| 单词 | dead hand |
| 例句 | Teasing, tormenting, as cold as a dead hand closing on my wrist. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I let out a long breath, still holding her dead hand, thinking how big her fingers felt in mine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Birdsong always arranged dead hands like in prayer. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Pet reached out to lift Jam, with Bitter’s obscene dead hands around her ribs, and set her aside firmly. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Kreacher needed water, he crawled to the island’s edge and he drank from the black lake...and hands, dead hands, came out of the water and dragged Kreacher under the surface....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As Lawrence became more interested in the military applications of nuclear research, he grew more dismayed at the lack of progress under the dead hand of the Uranium Committee. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This time he took the wight’s head off at the neck, and for half a moment he exulted ... until a pair of dead hands came groping blindly for his throat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then the dust figure rose from the end of the hall and rushed him, raising its dead hand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Come,” La Llorona said, rubbing my arm with her cold, dead hand. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It was sharp and the dead hand held it fast. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The word thuds to the ground like a scim falling from a dead hand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The men were already running to the end of the bridge to come down and claim the man whose dead hands dug into the soft, wet sand in front of me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor is this exclusively the result of the dead hand of the past. Looking at History Through the Deadly Conflicts Over Territory 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Man, you couldn't pry me out my house with your cold, dead hands. "Comics are not covered like other artists": How Ali Siddiq changed the system to own his jokes 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z And like her, I will have my column pried from my cold dead hands one day. Dan Savage has been dishing out sex and love advice for 30 years. Some questions still surprise him. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z For somebody who likes to polish as much as I do, at some point they just have to pull it from your cold, dead hands. David Fincher Tries Animation in ‘Love, Death + Robots’ 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z A few of Neame's other films suffered from the dead hand of the Rank Organisation in the 1950s, and American companies in Britain in the 1960s, who insisted on what could be termed Anglo-American puddings. Ronald Neame obituary 2010-06-20T17:38:00Z Spain was still under Franco, and even in Mallorca, Miró felt the dead hand of dictatorship, the anti-freedom he had always hated. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z With dead eyes and dead hands, I navigated the world. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z Maybe the likes of Clint Eastwood, who seems intent on directing until Warner Bros prises the bullhorn from his cold dead hands, are more straightforward with themselves about their need to do the job. Why are so many directors un-retiring? 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z "My light", "My balance" and "Yours the face" subvert the dead hand of the end-stop and ensure the flow of rhythmic energy from one short line to the next. Luminary by RS Thomas: Poem of the week 2013-06-17T11:37:44Z And you should feel like the dead hand of political correctness isn’t on everything. ‘Our Young Man’ Reframes a 19th-Century Work in the 1980s 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z It begins with a picture of a steering wheel and the words “From my cold, dead hands,” and culminates by calling for a constitutional amendment creating a right to drive. The Fight for the Right to Drive 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z And if they are willing to force others to “pry it from my cold, dead hand”, then they are probably planning on using them on people. Jason Alexander’s amazing gun rant 2012-07-22T20:38:00Z Yet the escape of much of Europe from the dead hand of a corrupt and backward-looking Catholic church was surely an essential precursor of the continent’s success over the next 300 years. Religious warring 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The greater part of the narrative proceeds thus, and Ishiguro gets his darkest effects from this "dead hand" approach, creating an atmosphere of unbearable constriction that is like looking back down a tunnel. Rereading: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2011-01-29T00:06:20Z “Basically he’s playing a dead hand. He’s not going to intimidate or bluff people, because we’re going to be there.” Mar-a-Lago neighbors tell Trump to spend his post-presidency days elsewhere 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z He would also be emphasising the number of British medallists who had been to private schools, as an example of what the dead hand of the state does to competition. David Cameron on Letterman: politics is not light entertainment 2012-09-28T19:31:01Z Once again the dead hand of our system of consumption suffocates the living impulse to create. The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai ? review 2011-08-25T23:05:01Z While living at home, Paul spends a lot of time dreading the dead hand of adulthood. Review | If Flaubert reimagined ‘Cougar Town,’ this is the novel we might get 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z From my dead hands they will pry not a gun, but a bag of unmelted M&Ms. Candy: The next battle in America’s health war? Free of the dead hand of typecasting, meanwhile, Mark Hamill would have frolicked into the sunlit professional uplands and claimed roles in Apocalypse Now and Raging Bull. What if Star Wars had never existed? 2011-03-18T14:19:16Z She concluded: "It's uneven, disjointed, the plot makes no real sense - and the dead hand of corporate America weighs heavily upon it." Barbie reviews: What do critics make of the Margot Robbie film? 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Russia also in the past employed an automatic nuclear counterattack system called “dead hand,” designed to fire missiles to pre-designated targets automatically if a nuclear attack is detected and human control is lost. China’s growing arsenal boosts risk of nuclear war, study says 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z "If the maniacs in the White House come for my stove, they can pry it from my cold dead hands," Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Tex., tweeted. GOP whiners, stop pretending you cook! 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z But the dead hand is not spooky folklore. 'They allow us to name something we know is wrong': The new words defining sexual abuse 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z But the state will have to pry their Silverados from their cold, dead hands. Column: What we lose when California bans gas-powered cars 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z And their emancipation from the dead hand of everything prior. Opinion | How millennials became aggressively illiberal, censorious young adults 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The study group report said Russia has not said whether the upgrade of its nuclear command and control system will result in canceling the dead hand system. China’s growing arsenal boosts risk of nuclear war, study says 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z He said the "dead hand" of the government had been actively preventing employers and the union from reaching a settlement, although ministers have denied they played a role in talks. Rail strike: PM calls for 'sensible compromise' over pay to end dispute 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z One year they tried "my dead hands," as in, if you want my guns you'll have to pry them from my dead hands. So where were the "good guys with guns"? Standing around doing jacks**t, as usual 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Scotland must shake off the "dead hand of nationalism" if it is to avoid becoming increasingly bitter and inward looking, the Scottish Conservative leader is to claim. Scotland becoming smaller under SNP - Douglas Ross 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Over the years, Social Security has often labored under the dead hand of Republican commissioners, an artifact of the happenstance and the