Bronte_Jane_Eyre_71820.16Mr. St. John, when he saw me, merely bowed and passed through; the two ladies stopped: Mary, in a few words, kindly and calmly expressed the pleasure she felt in seeing me well enough to be able to come down; Diana took my hand: she shook her head at me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_73000.10"Indeed you SHALL stay here," said Diana, putting her white hand on my head.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9530.07May I ?"

Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_36870.19Lady Bassett laid her head down and loosened her stays, and discovered her condition.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_84550.19Lady Lundie shook her head compassionately, and smiled with angelic sadness.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_41630.18Catching hold of the hand which, with the greatest respect, he extended towards her, she instantly displayed to his dismayed sight the features of Lady Sara Ross.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_87440.18Lady Gwendoline's primrose-kidded hand was extended to him, Lady Gwendoline's smiling face beamed upon him from the most exquisite of Parisian bonnets.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_50820.18Then Mary Wells and she put their heads together in close discussion; but now Lady Bassett took the lead, and revealed to her astonished adviser extraordinary and astounding qualities.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_19040.17Lady Janet tapped him impatiently on the shoulder.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_41700.16Is Captain Ross--" Lady Sara shuddered, and still grasping his hand, answered with words every one of which palsied the heart of Thaddeus.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_32340.16Lady Janet advanced, and took her with hearty kindness by both hands.
Wood_East_Lynne_98120.14Lady Isabel started forward, her hands up, her voice one of painful entreaty.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_39930.14Lady mar kissed the hand that relinquished it, and gave way to a flood of grateful tears.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_39470.14Belle indignantly refused to comply, and shook off the hand of the old lady as if there had been contamination in her touch.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_77860.13"I mean to," said the lady, calmly.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_33750.13While she sat in this somber reverie a gentleman walked up to the door, and Mary Wells lifted her head and looked at him.
Evans_Beulah_21470.13She extended a hand eased in white kid, for the flowers, and looked steadily at the lady of the house as she spoke.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_90870.12Johannes bethought himself for an instant, and then said, looking Leuthold directly in the eye, "Is this same false friend the purchaser of the factory at Unkenheim?
Collins_Armadale_139610.12If so lady-like a person as I am could feel a tigerish tingling all over her to the very tips of her fingers, I should suspect myself of being in that condition at the present moment.
Evans_Vashti_7430.12Dr. Grey laid his hand gently on the shrivelled fingers that were busily engaged in shelling some seed-beans, and answered, jocosely,-- "Have I not often told you, that my dear, old, patient sister Janet, is my only lady-love?"
Wood_East_Lynne_154950.12Lady Isabel drew the hand in hers.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_64750.12Then Lady Carbury nodded her head.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_28420.12said Lady Carbury, holding up her hands.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_89710.12And then she took hold of both Lady Mason's hands.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_29460.12exclaimed Lady Tinemouth, doubtingly.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_4580.11he shouted, turning as white as the cambric he held in his hands--which became suddenly cold; while his heart went thump, thump, as he hastily exclaimed to the astonished lady, "Excuse me, ma'am, if you please--Jones," addressing the shopman next him, "will you attend to this lady?"
Wood_East_Lynne_117480.11Lady Isabel mechanically stretched out her hand for it.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_154880.11"Don't put the blame on her head," said Lady Glencora.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_75040.11Lady Bassett shuddered at his touch, but did not repel him.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_37290.11Lady Bassett put her hand to her brow, and thought.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_53630.11Lady Thetford held out her white hand.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_121570.11Lady Lundie put a still stronger constraint on herself.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_58880.10There was a murmur of astonishment--May and Rupert vividly interested, Lady Thetford white as a dead woman, her eyes averted, her hand trembling as if palsied.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_1390.10The three personages then, in perfect amity, bent their steps together towards the tavern.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_47670.10Lady Bassett's wrist went round his neck in a moment.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_38340.10said Mary Wells, in a broad, hearty way--"a cloud in your head!
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_47580.10Lady Dundas lifted up her clenched hand in a passion.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_112520.10And Lucius Mason got up and walked about the room holding his hand to his brow.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_24800.10He grasped Lady Helena's wrist and looked at her with haggard, bloodshot eyes.
Harland_Alone_44310.09A man handed her a package saying, briefly, "For Miss Ross," and instantly vanished.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_108410.09The old lady went up instantly to the lovely, shrinking girl and embraced her, saying significantly to Hilsborn, "Now I understand you!"
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_186270.08Alice did as she was bidden, and accepted the kiss and the congratulations, and a little box of jewellery which Lady Midlothian produced from out of her pocket.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_57240.08She stood by it, with one hand grasping the top rail, and with her eyes fixed in mocking scrutiny on Lady Janet's face.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_182090.07What should she now do with herself?
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_115570.07'But Carbury wasn't with her.'
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_17710.07"And yet I seem to know you so well!
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_48710.07What of that?
Collins_Woman_in_White_51450.07"Yes.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_73470.07"Think of what you are saying!
Collins_Man_and_Wife_8030.07"Yes."

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9590.11Near the door, at a respectful distance, stood a manhis thin figure was clad in a threadbare coat, and his hand, which he now and then stretched out in speaking, was hard and horny.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20810.16Mainau looked for one moment after the black- frocked figure as it glided down the steps, then turned sud- denly, and, with a strange gleam in his eyes, approached his young wife and held out his hands to her. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45850.14"If you would only loosen your hold of my arm, grandmamma," she said, impatiently, "I might possibly convince you that you are needlessly alarmed.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31800.07his fingers through his hair.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15380.07Use composedly asked. "

Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_4220.27It shook with his measured breath as he gave out the psalm, it threw its obscurity between him and the holy page as he read the Scriptures, and while he prayed the veil lay heavily on his uplifted countenance.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_11390.20"I wish to possess it," murmured Wilberg, casting down his eyes with a melancholy air.
Kingsley_Hypatia_36380.20Who knows that the breath of man goes upward, and that the breath of the beast goes downward to the earth?
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_84640.18She clapped her hands at the sight, and, declining his help, stepped lightly up the bank and began gathering.
Kingsley_Hypatia_90960.18And he held out his right hand to the awe-struck ring, and burst into an agony of weeping.... A clotted tress of long fair hair lay in his palm.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_3800.18'I am not so unreasonable as to expect any one to be always at hand,' said Charles, smiling, as he looked up at the frank, open face, and lustrous hazel eyes turned on him with compassion at the sight of his crippled, helpless figure, and with a bright, cordial promise of kindness.
Howells_A_Chance_Acquaintance_22590.18She suffered him to put her hand upon his arm, and then she began to feel a strange pride in his being tall and handsome, and hers.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_74290.18She closed them, but suddenly arose and, seizing her loosened hair with both hands, exclaimed: "I will have my hair cut off."
Cooper_The_Prairie_57290.17The old man raised his tottering frame to its knees, and first casting a glance upward at the countenance of his countryman, as if to bid him adieu, he stretched out his neck to the blow he himself invited.
Cooper_The_Prairie_4730.17He would have proceeded; but feeling a hand laid rudely on his shoulder, he turned his eyes upward, and beheld the dark and savage countenance of an Indian gleaming full upon him.
Bronte_Villette_93160.17The flambeau glares still within a yard, held up in a park-keeper's hand; its long eager tongue of flame almost licks the figure of the Expected--there--where she stands full in my sight.
Collins_No_Name_78530.16She kept fast hold of her master's arm, and looked across him at Magdalen with the dangerous expression of inquiry more marked than ever in her handsome black eyes.
Evans_Macaria_17070.16She wrung her hand from his, and drew her figure to its utmost height.
Evans_St_Elmo_72450.15He grasped her outstretched hand, folded it in his, which trembled violently, and a look of anguish mastered his features, as his eyes searched her calm countenance.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_12600.15The man's hand, which had been uplifted to display the vase, fell downward as he said this.
Wister_Schillingscourt_910.15For an instant the eyes of the mother gleamed, as if unawares, with genuine maternal pride as the tall, handsome youth approached her; but each of her hands held five eggs,_and so she held out a cheek over her shoulder for his kiss. "
Marryat_Peter_Simple_73570.15I cast my eyes upon the two celebrated stone figures of Melancholy and Raving Madness; as I passed them, I trembled, and clung more tightly to the general's arm, was assisted into the carriage, and bade farewell to madness and misery.
Evans_Inez_40890.15The sacred volume was feebly pushed beneath her head, and mechanically she undid the knot, and drew forth a glossy lock of black hair.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_269840.14With eager glance he contemplated the long lock of hair that he held between his fingers.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_42480.14"_'Le Rio est serci_,' said the thin meagre figure in nankeens, bowing, cap in hand, before the general; and accordingly, we all assumed our places upon the grass.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_28250.14The young man stood with folded arms, a haughty smile upon his lip and a gleam of triumph in his eye as he glanced downward at the kneeling girl.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_16240.14The Sister now put it on her middle finger, and held up her hand, and her bright eyes glanced at it, through her veil, with that delight which her sex in general feel at the possession of a new bauble.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_38590.14As she rose, and we shook hands, in a silence only broken by the rustle of her black dress, not one of us thought--surely the most evil-minded gossip could not have dared to think--that there was anything strange in her receiving us here.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_13610.14She lightly burlesqued the woes of a prima donna, with clasped hands and uplifted eyes.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_77780.13She leant on his breast, and rested her head on his shoulder again in silence, for her heart was too full of awe and thankfulness for words, even had she not been without breath or power to speak, and needing his support in her giddiness and trembling.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_91850.13My eye shall be here, and my hand shall still be so over you all," and raising his thin hand, he held it high up, the nails pointing downward.
Evans_Inez_1910.13Mary gazed sadly on her cousin, who stood mechanically smoothing her glossy black hair.
Alcott_Little_Men_24610.13The berry-stained lips were half-open as the breath came and went, the yellow hair lay damp on the hot forehead, and both the chubby hands held fast the little pail still full.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_4050.13Swathed about his forehead and hanging down over his face, so low as to be shaken by his breath, Mr. Hooper had on a black veil.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_31630.12I lost sight of him long before I obeyed the summons, leading a lady assigned to me, a head taller than myself, who held a handkerchief in her hand that looked like a lace veil, and shook it in my face as we walked down the stairs.
Evans_Macaria_11270.12With a long, warm pressure of hands they parted, and Irene stood looking after the graceful figure till it glided out of sight.
Evans_St_Elmo_68900.12Leaning heavily against it, she stood for some time with her face averted, and beneath the veil of long, floating hair Mrs. Murray saw the slight figure sway to and fro, like a reed shaken by the breeze.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_27070.12He waved his hands with an upward motion; and, after a few repetitions of similar gestures, the beautiful Alice Pyncheon awoke from her strange trance.
Disraeli_Lothair_53690.12He retained Lothair's hand and pressed it with his pale, thin fingers; his attenuated countenance blazed for a moment with a divine light.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_34360.11There was an unusual gleam in his eyes, and his lips trembled.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_37320.11Johannes cast at her a glance of kindly entreaty.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_7570.11Her eyes full of tears, she pointed the spot out to Eberhard.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_54210.11Her eyes were so lustrous that the child put out its hand as if to seize them.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_5030.10He shook his head, like one who had sufficient reasons for his silence; and, relinquishing the tiller, he quite coolly obliged a gaping countryman, in the centre of the boat, to yield his place, where he laid his own athletic form, at full length, folded his arms on his breast, and shut his eyes.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_92860.10He could not look up; but he felt Guy's hand touch his head, and heard him say, 'That was done long ago.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_13750.10"Shall be pleased with his acquaintance," said Marks, thrusting out a long, thin hand, like a raven's claw.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_10450.10And, clapping to her book, Anastasia stretches her long thin neck to hear.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_2030.10He never relaxed his efforts, but could not help watching the enemy as he came up with him hand over hand, and envying the perfect ease with which he seemed to be pulling his long steady stroke and the precision with which he steered, scarcely ever casting a look over his shoulder.
Evans_Vashti_54230.10Silently I looked on the handsome features that had so suddenly grown loathsome to me, and he snatched my wedding ring from the table and held it appealingly towards me, saying remorsefully, 'Evelyn, my wife, forgive your wretched husband!'
Cooper_The_Prairie_1050.09"By what name," returned the old man, pointing significantly upward, "would you call the spot, where you see yonder cloud?"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_122270.08"But you who are a reasonable being, Lucien, and who knows how little dependence is to be placed on the news, since you are at the fountain-head, surely you ought to prevent it," said Morcerf, with a smile.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_53030.08I will fight with pen and hand and tongue against these outlaws, so long as there is a puff of wind in my body, and a drop of indomitable blood in my veins."
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_54960.07That is, I have a kind of horrid dreamy remembrance of buffeting in the waves, and shaking off a hand that grasped me by the shoulder, and then feeling the water gathering over me as I grew more and more exhausted.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_6720.07is he there?"
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_17440.07"No, indeed.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55210.11he exclaimed, as he stretched out his hand and bent from the saddle: "You can't do without me, that is evident.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_90920.08I muttered.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31410.10"Do so," cried Felicitas almost hoarsely, with quiverirg lips, and a face from which every drop of blood had departed.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3900.08"There it is!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11110.08"Yes, I have grown old, old and feeble!

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60080.20Herr Claudius was already upon his feet ; he was hold- ing himself erect with one hand grasping the rail of the banister, and as the moon shone full upon the face that he turned towards me, I saw that it was deathly pale. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37140.17He had turned away at first towards the window, but he looked around now with undeniable disapproval on his face,—he scarcely seemed like himself.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_24890.14The man grew pale to the very lips ; he raised his hand as if to strike the wayward boy. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_11280.14Suddenly he transferred both reins and whip to one hand, took hold of Elizabeth’s chin, and turned her face up to him.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15760.13Bella lifted her head and glanced at the mischief she had done; then she turned and went across to Herr von Walde to give him her hand.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22080.13She turned round,—not Miss Mertens, but Hollfeld, was standing behind her and spreading out his arms with a smile, as if to seize the startled girl.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23310.12As he lifted his head his face was quite purple from stooping.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_940.12At the last exclamation he lifted his forefinger and darted such an angry glance at the old man, that he left his sentence unfinished and turned away his head.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27790.07He turned the parcel about irresolutely.

Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_16550.26She bent nearer to him, swaying her slender figure, with its bright gossamer muslins, like a dainty hare-bell, and lifting her face to his--earnest, beseeching, and very eager.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_44860.24said the marshal, reading slowly from a slip of paper he held twisted round one finger.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_75900.22Beaufort grew deadly pale as he bent over the crownpiece, and seemed scarcely to have courage to look his friend in his face.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_11040.21"On the left of that last shrine," asked the sculptor, as they rode, under the moon, "did you observe the figure of a woman kneeling, with her, face hidden in her hands?"
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_60420.20The averted face of Lady Thetford never turned, but a smothered voice bade her go on.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_26670.20she almost screamed, involuntarily steadying herself by the table as if she needed a support; every trace of colour faded from her face, and she muttered beneath her breath, "He is mad!"
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_118260.20But opening the inclosure he caught a glance of a hand he did know, and let everything else drop on the bed, while he held this and gazed at it, and the color flushed into his white cheek.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_28650.19She lifted her face suddenly to her companion.
Alcott_Work_13510.18With the same indefinable misgiving which had held her aloof, Christie turned to Rachel, lifted up the hidden face with gentle force, and looked into it imploringly, as she whispered: "Is it true?"
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_10310.18Even his florid, wine-inflamed cheeks grew pale, and he raised his hand tremblingly to his head, and slowly lifted his eyes like a man who dreads seeing something, but is impelled to look.
Harris_Rutledge_52900.18He held it for one instant, then dropping it, turned hastily away.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_39270.17Robert Audley's pale face flushed a vivid crimson as he stretched out his hand to receive the papers.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_39610.17I do not say she stirred not, on the contrary, it was the impulsive grace of her gesture, as she swayed her hand to a little mound of moss by her side, just deserted, that made me start and turn to see her, that turned me from _his_ face a moment.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_91060.17She had put both hands on one arm, and turned herself round, and looked into his face.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_85350.17If it would only be the end of us, why, then--" Emmeline turned away, and hid her face in her hands.
Collins_No_Name_53070.17The paper dropped out of her hand, and she suddenly pulled down her veil.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_20180.17"But I can't face her tongue; it goes through me like a pitchfork; but as for him"--and he clinched his fist most significantly; then he revolved one or two plans in his head, and rejected them each in turn.
Evans_St_Elmo_2680.17The eyes stared at the moon, the stiff fingers clutched the pipe from which the ashes had not been shaken, and the face was cold and rigid.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_95150.16She opened it, and the joyful color suffused her cheek, and she held out her hand to him; but, as she turned her head away mighty prettily at the same time, she did not see the captain was proffering a second document, and she was a little surprised when, instead of a warm grasp, all friendship and no love, a piece of paper was shoved into her delicate palm.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_29230.16Her face was still deadly pale, and she trembled a little as he placed his arm round her, trembled still more as it held her firmly a second longer than was usual on such occasions.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_25780.16Sadly and doggedly he turned the iron handle, and turned and turned again; and then he panted and rested a minute, and then doggedly to his idle toil again.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_39670.16I could not see his face, which was hidden by the curtain, but all his lower limbs were shaking and quivering.)
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_14250.16But she must have felt an inward anxiety, for her hands trembled and her face was flushed with excitement.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_97660.16D'Artagnan grew pale, and a convulsive trembling shook all his limbs.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_240.15He now dropped his glass, shook his head, then put up his glass again, and finally said, more to himself than to his companions, "That is--Marzell Wronsky--and---- He bit his lip, and did not finish the sentence.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_56780.15His face grew livid, and his right hand, closing on the paper, crushed it convulsively.
Kingsley_Hypatia_70520.15And Pelagia hid her face in her hands, while convulsive shudderings ran through every limb.... 'I must do it!
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_22680.15He released his hands from her, and uttered this cry under his breath, with his face lifted towards the heavens.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_30930.15A slight flush overspread Johannes' face as he handed Moritz the paper.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_33270.15He had grasped her slender wrist, but she freed herself hastily and her face grew rigid.
Evans_Vashti_56960.15Mr. Minge turned pale, and grasped the carved balustrade against which he rested.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_202780.15M. de Morcerf turned pale, and clinched his hands on the papers he held.
Harris_Rutledge_20290.15She began, in truth, to "smell a rat," for passing her hand rapidly over the front breadth, she shook her head doubtingly, then lifted the suspicious garment to the sunlight, then holding it at arms' length, uttered an exclamation of surprise, turned it up, and examining the hem all around, dropped it; turned the pocket inside out--felt of the band around the waist--recognized its unfamiliarity--and with a low muttering of suppressed wrath, gathered herself up, and hastened toward the house.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_2520.15Then, profiting by my surprise and stupor, the two sirens came gently forward to a sort of low music, turning and twisting and extending their arms and legs in all directions.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_73900.15Pale and worn, with bent head and sad face, sir Rowland Scudamore fell into the ranks amongst his friends of the garrison, and with them rode in silence.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_67450.15Mr. Amory bowed his head upon the hands which, still held tightly between his own, now rested on her lap, and, hiding his face upon her slender fingers, tremblingly uttered her name.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_46590.15I must go," said she, dropping her veil.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_175840.14His companion followed him, and laid a hand upon his shoulder; but Burgo shook him off, and would not turn round.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_32520.14The table was loaded with papers, but there was no strew,--that "spirit" ever moulded to harmony its slightest "motion;" one delicate hand was outspread over a sheet, a pen was in the other: he did not seem surprised, scarcely aroused.
Evans_Macaria_7030.14The artist was standing before an easel which held Irene's unfinished portrait, and as he turned to greet his visitors, Electra saw that, though thin and pale, his face was one of rare beauty and benevolence.
Cooper_The_Prairie_40660.14The old man waved his hand with authority, and led the way without further parlance to the spot he had indicated, followed by the whole of his alarmed companions.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_90790.14asked the bishop, turning very pale.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_263800.14"You can't see your hand before your face.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_53970.14But she turned to her visitor with a face that told nothing.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_13370.14I can scarcely hold this pen.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_110810.13She was sitting close over the fire, leaning low, holding up her little hands as a screen to her face, and looking at her companion earnestly.
Evans_Vashti_36650.13She struggled to free her hands and hide her face, but her companion clasped them in one of his, and attempted to draw her head down to his shoulder.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_35690.13He hated the very name, he said, and hid his face with a shudder.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_27930.13"One romantic marriage has turned all your heads."
Trollope_Orley_Farm_570.13Mr. Usbech had had a pen in his hand; she was sure of that.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_4720.07Can you tell me that?"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_31590.13"Very well, I am coming," said the Professor; but he _ made no motion to go.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19600.17The court chaplain had started up, and now held out his hand to the young wife ; but with a forbidding gesture she retreated from his approach. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_27770.13The bookkeeper's thrust had been successful.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54140.10" Willibald "I must beg you," he interrupted her, raising his hand with a forbidding gesture. "

