Bronte_Jane_Eyre_55210.13he exclaimed, as he stretched out his hand and bent from the saddle: "You can't do without me, that is evident.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_65820.07I had some fear -- or hope -- that here I should die: but I was soon up; crawling forwards on my hands and knees, and then again raised to my feet -- as eager and as determined as ever to reach the road.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11650.12Little Anna had been gravely holding the ladder that ' it might not fall; but when she saw Felicitas she forget her important ollice, and, tottering feebly towards the young girl, threw her arms caressingl y around her knees.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_25920.06Felieitas sunk into a reverie.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27160.04The clover leaf fell from his ha.nds,—he stretched them both outto Felicitas. "

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_45850.12"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_The_Second_Wife_51870.07Forcing 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_16260.06He repeat- edly passed his hand across his brow, stroked his thin 3?ray beard, and finally sank down slowly into the arm- chair, seized a pen and began to write.

Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_11620.21But the aperture was narrow: his body flew through, but his tight arm went round the unbroken upright, and caught it in the bend of the elbow.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_58050.21The arms of the Huron relaxed, and his body fell back a little, while his knees still kept their position.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_62750.18While under this delusion, the body rose, with the arms stretched upwards.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_10600.17The blood spurted upwards, over my face and breast, as he fell backwards.
Evans_Infelice_24270.17At last I have succeeded in obtaining----" She was beyond the reach even of his voice, and as she drooped he caught her in his arms.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_196650.17Caderousse, who had raised himself on his knees, and stretched out his arm, tried to draw back, then clasping his hands, and raising them with a desperate effort, "O my God, my God!"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_197780.17Caderousse, who had raised himself on his knees, and stretched out his arm, tried to draw back, then clasping his hands, and raising them with a desperate effort, "O my God, my God!"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_179200.16Times presses; it is really most annoying.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_67110.16When 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."
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_7330.15I fell, in fact, against him, and he caught me in his arms.
Cooper_The_Pilot_52190.15The 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.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_77580.15Seeing 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.
Reade_Foul_Play_13350.14But I was obliged to go on my hands and knees, such was the force of the wind.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_11730.14There he lies, stretched on his bed, a wretched figure, lying on his breast, his head buried beneath his feverish arms.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_187910.14He again stretched out his head and bent it back in the same unpleasant manner as before.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_10830.13The Indian stepped back a little, and, raising his body to its utmost powers of erection, he stretched his right arm on high, and dropped his forefinger downward, as if pointing from the heavens; then, striking his other band on his naked breast, he said, with energy: "The eye of the Great Spirit can see from the clouds--the bosom of Mohegan is bare!"
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_19220.13exclaimed Tag-rag, with an air of desperate disgust, thrusting his hands into his pockets, and stretching his legs to their utmost extent under the table.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_189160.13As she said this it seemed that for the moment her strength failed her, for she fell backwards on the corner of the sofa.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_142280.13Carlo never left off licking his hand, but feebly, very feebly, more and more feebly.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_245490.13Madame de Villefort stretched out her hands, and fell on her knees.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_19790.13And so saying he clasped in his arms the knee of Don Quixote's left leg.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_11800.13This injunction was given none too soon; the men had hardly shifted their positions, when Little's hand opened, and he came down like lead, with his hands all abroad, and his body straight; but his knees were slightly bent, and he caught the bands just below the knee, and bounded off them into the air, like a cricket-ball.
Broughton_Nancy_16940.13say I, pleadingly; and, as I speak, I half stretch out my hand to lay it on his arm; then hastily draw it back, afraid and ashamed of vexing him by public demonstrations.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_192450.13When they found that they could get on but slowly, on account of the child, Hansei took her up in his arms, where she soon fell asleep.
Wood_East_Lynne_47960.12So she had to put his arm back, which he was holding out, as she walked on unsupported, with what strength she had, he continuing by her side.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_82990.12he answered; and then his head fell forward on his breast, and he was fast asleep with the bottle in his hand.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_24220.12She took him by the shoulders; she shook him; she lifted him; but he escaped from her trembling hands, and fell back, not like a man, but like a body.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_2630.12I threw up my sleeve and showed him my arm;" and the Seraph stretched out an arm magnificent enough for a statue of Milo.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_25430.12He held them as if a vice, and grasping their hands, twisted them back till their guns fell from their grasp.
Collins_Woman_in_White_123530.12After several turns backwards and forwards, he suddenly came up to me, and laid his little hands with a strange tenderness and solemnity on my breast.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_92890.11Overpowered, Frances sank upon her knees, clasped her hands, and, by the faint motion of her lips, it was clear that she was praying.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_120710.11It was almost the end of the year when a letter arrived from John Lammie, informing Robert that his grandmother had caught a violent cold, and that, although the special symptoms had disappeared, it was evident her strength was sinking fast, and that she would not recover.
Bronte_Villette_52110.11Graham rushed forwards; he and the gentleman, a powerful man though grey-haired, united their strength to thrust back the throng; her head and long hair fell back over his shoulder: she seemed unconscious.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_25970.11wards and forwards with the wind.
Goldsmith_The_Vicar_of_Wakefield_23140.11And so saying, he caught her to his breast with ardour.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_63000.11He caught her roughly by the arm.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_58850.11Henrique struck him across the face with his riding-whip, and, seizing one of his arms, forced him on to his knees, and beat him till he was out of breath.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_80660.11He fell bathed in blood; and I, staggering backwards, was caught in Pioche's arms at the moment when all consciousness was fast leaving me.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_35030.11The ends of her hanging hair softly dragged themselves backwards and forwards upon her shoulder as each faint breeze thrust against or relinquished it.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_10060.11The Schneiderlein, with all the force of his powerful arm, had hold of Eberhard's own young white mare, who, with ears turned back, nostrils dilated, and wild eyes, her fore-feet firmly planted wide apart, was using her whole strength for resistance; and, when a heavy blow fell on her, only plunged backwards, and kicked without advancing.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_39140.10Christina dropped on her knee; the men-at-arms tumbled backwards; Ebbo pressed the hand he held to his lips, and fainted away.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_268310.10The old man fell back without a sigh.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_119450.10And she extended her arms and fell upon her knees.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_41210.10He feebly reached out his thin hand.
Collins_Woman_in_White_32330.10I bent over her, and saw that she was looking at it while her head lay on my breast.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_7690.10The old curé, with a pensive, thoughtful air, his head bent downwards, and his elbows leaning on his knees, mechanically stretched his two trembling hands before the fire.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_6980.10'Just that; I suppose when they are used to it they get introduced backwards and forwards, and then they can know each other as fast as they like.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_31550.10I will not fear a phantom; it must yield when once I clasp you in my arms.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_9930.10As I approached he turned around suddenly and caught me in his arms.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_50380.10He fell fast asleep, and the sheep came and fed about him, as if he had been one of themselves.

Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_25290.14The fancy struck Miriam (but she drove it resolutely down) that Donatello almost imperceptibly shuddered, while, in pressing his own hand against his heart, he pressed hers there too.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_8870.13Anna, who had no fondness for books, greatly dreaded his arrival, thinking within herself how many pranks she'd play off upon him, provided 'Lena would lend a helping hand, which she much doubted.
Warner_Queechy_12900.12Aunt Miriam laid her hands upon Fleda's shoulders and looked at Cynthy.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_12270.11Assuming a very John Kembleish attitude, I struck this down with one hand, pointing with the other to the wall, as I exclaimed, "There!
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_10070.10"Miriam," whispered Donatello, grasping her hand forcibly, "who is it that stands in the shadow yonder, beckoning you to follow him?"
Cooper_The_Pilot_40240.10Miss Plowden, as she relinquished her pressure of the hand of Cecilia, had renewed her walk with a more regulated step; but she was yet making her first turn across the room, when her eyes became keenly set on the opposite window, and her whole frame was held in an attitude of absorbed attention.
Reade_White_Lies_63170.09In this attitude she murmured to him, "I have never seen him since I left Frejus."
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_80740.09said he, imploringly, and held her out a nosegay of cowslips only.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_13810.09cried Donatello, grasping Miriam's hand.
Collins_Armadale_9820.09There the stroke had struck him, and the pen had dropped from his hand.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_13320.09whispered Miriam imploringly, and laying her hand on his arm.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_17750.09Miriam felt her arm seized violently by Donatello.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_34810.08When at the close of his daily lesson Dennis had taken his departure, Mr. Bruder would shake his head, and cast up his eyes in wonder, and exclaim: "Dot youth vill astonish de vorld yet.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_5070.08"If they were to find you with arms in your hands, the burgomaster would shut you up in jail, and keep you there two or three months before trial."
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_17440.05"No, indeed.
Warner_Queechy_42760.0519.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_121940.05"No more than I have told you.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_73180.05she said.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_50980.05The Rev.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_28630.05I colored, but went on.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_4290.05asked Miriam.
Evans_Inez_11290.05Where shall I begin?
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_59180.05Selby?"

Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_17430.16If this wretched American, with his hat on one side and rings on his fingers, had so far got the upper hand of Paul's uncle as to have been allowed to do what he liked with the funds of the partnership, Paul could not stop it.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_93310.14He told her she was his guardian angel, and kissed her, in the warmth of his gratitude; and he went back to Woodbine Villa, and asked Grace's forgiveness, and said he would go alone to the States and come back with plenty of money to satisfy Mr. Carden's prudence, and-- Grace clutched him gently with both hands, as if to hinder from leaving her.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_69340.11At last Mr. Carden came in from some other party, and carried his daughter off, and the bright evening came too soon to a close; but a great point had been gained: Mrs. Little and Grace Carden were acquaintances now, and cordially disposed to be friends.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_166250.08When she entered the parlour Paul stept forward to take her in his arms.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_49310.05Perhaps I never shall be.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_58200.06The speaker came forward and leaned on the rails.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12270.11And now he stooped down and took the limping child in his arms.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_5600.06The child approached, but did not touch the food.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40020.14Helene’s gaze followed the retreating form until it was lost to sight, and then, clasping her hands convulsively, she sank back in her chair.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_40310.12He folded his arms and stood still, leaning against a window-frame, whilst he said briefly: "You see I am ready to listen."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42510.11And 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_Baliff_22140.11The greater part of it was half hidden in shadow, and there the girl sat, her head leaning against the high back of her chair and her left arm extended; it looked as though some one were holding her hand in a clasp: sometimes there was a slight tremor of her arm.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41940.11For one moment, his gaze sought to penetrate the bushes, behind which Bertha had disappeared, and then it returned to the form which lay in his arms, and which he clasped to his heart.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_52670.10He hurried to her side, and, regardless of all else, put his arm around her to support her.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_3290.10arm-chair, across which lay the gorgeous bridal dress. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_7200.10I did not dare to lean out and look after her ; but 1 heard her pause, and her outstretched arm?
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18250.09She nodded a silent good-morning to me, and remained still with folded arms. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_6740.09He folded his arms across his breast in apparently impregnable composure and looked gravely around upon the company.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32160.09"The airy form stood lightly poised upon one foot, with extended arms.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_66890.08I 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.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_18330.08No,——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_Gisela_10800.07Without another word the Minister took her hand and laid it upon his arm, detaining it there so forcibly with his left hand that she could not extricate herself from his grasp without exciting general attention.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_15380.06Use composedly asked. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_9380.06she asked, holding him in a firm grasp.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_18340.06Liana was perpetually in arms against him.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_4160.06He offered his arm to Gisela.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_7680.06Then she felt an arm thrown about her, and " Claudine!"
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_6010.05Claudine involuntarily pointed to her arm: "Herr Doctor?"

Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_19480.18The sailor folded his arms and looked steadily at Mr. Fogg.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_57590.18Adelaide had risen, and the hand with which she leaned upon the back of the chair trembled.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_77750.18said the procurator, rising, yet supporting his weight upon the arms of his cane chair.
Bronte_Villette_52580.17Near the hearth appeared a little group: a slight form sunk in a deep arm-chair, one or two women busy about it, the iron-grey gentleman anxiously looking on.
Stael_Corinne_vol1_25410.16Corinne, leaning on the arm of Oswald, felt her strength revive from the consciousness of his support.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_16230.16and Victor grasped her bridle rein, directing her attention to the arms folded upon the window and the girlish head resting upon the arms, in the attitude of a weary child.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_112260.16He paused, and folding his arms, leaned back, while Hilda saw that his frame was shaken with extraordinary excitement.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_67890.15She seemed so near--indeed he could feel her form tremble, as she kneeled beside her, and supported her by his arm--and yet, in view of her faithless state, how widely were they separated!
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_25410.15As it was, Johnnie and Crayshaw both looked at him, not fiercely but steadily, whereupon the little fellow with deep blushes slid gently from his chair under the table.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_11710.15Then 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.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_13590.15She had risen and was grasping the chair with both hands, as though needing its support.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_134730.15To the labor of the hand I join the labor of the arm.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_55810.14So saying, he sank back in his arm-chair, and clutched at his cravat again.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_2800.14He rose from his arm-chair and stood proudly erect.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_6670.14Your friends have gone away arm in arm, happy as doves, under your very nose.
Evans_St_Elmo_67150.14She rose, took the thin little form in her arms, and whispered: "I am sorry I kept you up so long.
Evans_Inez_13630.14It will profit you little that we have many men, if some strong arm tells your length on the sward."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_55460.14Morrel rose tremblingly, supporting himself by the arm of the chair.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_41300.14Dick stood with folded arms awaiting the result of all this.
Collins_Woman_in_White_135450.14She rose and held up the child kicking and crowing in her arms.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_15730.14"Tell me about this famous man of yours," she said, putting her arm familiarly through his arm.
Cooper_The_Pilot_36740.14"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.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_3950.13He was leaning his arms over the balustrade, and the great red peonies and loose anemones were staring up at him so that he could see down into their central folds; but what is April, and what is a half-holiday, and what indeed is life itself when one has lost perhaps the most excellent top that boy ever spun, and the loudest hummer?
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_24320.13She was wide awake instantly, and quite warm; and, leaning forward in her little chair, she strove to pierce the darkness on either hand of her, to see whereabouts the house stood, and how things looked.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_24980.13Then 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.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_107960.13Gretchen was scarcely conscious, she only felt that, supported by this arm, she could raise her head once more, and she was filled with gratitude towards the man who did not shrink from thus espousing the cause of the child of a criminal.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_84410.13The moment she had him at arm's length, however, her hand closed upon his arm, and her other hand went up to her brow.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_61750.13She leaned toward him, and, putting her arms about him, supported his head on her shoulder, and held it there with her hand.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_26620.13She leans against a manly form, and his arm enfolds her as if to guard his treasure from some enemy.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_62800.13The moon had gone down, and through the darkness the rain was falling heavily; she felt it upon her forehead, her bare neck and arms, and it seemed to her Heaven's own baptism into a new and stronger faith and a happier life.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_32100.12I regret the time when I saw Bonaparte and Talma enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_42520.12And she shook the girl violently for a moment; then, recollecting herself, she pushed back the delicate form.
Harland_Alone_41960.12exclaimed Lynn, springing into the group, shaking hands with his friends, and kissing the children.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_31030.12Look at Lady Luxellian's,' said Mrs. Swancourt, as that baroness lifted up her arm to support one of the children.
Harris_Rutledge_69630.12I did not swoon or cry; I did not even drop the candle from my hand, nor loose the grasp with which I held back the curtains; but, with glazed eyes and freezing veins, gazed steadily at what lay before me.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_67650.12And as he spoke, he pointed with his finger to a man who was leaning with folded arms against one of the pillars that supported the gallery.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_50450.12"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!
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_4400.12Mr. Cooper shook his head doubtfully, and muttered something about children, even one's own, not being apt to prove blessings.
Harland_Alone_49760.11As he repeated the text, Lynn had dwelt upon, Ida felt the feeble pressure of his hand;--he was alive and conscious then.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_37790.11She held her infant in her arms.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_62120.11It was he, indeed; and she who leaned upon his arm could be no other than Lucy herself.
Evans_Infelice_36750.11Oh, my wife, let me fold you in my arms once more!
Evans_Beulah_41580.11said she, grasping his arm convulsively.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_194920.11"Now go down," said the abbe, folding his arms.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_46640.11Dick caught her in his arms.
Collins_No_Name_111270.11She rose from the chair with a new strength in her.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_6090.11Sorr would immediately have followed this counsel, but it was impossible, for Repuin, who was still leaning with folded arms against the closed door, did not stir.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_57230.11"Thus we walked slowly through the hall, and were received at the door of his room by Arno himself, leaning upon your Karl's arm, so strong that he hardly needed its support.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_2970.11Gerard, blushing at having scared her away with his eyes, took the other arm; and so the two young things went downcast and conscious, and propped the eagle along in silence.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_13980.11He had by this time got firmly planted on the hind seat, and held the drooping form on one arm with all the ease of a giant's grasp.

Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_147020.12The latter answered by an impatient wave of the hand, as if she reproached him for the formal demand at such a time.
Cooper_The_Prairie_40660.11The 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.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_45870.11She uttered no sound, she made no movement, but consciousness had not departed; the words of Gloucester on the previous night rung in her ears, demanding control, and mechanically she let her arms unloose their convulsive grasp of Nigel, and permitted the earl gently to lead her to the door, but ere it opened, she turned again to look on Nigel.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_41820.10"Only think," she said, as she unpacked a little miniature of the departed one, and sat with it for a moment in her hands, as she pressed her handkerchief to her eyes, "only think, that it is barely nine months since he was with me?"
Harland_At_Last_29140.10A casket of medicines was uppermost in the next trunk, crushing a confused medley of collars, ribbons, gloves, and handkerchiefs.
Evans_Macaria_16610.10The vessel moved majestically on its way; friends on shore waved handkerchiefs to friends departing, and hands were kissed and hats lifted, and then the crowd slowly dispersed--for steamers sail every week, and people become accustomed to the spectacle.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_25330.10"Be still," she said, imperiously waving her hand.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_85080.10The adventurers waved their hands to him.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_58330.10The ladies wave their handkerchiefs.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_234660.10He had one of his arms out of bed, and his bony hairy hand, with its bluish nails, held fast a cotton handkerchief of indescribable color.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_93640.09they stretched out their hands to her, and when they could hold to her no other way they waved their hats and their handkerchiefs to their countrymen, who waved to them from shore--and so they spun out a little longer the slender chain that visibly bound them to her.
Alcott_Work_39330.09Gusty began to cry, Ann Elizy to wave a minute red cotton handkerchief, and Adelaide to kick delightedly in her mother's arms.
Marryat_Mr._Midshipman_Easy_16650.09The young ladies looked very much confused, and as they could no longer wave their handkerchiefs, they put them up to their eyes and began to weep, while the elderly lady went on her knees, and held her hands up for mercy.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_120240.08One even went so far as to thrust her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_45710.08With trembling hand, Irma waved her white handkerchief as a token of recognition.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_69710.05"We have all liked you very much.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_135470.05Well, then."
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_29570.05What does it mean?"
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_51570.05Do you think he is?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_43520.11"And so have I, sir," I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_92760.10He put out his hand with a quick gesture, but not seeing where I stood, he did not touch me.
Bronte_Jane_Eyre_27290.07But he still retained my hand, and I could not free it.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_3880.13Come, put away the pen!"
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13730.07"Here it is," she said, "it lay just where you yourself put it—I never take up one of these books."
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_27110.07"See, Felicitas, it is a four-leavcd clover," he said quietly, without looking up.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64640.14I turned and put my hand in his with a warm pressure, and then flew down-stairs.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44930.11I will take the paper out of her hand you are right, I ought to do that myself but this poor hand shall not be touched until then.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2350.11He only put his hands on the young man's shoulders, pushed him a few steps in one direction, where the slope of the mound was abrupt, and turned him around, where he could look be- yond it, towards the south.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33710.10As 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_Gisela_4000.10- " Ah, there you are I" cried his Serene Highness, extending both hands to her. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_480.10Stand there close beside me, and stand firm, so that I can put my arm upon your shoulder."
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_12590.10Bring me counter-evidence, Baron Fleury l" he cried, without turning round. "
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7130.10said the little lady, turning towards Elizabeth with a smile of great sweetness, and holding out her hand.
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.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_6800.08He 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-GoldElsie_38840.08cried the baroness, as she shook the scarf from her shoulders and left it in her son’s hands, while she sank clumsily into an arm-chair.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17240.08She extricated herself from his grasp, and fled towards a door, but her eyes were turned with intense aversion upon the bands which, for the first time, had touched her rudely. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26020.08He had a book in his hand ; and although he spoke rather in a tone of reproof, a tender smile played about his mouth at sight of the pretty little creature standing below upon tiptoe.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4660.08She 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_12080.07she said, putting it into her pocket. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_9330.07"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_Little_Moorland_Princess_67780.07But I ran up to him and put my arm in his. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_4780.07She silently handed him the letter. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_27790.07He turned the parcel about irresolutely.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44820.07she interrupted herself, pressing her hands upon her temples. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_2610.07And she put her arm within that of her husband, who stood beside her. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36740.07The 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-AtTheCouncillors_48320.06She turned from him and drummed angrily with her fingers upon the table.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_17400.06Her back was turned to him, and by the movement of her shoulders he could see that she was breathing spasmodically.

Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_20830.21She did it with two unbroken movements; she put up all the fingers of her right hand to her brow, and that meant five: then she turned her hand rapidly, so as to hide her mouth from the others, who were both on her right hand, and she made the word thousand clear, with her lips and tongue, especially the "th."
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_8390.19George put out his hand not to let him hurt her, and George turned her gently into the lane; then he stepped carefully among the graves.
Reade_White_Lies_65870.18Raynal was now at the screen, and quietly put his head round it, and his hand upon it.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_30030.18She put her hand to her head as if trying to collect her thoughts, and then pointed to the gate.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_86690.17A while we must leave Tom in the hands of his persecutors, while we turn to pursue the fortunes of George and his wife, whom we left in friendly hands, in a farmhouse on the road-side.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_46420.16She had no courage to thank him, but she put out her hand in silence.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_53000.16She turned away from him, into the chamber, and reached her hand to the door as she turned, putting her fingers on its edge to close it after him.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_16780.16He turned to me in an instant; made a sort of motion with both his arms, like wings, having released the hand I held.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_21980.16And there was little Pearl, all this while, holding her mother's hand in both her own, and turning her face upward, while she put these searching questions, once and again, and still a third time.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_71520.16After a while, he laid his hand on Tom's, who was kneeling beside him, and said, "Tom!
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_95830.16He let George shake his hand and said quietly, "Thank you, sar!
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_47150.15George obeyed and put out his hands, with the fingers upward, Jael did the same, with the fingers downward: they took hands, and, putting their stalwart arms under Coventry, told him to fling an arm round each of their necks: he did so, and up he went; he was no more than a feather to this pair, the strongest man and woman in Cairnhope.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_91060.15She had put both hands on one arm, and turned herself round, and looked into his face.
Reade_Foul_Play_42470.15Hazel turned pale and put his head in his hands, and tried to think.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_29250.15Gossip--betrayal--sends from hand to hand, from mouth to mouth; tosses about our sacredness, or the misinterpreted sign of it, on the careless surface.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_67090.14He made a feint of joining their hands, put his head back, and shut his eyes with an air and a grace that put Charlotte into an ecstasy, and made even Amy laugh, as she quitted the room, blushing.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_127790.14They stood a little while then, and Mr. John put the rest of the flowers up there round her hands and the pillow--Miss Ellen hadn't put more than half-a-dozen; I noticed how he kept hold of Miss Ellen's hand all the time.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_44890.14The old man turned, with his daughter's hand still in his, and extended his right hand to Kurt.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_66680.14he said, turning away in agony, and wringing Tom's hand, scarce conscious what he was doing.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_30310.14Suddenly the man turned, as every man turns to look after a pretty girl.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_44650.14Then she put out her hand to him, and turned her head away, and cried herself, gently, but plenteously.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_138070.14When he put the question to George, George shook his head doubtfully.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_22930.14Then she suddenly put her hands against his breast, and thrust him away, and turned and ran.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_129240.14Then, as they drove through, he turned toward her, and putting his hand on her arm, he said: "Here is your home now--while you live."
Reade_Foul_Play_63080.14She took his right hand, and put it to her lips like a subject paying homage to her sovereign; and then she put her strong arm under his shoulder, still holding his right hand in hers, and looked in his face.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_44140.14Tom stopped short there, and stood a minute turning the letter about in his hand as if it contained a sweet which neutralized the bitter in that smaller note, and touched him very much.
Warner_Queechy_66540.14But the amusement and pleasure of the day just passed had for the moment set her spirits free from the burden that generally bound them down; and they were as elastic as her step as she came forward and presented to her aunt "Dr. Quackenboss,--and then turned to shake her cousin's hand."
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_87100.14All these thoughts were rolling and seething in George's breast, as he was pensively leaning his head on his hand, watching his wife, as she was adapting to her slender and pretty form the articles of man's attire, in which it was deemed safest she should make her escape.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_8410.14I suppose I did something,--put out my hands, perhaps, or turned some strange color which made Davy think I should faint; for he rose, and coming to me, with his hilarious laugh put his arms about me and took me to my sister.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_181110.14She almost staggered, and her hand went to her bosom, and she leaned her brow against the stone cell and wept so silently that he did not see she was weeping; indeed she would not let him, for she felt that to befriend him now she must be the stronger; and emotion weakens.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_60860.14Your head might have become turned by the wrong girl, and you have reached the period when it is bound to be turned by some one."
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_22760.14She put out her hand kindly and calmly, and shook hands with him in the most unembarrassed way imaginable.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_175840.13His companion followed him, and laid a hand upon his shoulder; but Burgo shook him off, and would not turn round.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_63440.13"Hannibal," she said, coming close to him, and putting her hand on his shoulder, "do you think Jesus could turn my heart white?"
Reade_Foul_Play_73440.13As the boat put off, she awoke from her stupor, and put out her hands to Robert with one piercing cry.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_11790.13Bella, when she was twenty yards off, put out a timid hand, as if to detain her; but she had not the courage to say anything of the kind.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_37060.13Anna Maria went down the steps with him, and put extra rugs and foot-sacks in with her own hands.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_211300.13he said, putting out his hand to her.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_19880.13And she again put out her hand to him.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_24760.13"Oh, all right; your turn next time."
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_19900.13I would not put up with it from George himself, much less from you.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_12090.13I think something has put him out, and he isn't soon put out, you know, he isn't."
Harris_Rutledge_38450.13Had I the courage to put it away from me now?
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_37050.13Her mother put her arm round her, and Amy hid her head on her shoulder, and held her fast.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_137460.13It was but for a moment, and then he looked up again, turning his eyes slowly round the entire court, and as he did so grasping his mother by the arm.
Evans_Inez_22230.13He held her hand in his, pressing it warmly, then lifted the cold fingers to his lips, and quietly turned away.
Wood_East_Lynne_97190.12She put her shaking hand into his; there was no help for it.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_109160.12And again she put her hand upon his arm.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_39220.12and he put forth his hand to take the pistol.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_69100.12She put out her hand to feel what it was.

Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_59700.16The actual motion was imperceptible, but slowly, slowly, the fingers came out whiter and whiter; but the hand between the main knuckles and the wrist remained dark.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_230270.09One 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.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_26300.08exclaimed Rigolette, seeing Germain conceal his face in his hands.
Reade_Foul_Play_60970.08"But this is all second-hand," said General Rolleston, with a sigh; "and I have learned how everything gets distorted in passing from one to another."
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_21040.07James Dicksey was rigidly cross-examined, and clung to his testimony with a dogged tenacity nothing could alter or shake.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_189030.05'I think he had ever so many but I do not know who they were.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_276110.05"How did it happen, then?"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_1980.05Germain, too!
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_10720.05"Well, then, as you will.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_54550.05"What else could he come for?"

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_61720.21Out of pity to me and yourself, put your finger on my pulse, feel how it throbs, and -- beware!"

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_9050.12She held out her hand to the doctor that he might feel her pulse, and regarded him attentively. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_7840.11But this man is not drunk," Herr Markus said, hastily feeling the pulse of the limp hand. "
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_34670.08Her pulses were throb- bing violently, a nervous tremor made her step uncertain.

Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_40470.15exclaimed the little Esculapius, laying his fingers on the sick man's pulse, for he began to think his patient was delirious.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_14760.13"You look very far from well, however, Fräulein," he went on, taking her hand, and attentively feeling her pulse.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_45070.12In a word, the island was inhabited, yet Edmond felt himself alone, guided by the hand of God.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_42910.11"Be it so, then," said I, taking the hand he proffered, and shaking it warmly; "I am too young in the world to be my own guide, and I feel you would not deceive me."
Whitney_Real_Folks_21780.11Do you think a girl of seventeen may not be feeling out into the spiritual dark,--may not be stretching helpless hands, vaguely, toward the Hands that help?
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_34900.10So now he had to guide himself, and began to feel about him.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_194040.09It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe.
Harland_At_Last_15160.09Indeed, as she spoke, she bent to feel his pulse; held the emaciated wrist in her warm fingers until she could determine whether the feeble stroke were a reality, or a trick of the imagination.
Broughton_Nancy_33600.09"What I have done to-day, I suppose," I answer dejectedly; "cry till my cheeks are _sore!_ You may not believe me" (passing my bare fingers lightly over them as I speak), "but they feel quite _raw_.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_24630.09I feel that you are right, Gertrude, and that, instead of opposing, I ought to do everything I can to forward your plans."
Warner_Queechy_118340.09But Fleda held her, though with a hand much too feeble indeed for any but moral suasion.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_9330.09He looked grave, and kneeled down by the patient, and felt his pulse anxiously.
Evans_Inez_35040.09then, when you are summoned away, may you feel, as I now do, that the arms of your God are outstretched to receive you."
Evans_Beulah_85190.09He held her hands and kept his finger on the quick bounding pulse.
Evans_Beulah_7560.09With his fingers on the bounding pulse, he answered: "He is very ill. Where is his mother?
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_116980.08"You shall not obey me, Gretchen, but you shall be my guide in a world where I am a stranger,--you shall lend me your arm to support me until I can stand alone.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_76280.07He hardly knew what to say to him; but Coventry with his usual grace relieved him; he rose, and shook hands, and even pressed Mr. Carden's hand, and held it.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_73530.05It was very hard upon her, but still she went on.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_242020.05"How do you feel?"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_46160.05I shall always feel that you are; but I did not know how very much you had to do with him."
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_40780.05The new M.F.H.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_88310.05No; it was the pulses of his brain.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_78890.05How did she feel?"
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_38340.05He seemed to feel this himself.

Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_245730.15Madame de Villefort raised her arms to heaven, and convulsively struck one hand against the other.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_41570.14And the superior, putting the pastoral ring on Fleur-de-Marie's finger, led her to the abbatial seat.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_44690.12said Fleur-de-Marie, tenderly pressing her friend's hands within her own.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_244460.11Madame de Villefort raised her arms to heaven, and convulsively struck one hand against the other.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_151680.11Ah"-- Madame Danglars had risen, and stood before the procureur, whose hands she wrung in her feeble grasp.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_152490.11Ah" -- Madame Danglars had risen, and stood before the procureur, whose hands she wrung in her feeble grasp.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_36450.11said Madame de Lucenay, in a most affectionate voice, and extending her hand to the young duke, who was about to shake hands with his cousin, but Clotilde raised her hand a little, and said to him gaily: "Kiss it, cousin,--you have your gloves on."
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_34570.10But it had been often told them by experience that, unless she beckoned one out, a blow of her clinched hand and a cessation of her impromptu pas de seul would be the immediate result.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_18020.10exclaimed Fleur-de-Marie, clasping her hands, and raising her eyes to heaven with an expression impossible to describe.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_216270.10She would, indeed, have found it impossible to repeat what had been said the last few minutes, when suddenly Madame Danglars' hand, pressed on her arm, aroused her from her lethargy.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_244330.09Madame de Villefort, unconscious of the passions that exhausted their fire over her head, at that moment held her son's ball, and was making signs to him to reclaim it with a kiss.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_40700.09Yet, after a moment's hesitation, she respectfully applied her lips to the end of the slender fingers which Fleur-de-Marie extended to her, then, kneeling suddenly, she fixed on her an attentive, concentrated look.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_146040.08It had happened to him to hold his own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallee.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_176040.08de Cardoville already shaken by the girl's warmth, began almost to share in her apprehensions.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_41170.05"Can it be possible, madame?
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_83840.05"I believe it.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_25940.05G.C.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_193730.05Go!"
Bronte_Shirley_89280.05It is over now."
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_23010.05What am I to do?--what am I to do?"

Lewald_Hulda_8700.20But 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.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_32850.08Then there was much kissing, and shaking of hands, and promising to come again, and away they drove to Hillsborough.
Reade_Foul_Play_82420.08This comes of talking of the Devil arter sunset;" and she sat trembling so that the very floor shook.

Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_57720.15Miserrimus Dexter lifted one of the truffles tenderly on his spike, and held it up to me in a favorable light.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_83000.15Miserrimus Dexter went on: "Damoride hears those terrible words; Damoride clasps her hands in entreaty.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_96060.09The 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.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_80780.09At the same moment Miserrimus Dexter raised his head.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_53590.09Miserrimus Dexter languidly held out his hand.
Bronte_Villette_39910.08The second, a "Mariee," with a long white veil, kneeling at a prie-dieu in her chamber, holding her hands plastered together, finger to finger, and showing the whites of her eyes in a most exasperating manner.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_88840.09He pressed his hand firmer on my head, as if he claimed me: he surrounded me with his arm, ALMOST as if he loved me (I say ALMOST -- I knew the difference -- for I had felt what it was to be loved; but, like him, I had now put love out of the question, and thought only of duty).

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_49810.11I might simply pass you proudly by ; but, since you take an attitude of menace in my presence, you shall know that I do not fear you, that I despise you from the bottom of my soul, if only because you would so coarsely attack and desecrate the first and only love of a woman's heart 1" She would have proceeded upon her way, but two arms clasped her. "

Lewald_Hulda_34190.11He would have promised her, bat his conscientiousness was even stronger than his love, and, withdrawing his half-extended hand, he asked, "What do you ask of me?"
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_25530.11For a few moments her face brooded over the bush, and her long, finely-modelled fingers travelled about it as if they were creating a flower upon it--probably they were assisting the birth or blowing of some beauty--and then she raised herself with a lingering look, and vanished from the field of the window.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_52270.11Wolfgang released his love from his embrace and stood erect, all trace of despair vanished from his face and figure.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_20710.10and through all this attraction of fancy and intelligence ran the electric current of strong passion, the intense longing to read love in her eyes, to feel the clasp of her slender arms, to hold her to his heart, and press his lips to hers!
Evans_Infelice_38710.10I want my darling, whom no other man has kissed, who never loved any one but me; who will come like the lily she is, and shelter herself in my strong arms, and bloom out all her fragrant loveliness in my heart only.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_58320.10Once in the saddle, and having a firm grip of the reins, she turned her head as if by a resistless fascination, and for the first time since that memorable parting on the moor outside St. Launce's after the passionate attempt at marriage with him, Elfride looked in the face of the young man she first had loved.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_57710.10Trembling now, she put her hand upon his arm, saying, in mingled tones of wretchedness and coaxing, "I only repent it if you don't love me better than any woman in the world!
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_88170.10"Swear, then, or I do not give you the casket," said she, holding out the little crucifix round her neck, and devouring him with the wild eyes of passionate unreasoning tropic love.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_15350.10Her hands were tightly clasped together, silent, tearless sobs shook her at times as remorse swept through her soul, and yet not for one minute did she think of withdrawing from her tryst.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_55350.09Be ye strong of hand and stout of heart.
Lewald_Hulda_33420.09Hulda approached him and put her arm about his neck, as if longing to keep him with her.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_323470.09The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love.
Evans_Infelice_38520.09One to kiss, to hold in my arms, to love even better than I love myself?
Evans_Inez_28950.09She turned quickly, and was clasped to the heart of him she had sworn to love alone.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_52200.08All his hesitation vanished: he opened his arms and clasped his love to his heart.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_45510.08"The road slopes a little now, madame, and it is rather rough, too; will you accept of my arm to assist you down?"
Lewald_Hulda_40230.08He pulled the hell which was to Buminon Hulda so violently that the cord was left in.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_30240.08He found him asleep in a restless attitude, as if he had just dropped off, and waking almost at the instant of his entrance, he exclaimed, "Is it you?
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_3770.08One of those moments had suddenly come over her again, when she stretched out her arms despairingly after some human soul that would understand her, that would love her a little, only a little, for herself alone.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_13190.07And some of us would gladly obey, but their hands are bound, and others, remember how they once, on just such enchanting summer days, stretched out their hands in eager longing for the roses, and at their touch the roses vanished, leaving only the thorns in their grasp, and they turn away with a mistrustful sigh.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_31330.07There is a sort of fascination in the roll of the restless head, tossing from side to side, as if trying to escape from the pressure of a heavy hot hand; in the glare of the eager eyes, that follow you every where, with a question in them that they never wait to have answered; in the incoherent words, just trembling on the verge of a revelation, but always leaving the tale half told, that creates a perpetual strain on the attention, enough to wear out a strong man.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_52570.05"You here yet, Gronau?"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_36640.05"M.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_6710.05"Exactly so; neither more nor less."
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_10210.05It vanished in him.
Harland_Jessamine_29350.05"What do you mean?"
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_13650.05"You must--you will, if you love me.
Bronte_Villette_27060.05He vanished.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_97070.05Maybe Hansei's destroyed himself--maybe he's floating in there.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_85710.07For them he has no use: I retain them."

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_12960.11He left his former place and stepped up to the girl, whose lips were quivering with a bitter smile"You have been a great care to us," he said, raising‘ his forefinger.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_16320.10"I can bear it," she replied, with trembling lips which closed again convulsively.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_11740.09Felieitas quickly out her left arm around the little giri and pressed her closely to her breast.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_13820.09"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_OMS_22930.06‘That was sensible, and as it should be,’ thought Felicitas, with tightly-compressed lips.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54560.16he said, clasping her right hand in both his own and pressing it to his breast.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_15320.14he said in irrepressible agitation, pressing the trembling little hands to his breast.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8300.14The Duchess lay there strangely still, with folded hands and a smile upon her lips.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_24890.13The man grew pale to the very lips ; he raised his hand as if to strike the wayward boy. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60190.12When I returned, Herr Claudius was still leaning against the banister ; his right hand held his left pressed to his breast.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1090.12And he raised his hands protesting^.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_44320.11I fervently pressed the pearls to my lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_3430.10"Yes," she replied, keeping her hands clasped inside her muff.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41050.10I had her hand, which I held pressed to my breast as I went on passively.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45280.10He had taken her hands in his, and held them pressed close to his breast.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_42300.10Elizabeth’s replies suddenly closed her lips.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56420.10Firmly Kitty laid her hand upon the paper.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10900.10With a sighaof relief she pressed the young man’s hand.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7880.10She withdrew her hands, and touched the girl’s forehead with her lips.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_33660.10the Frau President exclaimed, clasping her hands in amazement.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36640.10Liana clasped her hands upon her breast a fearful moment was at hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_61480.10standing close beside me, I hastily took his right hand in both my oven and pressed it to my lips.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2590.10Slowly, and I thought reluctantly, he extended his hand, and then I shrank back, really ashamed of myself.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_19860.10lotte, lightly stepping to the mirror and drawing her little cap farther over her forehead.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54650.10She withdrew the hand he pressed to his lips, and the gate in the wall clanged to behind her.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_35520.10She pressed her clenched fist to her breast, as if she were even then thrusting a dagger into her heart.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50860.09Flora made no reply; she seized Kitty’s hand and drew her towards a window.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_45280.08he 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_Gisela_7700.08She took the wreath from its cushion with a smile, and before Gisela was aware of her intention she felt the cold, heavy stones upon her forehead.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_7930.08As if unconsciously, she passed her slender fingers across her forehead where the Frau President’s cold lips had rested for an instant.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_33980.07she 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_Baliff_20360.07that’s it, then.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_56390.07He took her hand and drew her towards him again.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50440.07She wrung her hands.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_48180.07I will not stir a finger to keep you."
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_37420.07The 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_Owls_4370.06All stood quietly hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_5380.06_ The girl sat like a statue without replying. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_9150.06Her friend, too, hastened up, and took both Gisela’s hands between her own. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_56580.06His voice was firm, but he looked pale, and frowned warningly. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_19050.05Involuntarily she grasped the balustrade of the balcony and passed her other hand across her eyes.

Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_59000.21He smiled and pressed her hand warmly.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_52450.20He grasped the hand fervently and pressed his lips upon it.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_5440.19"I would follow you, my friend," said he, pressing the hand of Thaddeus, "all over the world."
Warner_Queechy_133110.18He said no more till the carriage stopped; and then before handing her out of it, lifted her hand to his lips.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_117470.17At these words of Frances, Dagobert pressed his hand to his forehead, as if to recall something to his memory.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_51140.17I pressed the pale fingers to my lips, and darted away, my every thought bent on discovering the cause of her late fright.
Cooper_The_Spy_46120.16"I do promise," said Frances, withdrawing the hand that Dunwoodie delicately relinquished, without even presuming to press it to his lips.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_17250.16"I believe you, my dear cousin," replied Ellen, frankly holding out her hand, which Herbert warmly pressed.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_58260.16Thaddeus pressed it warmly, and he disappeared.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_18970.16She held out her hand to him; he pressed it to his lips.
Evans_Beulah_52540.16Cornelia took her hand and pressed it warmly.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_95760.16She pressed her lips to his cold forehead.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_19730.16Mercy pressed his hand significantly and went out.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_34800.15Quickly and fervently he pressed his lips to her brow.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_19570.15She turned pale, and pressed her lips together, but went at once to get ready.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_11420.15Thaddeus pressed his hand in silence to his lips.
Bronte_Shirley_127000.15Something here, Cary"--laying his hand on his breast--"told me it was impossible but that you should think of me.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_11120.15Thaddeus sighed, as if his life were in that sigh, "All is indeed over;" and pressing his hand to his forehead, in that attitude followed the steps of the general towards the Vistula.
Ebers_Bride_of_Nile_Clean_3060.15Under the dense foliage of the sleeping garden he pressed her hand to his lips, and she, tremulous, let him have his way.--Bitter, bitter years lay behind her.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_164900.15Valentine 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.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_63380.14But'--and he pressed his lips firmly together--'is this the spirit I have been struggling for this whole winter?
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_25410.14He gathered the crucifix in his spectral grasp, and pressed it to his lips.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_115900.14She seized Brandon's hand and pressed it to her thin lips.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_45070.14A peculiar smile passed over Dantes' lips; he squeezed Jacopo's hand warmly, but nothing could shake his determination to remain -- and remain alone.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_23860.14George stood with his head drawn back, his arms folded tightly over his broad breast, and a bitter smile curling his lips.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_29300.14he asked again in soft, low tones, pressing her arm more and more firmly to his breast.
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_7970.14He caught her hand in his held it tight, and then pressed it for an instant against his breast.
Evans_Beulah_44540.14"Through your instrumentality," replied Clara, raising her friend's hand to her lips.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_77860.14He caught up Blanche's hand, resting on his arm, and pressed it significantly.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_199350.13No other man had ever touched her lips, or been allowed to press her hand, or to look into her eyes with unrebuked admiration.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_13460.13"I shall be content in seeing yours," he replied in a low tone, pressing her hand as he assisted her to alight.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_71260.13and he pressed his lips to Ernestine's hand, "every word that you said to-day stabbed me like a dagger.
Evans_Vashti_50340.13He bent down, and, for the first time, pressed his lips to her forehead; then turned quickly and walked away.
Evans_Vashti_48410.13Her only reply was a hasty, imperious wave of the hand, and a long silence followed.
Evans_St_Elmo_47580.13The old man put his thin hand on the orphan's head and turned the countenance toward him.
Evans_St_Elmo_41390.13Reluctantly the orphan came forward, and, without lifting her eyes, took one of the little outstretched hands firmly in both her own.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_168910.13The young man pressed his lips on the same spot, on the old man's forehead, where Valentine's had been.
Cooper_The_Spy_11740.13Dunwoodie pressed the hand of his friend, and beckoned the doctor to follow him, as he withdrew.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_83460.13She pressed both hands firmly against her heart, as if to hold fast the happiness with which it was overflowing.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_167010.13So saying, Dagobert held out his honest hand to Rodin, who pressed it in a very affable manner, and replied: "Now, really--what is all this about?
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_72410.13She spoke this at intervals, and Wallace respectfully touching the hand she extended, pressed it to his breast.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_115080.13Then she silently pressed Mllner's hand to her breast, and the large tears gathered in her eyes.
Cooper_The_Spy_60370.13A soldier's musket lay near him; his hands were pressed upon his breast, and one of them contained a substance that glittered like silver.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_45620.12'There is,' said Philip, reluctantly.
Harland_Alone_46010.12Pemberton went aside with him very reluctantly.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_74660.12He took it up and pressed it to his lips.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_25260.12I know why now."
Broughton_Nancy_31610.12reply I, firmly.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_11690.12He pressed his thin lips together for a moment, and then replied with some sharpness: "You should really be a little more careful in your expressions, dear Regine.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_25650.12He made no reply, but for one short moment pressed her hand to his trembling lips, and then left the room.