six-year term. Column: The firing of a Trump appointee opens the door to upgrading Social Security 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z Titled “Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto,” it expressed a hope that science would deliver painting from the dead hand of stultifying convention. Perspective | This incredibly charming painting emerged from a disturbing ideology We fought off almost all of his many weapons, but there is still a loaded gun in his presumptively dead hand. Are you sure Trump's plan to steal the election has failed? You shouldn't be 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z “He’s gonna have to pry that Senate majority out of my cold dead hands.” Republicans, Democrats push for last-minute Arizona voters 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z The NRA has been the most powerful gun lobby in the world since another former president of the group Charlton Heston promised to resist efforts to prise firearms “from my cold, dead hands”. Coronavirus US: death toll tops 160,000 as relief package impasse continues – live updates 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z “His curiosity,” Hoffman said in an email, “led him to ask the penetrating questions in Moscow that revealed the existence of the ‘dead hand’ system. Bruce Blair, leading voice for nuclear arms control, dies at 72 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Titled “Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto,” it expressed a hope that science would deliver painting from the dead hand of stultifying convention. Perspective | This incredibly charming painting emerged from a disturbing ideology No need to take the killer's gun out of his dead hand now, right? Are you sure Trump's plan to steal the election has failed? You shouldn't be 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Many fear that new national security legislation would prove a “dead hand” on the city’s large and pugnacious press and rich artistic traditions, while curbing its broad political debates. Factbox: China finally moves towards tougher national security laws for Hong Kong 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The epic is rife with the struggles of human agency against the “dead hand of social inevitability” — themes still unnervingly relevant in today’s algorithm-driven ‘big data’ society. Isaac Asimov: centenary of the great explainer 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Its avid dreams to bring every last corner of America under the dead hand of state control! Opinion | Block parties, the census and women’s soccer: Nine things to celebrate this July 4 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z It also prevented it repeating the doomed coalitions routinely put together under the dead hand of Spain’s communist party. Podemos was the dazzling new force in Spanish politics. What went wrong? | Giles Tremlett 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z One of the last scenes of the film shows former lovers, now zombies, pacing back and forth past each other, obliviously emotionless as their dead hands brush against each other. Why zombies are so hilarious 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Partly in response to this shortcoming, Moscow developed a “dead hand” trigger to fire its arsenal at the United States without an order from the leadership, based on computers interpreting radiation and seismic sensors. The I.N.F. Treaty, Explained 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z If we are to move beyond the dead hand of antiquated economics, we must create rewards, grants and accolades for training undergraduates better. Post-crash economics: have we learnt nothing? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z All too often, we bring rose-colored glasses when we look at democracy, glasses handed to us from the dead hands of Enlightenment thinkers. 15 reasons why: Donald Trump’s supporters will never abandon him 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “And then I just decided to speak boldly: ‘But you’re going to have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.’ Arizona Republicans Brace for a Storm 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z But under this amendment, the dead hand of a past legislature would continue to steer the state along a course of regressive taxation that hurts those with the least ability to pay. North Carolina editorial roundup 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Hoisting a flintlock rifle, Heston declared: “From my cold, dead hands!” Iran-Contra figure Oliver North named president of the NRA 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z North is already drawing comparisons to former NRA president Charlton Heston, who famously uttered that his firearms could only be taken “from my cold, dead hands.” Oliver North set to become the next NRA president 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z You know, it's odd to read an article like this, because most we see are from either extreme: take all guns or from my cold, dead hand. Do Gun Owners Want Gun Control? Yes, Some Say, Post-Parkland 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Will be forced to go, even if that means prying the Olds Cutlass steering wheel from Penny’s dead hands. Ron Judd’s newcomers’ guide to Seattle 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z R Daryl Fisher’s badly judged joke about being OK with prying guns “from the cold dead hands” of their owners was cited as evidence of a dark and murderous undercurrent in the gun control movement. How rightwingers have attacked Parkland students with lies, hoaxes and smears 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z One of its slogans is "from my cold dead hands" - referring to the only way people will be able to take their guns away. The teenagers taking on the US gun lobby 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z To those who say "you'll get my gun when you pry it out of my cold dead hand." Opinion | The Debate That Goes Nowhere 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z All around him are mediocrities, representing either the dead hand of the state, bureaucrats serving some notional collective good, or “second handers” – corporate parasites who profit from the work and vision of others. The new age of Ayn Rand: how she won over Trump and Silicon Valley 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Sequestration by Congress of the federal budget puts the dead hand of stupidity on funding for both military and domestic programs. The Commander-in-Chief must listen, learn and slow down 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z I'll give you my steering wheel when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. Self-Driving Cars Gain Powerful Ally: The Government 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Gridlock will not cease until the cold dead hands of the obstructionist GOP House majority are forced from the very throat of US legislative possibilities. Democrats Step Up Pursuit of House Republicans Left Limping by Donald Trump 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z One reason the U.K. should leave the European Union, according to Brexit campaigners, is to liberate British entrepreneurs and inventors from the dead hand of Brussels. Britain’s Innovators Need an Integrated Europe 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z More than 450 attended, watching as Bjerke raised copies of the Constitution and the New Testament in the air and declared, “From my cold, dead hands!” Trump’s effect on Muslim migrant debate reverberates in heartland 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z He’s now cemented in his council seat, and the only way he’ll give it up is if it’s pried from his cold, dead hands. The hottest race in D.C. next year may be the city council elections 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z But until they do, you can pry my dice bag from my cold, dead hands. Don't worry, board games: video games can't steal what makes you great 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Gridlock will not cease until the cold dead hands of the obstructionist GOP House majority are forced from the very throat of US legislative... Democrats Step Up Pursuit of House Republicans Left Limping by Donald Trump 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z To ignore her and the others, though, is to let the dead hand of history continue to warp the daily lives of decent people. How a Gun in a Purse Became a Permanent Ball and Chain 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z "Just about all the vice-chancellors say if our universities are to flourish in the years ahead, they need to lose the dead hand of Canberra." Australia education bill