Evans_Vashti_26430.21She impatiently jerked the dress to disengage it, but it clung to the steel points, and a long rent was made in the muslin.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_38720.18The other was left alone to stem, as it were, that tide of deafening acclaim; he slightly compressed his lip, made a slight motion forwards; he lifted his hand with the slight deprecation that modesty or pride might have suggested alike,--still hopelessly.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_129610.17She smiled as he stooped to kiss her, and then made him stand erect, and measure himself against Norman, whose height he had almost reached.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_3030.17I walked about on the shore, lifting up my hands and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance, making a thousand gestures and motions which I cannot describe; reflecting upon all my comrades that were drowned, and that there should not be one soul saved but myself; for, as for them, I never saw them afterwards, or any sign of them, except three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes that were not fellows.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_36690.17And the prince made a slight motion as if to disengage himself from her and look at her, when, seeing her weeping, he threw down the bouquet, and, taking her hands, cried: "You are weeping!
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_54570.17Lady Luxellian stood aloof from 'em so--was so drowsy-like, that they couldn't love her in the jolly-companion way children want to like folks.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_77460.16She made a slight gesture of surprise at seeing him, and held out her hand.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_10900.15The Parsee made a sign in the affirmative, and put his fingers on his lips.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_55400.15Slowly and instinctively she retreated and put up her hands with a deprecatory gesture.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_55200.15He had raised an arm to arrest the retreat of the young mariner, and by a natural movement his hand slid along the limb it had grasped, until it held that of Seadrift.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_14130.14I catched hold of Friday: "Hold," said I, "stand still;" and made signs to him not to stir.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_53880.14Magua shook his head, and made an impatient sign for the crowd to open.
Collins_The_Moonstone_20060.14The man made of cotton had disappeared; and the man made of iron sat before me again.
Aguilar_Home_Influence_37100.14was the reply, but with such a fearful effort, that her slight frame shook as with an ague; "thank God, that it is known!
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_10920.14Come, dame, make me not waste time and friendly counsel: my servant has seen them together a score times, handed, and reading babies in one another's eyes like - you know, dame - you have been young, too."
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_32090.14When Dr. Byles beheld this figure on the staircase, he shivered as with an ague, but continued to watch him steadfastly until the gouty gentleman had reached the threshold, made a gesture of anguish and despair and vanished into the outer gloom, whither the funeral music summoned him.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_13010.14You will not understand this until some passion, springing up in your own breast, dashes through all your clauses at a stroke, and upsets your conclusions."
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_83900.13At this some six duennas, advancing across the court, made their appearance in procession, one after the other, four of them with spectacles, and all with their right hands uplifted, showing four fingers of wrist to make their hands look longer, as is the fashion now-a-days.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_227870.13He turned his head mechanically towards the Bacchanal Queen, without opening his eyes, and heaved a deep sigh; his stiffened limbs relaxed, a slight trembling succeeded to the convulsions, and in a few seconds his heavy eyelids were raised with an effort, so as to uncover his dull and wandering gaze.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_196220.13he exclaimed, with a threatening gesture.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_23410.13Saying this he made a gesture, and five of his men came up.
Harland_Jessamine_32600.12The watcher struggled to arise, to raise her hands to her madly throbbing head, but a dull paralysis was upon her limbs.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_73700.12Meta did not speak, but she held out her hand in hearty congratulation; Norman, scarce knowing what he did, grasped and wrung it so tight that it was positive pain, as he turned away his head to the window to struggle with those irrepressible tears.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_13890.12Passe-partout, like a Frenchman, wanted to argue the point, but the policeman touched him with his cane, and his master made him a sign to obey.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_19060.12He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_26980.12At the same time he stepped before the hat-stand, rubbing up his oily hair, and thinking "Mr. Joel Slocum would make an impression anywhere."
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_10770.12The Parsee signed to him to hold his tongue.
Wood_East_Lynne_157160.11There was a slight struggle at the last, a fighting for breath, otherwise she went off quite peacefully.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_40080.11Her hands lifted themselves with a slight, imploring gesture toward him.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_28640.11He took her hand once more, kissed it passionately, and hurried from the room.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_7050.11cried Isabel, when the train was again in motion, "have we really dined once more?
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_43210.11said I, softly, 'caught, like Tannhäuser of old in the Hörfelsberg!'
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_27520.11He made a slight gesture upward with his hand.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_21710.11There was a creaking of machinery behind, and some of the young ones turned their heads.
Evans_Inez_39870.11No disturbing hand had misplaced one stiffened member.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_17730.11The head of Dr. Ketchup had disappeared from the window about the middle of this speech, and the remainder of it came by sheer force of internal pressure, like the flowing of an artesian well.
Kingsley_Hypatia_46070.11Arsenius made an imploring gesture to Peter to be silent.
Evans_Infelice_17660.11She made an effort to shake off his hand, but it closed firmly upon her, and he asked: "Do you know who I am?"
Cooper_Pathfinder_7840.11He met the grasp of his young friend with a squeeze as cordial as if no chord had jarred between them, and a slight sternness that had gathered about his eye disappeared in a look of natural kindness.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_11470.10And a merry peal of laughter rang up the stairs as Dolores, evading Buttons's arm, which that young man had tried to pass about her waist, dashed away into the darkness and out of sight.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_30550.10Lady Janet held up her hand as a sign that she had an objection to make here.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_34920.10"A peal of music accompanied the three hearty cheers of the people; the two pretty girls laid the wreath at Anna Maria's feet as she kindly shook hands with the speaker.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_2190.10said the Amazon, with a threatening gesture, and lifting, as she spoke, the pitcher she held in her hand.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_8480.10sighed the victim, raising himself with reluctance, while the Seraph disappeared in a cloud of Turkish.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_64710.10At these words he held up triumphantly the French assignat, and waved it before the eyes of the court.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_18620.10He lifted his hand, but not his head, in a stealthy gesture of menace as he reached the door.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_52250.10She rose, feeling cold and cramped--she undressed with stiffened fingers, and went to bed.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_74320.09Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the collar of his coat.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_63680.09You do not avoid going to war by that means; you see, the cardinal is about to make the next campaign, helm on head and partisan in hand.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_51980.09The abbe opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment, then, making an effort at self-control, he said, "And Mercedes -- they tell me that she has disappeared?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64640.22His fury was wrought to the highest: he must yield to it for a moment, whatever followed; he crossed the floor and seized my arm and grasped my waist.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_97470.16Then he stretched his hand out to be led.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_96550.14"A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92160.14It opened slowly: a figure came out into the twilight and stood on the step; a man without a hat: he stretched forth his hand as if to feel whether it rained.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_72020.13And still holding my hand she made me rise, and led me into the inner room.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37780.13Mr. Rochester was standing near me; he had taken my hand, as if to lead me to a chair.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_12240.11The teachers then shook hands with me and kissed me, and a murmur of pleasure ran through the ranks of my companions.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85430.09"I am ready to go to India, if I may go free."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27290.09But he still retained my hand, and I could not free it.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42980.14"Fayl" cried the Professor, and held out his arms.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18870.14The young girl rose to go—but the child began to cry bitterly, and throwing her arms around her, held her ightly with both hands.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_28590.13The Professor was walking up and d)Wn the room with his hands clasped behind him.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37440.12Now he dropped them slowly, and said, with despairing composure: "The past is all against me,—and yet you are wrong, Felicitas.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11010.12Felicitas threw her arms around the feeble little figure, which seemed for a moment so frail and helpless.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17950.10she cried out to the Professor.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18880.09The Professor felt the poor little Wrist. "
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6890.08With these words, he drew the struggling girl to the door. "

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29540.24By a hasty movement she released her hand from his arm, and stepped a little aside.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_45680.19Mainau offered her his arm and led her to the carriage. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6800.19He soon returned, and assuring her that she was expected, led the way quickly up the stairs, scarcely touching the steps with the tips of his toes.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8970.17The dog walked beside her, and behind them came the horse, led by the bridle in Lothar’s hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2590.17Slowly, and I thought reluctantly, he extended his hand, and then I shrank back, really ashamed of myself.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27560.17Leaning back in the corner of the lounge, he never stirred, he almost held his breath.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64100.17I drew my hand from his. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41570.17I offer you my hand.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35860.17I shall follow you step for step ; I will dog your every movement; never will I withdraw the hand that I have stretched forth towards you.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_12960.17Kitty shrank back involuntarily when the old lady then handed her Flora’s photograph.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67460.16It had all come true : I walked beside him clasped by his strong arm, while his left held together the cloak that he had thrown around me.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_48150.16She was not as ungrateful as I ; she had not repulsed the hand extended to protect her ; she had resigned herself thankfully to the sustaining arm.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64380.15I raised my head, and tried to free myself from his arm. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33620.15He seized his hat, and offered me his arm. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25990.14But the forester advanced, threw his arm around his niece, and then held her off at arm’s length, that he might scan her delicate figure.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7220.14Hold your head high: that’s the chief thing to do."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13600.14"Ah, dear child," she said, and laid her cold, damp hand upon her young friend’s arm, "I have had a nervous attack.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4660.13She walked slowly, with bent head; in her left hand she carried a rake, while through her right she let the green cars of wheat slip slowly as she passed along.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_31770.13Mainau walked some paces along the picket-fence, gazed for a few moments at the marigolds bordering a cabbage-bed, and then came slowly back to the table, where Liana was gathering together, with trembling hands, the sheets of paper that were scattered upon the grass. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23930.12Give me Leo, Mainau 1" She held out her hand to him in entreaty ; he thrust it from him.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2950.12Whilst Heinemann was taking basket and trunk from the carriage, the others walked towards the house.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_48050.12Fraulein Fliedner was standing on the topmost step, and held out her hands to him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19860.12lotte, lightly stepping to the mirror and drawing her little cap farther over her forehead.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32800.12Kitty, as if unconsciously, let her hand remain within her brother-in-law’s arm.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9330.12"No one has taken off your travelling-jacket or offered you a chair; you are forced instead, whether you will or not, to listen to useless discussions, and left standing upon the cold marble, while warm rugs are at hand."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33710.12As he spoke, his aunt, struggling against her evident emotion, held out her hand to him, and he—usually reserve itself—put his arm around her slender form and clasped her close to his breast.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51930.12The blue curtains were drawn close behind two windows upon the ground-floor of the castle.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21240.11Could she have tossed it down from heaven into the lap of one who is forced to work for her living, and whom, moreover, she never set eyes on while she was alive?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50830.11Kitty quietly released her dress from the detaining hand that grasped it, and turned back into the room.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5230.10The countess was so angry that she raised her hand as if to thrust her daughter back across the threshold of the door, saying, " Go to your room, instantly, and change this " She ceased involuntarily, for Baron Mainau had taken her hand, and, although he said nothing, there was that in his look and gesture which forbade further remonstrance.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47160.10Grandmamma is pacing her room and wringing her hands in fear lest the ’colossal fortune’ should fall into stranger hands.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_58160.10Will you lend me your carriage ?
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29190.09" I thank you 1" she said, cordially, and offered him her hand. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_7810.09They were passed from hand to hand, while .
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4160.09He offered his arm to Gisela.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15880.09asked Gisela, holding out her hand.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_13250.09You shall not touch my face with your cold hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7680.09Then she felt an arm thrown about her, and " Claudine!"
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2610.09And she put her arm within that of her husband, who stood beside her. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23640.09And how she would throw her arms around you as if nothing should ever loosen their clasp?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10620.09And she pointed to the third finger of her left hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2910.08He pointed with outstretched arm to the blooming landscape without. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52670.08He hurried to her side, and, regardless of all else, put his arm around her to support her.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17400.08Her back was turned to him, and by the movement of her shoulders he could see that she was breathing spasmodically.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47550.07Liana was slowly approaching upon the arm of a chamber- lain with whom she had danced the polonaise.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16980.07With all the finished repose of the omnipotent Minister he stretched out his hand toward his wife to enforce silence. "

Evans_Macaria_29060.34Instead of receiving the hands he drew back a step, and crossed his arms proudly over his chest.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_158580.33He offered his arm to the countess; she took it, or rather just touched it with her little hand, and they together descended the steps, lined with rhododendrons and camellias.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_75980.29He took her unresisting hand, drew it within his arm, and led her down the stairs.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_54880.28But, faith, our fellows didn't care much to save a prize for the English, and they would n't lend a hand to the pumps, but crossed their arms and stood still, waiting for her to go down; when what did we see but two boats lowered from the 'Blanche' and dropped into the sea, which was then running mountains high.
Evans_St_Elmo_56050.27Sir Roger Percival gave his arm to Mrs. Andrews, and the editor drew Edna's cloak over her shoulders, took her hand and led her down the steps.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_172680.27Villefort mechanically felt for the handle of the door; Valentine, who understood sooner than anyone her grandfather's answer, and who had often seen two scars upon his right arm, drew back a few steps.
Collins_The_Moonstone_33660.26Instead of resisting Penelope, as she had done the moment before, she now let my daughter take her by the arm and lead her back to the house.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_104500.25"I will do nothing that you and papa do not approve," said Madeline, holding down her head.
Evans_Macaria_17290.25He stretched out his hand, but she drew back a step.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_122670.25"This is the hand and arm that worked with me like a good master: this is the hand and arm that overpowered a blackguard and saved me: this is the hand and arm that saved my Grace from a prison and public shame.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_77580.24Seeing this Sancho got up, and grappling with his master he gripped him with all his might in his arms, giving him a trip with the heel stretched him on the ground on his back, and pressing his right knee on his chest held his hands in his own so that he could neither move nor breathe.
Wood_East_Lynne_136560.24"I ran quickly up the stairs and back again," was the explanation she offered to Mrs. Carlyle for her shaking hands.
Harland_Jessamine_23570.24He waited a minute more, and, with gentle force, undid her right hand from its hold upon its fellow, and drew it within his arm.
Disraeli_Lothair_15250.24"This gentleman," she continued, "has most kindly offered us the use of his carriage, which is almost at hand."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_206830.23But Monte Cristo, without rising, and leaning forward in his chair, merely stretched out his arm and, taking the damp, crushed glove from the clinched hand of the young man, "Sir," said he in a solemn tone, "I consider your glove thrown, and will return it to you wrapped around a bullet.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_54900.23It was no wonder that when he held out his hand to lead her down into the darkness and through winding ways to the mouth of the far-off beehive dungeon--it was no wonder, I say, that she should shrink and draw back.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_186990.23Villefort drew back a few steps, and, clasping his hands, exclaimed, with real amazement and sympathy, "Dead?
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_55470.22Arthur's look met his; only for a second, then he freed himself from the strong arms which would have held him back.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_36500.22"No," I answered, drawing back my pure Edith from her outstretched hands.
Cooper_The_Spy_53350.22She waited not for his answer, but gently forced him through the door, and closed it with her own hands.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_24320.22I am willing to offer you a helping hand.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_133490.22Now I am quite free," said he, drawing himself up; "quite free.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_152490.22Morcerf, who ran towards him with open arms, was chilled as he drew near, in spite of the friendly smile, and simply held out his hand.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_153290.22Morcerf, who ran towards him with open arms, was chilled as he drew near, in spite of the friendly smile, and simply held out his hand.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_26920.21said the Captain, throwing himself back in the chair, and smiling; "can't answer off hand.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_15150.21Hastening out to meet her, he held her hand in his, while he led her up the walk, telling her by his manner, if by nothing else, how glad he was to see her.
Harland_Jessamine_34710.21on the short and easy journey, and to ask your blessing upon these, our children, who would walk after you, hand in hand.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_106190.21--Irma drew back into the dark corner of the carriage and held her breath.
Wister_Schillingscourt_6430.21"YOUR hand is feverish," said the Baroness, as, standing upon the steps leading into the garden, she put her hand within her husband’s arm, and in so doing touched his hand.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_16930.21While he spoke, the men who held the prisoner let go their hold, and the prior stretching out his hand, gave him to a party of monks to conduct into the convent.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_10370.21The arm of the latter slowly gave way before the increasing force of the scout, who, suddenly wresting his armed hand from the grasp of the foe, drove the sharp weapon through his naked bosom to the heart.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_50940.21"I should only have had to stretch out my arm to save him and I had not done it--because I could not say yes at once, he would not listen to me any more.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_87150.21I shall soon see him again shall hold him in my arms, and set him on my knees.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_37690.21The carriage went slowly on, and drew her hand away.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_34270.21Perhaps you will be kind enough to lend me your arm, Lepel."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_143540.21"We must go," replied Villefort, offering his arm.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_167360.20Madeline walked up to him with extended hand and a kindly welcome, though she felt that the colour was high in her cheeks.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_27280.20and they pursued their journey hand in hand, Martin leading the way, into the depths of the huge forest.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_335110.20Marius slowly crossed the room, and, when he was quite close to Jean Valjean, he offered the latter his hand.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_244890.20And Villefort, with his papers under his arm and hat in hand, directed his steps toward the apartment of his wife.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_229790.20Valentine stretched out her hand, but scarcely had she touched the glass when she drew back in fear.
Broughton_Nancy_34230.20answer I, again throwing back my head, and looking upward, as if trying to trace my last preposition among the clouds; "but--_-but_-- where could I have put a '_but'_'?--oh, I know!
Cooper_The_Pioneers_46610.20It was evident he prided himself on the powers of the physical man, like all who have nothing better to boast of; and, stretching out his broad hand, with the palm downward, he said, keeping his eyes fastened on his own bones and sinews: "Come, give us a touch of the book.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_211890.19M. de Montbron, leaning from the carriage, stretched out his arms towards the child, and said to her: "Give me your hands, little girl."
Reade_Foul_Play_22460.19They ran down to her and crept under her lee; down came ropes to them, held by friendly hands, and friendly faces shone down at them.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_43470.19She crossed herself, with one hand drawn free as I spoke so boldly; and something swelled in her little throat, and prevented her from answering.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_56800.19I crossed my arms before my breast, and waited for my doom.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_25700.19I was in no merry mood, however; and turning to him, grasped his hand.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_330690.19Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic hands, with a smile?
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_22470.19Just as she was going to enter she suddenly drew back her hand.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_27460.11Raising his arm, he pointed, like a prophet, to the Karolinenlust. "

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_196610.24said Caderousse, supported by a supernatural power, and half-raising himself to see more distinctly the man who had just taken the oath which all men hold sacred; "who, then, are you?"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_197740.24said Caderousse, supported by a supernatural power, and half-raising himself to see more distinctly the man who had just taken the oath which all men hold sacred; "who, then, are you?"
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_75250.17No master is rattened for a workman's fault without several warnings.
Harris_Rutledge_1410.16The doctor shook his head as the door closed, and said, partly to himself, and partly to the woman who seemed to be officiating as nurse: "He goes at his own risk; it may do or it may not."
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_39290.16and Tom clenched his hands, as if it would be an immense relief to him to thrash half a dozen aspersers of his father's honest name.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_32800.16Already half of the danger was passed, when, reaching forward to grasp Nancy's outstretched hand, she missed it--_perhaps_ that was Nancy's fault--poor Ellen lost her balance, and went in head foremost.
Alcott_Little_Men_21670.16But she held him fast, and said, laughing as she looked at the dozen pairs of dirty hands about her, "If I did lecture, it would on the chemical and cleansing properties of soap.
Reade_Foul_Play_95620.13Mrs. James demurred to that; but Nancy stood firm; Mrs. James yielded.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_63790.13She ran up and slipped her hand through Knight's arm, partly for love, partly for stability.
Evans_Macaria_29070.13She raised her fascinating eyes to his, folded her palms together, and, pressing them to her heart, said, slowly and distinctly-- "I heard that you were ordered to Virginia, to the post of danger; and knowing to what risks you will be exposed, I wished to see you at least once more in this world.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_36610.12"Half-a-dozen that would cry their eyes out."
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_6150.12Crying and kissing--crying and kissing--that's what they mean.
Bronte_Shirley_124430.11She could hold half a dozen hands like yours in her one palm.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_32850.10Then there was much kissing, and shaking of hands, and promising to come again, and away they drove to Hillsborough.
Harland_At_Last_30250.09She submitted to his kiss, without returning it--even raising her hand pettishly as to repel further endearments.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_97750.06"No."
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_35230.06'I don't know what I said.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_71310.06'Why?
Collins_Man_and_Wife_56840.06Well!

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_46550.17"Because I disliked you too fixedly and thoroughly ever to lend a hand in lifting you to prosperity.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76910.16In spite of his Christian stoicism, when she went up and addressed him, and smiled gaily, encouragingly, even fondly in his face, his hand would tremble and his eye burn.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_57780.11I would fain have spoken to her, but my hand was held by a grasp of iron: I was hurried along by a stride I could hardly follow; and to look at Mr. Rochester's face was to feel that not a second of delay would be tolerated for any purpose.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34540.12The girl’s trembling fingers opened the book.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_4610.11she began, and raised her forefinger threateningly—"but no"—she interrupted herself with touching gentleness, and glanced towards the dead man —-"not one word more shall disturb your holy rest.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12040.15He drew forth another paper,—— a small, yellow, rumpled slip,—and it trembled visibly in the hand that was thus adducing proof after proof of the Minister’s guilt.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55890.14The room grew dim about her, and the slip of paper trembled in the hands that shook as if with a fever-fit.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24590.14She clenched her small hand upon the table and gazed into his face for one moment, her lips compressed and white.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29750.12The invalid’s hand, Which he still held in his, trembled perceptibly. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_15840.11Then she drew a casket towards her, and, with a hand that trembled slightly, took from it a small object.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45370.10Frightened as I was, I angrily seized his arm with both hands and tried to pull him away ; but in an instant I felt my waist closely embraced, and Dagobert whispered in my ear, " Little tigress, do not touch me or look at me so ; it is dangerous.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2310.0817 " Oh, Gabriel !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_36990.08I trembled be^ fore him.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12830.07The Hofmarschall rubbed the paper between his fingers. "

