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Example sentences for "human hands"

  • In human hands, power is not illimitable, but within certain limitations it may be exercised, and it is always under the guidance of a will.

  • And it's all put together by human hands--by the hands of working people!

  • No, damn it, that can only be done by human hands directed by human intelligence.

  • Can you show me a boot that hasn't been made by human hands?

  • Nick Carter's friends often ask him whether, in the course of his remarkable experience as a detective, he has ever encountered anything which could not have been the work of human hands.

  • Everything has to be done by human hands, according to your matter-of-fact notion.

  • He says that these robberies are not the work of human hands.

  • The columns are built in a variety of shapes, some round, others square, and bear every imprint of the work of human hands.

  • And the relation itself, in which slavery consists, is the work of human hands.

  • The possession of power, even when greatly restrained, is such a fiery stimulant, that its lodgement in human hands is always perilous.

  • If the works of God's hands, the stars of heaven, are not to be worshipped, much less ought the works of human hands to be worshipped.

  • All in it is seen by the light of enthusiasm, and but for the little angels at the bottom painted as an after-thought on the clouds, we should scarcely see a trace of human hands in the picture.

  • The Religio loci is no where violated by these unstinted, yet unpretending, works of human hands.

  • They are the most generous crops ever sown by human hands.

  • It is an industry bound to the great and beautiful economics of the creation by more visible and sensible ties than any other worked by human hands.

  • But I can conceive of no instrument being made by human hands for a specific purpose, unless the principle upon which it was constructed was fully known," and Junius Cobb shook his head as if doubting the statement of the other.

  • Was there a place on earth that he was sure would not be reached by human hands, and its contents and secrets made known, in a hundred years!

  • Not a trace of a letter was visible; the virgin rock lay bare, and undefiled by human hands.

  • The earth in the Ohio basin was honey-combed with the gas pockets and strata, and gas veins were struck in which the gas was under such pressure that the flow could not be checked by human hands.

  • A fit and unwalled temple, there to seek The Spirit, in whose honour shrines are weak Upreared of human hands.

  • At the end of a ledge, he saw something like poles hanging on the rock,--some work of human hands, certainly.

  • Rolf remembered, however, having heard Peder say that when he was young there might be seen hanging down one part of the precipice the remains of a birchen ladder, which must have been made and placed there by human hands.

  • Yes, it was Nipen, whether it was done by wind or water, or human hands.

  • On October 11 a log was seen floating in the sea with marks on it apparently cut by human hands; and shortly after, a branch with clusters of berries.

  • The Eiffel Tower is the highest structure ever reared by human hands, twice as high as the cathedral of Cologne and the tallest of the Egyptian pyramids.

  • Two million three hundred thousand dressed blocks, each measuring 40 cubic feet, were used in the construction of this memorial over a perishable king, and the pyramid is reckoned to be the largest edifice ever built by human hands.

  • Two and a half centuries before our era a powerful and far-sighted emperor built the Great Wall, the mightiest erection ever completed by human hands (Plate XVII.

  • Its pinnacle is the loftiest ever placed in the air by human hands.

  • One can hardly realize that the Pyramid of Cheops is the largest structure in the world--the largest probably ever reared by human hands.


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