Harris_Rutledge_47440.17At last they came, defiling past me one by one, through the narrow path, the gentlemen first, then Ella Wynkar, and in a moment after, Madge Wildfire's glossy head appeared through the opening, so near that I might have patted her arched neck, or felt the breath from her dilated nostrils, and touched the gloved hand that held the reins so tightly in her impatient mouth.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_46280.16Polly 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!
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_43080.15Life, my brethren, is like plum-cake," began Polly, impressively folding her floury hands.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_10210.14With a nimble bound he leaped from his saddle, kissing his hand to Carrie, who with her sunniest smile ran past him to welcome Nellie.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_24310.12"Bravo Pat, well begun; pull their ears well when you've got 'em."
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_45750.12cried Fan, anxiously, still holding Polly, who kept her head obstinately turned.
Cooper_The_Spy_8030.09Dunwoodie seized the hand which the blushing girl, in her ardor, had extended towards him, and pressed it for a moment to his bosom; then rising from his seat, he paced the room in excessive agitation.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_40230.08'Twas done with sickening fidelity; and Titmouse gazed at it with a shudder.
Harland_Alone_79060.08She put by the garment she held, and seated herself, with folded arms.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_61430.05don't think of that.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_158720.05"What do we know?"
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_85370.05"Try ME, to begin."
Evans_Infelice_18010.05Oh!

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_26910.11The old gentleman started.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_28240.10She shook her head decidedly. "

Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_69270.15When Mr. Eden rose from his knees beside the slaughtered boy he went home at once and wrote to the Home Secretary.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_107990.13The gentleman looked at his telegram looked at another document which he now held in his hand, ready prepared, should it be wanted.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_33750.11While she sat in this somber reverie a gentleman walked up to the door, and Mary Wells lifted her head and looked at him.
Warner_Queechy_76360.11"Not since I came home," said Fleda.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_12980.10was raised by some hundred mouths.
Warner_Queechy_84850.10Hugh looked on as they went by; Fleda's head was not raised.
Warner_Queechy_74340.10said Fleda, shaking her head as she kissed them both again.
Warner_Queechy_146590.10"Yes," said Hugh smiling, and drawing her head down again;--I always thought what he came over here for.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_30510.10I stood listening from head to foot.
Lewald_Hulda_16810.10At last even the fiiithful old sexton went sadly to his home.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_117280.09The bad side of human thought will always be defined by the paradox of Jean Jacques Rousseau,--you remember,--the mandarin who is killed five hundred leagues off by raising the tip of the finger.
Collins_Woman_in_White_111300.09The man trembled from head to foot, but he held firm.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_24710.08Miss Winthrop had buried her face in her hands, and was trembling from head to foot.
Collins_Armadale_44590.08"Don't you remember our spinning the half-crown on the cabin table, when I got the two offers for the cottage?
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_34620.08and Rebecca offered a clay-daubed hand, which the new-comer cordially shook.
Warner_Queechy_20090.07And stretching out his hand the old gentleman laid it tenderly upon Fleda's bowed head, saying with strong earnestness and affection, even _his_ voice somewhat shaken, "God grant that prayer!--whatever else he do with her, keep my child from the evil!--and bring her to join her father and mother in heaven!--and me!"
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_90870.07Johannes 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?
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_8130.07The old gentleman awoke with a start, rubbed his eyes, shook hands with the pair, and proposed to go up to Lucy in the drawing-room.
Warner_Queechy_71900.05said Fleda.
Warner_Queechy_61010.05"Will you go with me, Hugh?"
Warner_Queechy_53100.05"What is to be done now?"
Warner_Queechy_115180.05said Fleda.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_156190.05No; he decidedly might not say so.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_7470.05"It is all over!"
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_13510.05"You will not?"
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_63310.05"Yes," said Zell, looking sadly down.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_54700.05"May I keep that?"
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_53960.05"Are you?
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_93880.05I believe that I should--I am sure that I should.
Kingsley_Hypatia_23060.05'Thank you, gentlemen.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_12210.05I have thought it all over while you were away.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_109960.05"My home now is with Ernestine.
Harland_Alone_73310.05"When did you come in?--down, I mean, and how are they at home?"
Harland_Alone_57880.05But tell me of yourself.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_44070.05"Then, you _will_?"
Evans_St_Elmo_51180.05What is his name?"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_15450.05Edmond started.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_163450.05Morrel started.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_87820.05I will tell you all about it.
Cooper_The_Prairie_29790.05"What is't?
Collins_Armadale_143930.05"He started.
Bronte_Villette_81450.05He looked down.
Bronte_Villette_49880.05She may appear to you again: don't start."
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_28970.05I shall take home the hills in my heart."
Warner_Queechy_28760.05"There shall not a hair of your head perish."

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10970.09"At Gelsungen, the royal domain which I rented for many years, the idea of thieves never entered my head," he continued, rubbing his knee with an expression of pain. "

Auerbach_On_the_Heights_187010.11Now and then, she would unconsciously raise the mold with her finger and find pine-needles which had accumulated for years and years, and, below them, the _dbris_ of plants that had been decayed since the world began; hers was the first human eye that rested upon them.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_45220.10But you are right.
Evans_Infelice_730.10She wrung her slender fingers, and her whole frame trembled like a weed on some bleak hillside, where wintry winds sweep unimpeded.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_60470.09Mrs. Bazalgette started, and glanced admiration on a man of eight thousand a year, who came to the point of points without being either cajoled or spurred thither; but she shook her head.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_51160.08For many years afterwards Felix remembered how that sherry had been held to his lips, and how the young heir of The Cleeve had knelt behind him in his red coat, supporting him as he became weary with waiting, and saying pleasant words to him through the whole.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_178690.08The singing of birds was heard, and Irma opened her arms as if to embrace infinity.
Harland_Alone_67830.07"You need not hold up your finger so threateningly--but for a year past, I felt that he was growing better, while I made no progress.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_42090.07Many things had become old to the solitary man of letters, but these were new, and he handled like a child an outcome of civilization which had never before been touched by his fingers.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_61850.05Do you know what he had with him?"
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_15140.05You and I are out.'
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_93120.05I want you.'
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_12620.05He is coming!"

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_37940.11Five fingers encircled with an iron grasp her left hand in which she held the little box, and close to her face glistencd two greenish cyes,—they were the soft Madonna-like orbs of the Councillor’s widow.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_18830.09Unconsciously 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_Baliff_13090.13The hand which she had taken from her eyes plucked nervously at the bed-clothes. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_14650.10In passing her mother’s chair her skirt brushed the right hand of the invalid, Which hung down over her cushions; the hand grasped the folds of the dress, and clutched them convulsively, While she passed her left hand inquiringly up and down the rich material in feverish haste. "

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_230420.26Astonished 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_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_231660.26Astonished 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.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_120570.12She stood by his bedside for a while thinking,--holding her grandfather's hand and looking down upon the bed.
Harland_At_Last_15290.11Mrs. Sutton had not neglected, in her haste, to procure a warm shawl from her room, and she folded it about the girl's shoulders, whispering an entreaty that she would go to bed, and leave the man to her management and Dr. Ritchie.
Harland_Alone_14010.10Oh!
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_5310.08"Nothing, mum, only he would get out of bed to hear the music," replied the girl.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_96100.08The old man put his hand feebly from under the bed-clothes.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_15230.08His lips moved, and his hands picked at the bed-clothes convulsively.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_92590.07One or two men hammered at the door; some frightened women, jostled in the press, begun to scream.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_76750.07Raising her eyes, hastily, she saw some particles of the plaster fall from the ceiling, loosened, no doubt, by the shaking of the floor above.
Warner_Queechy_90830.05Olmney?"
Trollope_Orley_Farm_84140.05Kenneby."
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_43450.05said he.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_1790.05But I cannot retract.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_33090.05was all he could say.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_335840.05Well, you shall know nothing.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_149030.05What are we doing?
Howells_A_Forgone_Conclusion_27540.05"No!"
Harland_Jessamine_770.05"And, then?"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_226900.05"A mischance?"
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_20400.05I do not wish to take you any further."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_20910.08Mrs. Fairfax had dropped her knitting, and, with raised eyebrows, seemed wondering what sort of talk this was.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_20810.12Mainau 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_Baliff_2490.10Soothing quiet Good heavens!"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_13840.10Elizabeth looked almost incredulously at the little lady who lay there, her clasped hands raised, and her eyes lifted to heaven, as if fate had decreed her a most bitter trial.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2620.10"Actually they are not yet pierced," he said, rolling about two of the little balls in the palm of his hand. "
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_34190.10Only once had she raised her head, with her lips opened as if to speak.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47620.09With 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_The_Second_Wife_44430.09Suddenly he stroked my hand, as if to thank me for my ser- vice, and a thought flashed upon me like lightning.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_31070.08"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_Baliff_21240.08Could 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_The_Second_Wife_16740.07The young wife started up, shook off hia hands, and looked at him with undisguised resentment in her widely-opened eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19460.07In a flash she saw be- fore her mind's eye the terrace at Kudisdorf, and the book that her mother's hand had flung away lying upon the pavement. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_60750.06Herr 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.

Evans_Macaria_29070.21She 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.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_169580.19Valentine instinctively raised her eyes, as if to thank heaven.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_170480.19Valentine instinctively raised her eyes, as if to thank heaven.
Wood_East_Lynne_45470.15All at once a recollection flashed into his mind; he raised his hat and extended his hand, his fascinating smile in full play.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_14300.15One hand is clutching the arm of her chair--her wide-open black eyes never turn from the night-scene.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_95340.14He raised himself on tiptoe and touched this band of zinc.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_6520.14He stood before the score, and as he closed upon the time-stick those pointed fingers, he raised his eyes to the chorus, and then let them fall upon the band.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_11040.14"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?"
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_16890.14A blow that looked as if it might have felled Behemoth was warded dexterously by the sabre, and, by a quick turn of the wrist, its edge laid the Rapparee's face open in a bright scarlet gash, extending from eyebrow to chin.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_76060.14The old gentleman looked as if he decidedly liked the currency, and with moistened eyes that he vainly tried to render humorous, he raised his finger impressively in parting, and said, "Don't you ever get out of debt to me."
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_41030.14With the dropping of the sun a nearly full moon had begun to raise itself.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_252840.14cried she, clasping her hands, and raising her eyes to heaven.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_53350.13The sheet of paper which M. Madeleine was holding dropped from his hand; he raised his head, gazed fixedly at Javert, and said with his indescribable accent:-- "Ah!"
Trollope_Orley_Farm_152480.13Madeline still stood silent before him and still fixed her eyes upon the ground, but very slowly she raised her little hand and allowed her soft slight fingers to rest upon his open palm.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_4310.12His grandmother had let go his hand and raised herself upright; her eyes were on the bit of gold band.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_14510.12Dantes folded his hands, raised his eyes to heaven, and prayed fervently.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_73820.12Gerard raised his eyebrows with astonishment at this monstrous but thoroughly characteristic revelation; however, this new and delicate point of friendship was never discussed; viz., whether one ought in all love to cut the tendon Achilles of one's friend.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_247430.12She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order to be on a level with him, and tried to read his hope in his eyes.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_53330.12The Jew, also a black, stood with his eyes and hands raised imploringly to the thunderous heaven.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_126970.11Ellen had raised her head; she still stood with her arm upon her brother's shoulder; the eyes of both were on the scene before them; the thoughts of neither.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_48030.11He then waved his right hand three times towards heaven, each time throwing open his palm outwards and upwards.
Collins_No_Name_20260.11With eyes that opened wide in horror, he raised his hand and pointed over Miss Garth's shoulder.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_235530.11They raised their eyes.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_137550.11At this infamous accusation, Gabriel could only raise his hands and eyes to heaven, and exclaim, with an expression of despair, "Oh, heaven!"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_49850.11After a few convulsive shudderings he raised his languid head, heaved a deep sigh, and, opening his eyes, looked eagerly around him.
Harland_Jessamine_100.11Heightening the glow of the tropical creeper, while they relieved the eye of the spectator, drooped still, lilac clusters of wisteria, and these the girl put aside with impatient fingers when she raised herself upon her elbow to obtain a better view of the outer scene.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_111770.11"Yes," said Vijal, with flashing eyes.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_76460.10cried Obed, with a deeper solemnity in his voice, raising up at the same time his colossal arm and his clenched fist to heaven--"by the Eternal!
Evans_Vashti_55120.10When he had disappeared, and she turned seaward, where the moon, as if inviting her to heaven, had laid a broad shining band of beaten silver from wave to sky,--the miserable wife raised her hands appealingly, and made a new covenant with her pitying God.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_34470.10said the old man, still having his chin in the palm of his hand.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_91120.10she lifted her hand, and her eyes flashed.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_227740.10said Villefort, raising his arms to heaven.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_231860.10he exclaimed, raising his hands to heaven.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_228950.10said Villefort, raising his arms to heaven.
Reade_White_Lies_8880.10Then 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.
Warner_Queechy_43240.10"What in the world put that book into your head, or before your eyes?"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_164230.10The latter raised her eyes slowly, and locked at the Jesuit.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_135180.10Gerard had opened his eyes as gently as if he had been but dozing.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_21910.10Her head still leaned on his bosom when she opened her eyes.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_104610.10Athos raised his eyes and his finger toward heaven.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_196000.10Caderousse raised his clinched hands towards heaven.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_113170.10"Oh, heaven," exclaimed Julie, clasping her hands, "in what did he believe, then?"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_197120.10Caderousse raised his clinched hands towards heaven.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_132180.10The foreigner lifted his hands and eyes to heaven.
Evans_St_Elmo_50200.10She wondered if he were not really cognizant of it all; if he were not watching her struggles and her triumph; and she asked herself why he was not allowed, in token of tender sympathy, to drop one palm-leaf on her head, from the fadeless branch he waved in heaven?
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_57740.10Cora regarded him not, but dropping on her knees, she raised her eyes and stretched her arms toward heaven, saying in a meek and yet confiding voice: "I am thine; do with me as thou seest best!"
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_127110.09He saw the iron man had received some strange, unexpected and terrible blow; but for a moment awe suppressed curiosity, and he went off on tiptoe, saying almost in a whisper, "To-morrow night at nine, sir."
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_46310.09exclaimed Gronau raising his hands to heaven in despair.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_2030.09Katrine raised her eyebrows: "I have an aversion for _rechauffées_."
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_69620.09Dennis opened his eyes, put his hand to his head, and then looked around.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_27460.14Raising his arm, he pointed, like a prophet, to the Karolinenlust. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_30080.13she asked, tapping the medal with her finger in a way that caused my father a nervous shudder. "
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_350.12Hurried footsteps now approached, and, in a few moments, a man appeared, coming around the corner of the house.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_10430.12he asked, with an embar- rassed stammer, pointing with his thumb over his shoulder after the doctor's vehicle.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_7280.11At last, however, when the animal uttered a most piteous howl, the mother raised her forefinger threateningly, and said, "I must call Miss Mertens."
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_18000.09she asked, tapping her forehead significantly with her forefinger. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40610.08She seemed to stand beside me with a raised and warning forefinger, while I felt as if I had done some- thing evil that could never be undone.

Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_236290.15Raising his head proudly he tapped his forehead with his forefinger, as if to express that it was to his ability this first success was owing.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_71110.14After many small warnings his thumb weakens.
Harland_Jessamine_8370.11His eyebrows were perked discontentedly, and his forefinger was in the doomed bow she had tied not fifteen minutes before.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_430.10"I do not know the ladies personally," the general went on, rubbing his hands, "but for originality"--here he tapped his forehead with his forefinger--"neither mother nor daughter is far behind the captain.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_69040.10He took it up and held the corners between his forefinger and thumb, throwing forward his hand towards the flame, as though willing that the letter should escape from him and perish if chance should so decide.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_65670.09He held up a warning forefinger, and stopped me.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_26670.09"Well, Fan is rather under the weather; says she 's dyspeptic, which means cross."
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_69570.09"I really think you can make something of that concern," he said, pointing with his thumb backward over his shoulder.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_100220.09One," counted Jacky, touching his thumb, "he know nothing with these (pointing to his eyes).
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_51170.09I stooped to examine the ground, but could not even detect the pressure of a footstep.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_8570.08And see, now, here 's all you have to do: put your right thumb in the palm of your lift hand,--this way,--and then kiss the other thumb, and then you have it.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_58160.08"We shall get down safely," she cried, holding the heads of the four noble animals well in rein.
Reade_White_Lies_22760.08Raynal tapped his forehead reflectively, and drew forth from memory that he had no instructions whatever to ask HER consent.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_17430.08He rose up erect and saluted him, by bringing his thumb with a military wave to his forehead.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_23900.07Raising a finger in an attitude of warning, she dropped her voice, already so soft and sweet, nearly to a whisper, as she continued the discourse.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_88680.07He recoiled to the other side of the room as he would have done from a serpent which was crawling toward him, and his sword coming in contact with his nervous hand, he drew it almost unconsciously from the scabbard.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_16320.05And he always does it most dutifully.'
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_9080.05both the same?"
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_48100.05"'It is him!'
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_52140.05.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_53650.05You can see what she might have been but for this.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_78310.05Do you not know what such a warning is?
Broughton_Nancy_11450.05think I.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_1700.05this is too formidable!"
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_19670.05"And why did she take it, do you suppose?"
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_20090.05"Matthew," said Hannah, clinging to him, "let us go hence."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_23950.06I wish I had stood firm -- God knows I do!

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40700.10, She silently assented, looking up at him imploringly and helplessly.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40900.07Remember I am your mother," she said, commandingly, while she extended her hand with a repellant gesture, and an annihilating glance shot from her cold eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_9730.06.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_38700.06Her cousin seized her hand and detained her.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24680.06He clenched his fists and looked savagely at the Vandal.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_19450.14She pressed her clasped hands upon her breast, as if her breath was failing her.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_16510.13As she entered Bella extended her hand, but looked shy and confused and said not a word.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_11670.13Think 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_45980.11All this Eckhof called out to us before he reached the shelter of the halL "What a misfortune 1" cried Charlotte, clasping her hands in dismay.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_24020.10she added, imploringly, raising her clasped hands.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_48150.08She 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_Gisela_11920.08Baron Fleury, I must entreat you to compose yourself," cried the Prince, extending his hand with a gesture of command. "
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_2530.08To this day I do not know how I found courage to do it, but I suddenly stood by his side and silently held out five pearls to him in my open hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17450.06Go, go!
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_8100.05Princess Helena grasped the hand extended to her.

Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_286850.17He extended his hand to the prince, who took hold of it, and they both advanced silently through the darkness.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_13610.16She lightly burlesqued the woes of a prima donna, with clasped hands and uplifted eyes.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_103550.15A gray-kidded hand is extended to her.
Cooper_The_Prairie_28280.15Ellen advanced to the side of the beast, and seizing Inez by the hand, she said, with heartfelt warmth, after struggling to suppress an emotion that nearly choked her-- "God bless you, sweet lady!
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_10590.15"I will not disappoint you," Wolfgang said, pressing the hand extended to him.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_16980.15said Bella, extending both her hands imploringly to that lady.
Collins_Armadale_32850.15He took me silently by the hand; and we found ourselves in the cabin of a ship.
Evans_Macaria_7290.14As she released his hand and left the studio he found two bright drops on his fingers, drops called forth by the most intense joy she had ever known.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_67660.14My hand shook, and sought so to direct its shot as only to wound.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_43470.14I begin to think that a tender clasp of the hand is about all one can give to the afflicted.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_81740.14When she awoke, she silently took her husband's hand in hers and held it for a long while.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_54080.14She felt as if she had extended a friendly hand and that no one had clasped it in return.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_32130.13The gay circle he had left called loudly upon him to return; one of them even laid a hand upon his arm, and tried to detain him; but he would not listen or stay--he shook off the hand, and we went on.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_122280.13And if she had only clasped it fast,--that strong, tender hand,--she would not now be sitting here alone in the dark!
Harland_Alone_52470.13He arose--she gave him her hand--it was taken as silently, and held for a long minute.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_254520.13Approaching Faringhea, he extended his hand with the utmost, grace and courtesy, saying to him, "Your hand!"
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_43990.12Wolfgang warmly returned the pressure of the hand thus given: "Good-night, Benno.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_49960.12Anna said, and Mr. Livingstone replied by clasping her to his bosom, while he extended his hand to Malcolm.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_59670.12And she threw herself into his arms, holding in her extended hand a red, netted silk purse.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_59750.12And she threw herself into his arms, holding in her extended hand a red, netted silk purse.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_4220.12It 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.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_123050.12She wrung her hands, and called out into the darkness, "O God, take pity on me, and guide me through this valley of the shadow of death!"
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_186490.12And now, when she saw the king take Gunther's hand in his own and hold it for a long while, she embraced the prince, kissed him, and then said: "Call papa."
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_103600.12And who were those?
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_167890.12He extended his hand.
Warner_Queechy_35800.11She listened with downcast eyes and a lip that he saw was too unsteady to be trusted, and then after a moment more, without looking, pulled away her hand and followed her cousin.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_35940.11For a moment longer she detained him, while she prayed silently for heaven's blessing on his wayward head, and then releasing him, she bade him go.
Cooper_The_Spy_46910.11He took the hand that Frances, in the fullness of her heart, extended towards him, but instantly relinquishing it, threw himself into a chair, in evident fatigue.
Alcott_Work_43720.11There was a rustle of sweeping silks through the narrow hall, a vision of a very lovely woman in the door-way, and two daintily gloved hands were extended as an eager voice asked: "Dearest Christie, don't you remember Bella Carrol?"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_25490.11she said, extending her hand, and I at least was in before she was out of the parlor.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_72720.11The Staatsrthin clasped her hands.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_102310.11She clasped his knees imploringly.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_8640.11She extended her hand; Gabriel his.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_58870.11Then extending his hand towards one of the pistols, he said, "There is one for you and one for me--thanks!"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_158170.11Albert extended his hand.
Collins_The_Moonstone_45920.11"I am to give it from my hands into his hands," she said.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_23420.11The 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.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_47620.11The hand of God seemed about to take him from them, but their strong, loving faith laid hold of that hand, and put upon it the restraint that only reverent, believing prayer can.
Evans_Beulah_86800.11She wrapped up the manuscript, directed it to the editor, and then the pen fell from her nerveless fingers and her head went down, with a wailing cry, on her desk.
Evans_Beulah_105110.11At this hour it ached with its own desolation, and, extending her arms imploringly toward the picture, she exclaimed sorrowfully: "O my God, how long must I wait?
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_43830.11Suddenly the beast extended its arms, or rather legs, and inclosed him in a grasp that might have vied with the far-famed power of the "bear's hug" itself.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_28340.10Keep Afra well in hand, and stay close by me.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_21690.10I forgot who she was, and imploringly my whole heart said, "Oh, do pray tell us!
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_57880.10Grace clasped her hands in dismay.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_119620.10cried the prince, stretching out his hand.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_34080.10cried I, extending my hand to him through the window.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_246520.10Cosette merely felt that his hand was very cold.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_12840.10But I am no spirit, Norine--shake hands."
Alcott_Little_Women_14410.10Miss March, hold out your hand."
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_40740.10There now,' said I, grasping his hand, 'you have my secret; my fame and character are in your hands, for you see they made me quit the regiment,--a man can't stay in a corps where he is laughed at.'

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_19290.05"Do you know Mr.

Wister_Marlitt_Gisela_17580.05J utta,.lo0k up; we are parting forever!"

Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_65120.23There's Tom, and Mr. Hardy, and Mr. Jervis;" and Mary waved her handkerchief and clapped her hands, and was in an ecstasy of enthusiasm, in which her cousin was no whit behind her.
Wood_East_Lynne_120470.19"Fears still, Richard," Mr. Carlyle exclaimed, as he shook Richard cordially by the hand.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_8180.15But his musings were unexpectedly interrupted, for just at this moment Lottie Marsden put her hand lightly on his arm and said, "Cousin Frank--pardon me--Mr. Hemstead, what is the matter?
Wood_East_Lynne_56170.13"I must leave you," said Mr. Carlyle, taking her hand in token of farewell.
Warner_Queechy_147370.13Coming in between them and still holding the hand of one Mr. Carleton bent down towards the other.
Evans_Inez_30670.13said Mr. Stewart, and linking his arm in that of his friend they turned away.
Harris_Rutledge_8260.12Mr. Rutledge shook his head dissentingly, and looked sadly up at Richard's portrait.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_160590.12And, of course, like all Alice's friends, she hated George Vavasor, and was prepared to receive Mr John Grey with open arms, if there were any possibility that her cousin would open her arms to him also.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_26320.12This way, if you please;" and Mr. Bruce was compelled to follow where Mr. Graham led, though, in spite of his acquaintance with Paris manners, he made a wry face, and shook his head menacingly.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_14510.11Dr. 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.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_32910.11But at that moment Fix approached him, and putting his hand upon Mr. Fogg's shoulder, said: "Are you really Phileas Fogg?"
Evans_St_Elmo_47100.11When she ascended the steps Mr. Hammond was walking up and down the portico with his hands clasped behind him, as was his habit when engrossed by earnest thought; and he greeted his pupil with a degree of mournful tenderness very soothing to her sad heart.
Harris_Rutledge_46920.11The touch of Mr. Rutledge's cold, steady hand on my arm, as he stooped to help me, added tenfold to my impatience.
Harris_Rutledge_47160.10"Perhaps I should be less tender," said Mr. Rutledge, bending over it again, and the frail links yielded instantly to the vice-like grasp of his strong hand.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_78580.10Mr. Eden sighed.
Harris_Rutledge_22500.10I did not yet know how far Mr. Rutledge had put me out of the place I had held in his regard, since he knew of my fault, and I could not feel quite at ease till I heard my pardon from his own lips.
Alcott_Little_Women_70400.10She felt as if she had solid ground under her feet again, and when Mr. Bhaer paused, outtalked but not one whit convinced, Jo wanted to clap her hands and thank him.
Wood_East_Lynne_85110.10Last of all he rung the hand of Mr. Carlyle.
Wood_East_Lynne_126520.10Mr. Carlyle grasped his hand.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_21800.10Mr. Gartney sprang to his head.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_154670.10said Mr. Lindsay, clasping his arms around her.
Warner_Queechy_21820.10"Fleda," said Mr. Carleton after a moment,--"you must come with me."
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_42610.10asked Mr. Eden, his mouth twitching.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_84380.10Mr Cupples was next the door, and bowed him out.
Collins_Armadale_14780.10Mr. Brock tried gently to lead her on.
Collins_Woman_in_White_133820.10He extended an arm, on either side, to Mr. Kyrle and to his valet--was by them assisted to stand on his legs, and then expressed himself in these terms: "Allow me to present Mr. Hartright.
Warner_Queechy_40200.09With a striking mixture of timidity, modesty, and eagerness in her countenance she came forward, and putting the little volume, which was her own Bible, into Mr. Carleton's hands said under her breath, "Please read it."
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_58400.09Mr. Graham thought so as he came up the steps, patted the dog, whistled to the birds, sat down in the arm-chair, and took the morning paper from the hand of the neat housemaid.
Wood_East_Lynne_85040.09Mr. Carlyle held the window open.
Wood_East_Lynne_29610.09It was a slip of the tongue, but Mr. Carlyle repaired it.
Wood_East_Lynne_21950.09Mr. Carlyle raised his head haughtily.
Wood_East_Lynne_145000.09Mr. Carlyle gently lifted the boy himself.
Warner_Queechy_153310.09He still held Mr. Carleton's hand, as something he did not want to part with.
Harland_Alone_95960.09Mr. Lacy secured her disengaged hand.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_1820.09Mr. Kendrew lifted his hand warningly.
Wood_East_Lynne_31530.09Mr. Carlyle smiled and put his hand into the earl's.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_13580.09Mr. Fogg gently pressed his companion's hand.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_55740.09But Mr Bott was not a man to be put down when he had a purpose in hand.
Evans_Inez_35050.09She held out her hand to Mr. Stewart, who stood beside her: he clasped it in his.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_140000.09Mr. Moy answered, in strong agitation on his side.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_20300.08Mr. Gartney said this, as he came up behind wife and daughter, and laid a hand on a shoulder of each.
Warner_Queechy_145750.08"I think it was _I_ had the pleasure," said Rolf, pounding one hand upon Mr. Carleton's knee.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_99410.08The two gentlemen shook hands, and then Mr Palliser turned to Alice.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_15840.08Mr. Ashton shook hands with him, and then introduced his companions, saying they were from New York.
Collins_No_Name_30270.08Leaning one arm on it (with the hand fast clinched), she looked across at Mr. Pendril.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_144390.08He held up his hand warningly when Mr. Marchwood attempted to speak to him.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_142540.08Mr. Moy laid his hand on Sir Patrick's arm.
Harris_Rutledge_54880.08She 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."
Wood_East_Lynne_113900.08Mr. Carlyle put down his pen and looked full in the old man's face; he had never seen him so excited.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_68760.08Lottie laid her hand upon his arm, and said earnestly; "Mr. Hemstead, please let there be no more such talk.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_43160.09I have lost my mother—my faith in mankind has received a cruel blow, and—I must tell you this too—I possess at this moment almost nothing except my professionl" "Ah, what happiness to be with youl" she said, laying her hand lightly upon his lips.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_131790.18"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_132500.18"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_Edmond_Dantes_163250.17Valentine 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_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_164090.17Valentine 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.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_18870.15"In the first place, Jeanne, since the gratings are between us, you must fancy I have embraced you, squeezed you in my arms, as a man ought to do who has not seen his sister for an eternity.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_8550.12Suppose every one that came in should touch that face, and some with coarse and grimy fingers, what a smutched and tawdry look it would soon have.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_163660.11Morrel, who had already gone some few steps away, again returned, and pale with joy extended both hands towards Valentine through the opening.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_236080.11Morrel bent his head till it touched the stone, then clutching the grating with both hands, he murmured,--"Oh, Valentine!"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_237330.11Morrel bent his head till it touched the stone, then clutching the grating with both hands, he murmured, -- "Oh, Valentine!"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_22420.10He stopped at the door; Villefort gazed at him as if he had some difficulty in recognizing him; then, after a brief interval, during which the honest shipowner turned his hat in his hands,-- "M. Morrel, I believe?"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_216510.09"Another attack of giddiness," said Morrel, clasping his hands.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_208040.09"You have seen that he would have thrown his glove in my face if Morrel, one of my friends, had not stopped him."
Evans_St_Elmo_5740.08I do not like doleful faces, and shall expect you to be a cheerful, contented, and obedient girl.
Eggleston_End_of_the_World_34140.08At sight of every shooting meteor, Julia clung almost convulsively to August.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_131840.08Valentine mounted on a bench, and passed not only her finger but her whole hand through the opening.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_11640.08If Mr Greenow had left her with a bare maintenance I don't suppose I should ever have held out my hand to her."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_263630.08"Oh, heavens," exclaimed Valentine, who was supporting the head of Morrel on her shoulder, "do you not see how pale she is?
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_140870.07Close to him, dressed in entirely new clothes, advanced smilingly Count Andrea Cavalcanti, the dutiful son, whom we also know.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_15050.07Emmeline for a few minutes had retired, for the happiness, the gaiety around her, pressed with over-powering heaviness on her heart; she had turned from it almost unconsciously.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_35020.05"I believe it is Ursula."
Harland_Alone_90930.05Lacy?"
Evans_Inez_39840.05* * * * * It was noon!
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_166330.05asked Valentine.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_139900.05asked Morrel.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_232360.05Valentine?
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_141580.05"A fine name," said Morrel.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_113490.05Am not _I_ with you?"
Bronte_Shirley_88300.05She could get no further.
Alcott_Work_30790.05"I would if I could!"
Alcott_Little_Men_28590.05don't say it's you!
Alcott_Little_Men_1400.05See if you don't."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_60130.10I fell, but not on to the ground: an outstretched arm caught me.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_41240.07"Never, mother, rely upon it I" cried her son, and left the room, while she stood like a statue with her arms stretched out in an attitude of command.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_44670.18The last word had scarcely left her lips when she felt herself lifted from the ground like a feather by two strong arms and carried down the steps.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_380.13She carried a bundle of grass on her head, steadying it there with one lifted arm.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_39540.12See, 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_The_Second_Wife_35950.12Suddenly advancing to- wards her, he sank upon the ground and extended his arms as if to embrace her knees in entreaty.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_52210.12Borne aloft in those strong, shapely arms, I was no more than thistle-down flung into the air, a helpless child, a "nothing."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_25990.11But 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_31450.09He stood silent for a moment, gasing up at his brother's face.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_45370.09"This divine dream must not fade," he said with a sigh, as Elizabeth gently extricated herself from his embrace.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_36830.08She 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-GoldElsie_6440.05If I should be taken from her to-day, she must herself guide the helm which I have hitherto held for her.

Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_31000.23He confronted Santonio as if that wonder were a little girl in petticoats, with no more reverence and not less benevolence, for he laid one arm upon his shoulder and embraced him, as in England only very young and tender brothers embrace, or a son embraces his father.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_32510.15Luckily, you have a strong heart and arm."
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_122670.15"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.
Evans_Vashti_22950.15Miss Jane lifted her head from her brother's shoulder, resolutely dried her eyes, and settled her cap.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_98860.14He helped her out, catching her in his arms as she descended, and lifting her to the ground.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_152320.14Geoffrey shook his brother's hand off his arm.
Verne_Tour_of_the_World_in_Eighty_Days_3200.14Under his arm he carried a copy of "Bradshaw's Continental Guide."
Disraeli_Lothair_2460.14And then she took his arm, and pressed it, and by this time they had gained the croquet-ground.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_36190.14Methought," he added, in stronger agitation, "she carried something in her arms."
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_113240.13Robert could not lift his arm even to defend himself from his father, although, had he judged it necessary, I believe he would not, in the cause of his redemption, have hesitated to knock him down, as he had often served others whom he would rather a thousand times have borne on his shoulders.
Harland_Alone_20770.13"I have the best right to your services," said Carry, clasping her hands around his arm, and walking with him towards the parlor.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_57900.13Here he had calmly taken his seat when the ship was settling slowly down into the embrace of the waters.
Bronte_Shirley_6730.13"I believe Wellington will flog Bonaparte's marshals into the sea the day it pleases him to lift his arm."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_213150.12Putting the letter in her bosom, she took her son's arm, and with a firmer step than she even herself expected she went down-stairs.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_128610.12said Ethel, while the brother was holding Mary in his embrace, and she lay tremulous with the new ecstasy upon his breast-- "but Margaret.
Whitney_We_Girls_25480.11Ruth lifted up her head.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_13020.11I took my daughter's arm, and I said to Duport, 'Where do you want to take her to?'
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_47080.11Lucie extricated herself from his embrace.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_37590.11If you are not strong enough to walk, I will carry you."
Evans_Macaria_22900.11Only two of us are left, and we, too, shall soon be caught up to join you."
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_45040.11He held her in a strong embrace as though he would not let her go.
Cooper_The_Pilot_32540.11and the arms as unique as the armed!"
Bronte_Villette_6280.11She at once stretched out her little arms to be lifted.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_95880.11But if an unseen hand of a foe smote or stabbed at the sons of Rennepont, a visible interpositor had often shielded them, in various parts of the globe.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_59880.11Mrs. Allen smiled triumphantly, and tried in her gratitude to embrace her daughter, saying: "A kind husband will soon lift all burdens off your shoulders."
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_12100.11Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost a fierce expression.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_6520.11Her hand, suddenly thrown upon the wires, whose resistance to embrace so sweet made all their music, caught the ear of little Josephine, who had been playing very innocently, for a prodigy, in the corner; and now she came slowly forwards, her doll in her arms, and stood about a yard from the harp, again putting up one finger to her lip, and giving me a glance across the intervening space.
Whitney_Real_Folks_38020.10Kenneth took her right in his arms, and carried her into a little room below.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_50940.10"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.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_33720.10He carried me in his arms, and made me tell him why I cried.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_117940.10"Blame me for that; I stopped her arm, and I am stronger than she is.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_99870.10"Father, let me look at you," Gretchen said at last, extricating herself from his embrace.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_5380.10He rushed forward and caught her arm.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_39450.10"Haste thee, then, o'er sea and land: Quickly join our loving band, Waiting here to clasp thy hand In greeting."
Evans_Beulah_67250.10Her heart swelled as she caught sight of the noble old cedars, whose venerable heads seemed to bow in welcome, while the drooping branches held out their arms, as if to embrace her.
Whitney_We_Girls_3870.10She wished and meant it to be; Ruth had plans in her head which her fingers were to carry out.
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_40080.10Her hands lifted themselves with a slight, imploring gesture toward him.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_30030.10I told Santonio so much, as he stood next me, and curbed me with his arm from going forwards.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_23730.10The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_117120.10Athos lifted his finger, and Grimaud was silent.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_113430.10she exclaimed, catching Lord Chetwynde's arm.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_55090.10Anna 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.
Evans_Inez_32890.10Dr Bryant bent forward, and gently lifting her head, supported her with his strong arm, and stroked off from her beautiful brow the clustering hair.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_13970.09When Richard first came in Mrs. Markham wound her arm around his neck, and said, "I am so sorry for you, my poor boy," while the three sons, one after another, had grasped their brother's hand in token of sympathy, and that was all that had passed between them of greeting.
Warner_Queechy_45500.09"You are a witch or a fairy," said Mrs. Rossitur, catching her again in her arms,--"nothing else!
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_23950.09Who in society has lifted, or will lift a finger for them, and they seem to have no near relatives to stand by them.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_23740.09"But if you were in the rapids above the falls, would you not permit a strong hand to lift you out?
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_18560.09They seized him ere he touched the ground, and all three clung together in one embrace.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_61330.09She rose and approached her daughter, with her hand lifted to strike her.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_52450.09He threw his arms around me, and muttering the words, "Poor Godfrey!"

Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_44620.16With his violin in his hand, he went home; and, with his violin still in his hand, walked into his grandmother's parlour.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_44470.14Robert took the violin, and was about to play, but the soutar stretched out his one left hand, and took it from him, laid it across his chest and his arm over it, for a few moments, as if he were bidding it farewell, then held it out to Robert, saying, 'Hae, Robert.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_67080.12Luke Marks stretched out his left hand--the right hand had been injured by the fire, and was wrapped in linen--and groped feebly for that of Mr. Robert Audley.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_9430.10But Robert caught him by the shoulders, and shook him awake with no gentle hands, upon which he began to rub his eyes, and mutter sleepily: 'Is that you, Bob?
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_34780.09Miss Audley looked up with a bright smile.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_29660.09Robert placed the violin in those grimy hands.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_62370.09Robert Audley grasped the physician's hands in both his own.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_67910.08He took out two folded papers, which he gave into Robert Audley's hands.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_33370.08"Bah, you silly Robert," she exclaimed; "you take everything _au serieux_.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_46540.08You know I want all my arms and fingers at this time, and I feel still the thump that brute Martial gave me."
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_26210.08exclaimed the old man, dropping his hand from his eyes, and looking with new energy at Robert Audley.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_29170.07"I am no angel, Uncle Venner," said Phoebe, smiling, as she offered him her hand at the street-corner.
Evans_Vashti_38120.07Ere long Robert came back, followed by the greyhound, whose collar he grasped firmly.
Wood_East_Lynne_146780.05"Why--oh!"
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_57440.05"That's a likely story!
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_6330.05I shall not let her be taken from me again as she has already been taken.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_18390.05"Must I?"
Harland_At_Last_36060.05But let that be as it may, you should have told me of this before."
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_108480.05"Certainly not!
Collins_No_Name_158120.05Go on with your story instead."
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_27790.05"Hoh!"
Alcott_Little_Women_19910.05"There is something more, I think."

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_84390.08Put 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_5720.06"Is there anything else you wish for, Jane?

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_24030.08Ile hung his cap on its peg and then silently walked up to Felicitas and held out his hand without a Word.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_6080.06he asked, looking menacingly at Frederika.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_10850.12H The lord of the manor approached the bed and reverently touched the offered hand with his lips.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_41190.10She 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.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_1960.10This 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_4320.08Many a time in the evening, when tired with play, I climbed into her lap and rested my head upon her breast.

Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_3340.17Ulric looked down at the dainty little thing which lay so softly between his fingers; as Martha stretched out her hand for it, he raised it quickly and pressed it to his wound, staining the delicate lace a deep red.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_21240.17And 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!
Lewald_Hulda_50280.16But should the time ever come when Hulda is brought near us, as the prince has lately been to you, and should sho then be willing to grasp in friendship the hand once offered to her in love, it would be my pride to extend it to her, and to know that your arms would he open to receive her."
Evans_Beulah_24870.16Mrs. Chilton approached with outstretched hand, and at the same time offered her lips for a kiss.
Wood_East_Lynne_136560.15"I ran quickly up the stairs and back again," was the explanation she offered to Mrs. Carlyle for her shaking hands.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_1890.15Marsh shook his head sapiently for a considerable time, and with all this shaking, as it appeared, out fell words of wisdom.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_13030.15a thousand times; and my desires were so moved by it, that when I spoke the words, my hands would clinch together, and my fingers press the palms of my hands, that if I had had any soft thing in my hand, it would have crushed it involuntarily; and my teeth in my head would strike together, and set against one another so strong, that for some time I could not part them again.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_35190.15He 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.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_42440.15Domestic affairs were equally out of his line, and the girls, more frank than their father, did not hesitate to tell him he was in the way when he offered to lend a hand anywhere.
Evans_Vashti_61740.15Suspicion has walked hand in hand with me so long that I cannot shake off her numbing touch, and I distrust all human things, save the dusty heart that moulders yonder in my old Elsie's grave."
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_120620.14She still stood, holding his hand softly, and looking down upon the bed.
Collins_Armadale_57120.14The time he was waiting for was a time close at hand.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_65180.14I offered my congratulations in rather a comical vein than otherwise; we all of us had caught John's habit of putting things in a comic light whenever he felt them keenly.
Eggleston_Hoosier_Schoolmaster_18700.14Mrs. Pearson sat wringing her hands and looking appealingly at Martha Hawkins, who stood in the door, in despair, looking appealingly at Bud.
Evans_Infelice_32050.14He offered her his arm, and they walked for some time in profound silence.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_19100.13I was, at first, ready to sink down with the surprise; for I saw my deliverance indeed visibly put into my hands, all things easy, and a large ship just ready to carry me away whither I pleased to go; at first, for some time, I was not able to answer one word; but as he had taken me in his arms, I held fast by him, or I should have fallen to the ground.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_6480.13The Manager clapped his hands together, and was about to send another thundering reproof after his rebellious son, but Martha stopped him, by again, and still more decidedly this time, taking Ulric's part.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_15330.13Astonished at seeing the soldier walking at large, he expressed his surprise with some suspicions.
Collins_Woman_in_White_13190.13Could the third person who was fast approaching us, at such a time and under such circumstances, be Miss Fairlie?
Warner_Queechy_158900.13"I have one consolation," said Charlton Rossitur as he shook hands with her on board the steamer;--"I have received permission, from head-quarters, to come and see you in England; and to that I shall look forward constantly from this time."
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_180820.13She assented, and turned her back on Gouda manse as a thing not to be recurred to; and she told him her tale, dwelling above all on the kindness to her of his parents; and while she related her troubles, his hand stole to hers, and often she felt him wince and tremble with ire, and often press her hand, sympathizing with her in every vein.
Reade_Foul_Play_24850.13There was hearty shaking of hands, and Arthur Wardlaw was the happiest man in London--for a little while.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_97700.13Such things," continued Bertuccio, shaking his head, "are only related under the seal of confession."
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_98140.13Such things," continued Bertuccio, shaking his head, "are only related under the seal of confession."
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_81160.13and before he had time to recover from his surprise his hand was seized, appropriated, and nearly wrung off by Obed Chute.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_72030.12The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and seems to both withdraw and to offer itself at one and the same time.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_109890.12"I didn't say another word, or offer to shake hands, but got up and walked out of the room, as it was no good waiting for the servant to come.
Wood_East_Lynne_108900.12Lord Mount Severn walked on, holding William by the hand, who had eagerly offered to "take him" to papa.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_27600.12To her surprise, Miss Craydocke and Marmaduke Wharne moved quickly toward each other, and grasped hands like old friends.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_7010.12I shall never have another;" then pressing his hands suddenly up on his forehead, whose blue veins seemed to swell with the intensity of his emotions, he continued.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_158580.12He 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.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_149380.12He 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!
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_2880.11he asked, without offering his hand.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_42740.11She offered him her hand.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_78350.11She paused here, and drew a deep breath to continue; but leaning her head on her hand, she seemed to have fallen into a reverie for some minutes, from which she started suddenly, by saying,-- "His royal highness has offered you your grade in the service, I understand?"
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_25480.11He turned to me, and softly, seriously, yet half surprised, as it were, shook his head, placing in her hand the first of the unknown caskets he had brought, and the other in my own.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_63240.11I am going to New York to-morrow, and one of the first things I do will be to fill your pipe for a long time;" and he pressed the old man's hand most cordially.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_19610.11I 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.
Disraeli_Lothair_35090.11"We can have no more controversies, my lord, for our reign is over;" and he extended a delicate hand, which the surprised peer touched with a huge finger.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_33540.11My lord's face changed as he listened, but he waved his hand toward the door; and the other, with a deep, low bow, walked out.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_26850.11'He seems rather to enjoy doing things suddenly.'
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_93200.11"A taking of his hand and him going across sea!!
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_36490.11It may not suit him to have you with him; on the other hand--on the other hand--what was I saying?"
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_50790.11He held out both his hands to her and she offered him her own.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_18450.11I squeezed the offered hand of O'Brien, and looked round me; the surgeon stood at one side of the bed, and the officer who commanded the troops at the other.
Collins_No_Name_101210.11He put the handkerchief back, took the envelopes which he had addressed to himself out of his pocket, and, approaching her closely for the first time, laid his hand on her arm.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_229380.11Valentine 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.
Evans_Vashti_66780.10Slowly she threw her bobbins, and a fragment of "_Infelice_" seemed to drift across her trembling lips, that showed some lines of bitterness in their time-chiselling.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_47380.10Even though it be nothing more than a suspicion, you are right, I should not offer that man my hand."
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_37240.10Johannes offered her his hand with a smile.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_64800.06As he said this, he released me from his clutch, and only looked at me.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_32950.13Then 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_44130.11It might be midnight before she was released.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16240.10Bruck laid his hand on hers with a firm pressure.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1620.09Whoa, Hans, stand still I" and she grasped the reins more firmly.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_23520.09Suddenly she sat up in bed and seized Kitty’s hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1140.08The driver, a girl about nine years old, was standing upright, the reins held taut in both hands.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_53810.08Kitty turned as if to flee down the avenue, but Bruck had taken her hand and held it in a firm grasp.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_50830.08Kitty quietly released her dress from the detaining hand that grasped it, and turned back into the room.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_18490.08She 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_Little_Moorland_Princess_24810.06The firm of Claudius & Co. was very old.