The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_60030.25But the old man, instead of obeying, grasped the hand of his master in both of his and said in a heartrending tone: "Ach, Your Highness, how we have trembled and feared for you at Rodeck!"
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_72260.22The Staatsrthin shook up the coffee, but her hands trembled visibly.
Harland_Alone_88130.22His tongue was oily as ever, notwithstanding his limbs refused to do their office; and when Will entered, in answer to the vehement ring, he was holding the door with both hands, swinging it with him in his attempts to bow to the ladies, he was addressing as, "incomparable pair!
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_4140.22He talked to them both in that lazy, pleasant voice of his, or lay silent and stroked his mustache with his diamond-ringed hand, and looked handsome, and whether the talk or the silence were most dangerous, it would have puzzled a cleverer man than Richard Gilbert to tell.
Evans_Beulah_41150.21Not even physicians were spared; and those who escaped trembled in anticipation of the fell stroke.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_10130.20All in an instant the old, gray-haired woman's hands began to tremble violently.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_155450.20At the touch, brutus trembled with hate; at the order, his countenance fell like Cain's.
Evans_Vashti_23140.20She clenched her fingers as if she were strangling something, and an expression came over her face that was dangerous, and made me shiver a little.
Collins_Armadale_169260.20Her hand began to tremble violently as she fed the funnel for the fourth time.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_138960.19This Torrington was a little old man, and Graham had watched how his hands had trembled when Sir Richard first addressed him.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_55210.19If I but touch his hand, the giant trembles.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_48630.19The paper fell from Boldwood's hands.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_27910.19There was just a touch of ridicule in Bud's voice.
Collins_Woman_in_White_120100.19Our hands began to tremble again when they met.
Collins_Armadale_10600.19The hand touched it, and trembled violently.
Broughton_Nancy_57230.19He has dropped my hand, as if he disliked the touch of it.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_69570.18She stood now with one hand on Hunting's trembling arm, for at that supreme moment her heart was very tender, and she pitied while she wondered at him.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_31010.18She grew paler and more silent, so that the old family physician often shook his head anxiously when he visited her, although he could not pronounce her really ill. Once he wrote to Bernhard about her, and Bernhard thought 'of course she cannot recover from Lothar's loss,' and, in spite of his pity for her, he crushed the innocent letter in his hand and flung it from him as if it contained some poison that he feared to touch.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_81800.18Her arms were on the window-sill--her face fell upon them.
Bronte_Shirley_90850.17Look at her small face, Mrs. Pryor, scarcely larger than the palm of my hand, alive with acuteness and eagerness."
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_113040.17He trembled in every limb at what was coming, but he handed her into her carriage, and went with her to the Town Hall.
Alcott_Little_Women_51780.17The bridegroom's hand trembled visibly, and no one heard his replies.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_150780.17She longed for the pleasant voice, the eye of thousand expressions, into which she always looked as if she had never seen it before, the calm look that told he was satisfied with her, the touch of his hand, which many a time had said a volume.
Evans_Infelice_31040.17The anguish, the hopelessness written in her blanched face, and the trembling of the childishly small hands that had unconsciously tightened around his touched him.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_141900.17M. de Villefort, notwithstanding his self-control, was visibly affected, and when Monte Cristo touched his hand, he felt it tremble.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_239160.16In spite of this pain, less intense, but still sharp and keen, Rodin, stretched upon his back, began to write, holding the paper above his head.
Harland_Alone_89450.16"If she had died"--and the strong physician's hand had trembled as he wrote it--"I should have taken our Carry to you.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_150740.15Mary gazed and believed; Margaret lay still and gently assented; Ethel was silent at first, and only when the fabric became extremely airy and magnificent, put in her word with a vehement dash at the present abuses, which grieved her spirit above all, and, whether vulnerable or not, Norman was to dispose of, like so many giants before Mr. Great-heart.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_156960.15Clasping her hands to her face, she exclaimed, not indeed violently, but with sufficient energy of expression, "Oh, it's not right!
Warner_Queechy_123120.15Fleda watched her as her eye ran over the paper and caught it as it fell from her fingers.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_106660.15As she said this, Jeannette slipt into her chair, and held up her hands in token of the intensity of her fears.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_24060.15Gertrude tried to read it again, but her hand trembled so violently that the letters danced before her eyes.
Evans_Beulah_35040.15Her face was well-nigh as colorless as the paper she held, and her voice faltered with the first few sentences.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_35660.15As for Cynthy Ann, she trembled with fear as she held fast to the arm of Jonas.
Bronte_Villette_18380.15I did not like to touch that small, tortured limb, but thinking there was no alternative, my hand was already extended to do what was requisite.
Cooper_The_Spy_45820.15The major could not repress the eagerness with which he extended his hand to receive the precious boon; but Frances, shrinking from his touch, hid her face in the bosom of her aunt.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_46620.15With trembling limbs she did exactly as he told her.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_52880.15Her limbs trembled under her.
Collins_No_Name_131570.15She trembled violently, and said nothing.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_56960.14Her little hymn-book was clasped in her hand; though not equal to reading, she felt the touch of it a solace.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_9140.14"Be calm," said the Baron, who stood beside her in an instant, while his voice trembled as perceptibly as did the candle in his hand.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_480.14At this command, the little girl began to tremble violently; she knew what was in store for her, and moved slowly towards the door.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_8390.14you do not fear to sit beneath the gallows on a new-made grave, and yet you tremble at a friend's touch?
Cooper_The_Pioneers_65500.14As he proceeded, his eyes began to moisten, and the hand which held the instrument shook violently.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_14260.14"Listen to the second couplet, master," said the creole, again touching the chords; and she thus continued her impassioned recitative: "If my lover were here, and his hand touched my bare shoulder, I should tremble and die.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_248920.14Marius clasped his hands, advanced a step, and said in a feeble and trembling voice:-- "Sir, have pity on me."
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_86920.14The warm pressure made d'Artagnan tremble, as if by the touch that fever which consumed Milady attacked himself.
Collins_No_Name_71050.14Her hand was trembling violently on his arm, and her lips were fast closed with an expression of speechless pain.
Collins_No_Name_65180.14She caught Magdalen fast by the arm and fell into another trembling fit at the bare idea of being left by herself.
Collins_Armadale_49390.14her voice faltered over the last words, and, in her eagerness to make her mother's peace with him, she laid her hand on his arm.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64800.16As he said this, he released me from his clutch, and only looked at me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65090.12Up the blood rushed to his face; forth flashed the fire from his eyes; erect he sprang; he held his arms out; but I evaded the embrace, and at once quitted the room.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3800.18It never occurred to him that the veil that he held so lovingly before her might fall from his hand all too soon; he never thought of his own death, and yet this grim phantom was noiselessly but surely coming very near.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11130.18She held the little gray box still hesitatingly in her hands, as if she were struggling for the courage to execute the sentence of death which she had just pronounced upon it.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6820.17he cried, and grasped her wrist so roughly in dragging her forward, that she cried out.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35770.15I stood alone in the struggle with my two tormentors.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38700.14Her cousin seized her hand and detained her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35820.12Upon my reference to the will, he seized my wrists in his iron grasp, and held tnem so tightly that I cried out with the pain, while he looked savagely in my face, and asked me whether his respectability was worth nothing to me.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33940.12Now he stood erect by the side of Felicitas, and grasped her right hand firmly in his own.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10890.12It seemed to have been made for the muscular wrist of a man,—it would certainly have slipped over any woman's hand.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10040.25At the same moment Gisela felt her hand seized; icy fingers grasped it in a painful pressure,—the Minister stood beside her. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34790.25At this moment her hand was seized and held in the drawer ; she could not even cry out, so deadly was her terror, that made her feel as if she shouli faint, as she turned and looked into the face of the court chaplain.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32950.17Then his iron grasp was actually closing upon me, and I should never be released until these two years of suf- fering were over!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_26010.15he cried with sparkling eyes, "she looks as fragile and delicate as though she were made of ivory, and yet she has the force of a man in her heart and hands; ’tis an immense pity you are not a boy.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29340.15she said, haughtily, snatching her hand from his. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30330.15Elizabeth availed herself of the opportunity to slip her hand from the arm of her conductor and to lose herself in the crowd that gathered around the lord of the feast; while a young girl, habited as a Dryad, and accompanied by four other wood-nymphs, approached, and, in limping hexameters, welcomed him to the forest.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10300.14He recoiled, and his hands fell by his sides. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_980.13He held out his rough hand to me, and I grasped it warmly. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50630.13A T 25 290 THE SECOND WIFE, man clasped his fingers about the slender throat of the poof Bayadere, and clutched it so close that she sank down as if dead upon the floor."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17750.12Hate flashed from her eyes, her hands clenched convulsively, and while something like a low hiss escaped her lips, she seemed as if about to spring, raging, upon the young girl.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10890.12She lay there like some timid, trembling bird in the grasp of a cruel hand. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31020.12185 " On the instant, my dear uncle 1" She sank upon her knees before me and seized my hand. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44520.12In a few moments he stood upon the landing without, shaking the door with a powerful hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_2620.11Pale with anger, he seized the little hand, even before it touched him, and thrust it aside as if it were a venomous insect.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50860.11Flora made no reply; she seized Kitty’s hand and drew her towards a window.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22570.11Dagobert sprang down from the saddle and handed the bridle to the groom, who stood by smiling maliciously. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_23520.09slipped oat before I knew what I was saying.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44130.09It might be midnight before she was released.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45950.09If he should be dead, if—what then?"
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9160.07N othing,——leave me l" she gasped, extricating herself from their grasp.

Cooper_The_Deerslayer_42050.37For half a minute there was a desperate struggle, like the floundering of an alligator that has just seized some powerful prey, and then both stood erect, grasping each other's arms, in order to prevent the use of the deadly knife in the darkness.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_172510.30The witnesses thought he was dead, but his adversary, who knew he had not struck him, offered him the assistance of his hand to rise.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_108380.28Whereupon his grasp upon her hand was released; but he made no attempt to rise.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_287610.28Suddenly the faint light from the chamber was completely extinguished, and a second after, Djalma felt his arm seized in the darkness by an iron grasp, and the voice of Faringhea whispered: "You are avenged.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_12570.26Sir Francis Cromarty was deeply agitated, and seizing Mr. Fogg's hand convulsively he perceived that the hand grasped an open knife.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_237940.25Morrel rushed forward to tear it from him, but Monte Cristo perceiving his intention, seized his wrist with his iron grasp.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_41720.24The gourd was filled, and the old woman was hurrying back, her hand still grasping the wrist of the girl, when she was suddenly seized so violently by the throat as to cause her to release her captive, and to prevent her making any other sound than a sort of gurgling, suffocating noise.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_10890.23The arm fell powerless to his side; while Malone, springing on him like a tiger, grasped him in his powerful grip, and they both rolled upon the ground in terrible conflict.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_299750.23The hand which had seized him from behind and whose grasp he had felt at the moment of his fall and his loss of consciousness was that of Jean Valjean.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_6070.23A few vigorous strokes, a few struggles with the waves, and his hands clutched the bars with the grasp of a drowning man.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_19260.23Werner grasped the hand extended to him and sprang out upon the road.
Evans_Beulah_56020.23On sprang the horses almost upon them; eager hands grasped at the bits.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_151950.23I grasped the railings; if I had relaxed my hold for a moment, I should have fallen.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_3320.22At that moment a hand grasped hers - a magic grasp; it felt like heart meeting heart, or magnet steel.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_25860.22In an instant a powerful hand had seized her bridle, forcing the animal to be still.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_138460.22He had twelve leaves and about as many strawberries, which, on rising suddenly, he let fall from his hand.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_6560.22He seized on the subject as a drowning man seizes on the hand that rescues him.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_236690.21Morrel rushed forward to tear it from him, but Monte Cristo perceiving his intention, seized his wrist with his iron grasp.
Cooper_The_Prairie_52500.21Then making a gesture of authority, he awaited, until his order had been obeyed, and the youth was released from the post and his bonds, by the same blow of the knife.
Cooper_The_Pilot_52190.21The struggling colonel, who was already sinking beneath the arm of his foe, felt the rough grasp loosen from his throat at the flash, and the two combatants sunk powerless on their knees facing each other.
Evans_St_Elmo_27770.21He bent forward, seized her hands, folded them together, and grasping them in both his, crushed them against his breast.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_19950.20She was ready to tell him he was an ingenious self-tormentor; but she saw that the struggle to do right was the main spring of the happiness that beamed round him, in spite of his self-reproach, heart- felt as it was.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_4070.20The four arms went to and fro in a magnificent struggle, and neither could the maid hold the mistress still, nor the mistress shake off the maid's grasp, nor strike anything to hurt herself.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_29230.20Twice did the Strangler, with look of flame, resting only on his left hand, seize with his right the rope's end; and twice his hand fell--the instinct of murder yielding to a powerful will, of which the Malay acknowledged the irresistible empire.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_44550.20I never will release Erna; and she herself, as I know, will never ask her release at my hands.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_53110.20It seemed like a dead hand grasping him out of the darkness.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_12470.20"The next moment they had all rushed out, dragging Uracao with them.
Bronte_Shirley_55670.20In each hand he seemed as if he would have liked to clutch one and gripe her to death.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_36900.20"There is still stuff enough left to make that ONE well worth having," said Theurdank, kindly grasping his hand, "though I would it were more substantial!
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_64040.20He had cast one glance at his face--only a single one--then suddenly grasped his hand with a convulsive clutch.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_151820.20Jem fell so near Walker that on coming up he clutched the drowning man's head and dragged him up once more from death.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_89370.20Amyas made a grasp at his wrist in return, but, between his faintness and the darkness, missed it.--Another moment, and all would have been over!
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_24640.20Mary, who was now nearly well, sprang out, and bounding up the steps, seized Judith's hand with a grasp which told how glad she was to see her.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_87950.19He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_56430.19Thaddeus, no longer master of himself, sprang towards his unnatural son, and seized his arm with an iron grasp.
Wood_East_Lynne_131380.19She had fallen into the hands of the Philistines, was powerless, and must make the best of it.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_128460.19Ellen sprang across at that word to take his outstretched hand.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_37680.19They seemed iron to her--shaking, trembling, grasping iron.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_56270.19and he sprang from his horse, and shook me warmly by the hand.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_64750.19She sprang forward, seized him by the halter, and drew him in beside her.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_221650.19The iron hand of implacable toil has seized you.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_18880.19The cold hand grasped her throat still more tightly.
Harris_Rutledge_54870.19I must have that paper," and, springing forward, she grasped my wrists.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_44840.19Grace seized her opportunity the moment it was within her reach.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_140120.19she cried, springing up and seizing Bruno's arm.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_37120.18All this time Benjamin sat, with his muscles fixed, his mouth shut, and his hands clinching the rushes which he had seized in the confusion of the moment and which, as he held fast, like a true seaman, had been the means of preventing his body from rising again to the surface.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_66550.18Cigarette had with her the flask of brandy that she always brought on such errands as these; she forced the end between his lips, and poured some down his throat; her hand shook slightly as she did so, a weakness the gallant little campaigner never before then had known.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_6370.18She grasped after her tormentor, and seized her by the skirt; but she was one of the larger girls, and tore herself away, leaving a piece of her elegant summer dress in Ernestine's hands, which had clutched it tightly.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_4890.18To spring over half a dozen seats, to land behind him, to seize his outstretched leg, to jerk him in again, was but the work of a moment.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_25540.183, with one hand holding the bandit's gun pointed toward the door, and the other grasping the ruffian's throat in a death like clutch.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33900.09Herr Franz, you have performed your duty as a ‘passionate lover of music,’ most admira~ bly,—let me entrcat you to inform yourself with the same zeal concerning the missing bracelet and silver plate,—if any one can throw any light upon their whereabouts, it is this person l" The young lawyer approached Fclicitas, Whose left hand involuntarily sought the support of the frame of the door, and, offering her his arm with a profound bow, he said, with kindly courtesy: "Will you permit me to conduct you to my mother?"

Cooper_The_Prairie_23140.23Ishmael stood, with folded arms, steadily watching the manner in which this necessary duty was performed, and when the whole was completed, he lifted his cap to his sons, to thank them for their services, with a dignity that would have become one much better nurtured.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_6830.22There was something in the beautiful simplicity of the church service which went straight to Andy's heart, and more than all, there was something in Mr. Townsend's voice, and manner, and face, which touched a responsive chord in the breast of the boyish Andy, and when at last the bishop came to that section of Iowa, his hands were first laid in blessing on the bowed head of Andy, who knelt to receive the rite of confirmation in the presence of a large concourse of people, to most of whom the service and ceremony were entirely new.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_67110.17When they told her I'n seen Mr. Melcombe, she fell in a grete faint, and wrung her hands, and went in another faint, and cried out he were dead; but the sperit never walked any more, folks said it came for a token to I, 'her did ought to look for death by-times,' said they."
Cooper_The_Spy_23180.16This office ended, the neighbors, who had officiously pressed forward to offer their services in performing their solemn duty, paused, and lifting their hats, stood looking towards the mourner, who now felt himself to be really alone in the world.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_335190.15And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of inexorable dignity: "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience."
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_7670.15At the head of the household the Baroness Lasberg had held sway for years.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_15220.15Two years ago, when you were perhaps performing in tableaux for the "benefit of the Sanitary," these two girls had felt the great enthusiasm of the time lay hold of them in a larger way.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_6690.15Yet at intervals there were still moments when she would seize the helm of her neglected household, would set things straight, and would preside in tasteful attire at a well-ordered table.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_112080.13toot!"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_179200.12Times presses; it is really most annoying.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_9190.12"I shall be most happy to rub up my recollections for your benefit," said Wilton, good-humoredly, and taking the hand which the little cripple contrived to hold out to him.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_44980.12The bear shook his shaggy sides, and then a well-known voice replied: "Put up the tooting we'pon, and teach your throat modesty.
Wood_East_Lynne_39350.12The minister dipped his fingers in the water.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_40750.11She pressed my hand, and then went about her household duties as usual.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_10510.10He saw it was the best service he could do this little girl who had suddenly become the real head of the household.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_35230.10M'Keown was soon beside me, and supporting my head upon his shoulder, he contrived to hold me in a leaning position, giving me at the same time the full benefit of the cool breeze, which already refreshed and restored me.
Bronte_Shirley_111380.09I once could court her serenely, and imagine my heart easier when I held her to it--all mute, but majestic.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_22830.08gasped Mrs. Squallop, almost black in the face, and the water running out of the kettle, which she was unconsciously holding aslant.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_25940.06G.C.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_57360.06"No."
Bronte_Shirley_89280.06It is over now."
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_23010.06What am I to do?--what am I to do?"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42420.16"Ah, I am much pained to have been the means of communicating such distressing newsl" said Baron Ilirschsprung compassionately, shaking his head from side to side.

Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_37060.18Anna Maria went down the steps with him, and put extra rugs and foot-sacks in with her own hands.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_16190.17The Amtsrath shook his head, for the few drops of rain were, as Kurt himself had admitted, a steady, soaking downpour.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_55090.14Anna Maria silently retained all the cares she had undertaken; but sometimes the young wife would embrace her child in a sudden outbreak of tenderness, and not let him out of her arms for hours.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_30580.13Celia hastily withdrew the hand which Kurt had held in his own as he slowly walked along beside Pluto.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_62690.12Horace held up his hand warningly.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_51500.11Sometimes he seized Anna Maria's hand and pressed it to his lips, with a half-intelligible pet name for Susanna; he called her his darling, his wife.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_190310.11CHAPTER XVIII MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the panes.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_51170.10I stooped to examine the ground, but could not even detect the pressure of a footstep.
Reade_Foul_Play_97700.08When Helen saw them laid out by her maid, she trembled at the consequences of not giving a plump negative to so brisk a wooer.
Warner_Queechy_51240.06"Well!--can you help me?"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_21900.06"I thought, Maria, you were not up."

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6530.09"I do not know myself here," she cried, looking around her with an air of bewilderment; and then turning to her companion: "it looks as if giant hands had shaken the park to pieces.

Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_31870.22Hans, holding the bridle with his right hand, gave Ulric a sound cuff with his left; Ulric returned it with interest, his right hand being free; and at it they went, ding dong, over the horse's mane, pommelling one another, and jagging the poor beast, till he ran backward, and trode with iron heel upon a promontory of the green lord; he, like the toad stung by Ithuriel's spear, started up howling, with one hand clapped to the smart and the other tugging at his hilt.
Cooper_Pathfinder_270.21"Uncle," said the wondering, but pleased girl, addressing her male companion, whose arm she rather touched than leaned on, to steady her own light but firm footing, "this is like a view of the ocean you so much love!"
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_64640.20Raven stood well erect, his eye clear and full, the hand which held his pistol absolutely steady, as though certain of its aim.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_59580.20He took up the deadly weapon again, his lips parted and his eyes fixed on the clock, and then shuddered at the click of the trigger as he cocked the pistol.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_51580.20Almost blinded by passion as he was, Ulric saw the barrel pointed at him with a firm and sure aim, saw too that the hand which held it did not tremble; at the second step he took forward the bullet would strike him, and his foe would remain victor.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_31050.18If one wants to make a hard-mouthed horse more responsive to the rein, he must relax the pressure and friction of the bit, and make the horse feel that he has got to hold up his own head.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_257860.18At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the man, then he assisted in raising the horse.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_65210.17Above the din, the shouts, the tumult, the echoing of the distant musketry, that silvery cadence rung; down into the midst, with the Tricolor waving above her head, the bridle of her fiery mare between her teeth, the raven of the dead Zouave flying above her head, and her pistol leveled in deadly aim, rode Cigarette.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_168090.17"No, no; I am sure you did not mean them," said Felix, putting his hand on the horse's mane.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_22640.17"Here," said Durward, taking the bridle from the negro's hand, and playfully throwing it across 'Lena's neck, "Here it is--this pony, which we call Vesta.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_1290.17As it came first into view he raised the fowling-piece to his shoulder and, with a practised eye and steady hand, drew a trigger.
Wood_East_Lynne_75450.16I was knocking about a bit at first, but I soon settled down as steady as Old Time--as steady as you."
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_34180.15cried Friedel, leaping from his horse, and unclasping his brother's helmet.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_258520.13This pistol is in your interests.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_5320.13Very steady the boy's hand was, so that the farmer clapped his two great fists, and shouted "Bray-vo!"
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_21100.13in the meadow, trying to catch the horses!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_258420.13It seems that the Celestins are full of pistols.
Bronte_Shirley_69410.13My finger was on the trigger of this pistol.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_41200.12All do not know, nor do I, that "though the foundation of the bridge is laid upon wool, yet it shakes at the slightest step of a horse;" or that, "though it has twenty-three arches, yet one Wm.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_30220.12--for that was his name, and a rare hand he was at fighting--and he knew me in spite of the stranger horse; and I leaned over and stroked his head, and swore he should never be mutton.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_64930.12Raven averted his pistol at the last moment.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_194200.12And his finger sought the trigger of his pistol.
Evans_Inez_25650.12He caught her hand, and steadied her in her saddle.
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_19260.11Either Ella's horse was scary, or she did it a purpose, for the minit she got near, it began to rare and she would have fell off, if that man hadn't catched it by the bit, and held her on with t'other hand.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_53780.11He was there now, and, as he grasped the reins, he gave them an aim and sure direction.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_199510.11Ali, smiling, repeated the sound, grasped the reins with a firm hand, and spurred his horses, whose beautiful manes floated in the breeze.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_45400.11At St. Omer they breathed their horses with the bridles passed under their arms for fear of accident, and ate a morsel from their hands on the stones of the street, after they departed again.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_45010.10"Ulric and all his followers are holding a meeting out in the meadow yonder.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_99880.10East looked after them, and then put his horse into a steady trot, muttering, "Like me!
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_79530.10He pressed his horse up the steep side of the Hawk's Lynch.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_146040.10It had happened to him to hold his own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallee.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_18040.10"'And with all my might I cursed the old dame; But my arm remained steady, I missed no aim.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_74040.09After she had fired twice at Col. Selby, she turned the pistol towards her own breast, and witness snatched it from her.
Evans_St_Elmo_1850.09The man muttered something indistinctly, and laying his hand heavily on the horse's mane, said very sternly a few words, which were utterly unintelligible to his human listeners, though they certainly exerted a magical influence over the fiery creature, who, savage as the pampered pets of Diomedes, soon stood tranquil and contented, rubbing his head against his master's shoulder.
Alcott_Little_Women_3640.09Timidly she crept from her lattice, put her hand on Roderigo's shoulder, and was about to leap gracfully down when "Alas!
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_27210.07"What can you be thinking of?
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_141170.07do, do!"
Warner_Queechy_44750.07What do you mean?"
Trollope_Orley_Farm_85220.07"I am just off.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_49510.07"What ails you, Ulric?
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_3180.07"Who shall I ask?"
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_17200.07stay!"
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_25180.07What should he do?
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_7170.07"Why not?
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_29580.07"Gone!"
Harris_Rutledge_45990.07"Oh!
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_47840.07said the farmer.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_27790.07"Hoh!"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14050.19If the Saracen’s head in bronze, which had occupied the respectable position of penwiper to its learned master for so many years, could have opened its grinning mouth wider, it would certainly have done so with astonishment,—there lay the pen unwiped; the Saracen might long in vain for the accus- tomed delight of polishing the inky point upon its wellworn dress.

Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_34510.20Better the pretty influence of the tea cups and saucers gracefully wielded in a woman's hand than all the inappropriate power snatched at the point of the pen from the unwilling sterner sex.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_13600.19As for Passe-partout, he was honoured with a hearty shake of the general's hand, and was much impressed thereby.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_27960.18"A charming man, that Principe Capito," says della Seggiola, rubbing his hands delightedly.
Lewald_Hulda_8700.17But when he followed up hia worda with an attempt to press her hand to his ]ipa, while he passed hia arm around her waist, she thrust him away from her, and, with a sl^ht aeream, pushed Open the door, and hur- ried int the house.
Bronte_Shirley_61080.14There is not a churchwoman here but will stand her ground against these folks, for the honour of the Establishment.--What does Miss Keeldar say?"
Harland_Jessamine_34740.13The emphasis was faint, yet perceptible, and he shut his clammy fingers feebly upon those Jessie slipped within them, as she obeyed Dr. Baxter's injunction to join her right hand with that of her betrothed.
Broughton_Nancy_13390.13cry I, briskly, putting my arm through his, in anxious amends for Bobby's hapless speech.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_58970.10He laid the letter aside, and again took up the pen; but this time it was less obedient to the hand that wielded it.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_14510.09Dr. Gracie dropped in, friendly-wise, of an evening--said little that was strictly professional--but held his hand a second longer, perhaps, than he would have done for a mere greeting, and looked rather scrutinizingly at him when Mr. Gartney's eyes were turned another way.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_48110.09He raised his hand, clenched it and smote it energetically against the smoky panel over the fireplace.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_19150.06"Is it, then, so famous?"

