiftly by, we extend no helping hand to the worn swimmer.
It is not an act of charity to lend a helping hand to the refugee.
You might have known that this visitor, who concealed his face so carefully, was an accomplice who had been warned by Bavois, and who came to see if he needed a helping hand.
So great was his anxiety that he lent a helping hand in harnessing the horses he had ordered, and when the carriage was ready, he announced his determination to drive himself.
Someone said to me just now: 'A friend of the Emperor is in danger; are you willing to lend him a helping hand?
Somehow he seemed to feel that the other was working himself up into a condition where he would finally refuse to lend a helping hand to his old-time rival, now that the only chance for Fred to get free seemed to rest with Buck.
He was modest, and yet could stand up for his rights when imposed upon; and at the same time he was always ready to lend a helping hand to a companion in trouble.
He finds himself in an extremely delicate position, and knows no one who can lend him a helping hand.
He remembered that this strange man had said: "If you ever need a helping hand, come to me.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "helping hand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
