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Example sentences for "own hand"

  • After "detracting," add "Many of which were stricken through with his own hand, but left legible in the MS.

  • He informs us that her majesty will receive with gratitude the promised advices, and will answer them with her own hand.

  • This mystic testament,(20) having been freely made by me, and written entirely with my own hand, I intend and will its scrupulous execution both in spirit and the letter.

  • It was a hard fight, but in the end I destroyed him and all his people: Engwade killed eight men with his own hand before I slew him.

  • I smote blood upon the gateways of my kraal; with my own hand I smote it, that I might learn who were the true doctors and who were the false!

  • I have avenged my mother with my own hand.

  • And now if thou do me not justice on him, O King, I will slay myself with my own hand, for I have no need of life in the world after this foul deed.

  • But I have seen neither girl nor boy: the door was locked all through the night, for I slept before it with the key under my head, and I opened to him in the morning with my own hand.

  • The salutation of Paul with my own hand: which is the sign in every epistle.

  • I Paul have written it with my own hand: I will repay it: not to say to thee that thou owest me thy own self also.

  • See what a letter I have written to you with my own hand.

  • The salutation of me Paul, with my own hand.

  • Though failed his strength in swimming, / yet helped him God's own hand, That he came securely / back again unto the land.

  • What deed we twain compounded / art thou full well aware, Wherefor good cause we ever / shall have Kriemhild to fear, For that her sometime husband / I slew by my own hand.

  • She entered the cottages of the sick; she relieved their wants with her own hand; she betrayed no fear, and inspired all who saw her with some portion of her own native courage.

  • Tiber, the road which is spread by nature's own hand, threading her continent, was at my feet, and many a boat was tethered to the banks.

  • This letter was enclosed to the care of a nobleman, who, he did not doubt, would perform the last and inexpensive office of placing it in the king's own hand.

  • Why did I continue to live-- why not throw off the weary weight of time, and with my own hand, let out the fluttering prisoner from my agonized breast?

  • Of this they are in possession of several written and formal proofs, in my own hand-writing.

  • They possess my paper in my own hand-writing.

  • Then the King commanded him to knight nine noble squires with his own hand; and he took his sword before the altar, and knighted them.

  • Moreover Gil Diaz took great delight in tending the horse Bavieca, so that there were few days in which he did not lead him to water, and bring him back with his own hand.

  • First, there are those good swords Colada and Tizona, which the Cid won with his own hand.

  • Everything that you see with your own eyes and touch with your own hand, you think infallible, and everything that escapes your observation you secretly regard as untrue, and pass by with a smile of superiority.

  • But I will push them aside with my own hand, and will attain what I desire without the help of the Gods and overthrow all that oppose me.

  • And directed by my own hand, Number nine Brig Place!

  • You chose to do pleasure to your friend Serapion in your own person when you kept me from going to fetch the peaches, and now I desire to offer this flower to the fair Irene with my own hand.

  • I am told Pope has had the surprising impudence to assert he can bring the lampoon when he pleases to produce it, under my own hand; I desire he may be made to keep to this offer.

  • I have trusted my reputation in your hands; I have made no scruple of giving you, under my own hand, an assurance of my friendship.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "own hand" 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:
    but after; clear proof; concentrated solution; condensed milk; divine right; doing here; drink from; own country; own experience; own eyes; own hand; own hands; own life; own mind; own part; own room; own that; own way; owned enterprises; political theory; second lieutenant; white hands; worthy friend; would send; you perceive; your grandfather