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43520.11Precisely like an unfortunate swallow tossed out of its nest," laughed Dagobert, who had followed his uncle, and was holding tight by one of the gate-posts to keep himself erect.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_163250.28Valentine shook the gate with a strength of which she could not have been supposed to be possessed, as Morrel was going away, and passing both her hands through the opening, she clasped and wrung them.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_131790.25"Ah, Valentine," said Maximilian, "give me but one finger through this opening in the grating, one finger, the littlest finger of all, that I may have the happiness of kissing it."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_132500.25"Ah, Valentine," said Maximilian, "give me but one finger through this opening in the grating, one finger, the littlest finger of all, that I may have the happiness of kissing it."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_164090.24Valentine shook the gate with a strength of which she could not have been supposed to be possessed, as Morrel was going away, and passing both her hands through the opening, she clasped and wrung them.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_36640.18she said, clasping her knees with her small, transparent hands, while she gazed despairingly towards the distant horizon.
Harris_Rutledge_57560.18I have risked my life--aye--sold it, rather--for this interview, and yet I would not lay my guilty grasp upon the hand you have promised to me, I would not touch the distantest fold of your white dress!
Harland_Jessamine_10870.17She wrested her fingers from his, with a laugh so burdened with shame and happiness as to be more like a sob, testifying what had been the pressure and what was the release.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_216510.17"Another attack of giddiness," said Morrel, clasping his hands.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_164390.14Occasionally he shuddered; he thought of the moment when, from the top of that wall, he should protect the descent of his dear Valentine, pressing in his arms for the first time her of whom he had yet only kissed the delicate hand.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_165250.14Occasionally he shuddered; he thought of the moment when, from the top of that wall, he should protect the descent of his dear Valentine, pressing in his arms for the first time her of whom he had yet only kissed the delicate hand.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_218830.13They carried Valentine away; she had revived, but could scarcely move or speak, so shaken was her frame by the attack.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_25260.13I know why now."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_164900.12Valentine had approached, or rather, had placed her lips so near the fence, that they nearly touched those of Morrel, which were pressed against the other side of the cold and inexorable barrier.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_1690.11"Ah, M. Morrel," exclaimed the young seaman, with tears in his eyes, and grasping the owner's hand, "M. Morrel, I thank you in the name of my father and of Mercedes."
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_25280.11It may be supposed by all who know me, that I was taken hereupon with such a giddiness in my head and noisiness in my ears, that I was forced to hold by the crook driven in below the thatch for holding of the hay-rakes.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_51140.11Hartmann," she was imprudent enough to go right up to him and to lay her hand on his arm.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_263630.09"Oh, heavens," exclaimed Valentine, who was supporting the head of Morrel on her shoulder, "do you not see how pale she is?
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_37590.07"Do you know her?"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_253650.07"Nothing.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_11530.07"I should think I would."
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_26020.07"Will you let me see it?
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_90420.07oh!
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_167450.07Ah!
Reade_Foul_Play_40900.07"Poison!"
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_48800.07There, that will do.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_91400.07who is this?
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_37360.07Valentine thanked him cordially.
Harland_Jessamine_29350.07"What do you mean?"
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_72030.07But that was not possible."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_58800.07said Morrel.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_264330.07"Gone," said Morrel; "gone!
Collins_Woman_in_White_55850.07"What about?"
Collins_Armadale_114570.07_Will_ you go on?"

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_16590.17Father," I said, almost as boldly as my model Use, pointing as I spoke to the sleeping child, whilst my father, rubbing his hands in almost ridiculous perplexity, came slowly towards us, "pray don't laugh at me ; but, indeed, that child must wake up, or take his arm from around that bough ; the blood is all running down into his hand."
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17300.15The lordof the manor laughed, and gave a reassuring pressure to the thin hand extended to him by the invalid, who looked anxiously at him While the bailiff Was thus discoursing.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4910.14The moment was not favourable ; neverthe- less, I asked the question that had been hovering upon my lips : " Use, what is the name of the house in which my father lives now ?"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1660.13Fr.aulein Beata put out her hand hastily over the child's head to catch the offender. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26970.08Father," she said, raising a warning forefinger, " you may do to me what you please ; tread me beneath your feet, if you will ; but you shall not touch my child with your hard hand !
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_15280.07Mainau laughed. "

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_212950.25"By my father's tomb," said he, extending his hand over the head of the young girl, "I swear to you, Haidee, that if any misfortune happens, it will not be to me."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_214070.25"By my father's tomb," said he, extending his hand over the head of the young girl, "I swear to you, Haidee, that if any misfortune happens, it will not be to me."
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_11960.21In the weak superstition of his age, Nigel Bruce had never shared, but firmly and steadfastly he believed, even in his calm and unexcited moments, that there was a link between the living and the dead; that the freed spirits of the one were permitted to hold commune with the other, not in visible shape, but in those thrilling whispers which the spirit knows, while yet it would deny them even to itself.
Bronte_Villette_17960.21I know she often pondered anxiously what she called "leur avenir;" but if the youngest, a puny and delicate but engaging child, chancing to spy her, broke from its nurse, and toddling down the walk, came all eager and laughing and panting to clasp her knee, Madame would just calmly put out one hand, so as to prevent inconvenient concussion from the child's sudden onset: "Prends garde, mon enfant!"
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_230.20A boy who was passing, and had seen Gerty run, and who looked upon her as a spirit of evil, laughed aloud, pointed to the corner which concealed her, and walking off with his head over his shoulders, to see what would happen next, said to himself, "She'll catch it!"
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_126120.18"Father," she said, gently taking his hand in one of hers, while she held out the other to the Staatsrthin,--"father, mother in spirit and in truth, I thank you both."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_169800.18Thus, the future father and son-in-law stepped into the same carriage, and Morrel, seeing them pass, became uneasy.
Lewald_Hulda_1090.17I laid his father down in hia last rest," he said, as if to himself, " and my father, his two eldest sons, and my two, and now he has gone " He passed his hand across his eyes, and, slowly shaking his head, went on, " Our life passes like avapour and a dream I So it stands written, and we know it, and yet it is always a shock and a mystery, this death.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_26540.16To be sure, there were the children; but if they had never had the children, she would never have missed them; and if Basil had, for example, died just before they were married--She started from this wicked reverie, and ran towards her husband, whose broad, honest back, with no visible neck or shirt-collar, was turned towards her, as he stood, with his head thrown up, studying a time-table on the wall; she passed her arm convulsively through his, and pulled him away.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_19570.15He spoke to her calmly, and as a father would to a child, and at the same time reached out his hand to take hers.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_41610.15The other children laughed; but a motion of the master's hand restored silence, and he continued to Kthchen: "Now, my child, for your tardiness you will have a black mark; and go down one in your class; but, Kthchen, for the falsehood you will lose your place in my heart, and I cannot love you so much.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_235700.15No; the moment is solemn--death is at hand, tremble to die with a sacrilegious falsehood on your lips," cried the prelate, shaking Rodin violently by the arm; "dread the eternal flames, if you dare deny what you know to be the truth.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_29620.14At the same moment Euphemia tapped him on the arm with her fan, and inquired how it happened that she had arrived first.
Evans_Beulah_82900.14"See that it is conveyed to her so securely that no quibbles of law can wrest it from her at any future day, for none of us knows what may happen."
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_2030.14Husband and the other two children died in the spring, and she hain't ever hilt up her head sence.
Broughton_Nancy_56030.14"I am not very impatient; I shall not expect you to be very quick, and" (going on very fast, to hinder him from the second refusal which I see hovering on his lips), "and it is not at all cold; just now you yourself said that you had felt many a chillier May-day, and I am so warmly wrapped up, pet!"
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_79470.14One day, when he arrived with his head in the air, and as light at heart as a man who awaits a shower of gold, he found the SOUBRETTE under the gateway of the hotel; but this time the pretty Kitty was not contented with touching him as he passed, she took him gently by the hand.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_227970.13But Villefort, raising his head, bowed down by grief, looked up at her with so sad a smile that her complaints died upon her lips.
Evans_Vashti_68310.13Since that October day when Ulpian Grey sat on the steps of the tomb, holding in his arms the beautiful white form, whom in life God had denied him the privilege of touching, six months had drifted slowly; yet time had not softened the blow, that, while almost crushing his tender, unselfish heart, had no power to shake the faith which was so securely anchored in Christ.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_20310.13It is I--I who am the attainted traitor, not my child.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_15930.12For the few days which succeeded, I passed my time much alone.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_10050.12One day, as her mother stooped over the cradle, the infant's eyes had been caught by the glimmering of the gold embroidery about the letter; and putting up her little hand she grasped at it, smiling, not doubtfully, but with a decided gleam, that gave her face the look of a much older child.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_54140.11said her father, looking up into her face, and holding the hand from which he had taken his cup.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_60540.11She raised her head and said, impetuously, "It's not for father I am grieving.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_19730.11"Then the manor-house of Grünhagen must be close at hand."
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_15700.11I looked at her anxiously, and the bare thought that she might die and leave me alone was so terrible that I could hardly help crying out.
Kingsley_Hypatia_37580.11Why cannot I stir, without live animals, from fleas upward, attaching themselves to me?
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_3730.11She held out her hand: "Good day, my child; I am glad you have come.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_138960.11"Tell me, should you have the misfortune to turn your head while your right-hand correspondent was telegraphing"-- "I should not see him."
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_390.11It was a consolation to me to feel the reassuring pressure of my husband's hand.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_32200.11He fell sick, of grief I believe, and so the day we were going away I could not see him to take farewell of him, were it only with the eyes.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_47430.10I had done with him when he so roughly repulsed the overture I made him, but I cannot spare the others either after what has happened to-day.
Bronte_Villette_20600.10As for me, the tempest took hold of me with tyranny: I was roughly roused and obliged to live.
Alcott_Work_24740.10He was like a tonic to weak natures and wavering wills; and Christie felt a genern to laugh, and he joined in the merriment without knowing why, as he put down his load, took off his hat, and shook hands with his honored guest.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_146940.10During the preceding dialogue, Rodin was standing humbly near the door, with his old hat in his hand.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_107970.09He sat firmly, pressed his knees against the horse's ribs, and felt the better for the exertion.
Wood_East_Lynne_74890.07Some one to see the children, perhaps."
Wood_East_Lynne_38960.07he had passed through it.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_63780.07It was another climate there.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_45870.07"What of it?"
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_23820.07"Has anything happened?
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_136000.07"I believed you, father.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_104130.07But, no!
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_4160.07said the Chourineur, laughing.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_1770.07"O!
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_158720.07"What do we know?"
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_18950.07they always contrive to pass it on.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_17860.07You must do it.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_347930.07Pardon me!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_226800.07Let me come sometimes; I think that I am going to die.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_58030.09And the clergyman, who had not lifted his eyes from his book, and had held his breath but for a moment, was proceeding: his hand was already stretched towards Mr. Rochester, as his lips unclosed to ask, "Wilt thou have this woman for thy wedded wife?"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14500.11cried his friend, putting up his hands with a comical gesture of refusal. "
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13820.10"Oh, yes, I remember, you studied until you were nine years old,—you have retained something of your lessons," he said, thoughtfully, rubbing his forehead with his hand.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8080.16she cried, clapping her hands "Yes, yes,—’To wander is the miller’s joy,’" she quoted.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52360.15thank God for a sight of those large eyes again I" cried Fraulein Fliedner, her voice trembling as she wrung out a linen cloth from a bowl of water.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_11920.14Baron Fleury, I must entreat you to compose yourself," cried the Prince, extending his hand with a gesture of command. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65460.12She wrung her hands silently, and walked to and fro. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44770.10She began to cry like a child, but she was so gentle and docile ; he only looked grave and raised his finger, and she went.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1610.08Whitsuntide is at hand.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_142260.26Danglars opened his bewildered eyes; the company clapped their hands.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_19610.26I cried out his name immediately; he turned round, and seeing O'Brien and me, he came up to us, shaking us by the hand, and expressing his surprise at finding us in such a situation.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_45600.26Now am I sure of thee; and I will no more doubt thee--not if I wake in the night and find thee standing over me with a drawn dagger like Judith.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_50190.25cried O'Brien, looking earnestly at her features; and O'Brien covered his face, and bent over the table, exclaiming, "My God, my God!"
Lewald_Hulda_48240.23And, believe me, Hamlet's words are fearfully true, ' Be thou as chaste aa iee, as pure as saow, thou shalt not escape He kissed her hand again, shook ifc cordially, and was gone.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_10750.22The delighted children clapped their hands with joy, and triumphantly waved the stolen handkerchiefs which had just been presented to them.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_39350.22Her first impulse was to clap her hands with delight and exclaim: "How, in the name of wonder, could he do it all in a night!
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_32050.22Then thou shalt know wherefore the minister keeps his hand over his heart!"
Collins_Man_and_Wife_67680.22She ran to the nearest window, looked out, and clapped her hands with a cry of delight.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_3720.21Kneeling down by his side, I took hold of his hand, and in a paroxysm of tears, which I am not ashamed to confess, I exclaimed, 'I thank thee, Almighty God, that I again see our true-hearted sovereign still alive!'
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_142950.21Danglars opened his bewildered eyes; the company clapped their hands.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_45430.20she cried, wringing her hands.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_29200.20cried the minister to himself, at length, pausing in the street, and striking his hand against his forehead.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_33490.20Wallace looked at it for a moment; then laying his hand on the staff, "Down, thou red dragon," cried he, "and learn to bow before the Giver of all victory!"
Evans_St_Elmo_37640.19Last night I dreamed Christ came and put his hands on my eyes, and said to me, too, 'Thy faith hath made thee whole'; and I waked up crying, and my own fingers were pulling my eyes open; but it was all dark, dark.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_21330.19"Yes, cry, cry, with all your heart," said Mrs. Embury, laying Emma gently down, and coming to get me into her arms.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_8670.19Here he wrung his hands, and swayed himself backwards and forwards, a true picture of Irish grief.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_58120.19I clap my hands in triumph, and see my shadow clapping its unreal hands and claiming the triumph for itself.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_40400.19Then she began to cry and wring her hands.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_22780.19He looked about a little, and presently clapping his hands, cried, "O yes, O there, O yes, O there!"
Cooper_The_Pioneers_19150.19there's the rub, Joodge," cried the landlady.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_30440.18"In the dark nighttime he calls us to him, and holds thy hand and mine, as when we stood with him on the scaffold yonder!
Evans_Macaria_9690.18Mutual "good nights" were exchanged, and as Irene turned toward the young minister, he held out his hand.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_26830.17said Mrs. Allen, crying and wringing her hands.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_38440.17"He threw His wrathful hand aloft, and cried 'Away!
Collins_No_Name_92800.17cried Noel Vanstone, clapping his hands.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_78700.17Wert though in Heaven, and busy with thy hymn, When those poor hands convulsed that held thy pen?
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_19580.17Chatting pleasantly about the soirée and its company, we rolled along towards our quarters, and parted with a cordial shake of the hand for the night.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_64790.17exclaimed Wallace; and immediately raising him, clasped him in his arms.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_96210.17Ayacanora clapped her hands at finding herself understood, and the questioning went on.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_30400.17"And will he hold out both his hands to me, as when thou ledst me to him from the brook-side?"
Cooper_The_Pilot_30240.17cried the colonel, rubbing his hands with glee; "'tis like him!
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_4580.16After that Peter cried very heartily because everybody else did, but in a little while when his grandmother had been able to drink some cordial, and while they were rubbing her cold hands, she opened her eyes, and then he thought perhaps she was going to get better.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_80450.16Lady Mar wrung her hands in a paroxysm of conviction that what he said was true.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_22700.16But put down thy staff, man, and speak like a Christian, if thou be one."
Hugo_Les_Miserables_279810.16The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised from camp beds.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_98860.16And she lay prostrate, wringing her hands, as if awaiting an answer to her entreaty.
Harland_At_Last_32350.16Another season of dozing, and she awoke, rubbing her hands feebly together, as to cleanse them.
Cooper_Pathfinder_37980.16cried the Pathfinder, clapping his hand kindly on Jasper's shoulder.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_73790.15Wallace descried the jeweled crest of Edward amidst the cloud of battle there, and rushing forward, hand to hand engaged the king.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_19340.15"I believe something is wrong with Toni's betrothed here," she cried, putting a delicate ringer to her forehead.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_23000.15"Shake hands, old lad," said he; "thou knows one or t'other must win; and there's not a grain of spite against thee.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_42630.15"I cannot meet my husband," cried she, wringing her hands; "he will see all my premeditated guilt in my countenance.
Collins_Woman_in_White_41860.15she cried, clapping her hands with a bright smile of recognition, "another old friend found already!
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_99560.15Ensie also descried me, and stretched his hands and cried to me; for the face of his father frightened him.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_78210.14I had my trusty staff, you know.'
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_7110.14I began to cry.
Harland_Alone_95120.14was all he could say, as he wrung his hand.
Harland_Alone_87360.14She had clapped her hands.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_58570.14"Thou hast it now," cried he, as he saw me disengage one hand and grasp the iron links firmly.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_41900.09What cold fingers!

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12270.14And now he stooped down and took the limping child in his arms.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_34470.12Felicitas lifted it with trembling fingers,—it was not light,-—its contents must be destroyed,—but how?
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33880.10"Not yet, dear auntl" begged the young widow, seizing the outstretched arm of the great lady.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5600.08The child approached, but did not touch the food.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_35560.07"Oscar, I did not follow, as I should have done, the shadowy finger of your ancestor.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_380.22She carried a bundle of grass on her head, steadying it there with one lifted arm.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39540.20See, I have often wished for death,—but if it were possible that you should ever be mistress here in our father’s house, I could——" Kitty extricated herself impatiently from the encircling arm.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14040.20A young, delicate lady and a slender man in light summer costume pursued it with lifted arms and sticks held high in the air ; together they plunged deep into the bushes where it had disappeared.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18330.18No,——his strong arm had encircled her slender, shrinking form as the setting sun streamed golden through the windows of the Neuenfeld church upon his and the maiden’s head, and the pastor in fervent words pronounced a blessing upon their united hearts.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35150.18Your fingers are more slender than your mother’s were," Kitty sternly interrupted her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26190.14"Kitty, my dear child," he said, in tremulous tones, looking into the tearful face which she tried to turn from him, as she shook her head.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5770.14Kitty had put around her neck the invalid’s sound arm, holding the brown, bony hand firmly clasped in her own upon her left shoulder, while her right arm was around Susie’s waist.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9070.14At the same moment the young lady felt herself suddenly seized from behind, and an arm encircled her slender waist like a vice.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_37630.14"Yes, my dear Hofrath, I see you look in wonder at the hand now laid so beseechingly on Moritz’s arm because he would fain restrain it from such wilful expenditure."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39310.13Like a child, Kitty involuntarily put her hands behind her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28160.13he exclaimed, gaily, and stretched out his arms to bar her way.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_17260.13"I do not like to play, after what has passed," she said, frankly, as she withdrew her hand from his.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_1960.13For one instant the brothers stood in a close embrace; then the forester gently released the slender figure of the younger, and, holding him by the shoulder at arm’s length, gazed searchingly into his pale worn countenance.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62670.13Herr Helldorf held out both hands to me, Oretchen embraced my knees, and little Hermann sat crowing upon the floor, holding up his arms to be taken.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31280.12Kitty went out of the house-door and stood upon the steps, inhaling the fresh breeze as she involuntarily extended her round, firmly-moulded arms.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54480.12Could those slender hands that had caught me so ten- derly to her breast ever have stolen ?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56770.12A solemn silence brooded over it all, the statues gleamed white among the evergreens, and the dean’s widow came down the steps from the hall-door her arms extended to clasp to her motherly heart her "own dearest Kitty," whose love she had so long prayed might bless her darling.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5700.11"Dear, dear papal" Liana whispered, raising her clasped hands to the picture.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8110.10"I trust to your sister’s inborn tact, my child," she said, as she extended her hand in welcome to the doctor, smiling as she did so a smile that just showed the tips of her teeth through her drawn lips and left one in doubt whether it were sweet or sour.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52210.10Borne aloft in those strong, shapely arms, I was no more than thistle-down flung into the air, a helpless child, a "nothing."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27020.10Kitty exclaimed, as she leaned over the railing of the bridge and stretched out her hand as if to catch the ring ere it fell.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7420.09"You are right, Kitty.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_25520.09Kitty shuddered.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31740.09He did not go into the house, however, but came directly towards Kitty, raising his cane at the growling, barking dog, who, thus threatened, became silent, and lay down at the door of his kennel.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18340.08Liana was perpetually in arms against him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_67780.08But I ran up to him and put my arm in his. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_65040.08Allow me only to touch the keys for a moment 1 Please, please !
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33000.08he asked, looking down with a smile at his slender fingers. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1090.08And he raised his hands protesting^.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52050.08She rushed up to me and put her arm about my waist.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3070.08But Use barred the way and lifted a warning forefinger. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52110.07she held my waist in such a grasp that I almost lost n / breath. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_48860.07"Overwhelm me with reproaches, I shall not justify myself; but in defence of Kitty I am armed to the teeth.