Harland_Jessamine_10870.19She 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.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_118060.18And knocking off Gualtier's hat, as he held his hand in a grasp from which the unhappy prisoner could not release himself, he tore off his wig and his mustache.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_52510.16He looked on the preparations with a steady eye, and when the tormentors came to seize him, he met them with a firm and upright attitude.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_36570.15A 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_Pioneers_42380.15"Let us fly," exclaimed Elizabeth, grasping the arm of Louisa, whose form yielded like melting snow.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_8030.15Thereupon I sate upright, with my little trident still in one hand, and was much afraid to speak to her, being conscious of my country-brogue, lest she should cease to like me.
Harland_Alone_76650.15The undertaker was tightening the silver screws--when, oh!
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_69200.14One firm grasp of his hand, to which I responded by another, followed, and he was gone.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_43930.14He said in a moment, when his breath was steady,-- "Now, if they offer to chair thee again at the Quartzmayne Festival, and thou turnest giddy-pate, send for me!"
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_5350.14He felt a curious thrill when a little hand lighted, like a snow-flake, upon his arm, but soon increased its pressure with a sort of cousinly confidence.
Cooper_The_Pilot_5510.14The pilot laid his hand on the extended arm of the lieutenant, and grasped it with a convulsive pressure, as he answered: "'Tis a dream of reality.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_199510.13Ali, smiling, repeated the sound, grasped the reins with a firm hand, and spurred his horses, whose beautiful manes floated in the breeze.
Collins_Woman_in_White_49680.13The Count's firm hand slowly tightened its grasp on his shoulder, and the Count's steady voice quietly repeated, "Be good enough, if you please, to remember it too."
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_15520.13She held the curb in a firm grasp, but there was nothing unfeminine in the strength thus put forth.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_67720.13His hand was grasped with convulsive fervor by the youth, who continued silent.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_41720.13The 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.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_107960.12Suddenly he grasped the top with his great hands, and his huge frame was over it in an instant.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_63720.12It seemed to him that the hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty hours had just released him.
Evans_Vashti_8190.12Some day, Salome, that same voice that startled the old man of Uz will make you bend and tremble and shiver like that acacia yonder, which the wind is toying with before it snaps asunder.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_65310.12The master's mother had stepped into her old place, and held the reins with her usual firm hand, until the return of her son; but now she laid those reins solemnly into his hands again and insisted, in spite of all prayers and entreaties, upon leaving Burgsdorf and returning to her city home.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_64040.12He had cast one glance at his face--only a single one--then suddenly grasped his hand with a convulsive clutch.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_27960.12"A charming man, that Principe Capito," says della Seggiola, rubbing his hands delightedly.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_28250.12Delighted to see you," cried the large unknown, grasping me by the hands, and shaking them with a cordiality I had not known for many a year.
Cooper_The_Pilot_35560.12"Name him not," said Barnstable, pressing the shoulder on which he lightly leaned, with a convulsive grasp, that caused the boy to yield with pain; "name him not, Merry; I want my temper and my faculties at this moment undisturbed, and thinking of the wretch unfits me for my duty.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_53990.11"I am so glad we have got here at last," said Ellen, looking up with another sigh, and removing her hand for an instant from its grasp on the cloak to Alice's arm.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_90420.11All were awaiting the minute when he should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads were turned aside that his fall might not be seen.
Hawthorne_The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables_38040.11His grasp conceals the dial-plate,--but we know that the faithful hands have met; for one of the city clocks tells midnight.
Evans_Infelice_20330.11She involuntarily drew closer to him, as if for protection, and noting the movement, he smiled, and tightened his clasp of her hands.
Cooper_The_Prairie_65370.11Suddenly, while musing on the remarkable position, in which he was placed, Middleton felt the hand, which he held, grasp his own with incredible power, and the old man, supported on either side by his friends, rose upright to his feet.
Harland_Jessamine_57920.11He tightened the grasp.
Harland_At_Last_35270.11releasing his grasp.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_26990.11Mrs. Aubrey put her finger into one of his hands, which was half open, and which closed as it were instinctively upon it, with a gentle pressure.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_7310.11His other arm was extended to its utmost length, and the hand grasped the barrel of his long rifle with something like convulsive energy.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_77940.11Her breath came quick and short, and her face was so pale and agonized that he trembled for her, but he tightened his grasp on her hand, and his tears fell with hers.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_90500.11As Wallace laid him back on his pillows, he gazed wistfully at him, and grasping his hand, said in a low voice: "How did I throw a blessing from me!
Harris_Rutledge_15980.11"You sit very well; don't lean forward quite so much; that's better," and in a few minutes he added, "keep a steady rein, don't pull suddenly or hard, but just firm.
Evans_Beulah_89560.11In vain the reins were tightened.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_227590.10Jacques continued to drink, holding the bottle in his left hand; suddenly, he closed and tightened the fingers of his right hand with a convulsive movement; his hair clung to his icy forehead, and his countenance revealed an agony of pain.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_9450.10Wallace, whose widowed heart turned icy cold at the dreadful slogan of his Marion's name, more fiercely grasped his sword, and murmured to himself.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_44550.10I never will release Erna; and she herself, as I know, will never ask her release at my hands.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_87310.10said George, clasping her with a convulsive grasp.
Lewald_Hulda_10620.10Emanuel grasped hia hand.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_174130.10He steadied his strong hold on the pillow.
Whitney_We_Girls_28100.10There was a cluster of them upon her bosom, and she held some in her left hand.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_53780.10He was there now, and, as he grasped the reins, he gave them an aim and sure direction.
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_14240.10and then, as with a strong steady hand she reined him in, looked to see what had caused his terror.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_7060.10She suddenly ceased, passed one hand over her face.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_76900.10Their hands met, but the hand of each grasped the heart of the other.
Harland_At_Last_30150.10He grasped her hand more tightly than he intended, or was conscious of.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_1940.10In the hour of our parting we went up together hand in hand to her room.

Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4510.16‘And when she had been lifted into the carriage she said, as they drove through the crowd of men standing silent and respectful, with bowed heads, "Bow, my child; bow very kindly ; they all know how ill I am."
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_21960.09Doctor Bruck stood silently beside him with folded arms.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_54830.08But 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_The_Second_Wife_2830.06Raoul ought to see this," she said. "

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_226780.19But Villefort, raising his head, bowed down by grief, looked up at her with so sad a smile that her complaints died upon her lips.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_227970.19But Villefort, raising his head, bowed down by grief, looked up at her with so sad a smile that her complaints died upon her lips.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_37690.16Gerard strung the bow, and levelled it at a bough that had fallen into the road at some distance.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_78320.16Another moment, and she had rushed out, like a very Diana, into the centre of the ring, bow in hand, and arrow on the string.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_42770.15Edith shook her head, not very decidedly, it is true, still it was a negative shake, and Nina said, "Arthur boy, will you?"
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_76540.14The nymph answered by a contemptuous shake of the head.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_48600.14The doctor rubbed his hands as they joined Gertrude.
Evans_Beulah_99250.13That you shall; always in advance, and candles, and fires, and the use of my library, and the benefit of my explanations and conversation charged as 'extras,'" cried the doctor, shaking his fist at her.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_22230.13"I can't, I can't," and Arthur shook his head despairingly.
Collins_The_Moonstone_23080.13Mr. Franklin shook his head, and answered, "I can't say I did."
Bronte_Shirley_135440.13And the quiver on your shoulder holds more arrows than one; your bow is provided with a second string.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_74340.12"I scorn repentance; do your worst," said Tom, stringing the bow and handing it back to her.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_40490.12Then releasing Edith's hand, Arthur took the candle from the stand, and said to Nina, "Have you strength to hold it?"
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_23240.12Nina was the first to detect it, and wringing Edith's hand she whispered, imploringly, "Swear, Miggie, once.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_56540.11Arthur put a question in an undertone to the doctor standing by; he answered with a silent shake of the head.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_58410.11At first he seemed to pay little respect to whatever they said,--an incredulous shake of the head, or an impatient motion of the hand, replying to their observations.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_69670.11he replied, laying a finger upon his lip: "Nay, nay, I am not of the shabby order, when I have the strings of government.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_65670.11"How came you here?"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_46430.11That 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.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_161360.11Noirtier let his head fall upon his chest, apparently overwhelmed and thoughtful; then he closed one eye, in token of inquiry.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_7180.11A ragged rascal eagerly snatched it and handed it to a gendarme, and it was only after paying a piastre that the Doctor was permitted to retain it.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_192980.10Mr Longestaffe, in an agony, first shook his head twice, and then bowed it three times, leaving the Jew to take what answer he could from so dubious an oracle.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_98870.10Alice merely bowed her head.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_58370.10'The coachman has got it on the box,' answered the doctor.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_95450.10He had never really held up his head after that second parting with Edith.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_166320.10Villefort seized the doctor's hand.
Collins_No_Name_8770.10As fast as she teaches me one speech, the other goes out of my head.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_46770.10Julia shook her head despairingly, and as the conversation seemed to annoy her, Fanny ceased talking, while a voice behind her said, "Teach me, too, the way of life, for I fear I have never walked in it."
Alcott_Work_40450.10But Christie shook her head, and began to fold up paper and string with nervous industry as she answered: "I am not going directly to Washington: I have a week's furlough first."
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_24820.09"He was too sharp, a great deal too sharp," said Schäffer disapprovingly; but, even in his disapproval and in the thoughtful shake of his head, there was quite another expression to that which he had lately manifested in speaking of Arthur.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_41040.09Edith shook her head sadly, and said, "I don't understand Him, and He seems far off."
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_74310.09"You must string my bow," she said, handing it to him as she buckled on her guard.
Harland_Alone_25710.09Arthur bowed silently; and the minister passed on.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_4960.09Come, come, Fernand," said Caderousse, "hold up your head, and answer us.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_179040.09Irma answered him with a silent inclination of the head.
Reade_Foul_Play_101070.09He got it into his head that he had killed him with Arthur's confession, putting it before him so suddenly.
Lewald_Hulda_33410.09He bowed his head, folded his bands, and seemed lost in reverie.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_5720.09Unclasping her hand's, and holding them in his own, Arthur said, "Listen to me, Edith.
Broughton_Nancy_53980.09I answer, letting my head drop on his shoulder, and not taking the trouble to raise it again.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_26770.09The blood from the wound upon the forehead was flowing freely now, and faint from its loss, Edith sank again into a state of unconsciousness, while Arthur, scarcely knowing what he did, crept away to a little distance, where, leaning against a tree, he sat insensible as it were, until the sound of footsteps roused him, and he saw Nina coming, holding fast to the blind man's wrist, and saying to him encouragingly, "We are almost there.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_27310.09His head was bent forward on his breast, and he seemed to pay no heed to his horse.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_32770.09She bowed her head on her hands, trembling all over in pure physical fear.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_36500.09"No," I answered, drawing back my pure Edith from her outstretched hands.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_147870.08Clement folded his hands on his breast, and bowed his head in calm submission.
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_26920.08said the Captain, throwing himself back in the chair, and smiling; "can't answer off hand.
Warner_Queechy_161350.08exclaimed Fleda, bowing her head in distress, and giving his hand an earnest entreaty.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_43740.08The doctor remained an hour, felt his pulse again, shook his head, and said to me in a low voice, "He is quite gone."
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_45280.08Leaning for support against Petrea's monument, whence Miggie's name had been effaced, he gasped: "God help me, Edith!
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_22860.08"You must hug Miggie, too," Nina said to him one day, when he had held her slight form for a moment to his bosom.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_56110.07As at the time of the descent, he was supporting the young master, but now Arthur was not merely staggering; his head rested on his companion's shoulder, his eyes were closed, and he lay motionless and deadly pale in Hartmann's arms, which seemed to be exerting all their strength to hold him upright.

Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_17990.14Then, 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.
Evans_Inez_40890.13The sacred volume was feebly pushed beneath her head, and mechanically she undid the knot, and drew forth a glossy lock of black hair.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_39670.11cried Harry, who hitherto had been abstracted in his book, but now turned, raised himself on his elbow, and, at the blunder, shook his thick yellow locks, and showed his teeth like a young lion.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_89380.11A bright blade flashed close past Amyas's ear; the sea-captain's grasp loosened, and he dropped a corpse; while over him, like an angry lioness above her prey, stood Ayacanora, her long hair floating in the wind, her dagger raised aloft, as she looked round, challenging all and every one to approach.
Bronte_Villette_3570.10And Graham once more snatched her aloft, and she again punished him; and while she pulled his lion's locks, termed him--"The naughtiest, rudest, worst, untruest person that ever was."
Hughes_Tom_Brown_at_Oxford_29580.09"The black and yellow seems to slip along so fast.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_5090.09First lay aside your black veil, then tell me why you put it on."
Kingsley_Hypatia_90960.09And 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.
Reade_Foul_Play_22740.09It was a colossal green woman; one arm extended grasped a golden harp, the other was pressed to her head in the attitude of holding back her wild and flowing hair.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_130780.09She had let her right hand, which held a small account-book, fall upon her lap, while the other hand grasped convulsively a long tress of jet-black hair, which she bore about her neck.
Alcott_Little_Men_24610.08The 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.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_12730.08That negligent, graceful walk, that uplifted carriage of the head--surely, surely she knew both.
Collins_No_Name_72080.07The captain laid his hand solemnly on his heart, and launched himself once more on his broadest flow of language.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_108550.07And his man went and lifted Cul de Jatte's hair, and lo, the upper gristle of both ears was gone.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_122270.07"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.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_34370.05I don't like it at all!"
Bronte_Shirley_108510.05"I am sure I don't know.

Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27670.07Her lips quivered nervously as she looked abroad over the wheat-field, and her hand still held by the balustrade. "

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_222910.17Louise pressed with all the strength of her little hands on the top of the portmanteau.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_224090.17Louise pressed with all the strength of her little hands on the top of the portmanteau.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_9710.16But look at this for strength," and he waved his arms abroad, still keeping his feet skilfully together in the same exact position.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_90550.13At last, he was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he grasped him in his arms and carried him, walking on the yard himself to the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands of his comrades.
Harland_At_Last_27830.13This was Mr. Aylett, who, from his position behind his wife, had an excellent view of all the actors in the exciting tableau before she fell back, swooning, in his arms.
Kingsley_Hypatia_37220.12Raphael put her gently back and exerting his whole strength, drew out of the ruins a stalwart elderly man, in the dress of an officer of high rank.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_164390.12Occasionally 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_165250.12Occasionally 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.
Broughton_Nancy_12160.12Henceforth I must have done with all girlish speculations, as to the manner of man who is to drop from the clouds to be my wooer.
Collins_No_Name_62680.09Did you ever see her steady her pretty little hand, and hold her innocent breath, and put one other card on the top, and lay the whole house, the instant afterward, a heap of ruins on the table?
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_29720.08So wildly did he strain upon his collar, that she found it took all her strength to unclasp it.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_103270.08Then--drawing his hand across his forehead, Jacques added: "You see we have been ruined by saying--"To-morrow will never come!"
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_30660.08This was the cause of our coming abroad; so that at the very moment that he was giving himself these airs of pretended greatness, we were ruined."
Reade_White_Lies_54300.07So 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.
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_74150.05"Yes, I did.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_57760.05"And why so."
Bronte_Shirley_121760.05"I will either come or write."

