The freshmen had long been carrying things with a high hand, but the rushing of a lot of them who were in dress suits and bound for a swell party was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Think of his coming here and carrying things on with such a high hand!
They flatter him with their lips, and lie unto him with their tongues, and do their wickedness in the dark, and sin against him with a high hand, and then come to him and cover the altar with their tears.
Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.
But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
This is doing things, with an high hand, against the Lord our God, and a taking him, as it were, at the catch.
Thorn also cherished a natural hatred against the English, who were carrying things with a high hand on our coast.
He carried things with a high hand, indeed, treating the partners as he might a graceless lot of undisciplined midshipmen.
You have tried to carry matters here with a high hand, and the result has been that you have laid yourselves liable to a suit at law, while those two young rascals are liable to go to prison.
Those men, backed up by Slugger and Nappy, may want to carry things with a high hand.
That's certainly carrying matters with a high hand," was Mr. Powell's comment.
Boniface, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the servile tool of Rome, and after him Kilwardby, Peckham, and Winchelsey carried things with a high hand.
The last days of this great monarch were like those of many others who during their lives ruled men with a high hand.
Will, for his part, carried things with a high hand, and behaved to her as a brother behaves to the sister whom he tyrannizes over.
He had come in, and had taken matters with a high hand, and had demanded to see his wife.
The debate brought forcibly to light the disposition of Lord Durham to carry matters with a high hand in his new government, and his deficiency in that wariness and prudence so essential to a chief governor.
Ministers seemed to have carried matters with a high hand in parliament during the previous debates, but there were nevertheless causes at work which tended to weaken and dissolve their administration.
To-day he had carried matters with a high hand, interrogating all the servants carefully, and offering a reward of a hundred dollars to any one who should discover the identity of the person playing ghost.
The Whigs thought that, at all popular places, they should bring in their friends with a high hand.
The friends of the Baronet carried his election with a high hand, and he was returned at the head of the poll, by an immense majority; there having been polled for him 5,134 electors.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high hand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