Evans_Inez_26040.26They reached the gate, and he gently lifted the frail form from the saddle; and, drawing her arm through his, led her to the house.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_38830.26I could not lift her then, for light as she was, she leaned upon me, and I could only stretch my arm to reach the decanter from its stand.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_114610.24Ernestine stretched out her arms towards them, and said, "Oh, glorious light!
Goldsmith_The_Vicar_of_Wakefield_10020.23--I had by this time reached down my pistols, when my poor wife, whose passions were not so strong as mine, caught me in her arms.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_122270.23said Ellen, encircling Alice's head with both her arms; "oh don't cry!
Evans_Inez_13630.23It will profit you little that we have many men, if some strong arm tells your length on the sward."
Holmes_The_English_Orphans_2160.23There was a stir in the cradle, and with a faint cry the baby Alice awoke and stretched her hands towards Mary who, with all a mother's care took the child upon her lap and fed her from the milk which was still standing in the broken pitcher.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_130870.22The old gentleman laid his hand affectionately on Ellen's head, and told her she was welcome to come and go when she would; the whole house was hers.
Harland_Alone_83260.22Ellen's arm was encircling Ida's waist, while one of the latter's rested on the grave.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_108920.22His first movement was to free himself by a violent push from the encircling arms of his mother, and to rush forward to the casket from whence the count had taken the phial of elixir; then, without asking permission of any one, he proceeded, in all the wilfulness of a spoiled child unaccustomed to restrain either whims or caprices, to pull the corks out of all the bottles.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_25230.21He passed the belt around her waist, encircling her almost in his arms while doing so, and his hand, which had boldly grasped the head of the "dweller in the wreck," now trembled as he fastened the belt around that delicate and slender waist.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_121020.21cried the unfortunate mother, incapable of rising, but stretching out her arms to Agricola.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_37010.21he said at length imploringly; and I, who had been absorbed in those clear fingers playing, looked up at him as I stretched my arm.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_85520.21Lady Bassett held out her arms to her, and the mothers had a sweet cry together in each other's arms.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_84410.21The moment she had him at arm's length, however, her hand closed upon his arm, and her other hand went up to her brow.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_26620.21She leans against a manly form, and his arm enfolds her as if to guard his treasure from some enemy.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_108850.21Thinking herself lucky that the young girl should put this construction upon the affair, she smiled upon her affectionately, and stretched out her arms to her, saying: "It is well, my dear daughter.
Cooper_The_Spy_17150.21Everything was ready, and they were about to lift Birch in their arms, for he resolutely refused to move an inch, when a form appeared in their midst, which appalled the stoutest heart among them.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_85420.20"I think you must put your arm round me," she said, after looking at him for a moment.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_3980.20Holding baby in her arms she glances at him.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_21860.20I lifted baby and carried him up to the nursery.
Evans_Beulah_32530.20the dear God stretches his arm about each and all of us!
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_107800.20He reached out his arm and caught him by the collar.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_48390.20But strong hands grasped and lifted her drenched, helpless form tenderly into the boat.
Reade_White_Lies_9880.20She held Rose out at arm's length with both hands, and looked earnestly into her, and implored her not to play with fire.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_115880.20The unfortunate bride, without lifting her head from the table, had reached out her hand, and was fingering this stiletto.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_31030.20Look at Lady Luxellian's,' said Mrs. Swancourt, as that baroness lifted up her arm to support one of the children.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_21240.20And then Martha Hawkins lifted the frail little form, bundled in shawls, in her arms, and brought him out into the storm; and before she handed him up he embraced her, and said: "O Miss Hawkins!
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_24980.19Then the child drew a deep breath, and stretched her arms out into the darkness as if to clasp the forms of her vanished faith; but her arms encountered only the empty air.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_119540.19No sooner was the baby in his arms than Flora's hands were busy among the papers, and she begged him to ring for lights.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_34960.19And he raised his right arm, motioning with the slender whip he held, along the line of factory buildings that lay before them.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_31860.19It runs over there," said the speaker, pointing with her arm, "and then it takes a turn and goes that way, and then it comes round so, and then it shoots off in that way again and passes by your house; and after that the dear knows where it goes, for I don't.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_210910.19When you are sitting with your arm round her waist, and when she is playing with your smiles, will the memory of my words interfere with your joy then?
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_43850.19She held out her arms to Seraphael so very pertinaciously that he was obliged to carry her; nor would he give her up until we reached my mother's door.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_13580.19I pushed forward to follow, when suddenly a strong arm was stretched across my breast, and a gruff voice asked,--"Who are you?"
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_50450.19"And once, when I sank fainting in that room, what an arm supported me, strong as iron, and yet tender as the arm of a mother!
Evans_Vashti_44630.19She turned, but Dr. Grey stretched his arm across his sister's body, and caught the orphan's dress.
Collins_Armadale_76720.19As she stooped to kiss her mother, Mrs. Milroy caught her by the arm, and turned her roughly to the light.
Wood_East_Lynne_78630.19I did come upon him, but he was walking quickly, arm-in-arm with--with another gentleman.
Wood_East_Lynne_121930.19Scarcely had he taken up his lounge outside, when two gentlemen came forth from it, arm-in-arm.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_66810.19I think I see him now carrying dear Charles in his arms all down the garden."
Evans_Beulah_3220.19She extended her arms toward the little form struggling to reach her.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_4520.19She touched his shoulder; he looked round, saw her, and stretched out his arms.
Cooper_The_Prairie_44810.19"But my young men think we should stretch it, until it reaches across the prairie."
Alcott_Little_Men_23170.18"I don't remember any thing, but I want to go home," and Rob's voice had a little tremble in it that made Nan put her arms round him and lift him gently down, saying, in her most capable way, "I'm going just as fast as I can, dear.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_25630.18As he retreated, and folding his slender arms and raising his glorious head, still stood, Maria entered with Anastase.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_53050.18Elfride was holding her watch, Knight was holding the light with one hand, his left arm being round her waist.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_51800.18"I shall when I am there, my dear," said the doctor affectionately, putting his arm around her as she stood by him.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_3200.18Under his arm he carried a copy of "Bradshaw's Continental Guide."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_211790.18Please to stretch forth your arms, take up that child with both hands, and lift her into the carriage.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92340.20He relinquished the endeavour, folded his arms, and stood quiet and mute in the rain, now falling fast on his uncovered head.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_1090.14"Mind you don't," said Bessie; and when she had ascertained that I was really subsiding, she loosened her hold of me; then she and Miss Abbot stood with folded arms, looking darkly and doubtfully on my face, as incredulous of my sanity.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63470.10"When once I had pressed the frail shoulder, something new -- a fresh sap and sense -- stole into my frame.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21960.22Doctor Bruck stood silently beside him with folded arms.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19410.16And he pointed to the folded silver paper, upon which she had involuntarily laid her hand. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_480.16Stand there close beside me, and stand firm, so that I can put my arm upon your shoulder."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6740.15He folded his arms across his breast in apparently impregnable composure and looked gravely around upon the company.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37560.13I was still trembling with the fright the dreaded old man's sudden appearance had caused me, and he was standing oppo- site to me with folded arms, his eyes glowering down upon me from beneath their white eyebrows as if they would wither me.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42510.13And he,—he who knew how she detested Hollfeld, had sided with them; he was standing there with folded arms, the perfect image of implacable sternness and reserve.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_19180.11She folded her delicate hands upon the table before her and looked perfectly satisfied.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32160.10"The airy form stood lightly poised upon one foot, with extended arms.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46460.09The duchess started involuntarily, and the hand that held her fan was dropped among the rustling folds of her satin skirt "What!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_10210.07"Most romantic, Moritz!

The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_12070.20He stands up even to a lost post.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_75510.20Ernestine sat pale and mute, her hands folded in her lap; she could not stir.
Reade_Foul_Play_59820.18She folded her arms and stood looking at him; and she thought of all they two had done and suffered together.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_8230.18Giving the old man his hand, he led him with caution to the brink of the Lynn; and then, folding him in his arms, dashed with him through the tumbling water into the cavern he had chosen for his asylum.
Collins_Woman_in_White_12630.17My arm lost all sensation of the hand that grasped it.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_67000.16So did St. Clare think, as, with folded arms, he stood there gazing.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_20890.16Guy had risen, and stood still, with his head bent down on his breast.
Evans_Vashti_31700.16He knew from the sudden spasm that seized her calm features, and shuddered through her tall figure, that he had touched, perhaps too rudely, some chord in her nature which-- "Made the coiled memory numb and cold, That slept in her heart like a dreaming snake, Drowsily lift itself, fold by fold, And gnaw, and gnaw hungrily, half-awake."
Evans_St_Elmo_53480.16Edna folded her hands in her lap, and looked steadily into the calm, cold eyes of the editor, then shook her head, and answered: "I shall not drown.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_21260.16Egon folded up the paper slowly and deposited it in his breast pocket.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_53300.16He, indeed, had withdrawn his hand from hers and folded his arms with a sense of satisfied ambition.
Collins_Woman_in_White_33320.16Her restless fingers stole their way into my lap, and held fast by one of my hands.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_25170.15He did not answer her at once, but retained within his own the little hand which trembled for a moment like an imprisoned bird and then grew warm and full of vigorous life just as Edith was, standing there before him.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_17680.15Why, she flew through the air like a feather and yet stood firm and safe upon her feet where she landed.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_115220.15Gradually his head dropped upon his breast again; he was either swooning or sleeping, and they had much ado to get him home.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_63080.15Troy looked in, dropped his wife's hand, knowledge of it all came over him in a lurid sheen, and he stood still.
Evans_Infelice_33080.15A premonitory dread seized her, and she wrung her hands, which were lying cold in her lap.
Evans_Beulah_18230.15She was lying across the foot of the bed, and both hands were thrown up, grasping the post convulsively.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_15460.15Julia dashed past him into the parlor and laid hold of her father's arm.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_33640.15I charge you upon your life to stop your hands, and stand still here, or you are a dead man this minute."
Harland_Alone_14010.14Oh!
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_182420.14While the magistrate was signing the warrant, Meadows' head fell upon his breast; he seemed to collapse standing.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_31980.14I have lain at his feet, and at night I folded my hands and thanked God that he had given me this man for my husband.
Evans_Vashti_50380.14Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore-- Thy touch upon the palm.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_21720.13She sprang up, pale with excitement, and her look fastened itself upon the features of the man just now putting his foot upon the first step of the veranda.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_58470.13She tried to spring away, but he snatched her hand and detained her, while he stood hesitatingly at her side, looking at her lips as if they were the gates of Paradise.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_126280.13Gretchen's hands were folded, as though she were breathing a silent prayer, and Hilsborn stood grave and anxious beside her.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_151680.13Ah"-- Madame Danglars had risen, and stood before the procureur, whose hands she wrung in her feeble grasp.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_11340.13I dropped things just where I stood, you know.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_118380.13Despard folded her in his arms.
Kingsley_Hypatia_67500.13But the goddess seemed to require due homage; and when she folded her arms across her bosom, and stood motionless for an instant, as if to demand the worship of the universe, every tongue was loosed, and a thunder-clap of 'Aphrodite!'
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_59790.13Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in an attitude of friendship these two sturdy and intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_14690.13And she dropped her folded hands in her lap, exhaled a little sigh of vanquished goodness, and looked round appealingly to her companions.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_21180.13He rose quickly, and folded his arms on his breast, as though to compel himself to be calm; but his voice was low and menacing as he answered her: "Oh, oh!
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_1690.13She had made a movement, as if to offer her hand to the young man, but he stood with his arms folded, and she let it fall quickly.
Reade_Foul_Play_74010.13If I am to be bothered with a man, let me know where to put my finger on him at all hours, and not lie shivering and shaking at every window as creaks, and him out at sea.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_1740.13"O dear me, call it anything you like," she replied; "but don't stand in that way to say your task to me; put your feet together now, and fold your hands, and hold your head up.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_32000.13The step of Nigel caused her hastily to dash these tears aside, and as he stood by her and silently folded his arm around her, she looked up in his face with a smile.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_153820.12'Then I shall,' said Ruby linking herself on to her lover's arm.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_12780.12"Yes," thought I, "better far to have stood before his pistol, at all the hazard of my life, than see him thus."
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_61880.12If you did, this tragedy could not fold itself down so darkly over your head.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_56630.12"We shall be lost," said Edwards, "if we don't drop this man."
Collins_Woman_in_White_108610.12"Drop your hold of my arms," I said, "and I will go with you to the town."
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_131160.12At last, one night--it was the third of August--he was very restless, and could not breathe, nor lie easily; I lifted him up in my arms, for he was very light and thin, and tried to make him more comfortable.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_11730.12There he lies, stretched on his bed, a wretched figure, lying on his breast, his head buried beneath his feverish arms.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_24670.12Slowly and hesitatingly, as if deliberating as to the best course, the man reached up to the shelf and took down a revolver, saying, with an evil-boding look at them, "If I thought you had come as detectives, you would have no chance to use your knowledge.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_168400.12She found her sitting idle, like one with whom life had lost its savour; she had her boy clasped so tight in her arms, as if he was all she had left, and she feared some one would take him too.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_3050.12She walked up to where the man lay, looked at him for a moment or two as if considering his case, then sat down on the ground beside him, and requested Richard to move him so that his head should lie on her lap.
Cooper_The_Pilot_36740.12"Boy, your life has been entrusted to my keeping, and at my hands will it be required," said his commander, lifting the struggling youth, and tossing him into the arms of the seamen.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_113980.12When he stood there holding her to his breast he had been proud of her affection.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_49540.11Another effort set me at liberty, and I stood erect before him.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36740.16The beautiful woman turned her head towards the window where the doctor was standing; perhaps she wished that he should make an attempt to hinder her from what she was doing; but no step was audible, no hand was extended to snatch the precious fuel from the flames.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_16550.11She Went on firmly erect, and in another moment had vanished Within the house.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_34410.09He made a profound bow;, then stood erect and clapped his gloved hands with un- deniable grace. "

Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_4880.30Half-way up the second flight, they all stopped as suddenly as if they had seen a ghost; for looking over the banisters was Tom's face, crocky but triumphant, and in either hand a junk of candy, which he waved above them as he vanished, with the tantalizing remark, "Don't you wish you had some?"
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_52270.25Wolfgang released his love from his embrace and stood erect, all trace of despair vanished from his face and figure.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_97730.24The gigantic figure of Asgeelo stood erect, one arm clutching the throat of his assailant, and the other holding the knife aloft.
Collins_No_Name_42220.24She stood smiling and nodding at herself in the glass, with the bonnet perched on the top of her head.
Harland_Jessamine_13770.18reiterated Jessie, stroking her gloved left hand with her right, and looking so roguishly beautiful that Orrin had no difficulty in throwing an expression of intense admiration into his gaze.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_13820.17said Cecily, putting her lovely fingers on the bony fingers of Jacques Ferrand, whose clutched hands, passed through the small glass door, were clasping the top of the ledge.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_14560.17For the moment I stood like a root, without either hand or foot to help me, and the hair of my head began to crawl, lifting my hat, as a snail lifts his house; and my heart like a shuttle went to and fro.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_222910.16Louise pressed with all the strength of her little hands on the top of the portmanteau.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_224090.16Louise pressed with all the strength of her little hands on the top of the portmanteau.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_65330.15As for Jessie, the Scotch servant, she shook her head, and said the master was fey.
Longfellow_Hyperion_8430.15I hold my breath in chill suspense, They seem so exquisitely frail, Lest they should vanish hence.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_40310.15Dantes did not comprehend the jest, but his hair stood erect on his head.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_47180.14As she reached the winding in the pathway she turned, waved her hand, and then vanished in the forest.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_40900.14She raised her clinched fists, she clutched her beautiful hair as if she would tear it out by the roots.
Collins_The_Moonstone_16650.14She shook hands first with Mr. Godfrey, who was standing at the other end of the hall, looking at a picture.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_54470.14At last, Countess Irma's name stood forth in letters of fire, held aloft by mountaineers.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_15070.14said the creole, energetically pressing her beautiful fingers on the clasped hands of Jacques Ferrand.
Evans_Vashti_30720.14With an impatient wave of the hand, she answered,-- "Give to poor little Jessie and Stanley what was intended for me.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_43760.13Little Blanche came and took hold of my hand, chattering away, up we went, up two staircases, and at the top of the last stood a girl about seventeen, so pretty!
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_1710.13A proposal to come and recuperate next summer in our beautiful country air he dismissed with a shake of the head, "he had no time!"
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_19210.13"Are you still standing at the window, Gertrude.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_97070.13Maybe Hansei's destroyed himself--maybe he's floating in there.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_550.13In the principal salon, radiantly illuminated by countless wax-lights, the young bride stood leaning on her husband's arm, cold, beautiful and haughty, as she had stood at the altar an hour before, and received the congratulations of the eager friends pressing round her with their good wishes.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_19030.12It was a picture to see the pretty little fury stand so erect and threatening, great David so humble and deprecating, yet so dogged.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_12750.12_I_ wouldn't stand her hairs and her 'aughtiness, her temper and her tongue; no, not to be ten baronets' ladies, ten times hover!"
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_48940.12Waltenberg marked the anxious glance of distress which followed Wolfgang as he returned to his men and took up his stand on a threatened dam, and, as if by accident, he put his hand upon the bridle of the other horse and held it fast.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_23420.12The sharp needles of the pine bough about which Wolfgang had clasped his hand in a nervous grasp pierced his flesh, but he did not feel them.
Kingsley_Hypatia_82930.12Hypatia waved her beautiful hand.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_37000.11And she was gone, tossing a kiss to her friend as she vanished in the shrubbery.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_65540.11He stood aloft and kissed the lips of the statue.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_155830.11"The same as mine," said Rodin, raising his head, and waving his hand very affectionately to Jacques Dumoulin, who, stupefied thereat, retired abruptly from the window.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_52720.11This he continued to do, as he ate a hurried meal which was laid out for him in the _salon_; all the rest standing in a circle around, and pressing him with questions for this friend or that at every pause he made.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_6480.11And here, again, almost as wondrous, stood a real bear of the dark forest, lending each of his forepaws to the grasp of a human hand and as ready for the dance as any in that circle.
Evans_St_Elmo_4030.11Here Mr, Wood came forward, thrust her ticket into her fingers, and shook her hand warmly, saying hurriedly: "Hold on to your ticket, and don't put your head out of the window.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_35440.11Endless difficulties have been raised touching this matter of his reversion.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_64030.11He could only help her into it, kiss her gloved hand on the rail, and see her vanish behind the shrubbery.
Harland_Jessamine_53790.11He walked firmly, head erect and countenance composed.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_22480.10Wolfgang involuntarily held himself more erect; he knew what result was meant, but he merely smiled contemptuously.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_61550.09When at length he did so he saw, against the sky, the girl standing on the edge of the cliff, wringing her hands.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_17990.09Then, when Arthur came--Dr. Griswold sent for him, you see--I buried my fingers in HIS hair, so," and she was about to clutch her own golden locks when Edith shudderingly caught her hands and held them tightly lest they should harm the tresses she thought so beautiful.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_25330.07Raven went up to her.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_76430.07"Oh, that's beautiful!"
Warner_Queechy_146200.07"And what then?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_201930.07monitions.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_123740.07Gammon!
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_48080.07(Kissing her.)
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_189810.07"For how much?"
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_22630.07Non!
Broughton_Nancy_70590.07Roger is standing not far from us.
Bronte_Villette_27060.07He vanished.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_63990.20I was experiencing an ordeal: a hand of fiery iron grasped my vitals.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37990.12she cried with a jeering laugh as she seized also with her other hand the wrist which the girl was vainly struggling to free from her vice-like grasp.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_41630.13I should like to know what justifies you in this despotism, or—no"—her lips quivered in the struggle to keep back the tears,—"I would ask, with Henriette, ’What have I done to you?’" The last passionate words died upon her lips: the doctor grasped her wrist with fingers that were like cold iron.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_4310.12The handle of the door escaped her grasp.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_69340.41Then fearing that his paroxysm might get the better of him, he clutched with one hand the branch of a tree against which he was leaning, and with the other convulsively grasped the dagger with a carved handle which was in his belt, and which, unwittingly, he drew from the scabbard from time to time.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_69560.41Then fearing that his paroxysm might get the better of him, he clutched with one hand the branch of a tree against which he was leaning, and with the other convulsively grasped the dagger with a carved handle which was in his belt, and which, unwittingly, he drew from the scabbard from time to time.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_119570.25Filled with a kind of horror, he raised himself up, one hand still grasping the pistol, while the other clutched a tree in front of him with a convulsive grasp, his eyes fixed on this figure.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_176230.24"I must know that before night," cried Meadows, and with the word he sprang on Jefferies and seized him in a grasp of iron, and put a pistol to his head.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_8010.24Mercedes looked pleased and gratified, while Fernand grasped the handle of his knife with a convulsive clutch.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_10530.21Meadows griped the palings convulsively--hell was in his heart.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_45320.21said the prince, grasping the wrist of Malicorne so tightly that the unhappy bailiff winced beneath his iron clutch.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_12380.21He then seated himself in the center of the cavern, grasping his remaining pistol with a hand convulsively clenched, while his contracted and frowning eye announced the sullen desperation of his purpose.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_7980.19Mercedes looked pleased and gratified, while Fernand grasped the handle of his knife with a convulsive clutch.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_69460.19That would--" If Irma should cry out!--The queen clutched the rail of the box with convulsive grasp.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_177500.18Crawley obeyed, but with some reluctance, for Meadows, the iron Meadows, was ghastly and shaken as he had never been shaken before.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_58150.18But it was too late; the countess needed both hands and all her strength to hold in her steeds, and could not reach the handle of the brake.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_47860.18He grasped her wrist and glared at her almost fiercely.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_48180.18She clutched his arm in a convulsive grasp.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_58840.18an iron hand grasped his shoulder, and a dagger was driven so fiercely through his neck that the point came out at his gullet.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_15920.18If you lay your knife aside and clutch your fork in your right hand like a pitchfork, every one of any culture will say, 'That woman is a person of no refinement.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_248000.17he exclaimed, as though a redhot iron were piercing his heart.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_249250.17he exclaimed, as though a redhot iron were piercing his heart.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_46430.17That very steel bow, owing to that very position, could not escape Gerard's hands, one of which grasped it, and the other went between the bow and the cord, which was as good.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_99840.17At last they reached it and got out, Black Bill first, and then Davis, who still held the hand of the boy in a tight grasp, for fear that he might try to escape.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_32380.16cried the determined Kirkpatrick, fixing his foot on the neck of the prostrate man, and trying to wrench his hand from the grasp of his commander.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_8190.16Richard, who was unarmed, had seized the blade, and, almost by one and the same movement of his wrist, wrenched the hilt from the grasp of his adversary, and flung the thing from him.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_193670.16She felt as if her heart must burst and, with convulsive grip, she held fast to one of the iron rails of the fence in order to support herself.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_21620.16The cold iron on her wrists touched the hand of her preserver.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_26290.16His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp nothingness.
Alcott_Little_Men_41840.16He had jest strength enough to hold out his hand to me and say, 'Thanky, comrade!'
Wood_East_Lynne_143760.16Instead of losing consciousness and power, as was customary, he shook as if he had the ague, and laid hold both of Madame Vine and Wilson, grasping them convulsively.
Cooper_Pathfinder_59520.16exclaimed Mabel, extending her own hand and pressing the iron fingers of her companion, under a state of feeling that far surpassed her own consciousness of its strength.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_178170.15"Come," said Meadows sternly, "no more of this folly," and he laid his iron grasp on Crawley.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_95070.15Chateauroy wrenched his wrist out of the hold that crushed it, and drew his pistol.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_80000.15The brute wrenched its head from his grasp, and raised its dreadful paw.
Cooper_The_Pilot_33190.15asked the cockswain, unconsciously grasping the collar of Borroughcliffe's coat, in his agitation; "what then?"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_222180.15So saying, the cardinal strove to free himself from the grasp of Rodin, whose fingers were now as stiff as iron.
Reade_Foul_Play_55330.15She got hold of his hand as well as his arm, and clutched it so tight her little grasp seemed velvet and steel.
Stael_Corinne_vol1_25410.14Corinne, leaning on the arm of Oswald, felt her strength revive from the consciousness of his support.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_82330.14She screamed, but clung to the gunwale, and griped the helm: her arm seemed iron, and her heart was steel.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_36570.14A dreadful smile gleamed on Mrs. Aubrey's face; her hand grasped her husband's with convulsive pressure; and she suddenly sank, rigid and senseless, upon the sofa.
Cooper_The_Pilot_36530.14The cry for the cockswain was earnest and repeated, but Tom shook his head, without replying, still grasping the tiller, and keeping his eyes steadily bent on the chaos of waters into which they were driving.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_67720.13Then suddenly rousing himself, he advanced close to me, and seizing me by the arm with a grasp like iron, inquired:-- "How came you by this picture?
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_127120.13"I found my knife where I had placed it, under my pillow, and while feigning to sleep, my hand grasped the handle of it convulsively.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_16700.13"Grasp your chance,--grasp it!"
Evans_Beulah_41580.13said she, grasping his arm convulsively.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_187060.13The magistrate trembled convulsively.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_29500.13By rail, by steamboat, or by canal?
Bronte_Villette_87110.13Papa, you grasp like a vice.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_11710.13Then the brigand, pushing Seyton backwards, shoved him off his balance, and with one hand held him suspended over the mouth of the deep excavation; whilst, with his other hand, he grasped the arm of Sarah, as if in a vice.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_35750.13There is no other fear so horrible and unhumanizing as that which makes man dread to breathe heaven's vital air lest it be poison, or to grasp the hand of a brother or friend lest the grip of the pestilence should clutch him.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_44880.12Cary and the Spaniard stand for a moment quite upright, their sword-arms stretched straight before them, holding the long rapier horizontally, the left hand clutching the dagger close to their breasts.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_33730.12Suddenly the captain grasps her by the wrist.
Reade_White_Lies_12620.12"No, you are not," and Jacintha laid a grasp of iron on him.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85460.18He shook his head.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74230.18He shook his head.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_70150.18I shook my head.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_61660.18Why did you shake your head?
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_56410.18I shook my head.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_33190.18I shook my head.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20870.18I shook my head.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_29700.15Leah shook her head, and the conversation was of course dropped.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_39950.13I could not forget how the arm had trembled which he rested on my shoulder: and it was no light matter which could thus bow the resolute spirit and thrill the vigorous frame of Fairfax Rochester.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84390.11Put on your things; go out by the kitchen-door: take the road towards the head of Marsh Glen: I will join you in a moment."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_71640.11Shake hands."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27100.11At least shake hands."
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64700.10(And he shook me with the force of his hold.)
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_82170.09He smiled approbation: we shook hands, and he took leave.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_33400.08She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_10550.08And extending his cane he pointed to the awful object, his hand shaking as he did so.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_21790.16Felicitas shook her head with a smile.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20460.13He shook his head, and before he could say a word she had left the room CHAPTER XVI.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9730.11.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_29870.10She raised her head and looked across the hedge into the next garden.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_19480.10The Professor had been for a long while sitting motionless by her bedside, with his head bowed upon his clasped hands; suddenly he arose and beckened Felicitas into the next room.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_14470.09He took the cigar from his lips, examined it for a moment, and then tossed it aside.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17850.09"So you have patients in the house, Professor," said the lawyer, shaking hands with him.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17920.08‘‘_She holds her head as erect as is at all necessary, rely upon it, Ilcinrichl" He went up-stairs with Franz.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_30540.07The Professor took her right hand, opened it, and looked gravely at the palm—there were traces there of hard labour which it would need more time to obliterate.

