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Example sentences for "her hands"

  • Mrs Gowan, turning the palms of her hands towards Mr Meagles, as if she were Justice herself, representing to him that he had better confess, for he had not a leg to stand on.

  • In the sound of her voice, in the light of her eyes, in the touch of her hands, so Angelically comforting and true!

  • As he rose she went on her knees to him, and held up her hands to him.

  • She bent down her face upon her hands as they lay upon the cloth, and silently sobbed in little jerks that made the fragile three-legged table quiver.

  • She went to where a swing-glass stood, and taking it in her hands carried it to a spot by the window where it could catch the sunshine, moving the glass till the beams were reflected into Phillotson's face.

  • On one of these pilgrimages he met with a hunch-backed old woman of great intelligence, who read everything she could lay her hands on, and she told him more yet of the romantic charms of the city of light and lore.

  • Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

  • And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.

  • My father put her Testament in her hands, and it fell open - as it always does - at the Fourteenth of John.

  • My mother was sitting bolt upright, as she loved to sit, in her old chair by the window, with a manuscript in her hands.

  • She begins the day by the fireside with the New Testament in her hands, an old volume with its loose pages beautifully refixed, and its covers sewn and resewn by her, so that you would say it can never fall to pieces.

  • She layeth her hands to the spindle.

  • For there she met Triptolemus, when all the land lay waste, Demeter the kind Earth- mother, and in her hands a sheaf of corn.

  • And over the gateway sits Brimo, the wild witch-huntress of the woods, brandishing a pine- torch in her hands, while her mad hounds howl around.

  • Medeia wept, and shuddered, and hid her face in her hands; for her heart yearned after her sisters and her playfellows, and the home where she was brought up as a child.

  • Suddenly she took his head between her hands, drew his face to hers and deliberately kissed him.

  • She took it in her hands to find a corner.

  • The Harvester took one of her hands, felt its fevered palm, fluttering wrist pulse, and noticed that the brilliant red of her lips had extended to spots on her cheeks.

  • When her wooer turned from her she rested her arms against the mantel-shelf and bowed her face in her hands.

  • He drew down one of her hands, clasping and chafing it like a child's while he murmured reassuring words; but in a moment she freed herself, and looked up at him with wet lashes.

  • He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless.

  • Her hands dropped to the plump shoulder of the sitter.

  • She dexterously tucked the bundle of white under the uninjured arm, caught the loose folds of her skirt up in her hands, and ran away up the path, not once stopping to see whether he still followed her.

  • Suddenly Antoinette stopped in the middle of the floor, facing the candle, her hands clasped, her eyes wide with fear.

  • And then, with a shudder, she hid her face in her hands.

  • Mrs. Temple hid her face in her hands, while the girl shrank back in terror.

  • She has only one maid, but, to see the work done, you would think she had as many servants as she has fingers on her hands!

  • The fairies sprang to Elsa's knee, then to the palms of her hands, and then-whisk!

  • And when he died, soon after, he was happy to know that he left Prince Cherry in her hands.

  • She was now in her usual place by the fire, with sewing in her hands and a book open on the little table by her side.

  • She did not even speak, but sat looking at her hands, absorbed in the piteousness of that thought.

  • It was an unwonted sign of emotion in her that she should put her work out of her hands.

  • The paper man she was making would have had his leg injured, but for her habitual care of whatever she held in her hands.

  • Her hands trembled; she kissed them fervently; and as she placed them in her breast her tears dropped down upon them.

  • Then the wretched mother threw up her hands, and with an awful cry fell to the ground.

  • Unshod, and in her night-dress, she slipped through the corridor to the back of the house, and tightly clasping her rosary in her hands, she stood behind the lattice and watched her boy away.

  • She covered her face desperately with her hands.

  • She lifted her head and extended her hands to him unconsciously, like a child.

  • Both of her hands leaped to her cheeks--she grew red and then white.

  • Then she wiped her eyes with her hands, for princesses don't always have their handkerchiefs in their pockets, any more than some other little girls I know of.

  • She never had more to say about it; but the less clever she was with her words, the more clever she was with her hands; and the less his mother said, the more Curdie believed she had to say.

  • True, her hands were hard and chapped and large, but it was with work for them; and therefore, in the sight of the angels, her hands were so much the more beautiful.

  • She had a brown fur coat and a lot of yellow flowers in her hands.

  • So we sang 'Heroes' again, and in the middle the umbrella dropped from her hands.

  • We all stretched ourselves and began to speak at once, but Dora put up her hands to her ears and said-- 'One at a time, please.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "her hands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    hand from; her body; her character; her family; her lap; her lips were parted; her lord; her mother; her name; her nephew; her new; her place; her thoughts; her throat; her voice very low; her with; her work; her youth; here comes; here given; here intended; here reproduced; hereby authorized; hereditary disease; hereditary monarch; hereditary succession