fails again 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z He complained about being weighed on metric scales, adding that they proved conclusively the "dead hand of Brussels" on the British way of life. Al Murray 'too heavy' for skydive 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The camera lingers on their dead hands and the now-empty classroom. Don’t stop, don’t look, don’t listen 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Anyway, here are a couple of stories that are the latest reminders that in a lot of communities, you’ll take their Native American nicknames from their cold, dead hands. Some White People (Other Than Dan Snyder) Can't Give Up Their Native American Nicknames 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z This is the “dead hand” because the poison put provision survives even if the directors are replaced with the company’s blessing. A Defense Against Hostile Takeovers Develops a Downside 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Prising the keys to the executive washroom from the clammy grip of that particular middle-management dead hand might be a start. World Cup 2014: Guardian writers pick their highs and lows from Brazil 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The venture capitalist and entrepreneur is advancing a quixotic agenda to ”free” Silicon Valley and the developing world from what he considers the dead hand of government and fusty institutions. Tim Draper: the Bitcoin auction winner who wants to split California in six 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The Tories separately released to the Sunday Times last weekend a tape of a public speech by Cruddas to the Compass group in which he criticised the "dead hand" at the centre of the party. Conservative researchers posed as students to record Labour disunity 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr Cruddas was previously recorded talking about the "dead hand" at the top of the party stifling policies. Cruddas in fresh Miliband criticism 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z In the latest battle, involving Healthways, a health care firm, entered into a “dead hand” poison put that said that if the directors were replaced, the provision was triggered. A Defense Against Hostile Takeovers Develops a Downside 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Senior Labour figures were forced on to the defensive earlier this week after Mr Cruddas was secretly recorded talking about bold policies being stifled by the "dead hand" of the leadership. Glasman regrets Miliband criticism 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z As it went by, those conservative justices, representing the dead hand of past presidents, were replaced, and so were their precedents, by the very progressive policies they had prohibited. A Supreme Court out of control! How McCutcheon will spur corruption and inequality 2014-04-02T18:43:00Z An economics professor at the University of Buckingham in the U.K. cited the dead hand of university administration in his call to “.” Business Schools Are Stuck in a Self-Reinforcing Bubble 2014-02-24T22:14:53Z It is far better to show interest and creativity from day one than to let yourself be trapped under the dead hand of corporatism. Innovator Sir James Dyson Turns Every Day Products Into Gold 2014-02-24T12:50:00Z He claimed that after "13 years of stagnation in Wales" there was "the dead hand of Labour around the throat of the economy". Tory 'solutions' for Wales problems 2013-09-29T14:50:53Z Treaties are dead hands, which should be laid upon a country only for specific and essential purposes, and never as a way of governing it. Should countries be more like families? 2013-08-30T17:30:05Z All the direct consequence of the dead hand of the State amis decades of underinvestment, shortages of spares, and inadequate maintenance. North Korea's Nuclear Naivety 2013-04-05T16:43:56Z But there is no doubt that the dead hand of the zombies is casting a shadow over the economy. 'Zombie' companies eating economic growth 2012-11-13T00:02:09Z Markets do everything best – managing business and systemic risk, innovating, investing, organising executive reward – without the intervention of the supposed dead hand of the state and without any acknowledgement of wider social obligations. The economy: a calamitous strategy, with no end in sight 2012-05-19T23:03:44Z There are signs at the present moment that China is awakening and that the dead hand of the past is being lifted. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z And he put it in, and when he drew it out it was white, and like a dead hand. Young Folks' Bible in Words of Easy Reading The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood 2012-04-13T02:00:19.530Z A dead hand hung over each door, a skeleton peeped from a closet. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z She had, too, a woman's dread of the Church, a woman's belief in the power of the dead hand to punish. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Broadhead carefully preserved Kirke's revolver, which he took from his dead hand, the letter, which he found in his breast pocket, his watch and sword, and a lock of his black curly hair. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z Now, it is an unquestionable fact that the “dead hand” is a most mighty and a most potent factor in the religious life of the people of China. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Robert's mysterious parable of good things in store clung cold about her heart like a dead hand. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z He fancied that his hands were dead--dead hands frozen round the dead man's wrist with blood. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z It represents the dead hand of conformity and regulation from afar. Ravitch: No Child Left Behind and the damage done 2012-01-10T22:05:55Z An old man now approached the bodies, and, taking a dead hand in his, began talking to them in a low tone. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The best thing to do with the "dead hand" is to bury it. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z Dear Mrs. Stearns,–Many thanks for the tender thoughtfulness which sends us the precious little notes from the dear dead hands. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z You'll not dare go back into that room again, because in it the dead hand is waiting to grip you by the throat. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z The dead hand is going to be lifted from the land. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Musician, with the bent and brooding face, White brow and thunderous eyes: you are not playing Merely the music that dead hand did trace. Poems - Second Series 2011-10-28T02:00:21.670Z In her bleak mind a window of imagination suddenly opened, and she had a vision of what wealth would mean to her husband, coming as a gift from those dead hands. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z The human mind began to awake from its long lethargy; began to writhe and struggle against the dead hand of authority which held it down. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z Even if the Phantom could get out of the room, his hand would be chained to the cold, dead hand of the housekeeper. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z A dead hand grasped his heart and the same dead hand grasped hers. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z One sturdy dame seemed to have attempted to fight for her life, for she held a hoe in her dead hands. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z Not so very long afterward, when she saw his cold, dead hands folded together and touched them, she remembered with starting tears this soft, hot, clinging clasp. Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z They're true witches' cards these, and a pack that has had the touch of a dead hand on it, that is doubly good. The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] 2011-07-25T02:00:17.960Z Now, in the stillness and gloom, the sight made him feel as if a dead hand had touched him. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z What dead hands built the cupola of the brain, and from what older ruins were the scattered pieces of its mosaic-work brought? McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z She has passionately longed to copy its perfection, but as the great master could not copy the perfection of the dead hand, so she has failed to draw the cast. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z So he minutely ponders over this holy submission, and invokes contentment from the contemplation— “Unused example from the grave Reach out dead hands to comfort me.” A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' 2011-07-07T02:00:25.637Z Albano let his tears stream down, and took the other dead hand and said: "We grasp true, pure, valiant hands." Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Our needlework conveys no pretty message of "The life that breathes, the life that lives," it savours only of the now stiff and stark device of dead hands. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z When, after only a few minutes' absence, the 'Squire came in, the widow still slept, the sweet air still rippled through the room, but Rose held a dead hand; Zach was at rest! Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z At that moment his own hitherto restrained tears found a vent, and he pressed the dead hand against his face. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z After all was over, and when the room was decorated and the body laid out, Miss Marsh came to see him, and taking his dead hand, she placed a white camellia in it. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z His wife was mistress by his death-bed, and she could put the words she chose into the mouth of a dead man—and could move the dead hand at her will. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z With a quick impetuous movement his wife took it in her own, pressed the cold, dead hand to her lips, and held it clasped in hers the rest of the way. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z He died with the name unwritten, the pen unused in his dead hand. Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z Still, you must be aware that living men do not possess dead hands. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z They want a political system that is not stifled by the dead hand of autocratic government. On the offensive 2011-03-04T21:43:24Z But News Corp is a dead hand, fostering little new UK talent or creative risk-taking, relying on ready-made successes from elsewhere. There is still a way to win this Murdoch media war 2011-03-04T20:30:00Z He ought to be up to the opera and the ballet; be a dead hand at �cart�, and a capital judge of cigars. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z For instance, the scene in The Duchess of Malfi, where Ferdinand gives the heroine the dead hand, fills us with horror. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The girl staggered and clung with dead hands. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z She caught one dead hand to her and fondled it and kissed it; while a great wave of sobbing swept over her. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z This was an act to prevent the further accumulation of landed property in the “dead hand” of religious persons and communities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z In a memorable speech attacking presidential candidate Al Gore, Heston raised a replica of a Colonial musket over his head and said, echoing a bumper sticker, "From my cold, dead hands." NRA-led gun lobby wields powerful influence over ATF, U.S. politics 2010-12-15T05:00:00Z He revels in the sinister suggestions aroused by skulls, dead hands, ghosts, echoes, and madmen. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Sometimes you do feel the dead hand of Microsoft's marketing department on your shoulder, and never more so than when you use the camera. Windows Phone 7 review: you sure it's Microsoft software? 2010-10-24T06:00:00Z But for me, my iPad is like a gun lobbyist's rifle: the only way you will take it from me is to prise it from my cold, dead hands. Apple's iPad: The Mothership Prepares for Launch 2010-04-01T08:40:00Z But such events are not enough to dislodge the dead hand of history. Europe.view: Struggles, suffering and Skype 2010-03-04T06:29:00Z You can have my HRT when you pry it from my cold dead hands. Why Are Breast Cancer Rates Dropping? 2010-03-01T14:31:00Z A candle held between the fingers of the dead hand can never be blown out. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry Properly conceived its object is not to establish state management of industry, but to remove the dead hand of private ownership, when the private owner has ceased to perform any positive function. The Acquisitive Society The sisters work for little pay; they have a community life and consume the resources of the dead hand. The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey La Giralda was about to lay the wooden puppet aside as a thing of little worth, but something in the clutch of the small dead hands touched and troubled her. The Firebrand Wide flew the sentry's arms and he fell soundlessly in a crumpled heap, the spear still tightly clutched in one dead hand. The Return of Tharn One of the most powerful is the charm of the dead hand. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry When the dead hand fell from the steering rudder the great machine turned quite over on its side. The Guns of Europe Even the dead hand, of course, has some form, for every individual object is a compound of matter and form. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy The knife, resting close to the dead hand, had wounded McDonald who had seemed to accuse the still form whose note projected the impression of having been written after death. The Gray Mask The heavy spear rolled from an already dead hand and the man fell loosely across the wide sill as Tharn worked his way upward past the limp body. The Return of Tharn Perhaps some user of "the dead hand" has drawn away the butter to her own churn. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry "May the dead hand of Abraham strike me down if these were not his words." The Garden of Eden The dark cloud that separated them took the form of a dead hand. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising One advantage of this personal property is, that it cannot be clutched by the dead hand; the hand of inheritance is a dead hand. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Is Gaskho Bey actually afraid that old Ali, a veteran of seventy-nine, will be able to arise from his tomb and hurl away that heavy marble slab with his dead hands? The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries But the dead hand, which had recovered the broken flex, still held it, you see, and no more of the ‘tapped’ message went down the dockyard wire. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories Take up those flowers that fell From the dead hand, and sigh a long farewell! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 Then the gun fell out of the dead hand and slid a few feet, spinning in silly little circles. Instant of Decision Thus saying she offered me her cold, dead hand. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Let the dead hand of the Past reach out and touch you. Through Our Unknown Southwest I took an accurate tracing of them from the dead hand this morning, and—there you are. Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories In his clenched dead hands he still held a torn and twisted blanket. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas I see the body under the cloak, the head under the helmet, and the dead hand under the cuff. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium In dying he had grasped and torn up the golden ears; and he held a bunch of them in his dead hand, all dyed in his blood like some red flag. Jena or Sedan? The girl lays the dead hand gently down, not dropping it, but replacing it where it first lay. When Ghost Meets Ghost I have been all my days a dead hand at a harridan, I never saw the one yet that could resist me. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) This little monster of meanness, he conquers to the end—his dead hand, his dead desires, out of the grave they hold you! The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman First tossed into her waiting arms the restless Loud waves, a woman very grey and cold, Within her bed she stood upright so quickly, And loosed her fingers from the dead hands’ hold. The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems We found one who in his dying agony had evidently taken from his pocket a letter which now lay a sodden mass in his dead hand. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone She was arrayed in several silk gowns and buried, with verses from the Koran written on paper placed in her dead hands, to keep evil spirits away from her soul. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It The peasants, accustomed to the painful story, had quickly recovered their gaiety, and were pouring boisterously down the hill-side, like a glad, turbulent mountain stream, unloosed from the dead hand of frost. Dreamers of the Ghetto The book?—it was buried in dead hands long ago; and the words?