Wister_Marlitt_Owls_750.23He shook his head decidedly. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28240.23She shook her head decidedly. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_6790.23Kitty shook her head.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_1300.22Doctor Bruck shook his head.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15360.20She shook her head decidedly and bit her lip.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56870.18Is not this folly in the man, ' old, old as the hills/ whom you saw first on the moor V* My head drooped upon my breast.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_29820.18He shook his head. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4800.18She shook her head.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53120.18I shook my head.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_47020.18I shook my head. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43560.18I shook my head. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_24150.18He shook his head.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21380.18I shook my head. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14860.18I shook my head.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25510.18she said at last, and shook her head.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31980.18He shook his head.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53370.18She closed her eyes, and did not see the shudder that shook her strong sister’s frame as the doctor held out his hand to her and she rejected it as if she had no right to its mute pressure.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5360.17Doctor Bruck shook his head and pointed towards the southern window of the room.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_8700.17Liana looked out and shook her head. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44610.17I shook my head, it was impossible ; he must have known that as well as I.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26910.17Liana shook her head. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_420.17She shook her head gently. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3550.17She inclined her head slightly, Without looking at him.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_37440.17I silently shook my head. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33310.17He shook his head, " Incredible !
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19550.17i The girl shook her head. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34010.17she said, with a disapproving shake of her head.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16780.17Kitty shook her head.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1360.16She shook her head with a charming smile.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2490.16The Professor shook his head impatiently.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22160.16The young lady tossed her head. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_20930.16the little woman repeated, shaking her head.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_33170.15"That girl has something on her conscience, whatever it may be," said Sabina, shaking her head.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29920.15he continued, shaking his head, as she was silent but looked up at him beseechingly.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29190.15A shudder passed through the young girl’s frame.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4300.15She shook her head impatiently, and walked along the passage.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55940.14She shook her head decidedly, and her brown eyes began to beam brightly as she clasped her hands upon her throbbing breast.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61540.14I bent my head in assent, never even thinking of the gloomy mystery that still lay between us.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31600.14What a sermon I should have had from Use if she had seen that way- ward shake of the head I THE LITTLE MOORLAND PRINCESS.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17390.14His wife shook her head with a kind of savage exultation.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2110.14She pressed her palms upon her temples, as if her head ached violently.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33980.14she said, with a gay laugh, as she stepped up to the mirror to set her hat more firmly upon her head and put up the curls which the damp air had untwisted.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28940.13She shook her head, and yet she pressed her hand to her heart, as if to suppress some longing. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14030.12The young Countess blushed once more, as she shook her head, andsuddenly turned towards the door.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7160.12A pebble flew across Kitty’s path,—the doctor’s cane had playfully, as it were, tossed it away.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_38260.12Holding her head more erect than ever, she wrung my hand so that I almost screamed ; then tossed it from her and disappeared in the shrubbery.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_46210.12Her wound was not dangerous, but the physician shook his head and looked meaningly at the forester, who was anxiously watching him.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53810.12Kitty turned as if to flee down the avenue, but Bruck had taken her hand and held it in a firm grasp.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_22920.11he asked, gravely. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10240.11You will have to hold her head.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_420.11No one who saw his stalwart old frame would have believed it.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17450.11Go, go!
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_27720.11Elizabeth shuddered.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_22460.11It was a beautiful animal, but there was something tricky and deceitful in the way in which it would stand with drooping head, and then suddenly toss it back without warning.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44690.10Then he looked at it through a glass, and it must have been all right, for he nodded his head.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28250.10"Most certainly I would, and shall," he replied, shaking off her hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21360.10Use clasped her hands above her head. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_11520.10"That belongs to you, you lucky child; here is your ’Shake, shake, little tree, gold and silver over me.’" And he passed his hand almost caressingly over the cold iron.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_14480.10Silently and gravely he walked 84 THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6140.10What put that into your head, Fraulein Claudine?"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52910.10She angrily shook off the old lady's hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19240.10The man scratched his head stupidly.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_14150.10Use re- monstrated, shaking me off and then dragging me for* ward.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30620.10She clasped her hands and lifted them above her head.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26700.09The housekeeper recoiled, raising both hands in protestation.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_23730.09she repeated, sadly, as her arms fell by her side. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62860.09Helldorf, with moistened eyes, took it and shook it cordially.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10680.09You are right, there's where I got it," he replied, as defiantly as before, nodding his head stubbornly. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_4050.09he interrupted himself, shaking his fist at the barking dogs.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34190.09Only once had she raised her head, with her lips opened as if to speak.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_55230.09333 she said, with a forced laugh, laying her white hand upon my lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31450.09He stood silent for a moment, gasing up at his brother's face.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1440.08In silent sympathy with their efforts he advanced his right leg, and lifted his clinched fists ; his pipe, too, played its part Suddenly the strangers' heads were almost hidden from me in a cloud of blue smoke.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56450.08But the doctor gravely drew the note from beneath her detaining fingers.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11670.08Think regarding this as you please ; but if ever in moments of trial and, believe me, such will not be wanting you need a helping, protecting hand, call upon me, I shall not fail you."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19150.08The old gentleman waved a greeting to the window and shook hands with his nephew and the bookkeeper.

Collins_Man_and_Wife_28410.32He shook his head, and sighed a sad little sigh.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_42770.29Edith shook her head, not very decidedly, it is true, still it was a negative shake, and Nina said, "Arthur boy, will you?"
Kingsley_Hypatia_44520.27Arsenius shook his head sadly.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_113940.27The gray head was bowed between the hands, and the gaunt frame was shaken with sobs.
Wister_Schillingscourt_6820.26She shook her head with a low laugh of malice.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_52310.26The Prince shook his head, incredulously and sadly.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_149750.26said Rose, sighing, and shaking her head sorrowfully.
Lewald_Hulda_16450.26The pastor shook his weary head incredulously.
Evans_St_Elmo_30080.26Smothering a sigh, she shook her head impatiently.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_6050.25Christina shook her head, and framed a negative with her lips.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_24800.25You do not shake with ague, nor does your head rack you with aching; but yet you may be ill.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_62300.25The General had grown thoughtful, but he shook his head incredulously.
Collins_Woman_in_White_102570.25Mrs. Clements sighed and shook her head doubtfully.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_23020.25Major Fitz-David shook his head sadly.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_52030.25"Oh, my head aches, my bones ache, every part of my body aches, but my heart aches worst of all.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_4780.23Her hands were clasped, and now and then she shook her gray head gently, as if incredulously.
Evans_St_Elmo_73050.23She drew the pastor's shrunken hand to her lips, and shook her head.
Cooper_The_Prairie_17430.23The young man shook his head sorrowfully, as he replied in the negative.
Wood_East_Lynne_99230.23Lucy shook her head.
Wood_East_Lynne_85820.23She shook her head in the negative.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_66110.23Max shook his head.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_4040.23The other shook his head dubiously.
Warner_Queechy_102830.23He laughed, but shook his head.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_189100.23Nidderdale shook his head.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_150420.23'I know him,' said Nidderdale shaking his head.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_35740.23Again she shook her head sadly.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_12200.23said the doctor, and shook his head.
Reade_Foul_Play_41690.23She shook her head sorrowfully.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_3690.23I shook my head sorrowfully enough.
Kingsley_Hypatia_55000.23Arsenius shook his head.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_45640.23"I shook my head sadly.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_13680.23"She shook her head, but her looks belied her.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_6370.23Hester shook her head.
Harris_Rutledge_7030.23Kitty shook her head.
Harris_Rutledge_63530.23I shook my head and sighed.
Harland_Alone_44040.23He shook his head sadly.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_44360.23The doctor shook his head.
Evans_Vashti_39300.23Despairingly she shook her head.
Evans_St_Elmo_26130.23He only shook his head, and laughed.
Evans_Macaria_16490.23My head aches horribly."
Collins_Man_and_Wife_29190.23Another negative shake of the head.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_29170.23A negative shake of the head.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_171860.23Without looking up, Hester shook her head.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_157500.23Hester shook her head.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_140360.23He shook his head impatiently.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_41620.23He shook his head sorrowfully.
Lewald_Hulda_25170.22She listened to him with a smile, but when he thought he had convinced her, she shook her lovely head sadly and decidedly.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_107250.22Bruno followed him and endeavored to cheer his sister; but she shook her head incredulously.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_64010.22The Councillor's head drooped sorrowfully.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_54160.22"But, Max," he said, shaking his head, "this won't do at all.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_59400.11And THIS is what I wished to have" (laying his hand on my shoulder): "this young girl, who stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell, looking collectedly at the gambols of a demon, I wanted her just as a change after that fierce ragout.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92950.09Oh!

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_23700.20She knew that iron grasp only too well; it wa the grasp of the same hand which had just been holding the hymn-book; the book had been thrown aside that the young girl might thus violently be prevented from fulfilling her errand, and now the terrible woman was again sitting by the dying-bed, and her voice was again heard reading in the same loud monotonous tones.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13600.14But he had seen the young girl enter, and without lifting his eyes from his work, stretched out his left hand for the letters.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12750.13He was stroking his heard with his hand—which was wonderfully white and well shaped—-and gazing at the Councillor’s widow, who stood there like an adoring seraph.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38300.11said the young widow spitefully, clutching the book tightly as she turned her back upon her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18830.08Unconsciously he east»a shy glance towards the figure by the bedside bending over the little girl—tl.en took the proffered hand in two fingers, and coldly dropped it.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10970.22He approached' the bed; a convul- sive tremor was immediately visible in the sufferer bjm^Xksss* B 6* i 66 THE SECOND WIFE. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36270.18The young wife dropped her hands by her sides.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37420.18The young wife, who saw the coming storm about to break upon her head, now took from her lips the handkerchief she had held pressed to them, and advanced one step towards her husband, her face pale as ashes.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_24790.16The lady at the table cast an anxious glance towards the bed where the sick man lay, but not a finger of the hand upon the coverlet stirred.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9130.16The young wife trem- bled before this priest as he gazed at her, and she knew not why her hands suddenly sought her veil and drew it closely across her breast and arms.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_22070.14But she suddenly uttered a low cry,—a white, well-formed man’s hand appeared and was gently laid upon hers.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21680.14"Not in the least, Frau President," he said, laying the sick girl’s hand, which just then moved convulsively, gently upon the bed.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_46200.14The young wife shivered ; she clasped his arm closer with hei white, slender fingers, and pressed to his side, so that he coulo feel the wild throbbing of her heart.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_16740.14The young wife started up, shook off hia hands, and looked at him with undisguised resentment in her widely-opened eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_13370.14_ "What cruelty I" he muttered between his teeth, laying his slender, hot hand upon the young girl’s bowed head. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_50720.14She extricated herself from his arm, and approached the old man.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7990.13Mainau stepped to his young wife's side. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_49790.13He laid his hand upon the iron safe by his side. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42680.13cried the young girl, wringing her hands.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6960.12The old lady pointed towards the next room and laid her finger on her lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_13090.12The hand which she had taken from her eyes plucked nervously at the bed-clothes. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10900.12With a sighaof relief she pressed the young man’s hand.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44700.12That sick man tottering so uncertainly alone in the tower-cellar!
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23520.12Suddenly she sat up in bed and seized Kitty’s hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60400.11I sat beside the sick man, holding his burning hand in mine.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_350.11Hurried footsteps now approached, and, in a few moments, a man appeared, coming around the corner of the house.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_25080.11" Allow me to fulfil her promise," she said, extending her hand towards his, while she glanced at him timidly, almost with a smile.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7340.11the little girl cried, taking a ball of worsted from the table and throwing it at the speaker.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54310.11At sight of them the doctor involuntarily pressed the girl’s arm closer to his side.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_43060.11Involuntarily the young girl laid her hand upon her throbbing heart; she had not been invited, and yet she had come.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47620.11With easy grace she raised her white arms and, opening her closed hands, scattered a shower of crushed orange-blossoms over the shoulders and arms of the young wife.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10850.10H The lord of the manor approached the bed and reverently touched the offered hand with his lips.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6740.09They approached swiftly.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25000.09THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_4180.08The old woman gave a sly glance at the delicate white fingers, that contrasted so with her own brown, horny hands, as they picked some carrots up from her lap.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22680.08why should she not take care of her white hands?
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23300.08Kitty had come forward and taken the waiter from the old lady.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44240.07The young ward had taken no glass, and the guardian had offered her none.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34630.07The two brothers clasped each other’s hands, and, without a word, approached the coffin.

Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_11880.33But as soon as I laid eyes on that air man, I says, says I, that air man, says I, has got the shingles, says I. I know'd the minute I seed it.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_178120.22Albert was on the point of pronouncing his father's name, when Monte Cristo gently held up his finger in token of reproach; the young man recollected his promise, and was silent.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_90630.22"No, no, no," said the old man, laying his arm affectionately on the young man's shoulder.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_30310.22Suddenly the man turned, as every man turns to look after a pretty girl.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_44840.20In a grand old hall, whose sides were decorated with armor and weapons, a young man stood pleading his cause with a lady whose hand he held.
Ebers_Bride_of_Nile_Clean_5230.20Orion quite understood these last words; he asked after the young girl, and then added gaily: "She promised me a collar yesterday for my little white keepsake from Constantinople.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_318250.20Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two clenched fists on the sheets of his bed, looked his grandfather in the face, assumed a terrible air, and said: "This leads me to say something to you."
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_37680.20The young man had approached and bowed.
Collins_Armadale_1170.20Tenderly and skillfully he was carried up the stairs, with his wife on one side of him, and the doctor (ominously silent) on the other.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_32920.20The baronet lay in a quiet sleep, his arm laying outside the bed, and his strong hand clasped in his young wife's delicate fingers.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_4720.19Young Woman (bridling, and twitching her head from side to side, in the high excitement of the dialogue).
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_14530.19She did not hear her husband's approach until he stood before her, and seizing her by the arm, said breathlessly, "Wife, this is our last day of torment!"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_185830.18"Come in here," said d'Avrigny, and he took him into the chamber where the sick man lay.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_121930.18It was as if the young girl beheld the head of Medusa.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_228190.18Valentine therefore reached her hand towards the glass, but as soon as her trembling arm left the bed the apparition advanced more quickly towards her, and approached the young girl so closely that she fancied she heard his breath, and felt the pressure of his hand.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_50870.18But, as Herbert approached her, with the expression of a jackal thirsting for his prey, disgust overpowered the haughty woman, and she thrust the slender man from her so violently that he fell to the ground.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_7150.18The young girl had followed him, and stood beside him with her hands convulsively clasped and her eyes riveted upon the face of the speaker.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_18770.18The doctor had come and gone, and the hand had been pronounced as injured but slightly, though it might possibly have been considered a far more serious case if Mr. Smith had been a more important man.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_5310.17"Nothing, mum, only he would get out of bed to hear the music," replied the girl.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_96100.17The old man put his hand feebly from under the bed-clothes.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_76890.17The old woman's hands slipped from her husband's,--he put his own out towards her, but she was not at his side.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_248570.17The young woman extended her stiff white hands towards him.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_42180.17The sisters, having approached the arm-chair on tip-toe, knelt down with clasped hands, one to the right the other to the left of the young priest.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_10940.17"You are a brave, noble girl," said Dr. Mark, with much emotion, taking the extended hand and pressing it tenderly, "but you are asking what is impossible in this case.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_168300.17The friar firmly, but gently and persuasively, persisted, and with infinite patience detached the dying man's gripe from another's property.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_4910.17She did not move at the first sounds of his approach; and when at length, as he stood silent by her side, she lifted her head, but without looking at him, he saw the traces of tears on her cheeks.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_66830.17"Rightly guessed," said the young wife, and, standing on tiptoe, she pressed her rosy lips to Ernestine's delicate mouth.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_6410.17Two gentlemen started forward to greet the ladies; the first gallantly offered his arm to the mother, the other approached the young girl.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_3110.17The widow looked down the aisle and clenched the arm of one of her bridemaids in her bony hand with such unconscious violence that the fair girl trembled.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_410.17The young man looked at him in silence, then, after a pause of a second, he laid his hand on his arm.
Evans_St_Elmo_34130.17I will promise to lay my hand on my lips; it is not white enough for a flag of truce?
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_58710.17"Father, father, in heaven's name," exclaimed the young man, "what are these weapons for?"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_213690.17Monte Cristo only answered by extending his hand to the young man.
Collins_Woman_in_White_87960.16We both ran up, and there we saw the lady laid on the sofa, with her face ghastly white, and her hands fast clenched, and her head drawn down to one side.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_56520.16At his side a girl was kneeling, holding the dying man's head in her arms, and gazing into his face with a look of heart-breaking anguish: she paid no heed to her lover, who was standing on the other side holding his friend's hand, now rapidly growing cold Ulric saw neither of them, perhaps no longer knew that they were there.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_186090.16Here Lady Midlothian put up both her hands gently, as though wafting the injury away into the air.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_23450.16Benno asked gaily, approaching his friend and laying his hand upon the one clasping the pine.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_32030.16"You are a brave champion, Hilsborn," said Mllner, holding out his hand to the young man.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_9620.16"Decidedly, you are a brave fellow," said Athos, pressing the young man's hand.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_24080.16"You speak very suddenly of love, monsieur," said the young woman, shaking her head.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_168910.16The young man pressed his lips on the same spot, on the old man's forehead, where Valentine's had been.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_87790.16he exclaimed, taking out his pocket-book with the air of a man who was equally startled and scandalized.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_137790.16Geoffrey slowly lifted his heavy head, and confronted the man whom he had betrayed.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_6850.16The husband looked at his wife and then at the ground; the wife looked at him for a while, and then suddenly raised her hand to her eyes.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_57100.16He stretched forth his hand toward his wife's bed and, in the silent night, kissed her pillow.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_155750.16After all, there was something chivalrous about the man.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_112950.16The old man approached.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_67060.16When he had married another, she too had pledged her hand, for she was not the kind to mourn her life away uselessly; but the same bitter pain which had stung the young girl when she approached the altar, awoke now again in the aging woman and closed her lips; but it lasted only a few moments, then she threw the dream from her with decision, and stretched out her hand to von Schonan.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_38080.15The old man, seeing me down, with a bold heart stepped up to the fellow that had struck me, and laying hold of his arm with one hand, and pulling him down by main force a little towards him with the other, he shot him into the head, and laid him dead on the spot; he then immediately stepped up to him who had stopped us, as I said, and before he could come forward again (for it was all done as it were in a moment) made a blow at him with a scimitar, which he always wore, but, missing the man, cut his horse into the side of his head, cut one of his ears off by the root, and a great slice down the side of his face.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_163150.15cried the young girl, extending her hand through the opening, and seizing Maximilian by his coat, for she understood from her own agitated feelings that her lover's calmness could not be real; "where are you going?"

Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_54260.20cried he, holding his struggling hand, "that the man to whom you offer money as a compensation for insult is of a nature too noble to receive it.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_19060.15Therefore no accumulation of refusals, and checks, and turnings, and forbiddings, from all the good old grannies in the world, could have prevented Robert from striking root downward, and bearing fruit upward, though, as in all higher natures, the fruit was a long way off yet.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_34440.14"Proving how her strong nature has been cowed by that scoundrel," cried Johannes with warmth.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_165420.14My mind misgives me; methinks I hold the clue to this riddle, and if I do, there be two knaves in this town whose heads I would fain batter to pieces as I do this mould;" and he clenched his teeth and raised his long spade above his head, and brought it furiously down upon the heap several times.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_104560.13It isn't right; is it, ma'am?
Broughton_Nancy_73390.13Are they _Christy Minstrels?_" "Oh, do not!"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_16250.11He grasped me as if those elfin fingers were charged with lightning.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_9770.10In all her walks about the town, Pearl, too, was there: first as the babe in arms, and afterwards as the little girl, small companion of her mother, holding a forefinger with her whole grasp, and tripping along at the rate of three or four footsteps to one of Hester's.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_223150.06"To be sure he was; I know him again.
Kingsley_Hypatia_56340.06'And what is that?'
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_133520.06"Yes."
Alcott_Little_Men_28590.06don't say it's you!

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_87250.18Most bitterly he smiled -- most decidedly he withdrew his hand from mine.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55520.16He held out his hand, laughing.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_25120.14Some hated thought seemed to have him in its grip, and to hold him so tightly that he could not advance.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92430.10"Mary," I said, "how are you?"
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_44710.10And yet I stooped down and kissed her: she looked at me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_74750.09She glanced over it, and handed it to Mary.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_21620.09I perceive those pictures were done by one hand: was that hand yours?"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38000.17"Have the kindness to hold this little traitor one moment longer in your hand,—I would not have you let it fall quite yet.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5470.15he said kindly, and took the little hand in his hard palm; " I have been looking for you everywhere.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2610.14"Say grace, Nathanael," she said in a monotone, and folded her hands.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38620.13"Perhaps I may, after I have looked at it," he replied, shrugging his shoulders, and holding out his hand for the volume.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16020.11Then, as if yielding to a sudden impulse, she unclasped the bracelet from her wrist and held it out to the young girl.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_12310.18he asked, in distress, clasp- ing his hard, rough hands. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23580.18Kitty was indescribably distressed as her hand was thus firmly held.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_29280.16She spoke quickly, for there was discontent in his tone, and the arm upon which her hand rested moved impatiently.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45280.15he asked, with a sneer, dropping his hand, however, in which he held some kind of instrument " Force that lock," I replied, more firmly. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_7390.15He turned to Liana and held out his hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44820.15she interrupted herself, pressing her hands upon her temples. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_15810.15she replied, slowly raising her eyes to him. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44660.15"I can take hold of the rope, I need no other support," she replied.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_23640.15He no longer held his hand before his face.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_1520.14I am used to having children dislike me," the lady said, with a hard, embarrassed laugh, holding her hand protectingly over the little blond head.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3430.14"Yes," she replied, keeping her hands clasped inside her muff.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_22360.14And upon this he relied as upon the clasp of the hand of a man of honour.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39570.14The book slipped from her lap as she held out her hands to welcome him.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23140.14She clasped her hands as if in naïve admiration.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_44770.14he instantly added, with a burst of laughter that mortified his ward, as he vanished among the trees, waving his hand and holding himself erect.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_2710.13he said, as he lifted Elizabeth out of the vehicle and held her for a minute in his arms.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_33060.13Much mortified, I put my hand in my pocket and handed him the coin.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34090.13"Let me raise you up for a moment and see——" "That I cannot allow," the dean’s widow firmly interposed.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24260.13And as she spoke she turned and twisted the betrothal ring upon her hand.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36640.12Liana clasped her hands upon her breast a fearful moment was at hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21130.12My eyes filled with tears, and the old lady put her arm around me, and drew me towards her.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1960.12This delicate little thing would never have suited a Germanic hand that would have crushed it in a moment as surely as that it never could have wrought the delicate silver ornament in your hand, Herr Professor.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31070.12"Even although a demon looked at him from her eyes, and she should strike him with her hands, he would love her still, and kiss the hand raised against him."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62870.11"I will givn you my hand, too, grandpapa," said Oretchen, standing on tiptoe and holding out her chubby little hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27670.11Her lips quivered nervously as she looked abroad over the wheat-field, and her hand still held by the balustrade. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24430.11It was time to administer it to the patient again, but she had fallen asleep, with Kitty’s hand clasped firmly in both her own.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36830.11She darted an angry glance towards her sister, whose hands were just lifted from the keys of the piano at the close of the piece.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18490.11She put up her hand to remove his from her shoulder; but Moritz possessed himself of it, and held it as if in a life-long grasp.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54830.11But the deafening noise, the throbbing heart of the old pile went on with rejuvenated vigour, and the road to the mill-yard was more frequented than ever,—the masterless business was directed by a firm cool hand and a prudent head.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_920.10He hastily drew off his right glove, and held out to her a white strong hand with a fine seal ring on the third finger.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_37170.10The poor thing trembled beneath his hypocritical contact, and let her delicate head rest passively upon his hand.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52070.10She laid her hand with a firm pressure upon her sister’s arm, and looked with a diabolic expression into the honest brown eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_470.10Look here, you must help me out of this.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19030.10he asked, almost roughly.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_55620.10She took up her pen again, but only for a few moments.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61500.10He actually staggered ; not a word passed his lips for a moment, but he laid his hand upon my head and in- clined it backward so that he could look full into my eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_5580.09said Liana, sadly, but firmly. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_27540.09He shall not annoy you by an examination of your hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_490.09He stretched out his hand as if to thrust her away.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31990.09He was just passing me with his hands clasped behind him. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29390.09" How can I, when you wrest one weapon after another from my hand?"
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32740.09He drew her hand through his arm.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_28600.09She rose and clasped her hands.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23540.09she said, holding up her forefinger; "and grandmamma too!
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35720.09He held out towards her his hand with the crushed paper. "
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5380.09_ The girl sat like a statue without replying. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66990.09He gently took both my hands and drew me down from the hill. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_57880.09the Princess interrupted her, standing erect.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_8550.09And now the hand that should direct the dagger trembles.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16600.09Elizabeth kindly extended her hand.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_8590.09"Why dress the matter in such phrases, grandmamma?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56580.08His voice was firm, but he looked pale, and frowned warningly. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10790.08This contemptuous repulse, however, did not shield her from the threatened companionship.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_35080.08Elizabeth, smiling, held a costly agraffe above her forehead.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_47450.08She laid her clenched hand upon her heart, as if she had received a stab.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_6100.07"One word, I pray, my good Raoul," she said, and put her hand into his arm.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_10090.07The Minister kept firm hold of his stepdaughter’s hand, and compelled her to follow him.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_47110.07She held an open letter in her hand, which had been somewhat crushed by her trembling fingers.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26210.07She gently withdrew her hands, and hurriedly put her kerchief to her eyes.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6940.07Elizabeth sat down, and was just about to reply to the question how she liked Thuringia, when the door was suddenly flung open, and a little girl of about eight years of age ran in, holding in her arms a pretty little dog, struggling and whining piteously.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_12480.07he cried, "you are the most insufferable woman I have ever known; but you have one advantage over the rest of the castle pack, you almost always know how to hold your tongue."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66890.07I loosed my hold of the fir, extended my arms, and was about to rush down to him ; but an uncle should not be received so warmly.

Evans_Infelice_24160.26For several minutes he seemed lost in thought, still holding her hands firmly; then he suddenly laughed, and stooped toward her.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_14150.25And I did; she holding my wrist tightly in hard hand.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_46900.25'That won't do; my hands will not hold out ten minutes.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_12650.24The first his honest, hard-working hand; the second his three-fingered Jack, his prestidigital hand; with both he now worked harder than ever.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_158810.24Better than words, the calm firm grasp of his hand quieted her.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_58470.24Pembroke turned at the same moment, and holding out his hand to her, said, "Come, Mary: I want to say something to you.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_10050.244 thereupon gave a smart pull at the Senator's hand to draw him off.
Broughton_Nancy_50920.23If" (tightly clinching my hands, and setting my teeth) "I had had any idea of his being the _scoundrel_ that he is--" "But he is not," she interrupts quickly, wincing a little at my words; "indeed he is not!
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_22810.23She had watched the whispering, had noticed the cool effrontery with which Felix had spoken for without hearing the words she had almost known the very moment in which he was asking and had seen the girl's timid face, and eyes turned to the ground, and the nervous twitching of her hands as she replied.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_20460.22But he knew not that the eye and hand were mine!
Collins_Woman_in_White_24530.22I ventured a little nearer to her, and held out my hand.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_88230.22"One word more," I said, as he held out his hand.
Warner_Queechy_133860.21Guy examined them carefully for a few minutes, and then laid them both, with a firm hand upon them, on the table.
Reade_White_Lies_35160.21All the while the sisters' hands griped one another tight beneath the lifeless burden, and spoke to one another.
Wood_East_Lynne_150720.21He rose as he spoke, and held out his hand.
Warner_Queechy_56150.21"Where do you get hold of such hard words, Lucy?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_109190.21He held her very hard and shook her as he spoke.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_122660.21She did not deign a word; he took her hand and held it.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_106650.21My own solicitor drew it, and holds it at this moment."
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_47610.21She came and sat down beside me, accidentally, I believe; but when she saw me she held out her hand.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_59220.21"Then we must be cousins, too," said Tom, holding out his hand.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_97650.21Still he held her hands firmly clasped in his.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_23120.21he asked, and pressed my hand so hard that I nearly screamed.
Evans_Macaria_15510.21Release my hand; I tell you I won't wear it."
Evans_Beulah_43440.21Holding his hand firmly, she drew him down to it.
Evans_Beulah_42490.21She started, but did not speak, and held out her hand.
Collins_No_Name_131680.21She resolutely, almost roughly, drew her hand away.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_127630.20As she held him in her arms, hiding her face upon his breast, she struggled hard to speak the word.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_28540.20Then, as if possessed by a sudden fury, she seized him roughly by the arm and said hoarsely: "Speak, man!
Kingsley_Hypatia_8930.20A brave man's grip grows the firmer the longer he holds, because the spirit of Odin comes upon him.
Broughton_Nancy_11540.20"I think that there is a great deal," reply I, speaking very steadily, and so saying, I stretch out my hand and of my own accord put it in his again.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_52500.20The convulsive pressure of her slight hand held her firmly as an iron vise could have held her.
Harris_Rutledge_54880.20She could have overcome me in a moment, for just then I was as weak as a child; but Mr. Rutledge, in his firm, quiet way, released my hands, and, holding Grace's tightly in his own, said: "You had better make your escape with it to your room; I cannot insure you if you stay."
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_128200.20He turned from it as she came up, took her hand in his and held it for a few moments without speaking.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_25310.20"Perhaps," he said, as for a moment he held her hand at parting, "I had better not come to-morrow."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_218330.20its icy hand has again laid hold of mine.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_71520.20After a while, he laid his hand on Tom's, who was kneeling beside him, and said, "Tom!
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_1460.20"But your hands are very little less than mine; surely they can hold a pen?"
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_42700.20The count took her clasped hands in his, saying, "Reflect for a moment.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_23180.20She trembled at the words, and, hardly conscious of what she did, held out her hand to him.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_670.20"Yes, my dear," replied the lady; "I thought that you were washing your hands."
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_51180.20Tom wrung his hand, but did not venture to reply.
Evans_Macaria_14890.20She turned to meet her cousin and held out her hand.
Evans_Inez_32100.20And Mary clasped his hand tightly, and looked up appealingly.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_109520.20For a time neither of them spoke, but he held her hand, and she did not withdraw it.
Collins_The_Moonstone_87300.20Her hand lay powerless and trembling in mine.
Alcott_Little_Women_17830.20And here's a note," put in the maid, holding it to Meg.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_12850.20And the blessing of the widow and fatherless will fall on you, most generous knight," she added, fervently, holding out her hand.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_143340.20She withdrew her hand when Margaret's pressure became expressive; she avoided her eye, and spoke incessantly of different subjects.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_39800.20He clasped the small hand, shining with diamonds, that she extended, in both his, his tone, his eyes speaking volumes.

Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_51470.28The moment she came in, one of the travellers passed a somewhat free jest on her; the next the whole company were roaring at his expense, so swiftly had her practised tongue done his business.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_103030.25See with what an adroit and delicate touch the jade slips the long square knife under the gossamer gold-leaf which she has blown gently out of the book--and turns it over; and now she breathes gently and vertically on the exact center of it, and the fragile yet rebellious leaf that has rolled itself up like a hedgehog is flattened by that human zephyr on the little leathern easel.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_18090.18Hers was not one of those gossamer shapes which flitted around and about us, balancing on tiptoe, or gracefully floating with extending arms.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_16840.15The storm roared and rustled in its great green arms, as it stretched them protectingly over its younger and weaker fellows, and swayed them groaning up and down every now and then in spite of their strength, but the giant, whitish-grey trunk, offered shelter and support to Eugénie, who stood leaning against it.
Evans_St_Elmo_43810.13I stood there, grasping the vine--looking through the leaves at the two whom I had so idolized; and saw her golden head flashing in the moonlight as she rested it on her cousin's breast; heard and saw their kisses; heard--what wrecked, blasted me!
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_3840.13The words were hardly out of his mouth before, light as a deer and close as steel, Cecil's hand was on his collar, and without any seeming effort, without the slightest passion, he calmly lifted him off the ground, as though he were a terrier, and thrust him through the throng; Ben Davis, as the welsher was named, meantime being so amazed at such unlooked-for might in the grasp of the gentlest, idlest, most gracefully made, and indolently tempered of his born foes and prey, "the swells," that he let himself be forced along backward in sheer passive paralysis of astonishment, while Bertie, profoundly insensible to the tumult that began to rise and roar about him, from those who were not too absorbed in the business of the morning to note what took place, thrust him along in the single clasp of his right hand outward to where the running ground swept past the Stand, and threw him lightly, easily, just as one may throw a lap-dog to take his bath, into the artificial ditch filled with water that the Seraph had pointed out as "a teaser."
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_99600.13roared East,--in that wind nothing but a shout could be heard,--pointing over his shoulder with his thumb as they turned to the heath.
Bronte_Villette_12410.12Approaching the conductor, I just laid my hand on his arm, pointed to a trunk, thence to the diligence-roof, and tried to express a question with my eyes.
Whitney_Real_Folks_23500.10It could not have been so with that gold work, or any little feverish hitching on to other men's business; producing nothing, advancing nothing, only standing between to snatch what might fall, or to keep a premium for passing from hand to hand.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_30430.23She stroked down the stiff folds of her apron with both hands, advanced several steps, and made a solemn curtesy in token of welcome, while she said significantly, pointing to the cake, " That’s not it yet, Herr Markus."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_16580.14The fair young bride, with dovelike eyes and wild flowers in her hands, smiled on from the wall upon the man, upon whose pale forehead there gradually appeared drops of moisture; whose teeth chattered as if from an ague-fit, and whose hand, wont to express an iron will in bold, firm strokes, now scrawled upon the paper uncertain hieroglyphics.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7840.13But this man is not drunk," Herr Markus said, hastily feeling the pulse of the limp hand. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45880.13There is a freshet at Dorotheenthal 1" he cried out to us, breathlessly, "A loss of forty thousand thalers at least for the firm of Claudius.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_23850.12Herr Markus, I know a pair of horses,"— he kissed his finger-tips,—" perfect models of spirit and beauty.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60750.10Herr Claudius stood beside the table upon which a lamp was burning that illumined his features ; he still held his right hand pressing the left against his breast in the same strange way that I had noticed before.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6010.10Claudine involuntarily pointed to her arm: "Herr Doctor?"
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44430.10Suddenly he stroked my hand, as if to thank me for my ser- vice, and a thought flashed upon me like lightning.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_36710.10Hollfeld crushed and twisted the rustling newspaper uneasily in his hands.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9430.09Herr Markus involuntarily smoothed his gloves tighter over his hands and hastened his steps to meet the lady in the white gown ; but it was only the maid, whose appearance at the moment so vexed him that he felt the blood colour his cheeks.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_28400.07And your Liana?
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3340.07"It is really you ?"

Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_231660.37Astonished at the prolonged slumber of the patient, and frightened to see that the arm was still hanging out of the bed, she advanced towards Valentine, and for the first time noticed the white lips.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_230420.33Astonished at the prolonged slumber of the patient, and frightened to see that the arm was still hanging out of the bed, she advanced towards Valentine, and for the first time noticed the white lips.
Evans_Vashti_20620.19Salome felt injured as she eyed the doctor's arm, which had never touched even her shoulder; and it was painful and humiliating to notice the affectionate manner in which his hand stroked one of Muriel's that lay on his knee,--and to remember that his fingers had not met hers in a friendly grasp since long before his visit to Europe,--had only clasped hers twice during their acquaintance.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_40470.17exclaimed the little Esculapius, laying his fingers on the sick man's pulse, for he began to think his patient was delirious.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_42730.17'You'll not return to London this season,' said Mr Longestaffe, turning himself abruptly to a newspaper which he held in his hands.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_59890.16The surgeon felt his pulse and wrote a prescription; for it is a tradition of the elders that at each visit the doctor must do some overt act of medicine.
Collins_Armadale_5660.15The doctor was still at the bed head, with his fingers mechanically on the patient's pulse.
Cooper_The_Spy_19500.14A slight flush was on the face of the patient as the doctor entered the room, and the latter advanced promptly and laid his fingers on the pulse of the youth, beckoning to him to be silent, while he muttered,-- "Growing symptoms of a febrile pulse--no, no, my dear George, you must remain quiet and dumb; though your eyes look better, and your skin has even a moisture."
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_41630.13This little stroke of business over, the disengaged couple were at liberty to attend to the general conversation of the table.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_18470.13At last the doctor arrived, and explained that the Herr Baron was suffering from a stroke that had paralyzed his tongue and his right arm.
Evans_Vashti_66850.12Never mind, Salome Owen, when God snatched your voice from you, He became responsible; and your claims are like the ravens and sparrows, and He must provide.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_116210.11The two brothers met warmly, nay, affectionately.
Harris_Rutledge_66180.11He held it in his hand as I came in, and he looked so white and strange, I was almost frightened.
Reade_White_Lies_8880.11Then Rose, with one hand on her heaving bosom, shook her little white fist viciously at where the figure must be, and perhaps a comical desire of vengeance stimulated her curiosity.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_230270.10One arm was hanging out of the bed; from shoulder to elbow it was moulded after the arms of Germain Pillon's "Graces," [*] but the fore-arm seemed to be slightly distorted by convulsion, and the hand, so delicately formed, was resting with stiff outstretched fingers on the framework of the bed.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_49580.10The doctor approached, and taking his hand began to feel his pulse.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_66670.09Agnes mildly bent her head and followed, submitting, as was her wont, to her husband's will in all things.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_164260.07"Perhaps not.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_64690.07"Exactly.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_44780.07"As you like.
Reade_White_Lies_79940.07"Yes."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_6520.07"Why so, Doctor!"
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_92420.07"Oh!
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_34620.07"What!
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_51780.07You have been to London!
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_73270.07"Then you know him?"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_79930.07"Through what medium?"
Collins_Armadale_24620.07"Why?"

Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_123750.29The man fell on his knees, and in that posture Jacky would certainly have knocked out his brains but that Robinson pointed the pistol at his head and forbade him; and Carlo, who had arrived hastily at the sound of battle, in great excitement but not with clear ideas, seeing Jacky, whom he always looked on as a wild animal, opposed in some way to Robinson, seized him directly by the leg from behind and held him howling in a vise.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_192160.19He leaned across the candle, crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. Leblanc to retreat, and, in this posture of a wild beast who is about to bite, he exclaimed:-- "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is Thenardier.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_53890.18Benjamin ceased thumbing his money, and raised his head at the instant that Hiram, who was thrown off his guard by the invectives of the hunter, unluckily trusted his person within reach of the steward, who grasped one of his legs with a hand that had the grip of a vise, and whirled the magistrate from his feet, before he had either time to collect his senses or to exercise the strength he did really possess.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_47220.16When Hiram drew nigher, as if expecting his proposition would be accepted, Natty lifted his hand, and motioned for him to retreat.
Bronte_Shirley_107930.14"Great effects may spring from trivial causes," she remarked, as she loosened a bracelet from her wrist.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_114570.13On this Lally grabbed at it and caught Jael's right hand, which closed directly on the letter like a vise.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_68470.13The subject discussed seemed to produce a most exhilarating effect on Max, for he caught his father in his arms and gave him a vigorous hug, such as he had once threatened to bestow on his papa-in-law, the Councillor.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_209020.13"And just now, when I read those simple and touching lines," resumed Adrienne, I could not forbear pressing my lips to the name of the traveller."
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_248440.12So saying, Rose-Pompon, with a perfectly simple, though too familiar, gesture, took hold of Adrienne's hand, as if to enforce her request.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_14090.12At last he grasped at one idea, and held it as with a vise.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_74830.11She caught his hand directly, and grasped it like a vise.
Evans_Beulah_11860.11Her brother frowned and motioned her away, but, smiling quietly, she put her beautifully molded hand on his shoulder, and said: "I am sorry I disturbed your meditations, but if you will practice-- " "Who sent for me?"
Cooper_The_Prairie_16340.11But, suddenly abandoning his hostile purpose, he snuffed the air a moment, gaped heavily, shook himself, and peaceably resumed his recumbent attitude.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_256040.10This simple touch of pity for the misfortunes of others, at the moment when the noble maiden herself attained to the highest point of happiness, had such an effect on Djalma, that involuntarily he fell on his knees before Adrienne, clasped his hands together, and turned towards her his fine countenance, with an almost daring expression.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_78240.10Lord Alfred never changed his posture and never took his hand from his breast.
Cooper_Pathfinder_25410.10asked the bewildered hunter, holding the simple trinket in his hand.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_128770.10It comes to your hand to-day, and even then you must chatter and jaw instead of saying yes and closing your fingers on it like a vise."
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_100380.09Two brothers of whom it had been our boast that from babyhood they had never been known to lift a hand against each other--now struggling together like Cain and Abel.
Harland_At_Last_13810.09I must go to my room for a few minutes," raising her finger smilingly to her displaced ivy wreath.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_49600.09"There's my hand upon it, Mr Simple," said he, smacking his great fist into mine so as to make it tingle.
Warner_Queechy_90830.06Olmney?"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_93930.06Nothing.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_81650.06"No."
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_38490.06"Why not?"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_2560.06.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_193880.06"I don't know."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_50740.14I gladly advanced; and it was not merely a cold word now, or even a shake of the hand that I received, but an embrace and a kiss.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_76470.08She held out her hand.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_16630.08she asked.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_54560.19I sprang up the steps and seized her other hand. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_15840.15There is no great harm done," said Elizabeth, and she held out her hand to Bella with an enchanting smile.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40500.13she interrupted him, extending to him her hand.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_35090.13At this icy repulse he struck his heart with his clenched fist, and, with a strange fire in his eyes, advanced a step towards her. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_30530.11the Countess Falkenberg cried out to him, extending her hand with an air almost caressing.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25460.10passion ; he made as if he would have drawn Liana to his side, while he extended his right hand menacingly towards her husband.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_2830.08Raoul ought to see this," she said. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21590.08You must not look at my hands."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_5840.08"With these hands, of course.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7580.07My endeavours' to assist Use were repulsed.

Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_252420.36Morrel allowed his hand to fall into that which the count extended to him; then with an inexpressibly sorrowful inclination of the head he quitted the count and bent his steps to the east of the city.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_242220.31Debray stepped forward, and cordially pressed the hand of his interlocutor.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_251130.29Morrel allowed his hand to fall into that which the count extended to him; then with an inexpressibly sorrowful inclination of the head he quitted the count and bent his steps to the east of the city.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_240980.26Debray stepped forward, and cordially pressed the hand of his interlocutor.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_263950.26"Oh," he cried, in an accent of despair, "the count has deceived me; I am yet living; "and extending his hand towards the table, he seized a knife.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol1_7060.24exclaimed an elderly gentleman, as she came forward, and hastily advancing, seized both her hands, and pressed them with unfeigned warmth and pleasure, which greeting Mrs. Hamilton as cordially returned.
Wood_East_Lynne_27300.21She advanced to meet him, holding out her hand, her countenance betraying her pleasure.
Collins_No_Name_85630.21cried the captain, cordially seizing his visitor's reluctant hand, "I know what you have come for.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_262620.20Morrel extended his hand.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_200160.20Albert and Beauchamp parted, the last pressure of their hands expressing what their tongues could not before a stranger.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_176890.20Monte Cristo advanced towards her and extended his hand, which she as usual raised to her lips.
Collins_Woman_in_White_122030.19The Count stopped, bit a piece for himself out of the tart, and gravely handed the rest to the monkey.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_228490.19The count extended his hand towards the library.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_229700.19The count extended his hand towards the library.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_310840.17He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_120220.17Having bowed to the two ladies, he extended his hand to Debray.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_62100.17Mrs. Thornton advanced to meet him, and he took her hand in both of his.
Collins_Armadale_77740.17Mrs. Milroy seized her hand and stopped her.
Broughton_Nancy_110.17It would take all the fingers of one hand, and the thumb of the other, to count us, O reader.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_262590.17"Oh," he cried, in an accent of despair, "the count has deceived me; I am yet living;" and extending his hand towards the table, he seized a knife.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_67150.17Then turning towards the marquis, whose hand he pressed cordially, he added: "Here we have you then at last.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_107300.17Mary went forward to meet him, holding out her hand cordially.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_25850.17The Musketeer advanced two steps, and pushed d'Artagnan aside with his hand.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_245300.17added Villefort, extending his hand toward her, as though to seize her in the name of justice.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_19470.17advanced a step, and folded his arms over his chest as Napoleon would have done.
Evans_Beulah_103740.16Unsuspectingly she hastened to meet them, but, to her astonishment, instead of greeting her in their usual fawning manner, they received her with a very cold bow, just touched the tips of her fingers, and, gathering up their robes, swept majestically from the room.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_56170.16He advanced a few paces with an unsteady gait, then he stopped all at once; grasping convulsively with both hands at the pillars before the engine-house, he managed to support himself by them.
Alcott_Little_Women_12620.16Beth took a step forward, and pressed her hands tightly together to keep from clapping them, for this was an irresistible temptation, and the thought of practicing on that splendid instrument quite took her breath away.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_58850.16Tortillard was seized on the first steps of the cellar, with the Chouette's basket still in his hand.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_56700.16"Let me see," said an officer, who stepped forward; "I am surgeon to the forces here, and perhaps you will trust yourself in my hands.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_15860.16He seized both hands of the young men and exclaimed, "From New York, hey?
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_238250.16He is" -- He would have added "Edmond Dantes," but the count seized his arm and prevented him.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_149540.16She had given him her hand mechanically; she advanced a step mechanically--and then stopped.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_85730.15And as at this moment the orchestra gave the signal for the waltz, Albert put his arm round the waist of the countess, and disappeared with her in the whirl of dancers.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_3550.15The Freiherr cordially clasped one of the hands she had extended to ward him off, and shook it until it ached again.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_11110.15added the murderer, leaning forward to listen, and advancing his arms mechanically.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_35960.15There was little science between them, and what there was lay on Beauchamp's side; yet he defended himself more and more feebly, for his wind had soon given way.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_27180.15Mrs. Swancourt moved forward, took her step-daughter's hand, then kissed her.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_175950.15Monte Cristo advanced towards her and extended his hand, which she as usual raised to her lips.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_5170.15Starting back a step, Grace lifted her hands mechanically to her ears.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_65670.14"How came you here?"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_28940.14The slave stopped in his song, stood still, advanced first a foot, then a hand, and seized the butterfly.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_51850.14He extended his hand to the Count, who seized it, and with but little difficulty clambered in at the window, which was but a few feet from the ground.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_59670.14And she threw herself into his arms, holding in her extended hand a red, netted silk purse.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_262060.14Valentine seized the count's hand, and in her irresistible impulse of joy carried it to her lips.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_163660.14Morrel, who had already gone some few steps away, again returned, and pale with joy extended both hands towards Valentine through the opening.
Reade_White_Lies_38120.14With this he put out his hand and took her gray silk dress, and went to kiss it as a devotee kisses the altar steps.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_57970.14In an instant we were surrounded by our brother officers, who all shook me cordially by the hand, and welcomed me to the regiment with most gratifying warmth.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_149380.14He came forward--with the nearest approach to gentleness in his manner which she had ever yet seen in it--he came forward, with a set smile on his lips, and offered her his hand!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_353370.13Marius stepped up to the doctor.

Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_40660.17"I take him to be of the refuse of that company, whereof these (pointing carelessly upward) were the cream, and so ran their heads into danger.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_56480.16cried the trembling Harwold, quaking under the gripe of Thaddeus, and shrinking from the terrible brightness of his eye,--"my lord!
Collins_The_Moonstone_60060.16At the moment when she laid her hand on them-- at the moment when the discovery of me appeared to be quite inevitable-- the voice of the fresh-coloured young footman, on the stairs, suddenly suspended any further proceedings on her side or on mine.
Howells_A_Chance_Acquaintance_6670.15In that moment of frenzy he feared himself capable of shaking hands with the shabby Englishman in the Glengarry cap, or of asking the whole admiring company of passengers down to the bar.
Evans_Macaria_4170.13Irene, Irene!
Bronte_Shirley_77210.12When with Caroline--and Caroline only--her heart, you would have said, shook off a burden, her brow put aside a veil, her spirits too escaped from a restraint.
Evans_St_Elmo_27720.12Shake hands with Clinton Allston?
Evans_St_Elmo_27430.12"Why the d--l did you refuse to shake hands with Allston?
Bronte_Shirley_4040.12Once put up, I defy the frame-breakers.
Bronte_Shirley_19390.11When Caroline was going to receive company, her habit was to wring her hands very nervously, to flush a little, and come forward hurriedly yet hesitatingly, wishing herself meantime at Jericho.
Evans_Macaria_1660.10Both paused: Irene held out her hand cordially-- "Good morning.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_32540.09It was done, and, with her hand locked fast in Gertrude's, and a look that spoke the deepest affection, she expired.
Collins_The_Moonstone_15810.06"What is to be done?"

Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_62900.16So little are instinctive guesses the fruit of a legitimate induction, that at this moment, as he stood with the door in his hand, Troy never once thought of Fanny in connection with what he saw.
Alcott_Work_36700.15The North woke up from its prosperous lethargy, and began to stir with the ominous hum of bees when rude hands shake the hive.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_15630.14Well, I got the worst of it, my sword arm was broken--I fell, was stifled--crushed--in misery--all I could do was to grasp my token--my Daisy Chain," and he pressed Margaret's hand as he said so.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_58160.14Oh, if she had never stooped to folly of this kind, respectable as it was, and could only stand again, as she had stood on the hill at Norcombe, and dare Troy or any other man to pollute a hair of her head by his interference!
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_53850.13Wallace raised his helmet from his brow, as by an instinctive motion every hand bent the sword or banner it contained.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_42530.12I was to hold myself prepared for the worst.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_45160.12Being cross-examined, declares that if a patient gave him a black eye he would not let a keeper handle him roughly, being irresponsible.'
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_96500.12Her vengeance had come without her once lifting her hand to summon it.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_31880.11The cardinal, however contemptible might be the triumph gained over so vulgar a being as Bonacieux, did not the less enjoy it for an instant; then, almost immediately, as if a fresh thought has occurred, a smile played upon his lips, and he said, offering his hand to the mercer, "Rise, my friend, you are a worthy man."
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_15670.11that he had never brought it to Ellerslie, to draw down misery on his head!
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_82820.11This he did in a patronizing way, but his hand was unsteady and his nerve bad.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_26950.11"Yes," repeated Dolores, waving her little hand at Buttons.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_26080.10The hideous brat hopped forward and took hold of the "one-eyed's" hand.
Collins_Woman_in_White_13190.10Could the third person who was fast approaching us, at such a time and under such circumstances, be Miss Fairlie?
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_2860.09He raised his new hat from a chair, and placing it before Buttons, said fervently and with unction: "Keep it, Buttons!"
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_74100.08They made money hand over fist, and whatever advantage could be given by energy, capital, and a good location, they got.
Wood_East_Lynne_87690.06"I do not consider it so.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_126450.06As to the other, I can say nothing."
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_117640.06Oh!
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_74150.06"Yes, I did.
Bronte_Shirley_121760.06"I will either come or write."

Evans_Vashti_39630.20Dr. Grey saw that his exhausted patient was asleep, and knew that the opiate he had administered in the wine would not relinquish its hold until morning; and when her breathing became more quiet and regular he bent his head and softly kissed the hand that lay heavily in his.
Harland_Alone_77830.19The head weighed upon her arm, she did not withdraw it Scarcely breathing herself, she listened to the regular respiration, that said the distempered brain was locked in forgetfulness.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_49080.17The hand which grasped the weal of Scotland, the arm that held her shield, lay nerveless as the dead; the brain which thought so well and wisely for his fettered land, lay powerless and still; the thrilling voice was hushed, the flashing eye was closed.
Evans_Vashti_44100.16Dr. Grey's hand was on his sister's wrist, and his ear pressed against her heart,--strained to catch some faint pulsation.
Evans_Vashti_970.15As he obeyed her, Salome was preparing to pour out the tea; but, catching his eye, she paused, and Dr. Grey bowed his head on his hand, and solemnly and impressively asked a blessing, and offered up fervent thanks for the family reunion.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_157750.14Dr. Spencer wrung his hand, and stepped back to the bed to try another resource.
Evans_Vashti_22830.14Dr. Grey frowned, and partially withdrew his hand from his sister's clasp.
Evans_Vashti_31570.13Dr. Grey put his hand on her wrist, and counted the rapid, feeble, irregular pulse.
Evans_Vashti_17650.13"She is a total stranger to me," answered Dr. Grey, bending down to put his ear to the heart of the victim.
Evans_Vashti_30290.12She walked up and down the room for ten minutes, and, with his face bowed on his hand, Dr. Grey watched and waited.
Evans_Inez_36600.12Dr. Bryant could not repress a smile at the drowsy tone of the ranchero, who scarce five moments before had crept from his side.
Evans_Vashti_26450.11Dr. Grey turned, and stooped to assist her.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_126730.11His hands were bound, his enemy was watchful and armed.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_124630.10"Ah, Ernestine, how could you reject Dr. Mllner when he first wooed you?
Evans_Vashti_21840.10"Dr. Grey, will you shake hands with me, in token of pardon?"
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_58740.10At night I was bound tightly and shut up in the same room with the soldiers.
Evans_Vashti_29300.10She saw nothing but Dr. Grey's admiring eyes,--felt nothing but the close warm clasp, in which her folded fingers lay,--and her ears ached for the sound of his deep voice.
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_3310.08Dr Middleton, who was on intimate terms with Bonnycastle, rose as he entered the room, and they shook hands.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_289390.07I will not survive you.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_11410.07Have your own way; you have a right to it.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_96480.07she said vacantly.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_112950.07He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_28170.07PARTING.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_15630.07"No, no!"
Collins_No_Name_67510.07VIII.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_111370.07"Hech!
Bronte_Shirley_42850.07"Often.
Alcott_Work_41250.07"Is he here?"

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62600.13I have no compassion in me, and if Uncle Erich were to be summoned up for trial at thia moment, I would not lift a finger to prevent it."

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_97700.29Such things," continued Bertuccio, shaking his head, "are only related under the seal of confession."
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_73970.24Lost in these reflections, Ernestine continued her novel taskwork, but the Staatsrthin suddenly discovered, to her horror, that she was throwing the stems in with the beans, and the beans into the bowl of stems and strings.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_98140.24Such things," continued Bertuccio, shaking his head, "are only related under the seal of confession."
Cooper_The_Pioneers_67720.20His hand was grasped with convulsive fervor by the youth, who continued silent.
Collins_Armadale_16670.19And I'll tell you what, sir," continued Allan, seizing the head partner by the arm in the fervor of his friendly intentions, "you look sadly in want of a holiday in the fresh air, and you shall come along with me on the trial trip of my new vessel.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_45070.19A peculiar smile passed over Dantes' lips; he squeezed Jacopo's hand warmly, but nothing could shake his determination to remain -- and remain alone.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_38040.17continued he, still advancing, and feigning to raise his whip with the intention of striking; while the idiot, holding her fist towards her son-in-law, retreated backwards to her wretched couch.
Lewald_Hulda_35550.15Emanuel paused in his reading; he suspected what was to follow thia introduction, and the hand in which he held the letter trembled slightly as he continued. "
Cooper_The_Pilot_9820.13While the stranger spoke, he thrust his hand into the bosom of his dress, and drew forth a parchment, decorated with ribands, and bearing a massive seal, which he opened, and laid on the table before the youth.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_28280.13"You brought to it skilled hands and pure spring water, and yet, from the nature of the thing itself, it was a villanous compound.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_68160.13What think you is in my arm, that I should alone stem your enemies?
Kingsley_Hypatia_93350.13and she thrust the talisman into his hands.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_57880.12CHAPTER XXV COMMEMORATION The end of the academic year was now at hand, and Oxford was beginning to put on her gayest clothing.
Evans_Vashti_24880.12Dr. Grey shook his head, but remained silent; and presently Elsie touched his arm, and continued,-- "There is something I wish to say to you before I die, but not now.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_50270.12he repeated more vehemently as she remained silent.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_44950.11A peculiar smile passed over Dantes' lips; he squeezed Jacopo's hand warmly, but nothing could shake his determination to remain--and remain alone.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_18990.11One, whose appearance showed him to be the captain, lay grasping the hair of a Malay, with his sword through his enemy's heart, while a knife still remained buried in his own.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_119710.11Felton remained behind; he held a book in his hand.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_44530.10When the Doctor said, "Untie his hands," the circle widened perceptibly.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_43410.10"And for me, too," continued the youth, gently pressing the hand he held in both his own.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_50460.10The latter had so far rallied his faculties as to have gotten the ropes, which were in readiness for use as the others appeared, and they were applied in the manner related, as Hurry lay pressing his enemy down with his whole weight, intent only on the horrible office of strangling him.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_294850.10Then, as he stretched out his arms convulsively, he continued: "It is fire that devours my entrails.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_19730.10The carriage turned away, and a white glove was all that remained to me of Lucy Dashwood!
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_3590.09The white man seemed to take counsel from their customs, and, relinquishing his grasp of the rifle, he also remained silent and reserved.
Reade_White_Lies_54300.08So long as his head is in the clouds, you might take his shoes off, and on he'd walk and never know it; but every now and then he comes out of the clouds all in one moment, without a word of warning, and when he does his eye is on everything, like a bird's.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_47750.08The youth laid his hand upon the boy's head, then withdrew it hastily, and the smile vanished like the sun behind a cloud.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_22220.07"Did she?"
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_20670.07he said warmly.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_36320.07"If I could once more be let to do something for them--their very selves!"
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_48930.07"I _do_ wish it.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_162890.07she asked, very calmly.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_26130.07Christine looked at him in silent wonder.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_88320.07"I know that.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_45630.07"It appears to me all cloud."
Evans_St_Elmo_4950.07"Almost thirteen."
Evans_St_Elmo_19300.07which should be pronounced before a thrust.
Evans_Infelice_890.07"Are there two of your name?
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_147800.07Chapter 66.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_65870.07"Parbleu!"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_33290.07"Yes."
Disraeli_Lothair_66210.07said Apollonia.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_67520.07We triumphed.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_41420.07And who am I?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64670.20My eye rose to his; and while I looked in his fierce face I gave an involuntary sigh; his gripe was painful, and my over-taxed strength almost exhausted.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_21880.11"There is not much else left for us to do; but we shall not need much patience either," she said, dryly, shaking her head and looking after him as he carried the books down the garden-steps to the manor-house, leaving her alone with all the refreshments she had provided for him.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41190.11She hoped by walking quickly to overtake the time which she had lost, and could have cried, when her thin dress caught upon a bramble, and could only be extricated by patience and skill.

Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_46280.20Polly clutched Fan at that, and held her tight, saying sternly, "If you ever breathe a word, drop a hint, look a look that will tell him or any one else about me, I 'll yes, as sure as my name is Mary Milton I 'll proclaim from the housetops that you like Ar " Polly got no further, for Fan's hand was on her mouth, and Fan's alarmed voice vehemently protested, "I won't!
Marryat_Peter_Simple_53770.18Hands by the lee head-braces, and jib-sheet, stretch along the weather braces.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_120.16Their hard, thick, brown hands--hands evidently unused to idleness--grasped their knees, or, folded in each other, rested upon them.
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_29210.16"No one shall have a finger in this nice little pie; you shall do it all yourself, only don't go too fast, or make too many castles in the air, my dear; for time and patience must go into this pie of ours if it is to turn out well."
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_83630.15She looked at him now, and stretched her hands out toward him with a royal and gracious gesture of infinite eloquence.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_11790.15My pocketbook contains papers quite useless to you; return it to me, and to-morrow I will give you twenty-five louis d'ors," said Tom to the Schoolmaster, whose hand relaxed something of its fierce gripe.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_96060.14The moment she moved her head, her attention was claimed by a pair of tremulous gouty old hands, offering her a grouse pie, profusely sprinkled with truffles.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_53840.13"Really!"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_32910.12Hands off, or you'll strangle me!
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_8480.12[Illustration: I Kiss Hands.]
Hugo_Les_Miserables_331730.12It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who detached himself from it.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_26670.12"Well, Fan is rather under the weather; says she 's dyspeptic, which means cross."
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_62120.11Then, in sudden alternation of mood, she stretched her bare, white arms toward the little farmhouse, and sighed, in tones of tremulous pathos: "Oh, Arden, Arden!
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_21760.10"No, no," she exclaimed, smiling, "I do not care for game pie; but I should like an ice."
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_74230.10'I'll tell you what I'll do,' said he, putting his hand kindly on the old man's shoulder.
Cooper_The_Prairie_27060.10"Hands off--hands off--do you think my tongue can do its work the better, for a little squeezing of the throat!
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_23230.09Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a dead man's icy hand obstructs us!
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_45750.09cried Fan, anxiously, still holding Polly, who kept her head obstinately turned.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_41550.06"Oh, yes, let us."
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_118300.06"No--go on."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_192310.06"Does he often go to Auteuil?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60130.17I fell, but not on to the ground: an outstretched arm caught me.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15170.07She could distinctly see the bracelet which he held.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_30950.25And in its depths Mainau appeared, walking quickly towards the forest-house in a light summer coat, stick in hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30670.13And I raised one of my banging sleeves. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_20010.13cried a third, pressing close to the young girl and snatching at the skirt of her dress, which she rubbed in her grimy fingers.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_51870.12Forcing a feeble smile, she extended both hands towards where Mainau was standing, and, as he caught her in his arms, with a low cry, she fainted.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_25480.11No Spitz, of course, appeared, but, just where I had heard the sound, the willow branches were gently stirred, and a man's arm in a light cloth sleeve was hurriedly withdrawn.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39250.09But she had been far from fathoming the depths of her sentiments; she had snatched at a straw in the whirling flood, and it had afforded her not one instant’s support.

Howells_A_Chance_Acquaintance_24840.23But O," she broke out again while Fanny held her closer in her arms, "how could he have done it, how could he have acted so towards me; and just after I had begun to think him so generous and noble!
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_8520.22Thus equipped, she eagerly offered her arm to her venerable friend.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_68290.21I found a man lyin' hidden under a lot o' laurels, and I thought at first he was up to no good, and I was a-goin' to collar him to take him to the house, when he caught me by the wrist without gettin' up from the ground, but lookin' at me very earnest, as I could see by the way his face was turned toward me in the darkness, and asked me who I was, and what I was, and what I had to do with the folks at the Court.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_75610.20Every now and then David felt her noble white arm twitch convulsively, and her fingers pinch the cloth of his sleeve where it was loose.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_43980.19She tries to fasten the bracelet on her wrist; Rohritz kneels down beside her to help her; suddenly he possesses himself of the bracelet.
Collins_No_Name_86520.19"We have caught our man," thought Captain Wragge, cheerfully rubbing his hands -- "we have caught our man at last!"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_7330.18I fell, in fact, against him, and he caught me in his arms.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_94060.18He just ground it in his hand, and then he began to act.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_75500.18She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat.
Evans_Beulah_16060.18She eagerly caught hold of his coat.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_92880.18The situation was at last dissolved by the artist's wrist becoming cramped from disuse; this was not, however, until she had made a rough but noble sketch.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_113540.18The bonds were fastened on his wrists; and then, turning toward the lifeless body of Edwin, he raised it gently in his arms.
Whitney_Real_Folks_33510.17she exclaimed, quite loudly, pulling Desire's sleeve.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_116860.17The blackberry bushes caught her dress and held her fast, and, while extricating herself, the thorns scratched her hands and feet.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_16620.16David slipped behind some bushes, not to have his unhappiness and his meditations interrupted.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_85310.16Amyas caught convulsively at her in the darkness, and seized her wrist.
Broughton_Nancy_33240.16cry I, eagerly, laying my hand on his coat-sleeve, "do not!
Broughton_Nancy_30710.16cry I, eagerly, catching at his wrists in detention, "it was not his fault!
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_11460.16Don Quixote, then, seeing that Sancho was turning him into ridicule, was so mortified and vexed that he lifted up his pike and smote him two such blows that if, instead of catching them on his shoulders, he had caught them on his head there would have been no wages to pay, unless indeed to his heirs.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_110430.16So she restrained herself--though that self-restraint was the mightest task which she had ever undertaken--and sat passively listening, when every feeling prompted her to rush forth eagerly to greet him.
Wood_East_Lynne_42250.15She had caught sight of Mr. Wainwright, the surgeon, at a little distance, and sped toward him.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_24310.15"Bravo Pat, well begun; pull their ears well when you've got 'em."
Collins_No_Name_118390.15He dropped to his knees and caught at her dress with the grasp of a drowning man.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_96520.15If he had been ever so much awake he could not have felt her doing it; for her hand touching him, and the white paper settling on his coat, was all done as lights a spot of down on still water from the bending neck of a swan.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_39020.15Gertrude pressed forward until she caught sight of the singer, then pulling her mother's sleeve, she whispered, "This way, mother; that is Miss Middleton playing."
Broughton_Nancy_44800.15cry I, eagerly, snatching at his coat-sleeve, like a drowning man at a straw.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_93390.14She set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when terrified and undecided what to do.
Evans_Infelice_9600.14He had been lying near the table, with his head on his paws, but rose, whined, came close to his mistress and caught her sleeve between his teeth--his usual mode of attracting her attention.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_95640.14asked Yeo, eagerly.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_30480.14"And she caught him in her arms.
Collins_Woman_in_White_62890.14I have not caught HER yet, but I have caught YOU.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_3340.14But as she did so it parted from the stem, and would have fallen to the ground had he not, with his ungloved hand, caught the prickly thing.
Harris_Rutledge_38900.14A nervous tightening of the slight fingers on my wrist at the sound of her voice, showed me that it was only apparently.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_55080.14With head bent down, and hands firmly grasping the reins, I rode on, till the faint glimmering of a light caught my eye at a distance; a few miles brought me beside it.
Bronte_Villette_43860.13In the course of some apparently animated discussion, Ginevra once or twice lifted her hand and arm; a handsome bracelet gleamed upon the latter.
Wood_East_Lynne_141430.13I caught his arm as he would have passed me.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_100270.13I know her neat Italian hand too well.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_59800.13There, she has caught your dress fast.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_30160.13"Now, your honour, just look and see if I a'n't pulling the very arms off me?"
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_63000.13He caught her roughly by the arm.
Collins_Armadale_40570.13At a short distance down the wall stood a young lady, with her back toward him, trying to force her way past an impenetrable old man, with a rake in his hand, who stood obstinately in front of her, shaking his head.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_26550.13The instant she recognised him, with a prolonged plaintive cry drawn from the depths of her heart, she fell backwards fainting, and but for the barber being close by to catch her in his arms, she would have fallen completely to the ground.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_7650.13All of a sudden, without with your leave or by your leave, the said David caught this light fantastic object up in his arms, and carried it on one shoulder.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_35190.13He caught her wrists in his hands, and looked down into her eyes, in which, if he saw a little pique at his going, he saw other things which stirred in him strange feelings of triumph and tenderness.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_68100.12"This is the first link in our bracelet, noble lady!"
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_23190.12cried Amyas, catching him by the hand; "and are you he?
Harland_Jessamine_36580.12Roy caught her in his arms, but she pushed him from her.
Evans_Infelice_14600.12Sobs shook her frame, and she pressed toward the mantelpiece till the skirt of her dress swept dangerously close to the fire.
Broughton_Nancy_7800.12say I, with deep admiration, familiarly laying my hand on Sir Roger's coat-sleeve, to make sure of engaging his attention, "that is always her way!
Evans_Infelice_20390.12She was too much embarrassed by his piercing merciless eyes, to notice that he slipped one finger upon the pulse at her wrist, keeping her hands firmly in his warm clasp; or that he leaned lower as he spoke, until his noble massive head very nearly approached hers.

Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_43410.16Benjamin looked piteously at the Major, and shook _his_ head.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_43400.16The Major looked piteously at Benjamin, and shook his head.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_13830.13'That is what it will be.
Evans_Vashti_30830.13Salome covered her face with her hands, and something like a heavy dry sob shook her frame; but the spring of bitterness seemed exhaustless, and her voice was indescribably scornful in its defiant ring.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_21710.12It was not unkindly meant, perhaps, but the old man shrunk away from the large fat hand as if it hurt him, and turned toward us a look piteously appealing, which was not lost on myself or Livingstone.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_16250.12(slapping the ungenial major on the shoulder).
Collins_Armadale_38280.10Her education stands woefully in want of a finishing touch, and the major doesn't quite know what to do next.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_83820.09The steps beat him; he leaned on the rail at the bottom, and called out piteously, "My wife!
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_9910.09She held up the loaf as high as she could, and he stretched down as low as he could, and so their hands met on the loaf.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_18390.06"Must I?"
Bronte_Villette_77770.06"He and none other."