—they had not been printed in the book more indelibly than upon my memory. Against Odds A Detective Story It is the fashion today to berate the past, to speak of the dead hand of tradition, and to flatter ourselves with the delusion of self-sufficiency. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College It does make for equality of opportunity by freeing the dead hand from control of our tools of production. Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work The hand that rested outside the coverlet, too, lay still and limp like a dead hand. The Roof Tree Some fish, others hunt only the roebuck and the boar, others shoot squirrels and wild cats, others again excel in snaring woodcocks, while some are dead hands at scenting and tracking a wolf. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches I would go back and hold110 His two dead hands, and say, "I hate you worse, Luca, than"— Sebald.Off, off—take your hands off mine, 'Tis the hot evening—off! oh, morning, is it? Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning For, though conquered, they adore it— Love the cold, dead hands that bore it! How the Flag Became Old Glory Dead hands built this house, dead hands laid out that vineyard, dead hands have given us our work. Master of the Vineyard The dead hand is slowly raised... and threateningly warns off the robber. The Wagnerian Romances Criticism, whether of literature or art, is but a dead hand laid upon a living thing, unless it is genuine response, to the object criticised, of something reciprocal in us. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Clasp his dead hand in mine, and lay my heart Close to his gaping wound, that it may break 'Gainst his dear breast.—My eyes grow faint and clouded. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 It lies in that inhuman and forbidden wish to arrest the processes of life�to lay a freezing hand�a dead hand�upon what we love, so that it shall always be the same. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Your son there will tell you that I am a dead hand at it. Tom Brown at Oxford A pistol was still clasped in his dead hand. Children of the Desert All one night a dead hand lay across my throat, but I could not disengage my hands to remove it. Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days The dead hand flashed up from the leaves, flew back, and then shot forward. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" Even love, which tempts the strongest into sin, could never harm them now, those little dead hands. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Then be sure that you are not bound by that "dead hand." John the Baptist Clyde felt a great fear, cold as the clutch of a dead hand itself, close on her heart, driving the young blood from her cheeks. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters But the historian may be pardoned for gazing with a momentary interest on the dead hands, now black and withered, that subscribed the Creed of Nicæa. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 The dead hand of Wesley has been stronger than the living hand of any pope. Duffels Why should the dead hand of an Augustine or Calvin be exempt from giving its authority? The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 God forbid that I should have lived too long under the grasp of a dead hand. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Too long esprit has been regarded as something bequeathed to the unit by the dead hand of tradition. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 Sighing and sobbing, he fell down; his forehead touched the dead hand of the old man. The Goose Man The poor geraniums were wiped and laid by the dead hands, and then the undertaker glided in like a stealthy, black-garmented ghost. The Uncalled A Novel In astronomy, in politics, in law, we demand what business the dead hand of the past has on our lip, our brain, our purse? The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 He was filled with an ambition to be a political power, as his father had been, and the dead hand brought him the place. The Candidate A Political Romance O merciful God! if I were only an eagle, that I might touch once more those cold dead hands! Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science For twenty-one years after his generation has passed away, his dead hand may rule the wealth which its living skill amassed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Dea Flavia made no response; a terrible ache was in her heart as if a cold, dead hand gripped its every string, whilst mocking laughter sounded in her ear. "Unto Caesar" But lo, when Hagen tries to strip the ring off the dead hand, the fingers close themselves, and the hand raises itself, bearing testimony against the murderer. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas But his monument is a great nation, a new France; and who shall hold France in her pride of place amongst the nations where his dead hand raised her? The Justice of the King She would like to sit all day and hold the dead hand in hers, watch the countenance that looks no paler now, and much more tranquil than it has for days. Floyd Grandon's Honor Clarke's dead hand seemed at the instant more powerful than the living man had been. The Tyranny of the Dark Shall I kiss you and leave blood upon your lips, cling to you and be pushed away by all those cold, dead hands? The Melting-Pot What witchcraft doth he practise, that he hath left A dead hand here? Rookwood "I might ha' knowed," she said with helpless bitterness—"I might ha' knowed;" and she laid her face against the dead hand in a sudden passion of weeping. "Seth" When the reins dropped from her dead hand a struggle ensued among these incompatible persons, who should pick them up. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time I said to one of the children, "Yes, dear, wasn't it fun!" and to myself, "To be typical of our tradition-ridden valley-people, the opposition ought to come from the dead hand of the past." Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Some day he would put out his dead hand from the grave to work the child's destruction. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 It was the dead hand of his mother! Rookwood A cold chill swept over the big Yale man, as if he felt the touch of a dead hand. Frank Merriwell's Cruise As soon as the murderers had passed by, the ladies ran away, having the presence of mind to carry with them the dead hand, on one of the fingers of which was a ring. Notes and Queries, Number 35, June 29, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Charlie cut a lock of hair from the sailor’s brow with his clasp-knife, and, taking the letter gently from the dead hand, wrapped it therein. Charlie to the Rescue He also took a revolver, with some difficulty, from the dead hand of a soldier, and stuck it in his belt. Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan She went back to her seat by the bedside and held her mother's dead hand in hers, as if she were lying ill instead of dead. The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 Une Vie and Other Stories "Oh, Carter, do you think any—any horrible dead trait—any clammy dead hand—can reach up out of the grave to pull him down?" Play the Game! The dead hand of conscious propriety was upon him, checking any momentum that might lead to a spontaneous expression of patriotic feeling. On the Stairs Even the dead hand of the patriarch ruled. Society Its Origin and Development Initiative and industry, rather than the dead hand of custom, marked a man for distinction and preferment. Beginnings of the American People His face, as Douglas saw when the dead hands fell away, was literally shot to pieces by at least half a dozen bullets which must have struck simultaneously. Under the Chilian Flag A Tale of War between Chili and Peru He started as he recognised the dead hand of his father in the inscription— “To be given unopened into the hands of Roger Ingleton junior, on his twentieth birthday.” Roger Ingleton, Minor Before I could seize it he fell back on the floor, and I had to take the key from his dead hand. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 Waking from a troubled sleep of short duration, Katharine one day found Chloe's dead hand around her feet, her cold lips pressed upon them. For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution The thick, fair hair, spotted with blood, flowed in disordered waves over the white pillow; the numerous rings on the dead hands blazed and glittered with hard brilliance in the electric light. The Hand in the Dark You knew you were doing some woman a32 wrong—some future woman, the woman you'd marry—as far back as when you took up what Billy Cummings dropped from his dead hands—" "Oh, that! The Letter of the Contract There hung on the walls various works by the dead hand. Art in England Notes and Studies Izzy leaped for the machine gun and yanked it from dead hands, while the cops slowly began raising their arms. Police Your Planet The dead hand of Spain has been removed forever from the throats of her helpless victims. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective The dead hand slipped, the dead finger dipped In the broth as the dead man slipped,-- That same instant, a rosy red Flushed the steam, and quivered and clipped Round the dead old head. Poems Place this bunch of mignonette In her cold, dead hand; When the golden sun is set, Where the poplars stand, Bury her from sun and day, Lay my little love away From my sight. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Many were the dead hands that had been laid in the earth clasping her lilies. The Miller Of Old Church Joan did not speak, and her small hands were as quiet as little dead hands in the strong ones which held them. The Shield of Silence She cannot consider a piece of embroidery apart from the dead hands that made it, nor a chair without some association with its previous occupants. The Spinster Book He never thought of the girl, never saw her grip the pistol from the Mexican's dead hand, and crawl white-faced, over his body, to that front seat. Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier Westcott straightened the body out, crossing the dead hands, and covered the face with a blanket stripped from a bunk. The Strange Case of Cavendish These lands were said to be in mortmain, or "dead hands"; since the Church, being a corporation, never let go its hold, but kept its property with the tenacity of a dead man's grasp. The Leading Facts of English History The dead hand of the law will be no longer dead, but will be inspired by a living voice and will. The Future of Islam They quickly made their escape with the dead hand, on one of the fingers of which was a ring. Strange Pages from Family Papers And with that she pulled out the poor dead hand with the glittering ring from her bosom and pointed it straight at Mr. Fox. English Fairy Tales Think of the millions of dead hands that fashioned such enormous strength and old-time magnificence! Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation The dead hand of Aristotle barred the advance in every department of research. An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry The dead hand slipped, the dead finger dipped In the broth as the dead man slipped,— That same instant, a rosy red Flushed the steam, and quivered and clipped Round the dead old head. Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems While they are thus occupied she sings the hero's dirge, and draws the ring unhindered from his dead hand. Stories of the Wagner Opera My crime, the crime of these men from whose dead hands the girl's appeals had been taken for the "Collection," was that of curiosity! The Killer That's the dead hand, if you like; why father put that provision in his will it passes common sense to understand. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Then he crossed the dead hands and feet and tied them together also. Combed Out The third paper was a letter of a dozen closely written sheets, in the dead hand that was so familiar to him. In Friendship's Guise And by and by she got so close to her mean and noble purpose—a gift in one dead hand and a sword in the other!—that she began to think of ways and means. The Vehement Flame She had, too, a woman’s dread of the Church, a woman’s belief in the power of the dead hand to punish. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France To many of the crew it seemed clear that other than natural causes must have been at work; there were evidently "dead hands" upon the bank, and this was a warning. The Pilot and his Wife And so it was that Zoe and I stood side by side touching the dead hand of Amos. Children of the Market Place It will help to abolish the evils which come from primogeniture and to release the clutch of the dead hand upon the living. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji Such is the power of the dead hand, and against this power the new conviction that in a democratic and candid foreign policy lies the future safety of the world will have to fight hard. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 His dead hand holds his shot-torn banner still— Its proud folds pressed against his bloodstained cheek. The Littlest Rebel This fantastic theory condemns all later developments, and leaves the Church under the weight of the dead hand. Outspoken Essays He beat back the nausea, and, seizing a tray from dead hands, hurried into the street and ate ravenously, hiding to keep out the sights. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil The dead hand of Winter is knocking at the door, And the white froth of flowers will float no more. England over Seas Now that she knew that those sacred manuscripts written by the dear, dead hand had not been destroyed by printers, every fibre of her passionate self craved their possession. Jaffery I feel almost as if Mona Forester herself were standing beside me, and had laid her dead hand upon me. True Love's Reward Acceptance of the theory of development in dogma would relieve the Pope from the weight of the dead hand. Outspoken Essays Judges in Capital Cases.—"O let him take heed how he strikes that hath a dead hand." The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 She released the dead hands and showed the rosary still twisted there; it had snapped in the last struggle, and a brown bead lay beneath the fingers. Lord of the World Everybody knows of the arrival of the funeral barge at court, of the reading of the letter in Elaine's dead hand, and of Launcelot's sorrow over the suffering he had unwittingly caused. The Book of the Epic It likewise recovered vast tracts of land out of dead hands, and gave an additional vigor to agriculture, unknown to former ages. An History of Birmingham (1783) The muscular contraction passes immediately into rigor mortis, or death-stiffening, and the object remains grasped by the dead hand until the rigidity passes off. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman But it is only those to whom the classics are themselves dead who are likely to lay this academic dead hand on new literature. The Art of Letters But I turned; and instantly the three canoes had been reversed; and full soon, Jarl's dead hand in mine, had not Media interposed. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II In still nights, as Jean Paul says, "the limbs of my Buried Ones touched cold on my soul, and drove away its blots, as dead hands heal eruptions of the skin." The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I All the terrors of night which lay in wait for him ever since his fathers dead hand had touched his door and opened it, rushed down upon him with a sweep of black, smothering wings. The Dark House Down in the sea all the dead hands were writhing, and tried to strike him with gaffs astern. Weird Tales from Northern Seas He nodded to the blackened ruins, to the grim dead hand pointing to the sky, left where it was by the superstitious blood avengers. The Covered Wagon Unfortunately Figure 6, of a dead hand, when contrasted with Figure 11, of a living hand, shows virtually no difference, and the method cannot be used as a positive proof of death. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 Nevertheless the dead hand is felt by all the people a part of the time, and some of the people are never free from its paralyzing touch. The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution I see Misha's dead hand pointing to us the way out of Petrograd. Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated There was also some ammunition for the German rifles that had fallen from the dead hands of their owners, and this, together with the guns, was collected. The Khaki Boys over the Top Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam Dear God, is 't writ That hearts their overburden bear Of bitterness though thou permit The pranks of Chance, alurk in nooks, And striking coward blows from books, And dead hands reaching everywhere? Shapes of Clay Surely that must cleanse it of its stains, must loose the clutch of the dead hands that strive to hold it! Spanish Doubloons And the Captain's wrath waxed fiercer, and he chucked the wax taper from the dead hand, and was on the point of flinging it at the old serving-woman's head. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 It seemed certain that dead hands were reaching for him. The Penalty Feeling that her end was near, she dictated a farewell letter to Lancelot, which she made her father promise to put in her dead hand. Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art But his dead hand had no control over the strange issue, and I felt justified in interpreting the will in the light of my experiences. The House of a Thousand Candles Ghosts might also accompany relics of the body, such as the dead hand, carried about by the family, who would wave the black fragment at the dreaded Aurora Borealis, crying, 'Send it away!' The Making of Religion It is a mistake to try and grip anything with a dead hand. Father Payne Then, after making a long call, drew out a tiny package from his vest pocket and offered for sale two time-worn cheap rings taken from his mother's dead hand. Adopting an Abandoned Farm The Duke of Lorraine went and sprinkled holy water on the corpse of his unhappy rival, and, taking the dead hand beneath the pall, "Ah! dear cousin," said he, with tears in his eyes. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 The dead hand of his father was upon him! The Torrent Entre Naranjos The latter took up the work of investing thought with sensible shape from the dead hands of the former. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts One of the sailors, however, took from the dead hand a paper covered with characters in cipher, which no one could read. Not Pretty, but Precious There were only dead hands, hands which live hands had power to brush away. The Visioning Generous during his life-time, his dead hand still gathers and distributes blessings to the mechanics of Boston, and their children. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers I die first, and you will see my grave; But child! you must not cry; For my dead hand will brightest blessings wave O'er you from yonder sky. Poems: Patriotic, Religious You are withering away like the dead hands that wove you. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow And then there was the tenth Earl of Claiborne's signet ring on the dead hand. The Cruise of the Jasper B. It was thought that by merely rubbing the dead hand on the body, the patient afflicted with the king's evil would be instantly cured. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 By the dead hands at my throat but he shall die, Bar Comas. A Princess of Mars Love the cold, dead hands that bore it! Poems: Patriotic, Religious Do you ever think of those dead hands? Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow It was a dead hand, roughly severed between the wrist and the elbow. The Cruise of the Jasper B. We had inadequate troops at our command, and but for our prestige and the weight of Laputa's dead hand there might any moment have been a tragedy. Prester John The dead hands of Martin Hastings scattered showers of shining gold upon his daughter's garden; and from these seeds was springing a heavy crop of that most prolific of weeds. The Conflict Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes, And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead hands. The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke Down in the yard lies Austin with sprawling limbs, his face glimmering white in the dawn, and the hose nozzle still projecting from his dead hand. The Poison Belt Cleggett fumbled with his fingers in a waistcoat pocket, drew out the torn piece of counterfeit money which he had taken from the dead hand, and flung it on the table. The Cruise of the Jasper B. She took the dead hand in the live, And at the ring drew she; The dead hand closed its fingers five, And it held the witch lady. The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 She was unhappy because she saw that the dead hand of Father Letrado was still heavy on her husband's heart. The Trail Book "I mean that tonight I found this scrap of cloth, and I recognized it as part of the cuff of your sleeve, and I found it clenched in Jasper Gaunt's dead hand." The Amateur Gentleman At last, shaking more violently as he spoke, and with inexpressible horror in his voice, he gasping said—'A dead hand!'— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor The reins were cut from the dead hands and the body lifted to the ground. Army Boys in the French Trenches Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy But if property is to be locked in the dead hand, so that the living can't get at it, then it is what the Frenchman called it, theft!—or worse…. The Coryston Family A Novel I sat holding the dead hand, as if therein lay some communion still with the departed. The Portent & Other Stories The word mortmain meant dead hand, and was applied to possessors of land, especially ecclesiastical corporations, that could not alienate it. Outline of Universal History How could a dead hand hold on like that? The Heavenly Twins The French have a saying concerning "mort main"—the dead hand. Woman and the New Race She had never imagined that the war could press like a dead hand on the heart of the people of Provence. The Mountebank There was no hope for these unhappy people, for they were under the tyranny of a dead hand. Caesar: a Sketch What oaths, what subtle words, shall stronger be Than this dead hand, to clear the guilt from thee? Hippolytus/The Bacchae A few flowers placed in the dead hand, perhaps a simple wreath, but not those unmeaning memorials which have become to real mourners such sad perversities of good taste, such a misuse of flowers. Manners and Social Usages It is the dead hand that thus compels millions of American women to remain in the bondage of maternity. Woman and the New Race Where our Manager ruleth, there weeping will be, For a dead hand at tragedy always was he; And there never was dealer in dagger and cup, Who so smilingly got all his tragedies up. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes I saw the space behind his shoulder, prayed that my bullet might miss his ribs, summoned the last force at my almost dead hand, and fired. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories Not until he had seen her and held her dead hand did he begin slowly to realize the truth. Lying Prophets It was to bring her to sorrow and disgrace that I was bound by the dead hand of my murdered friend. Blindfolded His dead hand still reaches forth to keep the subject of prevention of conception where he placed it—in the same legal category with things unclean and vile. Woman and the New Race Their doubtful reputation enabled Henry and Parliament to confiscate their property, and "the dead hand of monasticism was removed from a third of the lands of England." The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization The pictures were held by the clenched dead hand of the Church and the throne. Castilian Days At this instant the dead hand of the mate burst the ligature that kept it down across his body, and slowly rose up and remained in a beckoning attitude. Tom Cringle's Log He drops the wrist he holds, the little jewelled, dead hand falls limp and heavy. A Terrible Secret Through those laws reaches the dead hand to bring to the operating table each year hundreds of thousands of women who undergo the agony of abortion. Woman and the New Race For the glory of an empty name; and for a fortune that may slip from my dead hand to become the prey of rogues and adventurers. Phantom Fortune, a Novel You say," broke in Angela, "that you took this ring from his dead hand, the hand on which I placed it. Dawn "Then what do you think of the mate beckoning me with his dead hand to follow him?" Tom Cringle's Log A dead hand at casuistry has often proved more than a match for Lent with all his quarantines. Miscellaneous Essays Shall we look to her to strike the first blow which shall wrench her sisters from the grip of the dead hand of the past? Woman and the New Race He picked up the dead hand and gingerly fingered the lumpy knuckles. The Heart of the Range She found her picture in his dead hands. The Boss of Little Arcady Nothing illustrates better the "tyranny of the dead hand" in the United States than the history of the income tax. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) Before he fell to the deck, he had lashed the spokes and still gripped the end of the rope in his dead hand. Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" Paul rubbed the dead hand with his sleeve as if it were a piece of statuary. The Sowers Was that thing that rose and fell in the roots of the old willow his dead hand? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 "Let not thine heart fail therefor, good Roger: man, being dead, liveth forever—" "Nay, but—the dead hand, master—on my cheek, here—Ah!—" Beltane the Smith Always, too, my eyes were alert for treasures in the old Roman soil, coming, as it seemed, direct from the dead hands of the vanished people into mine. Hawthorne and His Circle The poor, dead hand, that shows itself beneath the sheet, has an unutterable pathos and beauty in it. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 The roaring of the brook, and the steep bank, had prevented my hearing the report; but, as I sat there holding the dead hand, suddenly the woods seemed to grow alive with noise and light. The Old Stone House Perhaps before sundown some canotier may find her floating far in the bay,—drifting upon her face in a thousand feet of water,—with faithful dead hands still holding fast the property of her employer. Two Years in the French West Indies "O master,—O sweet lord," quoth he, "bethink thee now of the warning— the dead hand—" "Yet must I go, my Roger." Beltane the Smith It was to lay the dead hand of the past upon the present and the future. English literary criticism Next there is the rigor mortis of the neo-Egyptians, the barbarism of the dead hand, called by the unkind and the undiscriminating, academic barbarism. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism It seemed like a dead hand grasping him out of the darkness. What Can She Do? I tell you that he kissed that poor dead hand which once had been part of the body of my Majesty, and that now he treasures it as a holy relic. Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales The cold of the dead hand answered him, and Alfred said, 'He's dead.'… Celibates Then the person would come forward and touch him—Meschini forced himself to think of it—would touch the dead hand and would feel that it was cold. Sant' Ilario Like all traditions it is stiff, it will clasp, if we allow it, the future in the dead hand of precedent. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism So she spoke, tremblingly nursing the dead hand in her bosom. Innocent : her fancy and his fact The distinction was of little account however, for when land once went into the 'dead hand' it was likely to stay there for all time. The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism But she recovered a little when she saw that her violets lay under the dead hand. Celibates Robinson pointed sternly to the dead hand in silence. It Is Never Too Late to Mend If only the dead hand of hereditary opinion did not grasp and distort what he feels! Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism That is probably the finest triumph of the tone of France: that its myriad fiery currents flow from so many hearts made insensible by suffering, that so many dead hands feed its undying lamp. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort One of these searchers, kneeling, draws from a dead hand an effaced and mangled photograph—a portrait killed. Under Fire: the story of a squad I keep the dead hand still clasped in mine for several long minutes. The New Book of Martyrs They wrenched the prison property out of its dead hand, and flung the carcass itself upon the bed as if it had been the clay cast of a dog, not the remains of a man. It Is Never Too Late to Mend Many things upheld her, but the dead hand of Mr Thornycroft was her stoutest support. Sisters They found them there, the doctor's dead hands still held the bandage tight, the bleeding was stopped and the other man's life was saved. Rilla of Ingleside Already his Amulet had had an awesome baptism; for the wrist of the dead hand was stained with red as though it had been dipped in recent blood. The Jewel of Seven Stars Her mother looked at her with cold and tearless eyes; her hair seemed to stand erect, and a cold, dead hand seemed placed upon her heart and almost stilled its beatings. Frederick the Great and His Family The consequence is that the great actor, instead of putting pressure on contemporary authors to supply him with heroic parts, falls back on the Shakespearean repertory, and takes what he needs from a dead hand. Great Catherine The poor baby's dead hand had retained its old power to entrap a simpleton unawares. Sisters I am not a man of honor: I am a man struck down by a dead hand. Man and Superman When Bet an' I reached Allie last night she was holdin' it in her little dead hand, an' there was such a smile on her face! Down the Mother Lode Such is Marshall's answer to Jefferson's outburst against "the dead hand." John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court Death at any time, amid any surroundings, is terrible; when the dead hands have earned the bread for many mouths it is appalling. Cap'n Warren's Wards But Mrs. Mavor held the dead hand tight and sobbed out passionately, 'Oh, Billy, Billy! you helped me once when I needed help! Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks It was the ivory-handled sword of the lord Deleroy which Kari had taken from his dead hand after I slew him in the Solar of my house in the Cheap at London. The Virgin of the Sun Tying his dead hands together with a handkerchief; she laid his arms round her shoulders, and bore him to the landing and down the narrow stairs. A Group of Noble Dames The leadership which the Virginians thus refused to take fell soon to men of more resolute character who would not let the dead hand of legalism stand between them and their hearts' desires. Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty They tore the sacred Standard from his dead hand and carried it away, their most precious prize after its captured owner. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 "No one but myself knew that the mummy held two emeralds in its dead hands, and I learned that only a few years ago from the manuscript which I had the honor of showing you." The Green Mummy See where this dead hand rests against my side; so once it rested when alive. Maiwa's Revenge It is so hard to get anything out of the dead hand of medical tradition! Medical Essays, 1842-1882 He is a dead hand at piquet, and loses a very comfortable maintenance to some young fellows, at whist, at the 'Travellers'.' The Book of Snobs But the dead hand closed its fingers upon hers, and her power was powerless against the dead. Robert Falconer Hope glanced at the case and shook the primitive coffin, anxious for the moment to open it and ascertain if the jewels were still clutched grimly in the mummy's dead hands. The Green Mummy And with one wild scream she dashed the dead hand of the child straight into his face, and then fell senseless on the floor. Maiwa's Revenge She heard there was a dead hand found in the river. Put Yourself in His Place Their dead hands stretch forth from the tomb and drag us down to their mouldering bones. The Story of My Heart An Autobiography And the tide came rushing up, and the dead hand held her till she was drowned. Robert Falconer He ran himself to fetch the postilion, returning with all speed, and, as he repassed Merle's body, he noticed the Gars' glove, which was still convulsively clasped in the dead hand. The Chouans It is true I saw the child die—here is the proof of it, councillors,' and she drew forth the little dead hand and held it before them. Maiwa's Revenge When that dead hand was found, she fell swooning, and lay at death's door for you, and now she has stained her hands with blood for you. Put Yourself in His Place Let a man bow down to the dead hand of custom and he can never again be true to what he thinks and knows. The Vision Splendid And in your young maiden morn, You may scorn, But you must be Bound and sociate to me; With this thread from out the tomb my dead hand shall tether thee! Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters Then he clove the water with a rush, his dead hand waved, the last of him to disappear; and I had a new horror to think over for my sins. Dead Men Tell No Tales The "dead hand" rules,—yes, and the dead thought, belief and custom continue to shape the lives and character of the living. The Foundations of Personality They came to say they knew Mr. Little well, and felt sure that was his dead hand they had seen at the Town Hall. Put Yourself in His Place “I heard a slipping sound, and a dead hand fell on the floor-lying outstretched, its palm turned upwards, showing beneath the valance of the couch.” A Lady of Quality Why put the posy in the cold dead hand? Bulchevy's Book of English Verse That thought was like the sweeping of a dead hand across his face. The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable The dead hand pushes all of us into intellectual cages; there is in all of us a strange tendency to yield and have done. In Defense of Women Moreover, in his hand he held another hand—a dead hand, that was thrust through a hole in the rock. Nada the Lily We'd been away more than a year, and he'd pulled down the old fences and put up new ones—first-rate work it was too; he was always a dead hand at splitting. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields The bottle fell from his dead hand upon the yams without breaking, although the remnant of its contents gurgled gently out upon the deck. Jerry of the Islands As the dead hand relaxed its grasp upon Tara's wrist the girl leaped forward, without a backward glance, to Gahan's side. The Chessmen of Mars |
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