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_47940.17In ten min- utes the " interesting bit of news" would be circulating from lip to lip of his enviers and ill-wishers, and a hundred eyes and fingers would be directed towards him ; he vanished from the salon.

Evans_Beulah_36700.11She stood on the marble mantel, and stretched her hands eagerly up; but though her fingers touched the cord she could not disengage it from the hook, and, with a sensation of keen disappointment, she was forced to abandon the attempt.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_59470.11I seem to have a clear remembrance of all the data in her still and quiet infancy, from the time her week-old fingers, with their tiny pink nails--a ludicrous picture of her father's hand in little--made me smile as they closed over mine.
Alcott_Little_Women_70530.11Lifting his hand to his head, the absent-minded Professor gravely felt and removed the little cocked hat, looked at it a minute, and then threw back his head and laughed like a merry bass viol.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_36430.10Then lowering the dangerous muzzle he stretched forward his long neck, as if to assist a scrutiny that was already intensely keen.
Holmes_Darkness_and_Daylight_16000.09He went with her to the door, and wrung her hand nervously, bidding her in heart a final farewell, for when they met again a great gulf would be between them,--a gulf he had helped to dig, and which he could not ass.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_113970.08With great dexterity, the old woman removed the ring from Irma's finger.
Whitney_Real_Folks_7310.08At this last spondaic response from Marmaduke, he lifted his eyes and eyebrows,--not his head,--and raised himself slightly with his two hands pressing on the chair arms; the keen glance and the half-movement were impulsively toward his friend.
Bronte_Villette_18390.08I was anticipated; Madame Beck had put out her own hand: hers was steady while mine trembled.
Holmes_Tempest_and_Sunshine_39680.07Fanny had never heard of Lida Gibson, but it was sufficient that she knew her uncle and Julia, so her hand was immediately offered, and the remainder of the evening the two young girls promenaded the piazza arm in arm, talking of their distant homes and absent friends.
Reade_Foul_Play_97700.07When Helen saw them laid out by her maid, she trembled at the consequences of not giving a plump negative to so brisk a wooer.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_27210.05"What can you be thinking of?
Collins_The_Moonstone_69540.05"He may say what he pleases."
Alcott_Work_41250.05"Is he here?"

Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_43410.13Benjamin looked piteously at the Major, and shook _his_ head.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_43400.13The Major looked piteously at Benjamin, and shook his head.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_177150.13cried she piteously; and put out two pretty deprecating palms.
Broughton_Nancy_8750.13All my treasures are still about me; I can stretch out live hands, and touch _them_ alive; none of my dear names are yet to be spoken sparingly with bated breath, as too holy for common talk.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_257860.12At 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.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol1_5560.10It seemed greatly to the taste of the feathered people; for they tried to snatch beakfuls of it from her grasp, caught it in the air, and rushed downward after it upon the pavement.
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_16250.09(slapping the ungenial major on the shoulder).
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_11890.09They proved to be more than forty of as ragged and dirty little imps as any in the world; besides whom, all the wrinkled matrons, and most of the village maids, and not a few stalwart men, held out their hands grimly, piteously, or smilingly in the forlorn hope of whatever trifle of coin might remain in pockets already so fearfully taxed.
Collins_Woman_in_White_123240.09cried the Professor, piteously appealing to me with both hands.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_138960.08"Tell me, should you have the misfortune to turn your head while your right-hand correspondent was telegraphing"-- "I should not see him."
Evans_Macaria_30740.08It was only for an instant, and as Major Huntingdon looked on the stalwart figure and at the advancing regiment, life-long hatred and jealousy were forgotten--patriotism throttled all the past in her grasp--he feebly threw up his hand, cheered faintly, and, with his eyes on Russell's, smiled grimly, saying, with evident difficulty-- "Beat them back, Aubrey!
Hugo_Les_Miserables_278640.08Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a paper folded in four.
Cooper_The_Pioneers_65640.08He took the hand which he held, and united it with that of his daughter, and motioned toward the door to the Major.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_83900.05Nothing daunted him.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_41420.05And who am I?"

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_64390.09Do not think that all the injury I have done you has been the woAl oi ixvy ofoMvata tongue !"
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_880.09just feel my hands; although I have been in the street for an hour almost, they are as warm as if I had been holding them before the fire.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_43520.07Precisely 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.

Cooper_Pathfinder_50330.24Saltwater got tongue, but no eyes, no ears, no nose -- not'ing but tongue, tongue, tongue!"
Ingelow_Fated_to_be_Free_14760.19"Hold your tongue," said Brandon, "they'll hear you.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_159080.15"Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_38870.14"Hold your tongue, hold your tongue, madame!
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_30380.14What mother thought I cannot tell; and indeed I doubt if she thought at all for more than half an hour, but only managed to hold me tight, and cry, and thank God now and then, but with some fear of His taking me, if she should be too grateful.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_74220.14'Only with my tongue, good doctor, only with my tongue,' said the marquis, laughing.
Collins_The_Moonstone_40780.14Here I felt that my professional existence depended on not holding my tongue.
Alcott_Little_Women_46160.14Half an hour after everyone had said they were so happy they could only hold one drop more, the drop came.
Collins_Woman_in_White_42720.13If he had married me, I should have made his cigarettes, as his wife does--I should have held my tongue when he looked at me, as she holds hers.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_38220.12Benno repeated, while, scarcely knowing what he did, he clasped and held fast the hands held out to him.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_138700.12CHAPTER IX CLOISTERED Cosette continued to hold her tongue in the convent.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_75740.11He has been to you and told you, and therefore I don't know why I need hold my tongue.'
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol6_29910.11"Will you hold your tongue?"
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_29070.11Hold your tongue!
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_28380.11"Hold your tongue!
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_62950.11"Hold your tongue."
Reade_Foul_Play_90240.11Hold your tongues, now.
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_60700.11"Let me go, Alec," she said, pleadingly.
Longfellow_Hyperion_15340.11Hold your tongue!
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_38740.11Hold him tight!
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_81310.11Hold it up, Pedrillo!"
Hugo_Les_Miserables_131480.11"And she will hold her tongue?"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_6450.11"Hold your tongue!"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_5450.11"Hold your tongue, will you?"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_53840.11"Really!"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_222380.11"Hold your tongue!
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_6470.11"Hold your tongue!"
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_223530.11"Hold your tongue!
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_8500.11And will you hold your tongue?"
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_30920.11"Hold your tongue!"
Alcott_Little_Women_44850.11"Hold your tongue!"
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_43510.11"Hold your tongue; she 's coming!"
Harris_Rutledge_29000.11It was some seconds before I knew what it was caused by; the bracelet on the arm that had been under my head had been pushed up from the wrist, and in that way, had grown tighter and tighter, till, indeed, the pain had been unendurable.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_26660.11'But Charlie will never hold his tongue.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_217250.11Then Ruby held her tongue.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_165680.11We shall hold our tongue about him till we really do know something.'
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_137730.11'You hold your tongue, and go about your business.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_69610.11"Hold your tongue, Kate.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_171390.11Then Alice held her tongue.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_3540.11"Obey, and hold your tongue."
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_25840.11I--" "Now, do hold your tongue, and let me speak!
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol3_26670.11What shall I offer her to hold her tongue?
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_107420.11For his tongue was an ell and a half.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_129390.11"Hold your tongues," he roared.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_63040.11I will hold my tongue, sir."
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_28240.11"Why is he to hold his tongue, Mr.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_28430.11"Hold thy tongue!"
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_45690.11The marquis held out his hand.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_264900.11"Hold your tongue, you cask!"
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_17530.11But the minister held it fast.

The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_53560.13But now Willy stepped up to her, with his arm still around his bride-elect.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_159870.11And then they sat hand in hand for some seconds, during which poor Kenneby was unable to escape from the grasp of his bride elect.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_33910.11The Miss Bigelow who had interested him so much lay there in his arms, his own wife, who was, if possible, tenfold dearer to him now than when he first held her as his bride.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_36480.10He shook his finger at the wretched girl, and the chamber echoed, the curtains of the bed were shaken, with his outburst of insane merriment.
Harse_Luck_of_Roaring_Camp_1850.08I hesitate to record the many other instances of his sagacity, which rest, unfortunately, upon the statements of prejudiced friends.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_40870.07Sho looked much paler than usual, and whenever she met me alone she would clasp me in her arms and whisper, eagerly, " When will Frau Use be gone ?

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_52760.13When Caderousse turned around, he saw behind him La Carconte, paler and trembling more than ever.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_52870.13When Caderousse turned around, he saw behind him La Carconte, paler and trembling more than ever.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_47740.12exclaimed La Louve, stamping her foot and clenching her hand.
Evans_Inez_39870.09No disturbing hand had misplaced one stiffened member.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_2810.08They call us Seraphaelites, and we like it; but Seraphael does not like it, so we only use the word now for parole,--Bruderschaft.
Schubin_Erlach_Court_Clean_13950.08She is just waving a giant crustacean triumphantly on high, with, "Look, Freddy, did you ever see such a big one!"
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_144820.08Samuel became paler than usual, and pressed convulsively the hand of Bathsheba, who had drawn near to him.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_46720.05"Oh!
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_5890.05No wonder!
Macdonald_Alec_Forbes_89070.05"Annie!
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_28790.05But this must not be.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_211370.05Go."

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33900.10Herr 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?"

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_53460.08He had once held me in his sheltering embrace, and it seemed as if that were to continue, invisi- bly, forever.

Collins_Woman_in_White_122400.23When the people near him applauded the close of an air (as an English audience in such circumstances always WILL applaud), without the least consideration for the orchestral movement which immediately followed it, he looked round at them with an expression of compassionate remonstrance, and held up one hand with a gesture of polite entreaty.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_4540.14But in consideration that such disclosure would put the military duty and the generous nature of the officer at variance, he desisted, with such an agitation of spirits that the boughs had again shaken under him, and reawakened the alarm of his trembling wife.
Bronte_Shirley_19390.10When 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.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_14510.09and when he advances down to the foot-lights and defiantly informs the audience that, "he who lays his hand on a woman except in the way of kindness," do we not all applaud so as to drown the rest of the sentence?
Harland_At_Last_32350.08Another season of dozing, and she awoke, rubbing her hands feebly together, as to cleanse them.
Longfellow_Hyperion_14970.07Whereupon Berkley desisted, and began instead to shake the Postmaster's wife by the shoulders, and order his dinner in English.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_118270.07Such persons could not refrain from thinking Melmotte to be mighty because he swaggered; and gave their hinder parts to be kicked merely because he put up his toe.
Whitney_The_Other_Girls_16300.05What should they do with that?
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_11210.05"That's just it.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_117530.05"There is."
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_82980.05"What must be done?"
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_27260.05But there was more to see.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_107600.05"Yes."
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_1590.05she asked.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_1030.13cried Baron Mainau, in a low tone, with a wave of his hand.
Wister_Marlitt_Owls_4010.12I shall briefly explain to her Highness that——" A low cry interrupted him; Claudine extended her hand to him imploringly, her eyes gazing into his own with an expression of intense pain.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_26190.11"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_The_Second_Wife_40010.10She merely hinted at the motive for his criminal act ; but Mainau could not control himself; he left her side and walked restlessly to and fro in the apart- ment, then returned, and, clasping her close in his arms, ex- claimed, " And I left you in the tiger's claws while I drove that waman to her home I" She gently soothed and calmed him, and from this moment her mission as a faithful wife and companion began.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36870.10It is burned," she said, in a firm but unmelodious voice.

Fleming_Norines_Revenge_5330.20The pleasant lazy voice stopped, the pleasant smile turned upon Norine.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_49870.15The trembling of her voice and hands during the performance of this little artifice too well explained to Pembroke what was passing in her mind.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_21180.14He 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!
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_4140.13He 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_St_Elmo_56630.13Mournfully her tearful eyes sought his, but her voice was low and steady as she put out both hands, and said solemnly: "Farewell, dear friend.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_41440.13but Norine felt the steady rebuke of that firm, cold glance.
Evans_Beulah_22030.12She drew herself up, and tried to shake off the hold; but firm as iron was the grasp of the snowy fingers, and calm and cold as an Arctic night was the tone which said: "Pshaw, girl, are you mad?
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_13840.12he added, lifting her up with such a tone of approbation in his voice that Rose kissed him on the spot.
The_Eichhofs_Clean_9140.12"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.
Roe_What_Can_She_Do_64120.11He seized her hand and carried it to his lips: "Edith," he pleaded, in a low, tremulous voice, "will you let me be your slave?"
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_57540.11"Not if a man's head be steady and his hand firm; but he must have both, and a stout heart to guide them, or the journey is not over-pleasant.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_63780.11She was glad indeed, and on drawing closer found they were holding a low slow chat about nautical affairs.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_36520.11Louis XIII felt instinctively that he ought not to reply to this question, the queen having put it in an almost dying voice.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_55610.11He was sitting on the window-seat, with his head leaning against the casement, when Pembroke entered unobserved; walking up to him, he laid his hand upon his arm, and ejaculated in a tremulous voice, "Thaddeus, dear Thaddeus!"
Cooper_The_Pilot_27790.11Griffith felt the hand of the Pilot on his own, pressing it with a convulsive grasp, as he replied, in a voice, if possible, even more desperately calm than his former tones: "There is a glory in it, young man; if it be purchased with danger, it shall be rewarded by fame!
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_150780.10She 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.
Reade_Foul_Play_17030.10Raise tacks and sheets.'
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_50520.10"I see how it is," he said, trying, not quite successfully, to steady his voice; "I am too late.
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_25800.10"And He _will_," replied Ellen, in a low, steady voice; and gently withdrawing her hand from Mr. Howard's, she softly but quickly left the library.
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_1310.09The same clear complexion, large brown eyes, and wavy hair; and the tones of her voice, too, how they thrilled the heart of the strong man, making him a boy again, guiding the steps of his baby sister, or bearing her gently in his arms when the path was steep and stony.
Wood_East_Lynne_75450.09I was knocking about a bit at first, but I soon settled down as steady as Old Time--as steady as you."
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_62580.09raising one tremulous hand and turning away; "she was as dear to me as my own mother could have been.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_18040.08"'And with all my might I cursed the old dame; But my arm remained steady, I missed no aim.
Evans_Beulah_35040.08Her face was well-nigh as colorless as the paper she held, and her voice faltered with the first few sentences.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_228090.07"Just now, I was going to make an end of it--your voice has recalled me for an instant--but I feel something here," and he laid his hand upon his breast, "which never gives quarter.
Harris_Rutledge_32700.07I held her tight by the hand, as, with a beating heart, I leaned over the balusters, and heard the merry voices in the hall below.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_38600.05exclaimed Ebbo, sitting up, and speaking in the steady resolute voice that had so early rendered him thoroughly their master, but much perplexed and dismayed, and entirely unassisted by Theurdank, who stood looking on with almost a smile, as if diverted by his predicament.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_141170.05do, do!"
Kingsley_Hypatia_42370.05said Hypatia, almost imploringly.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_12390.05"Who, then?"
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_3420.05"Are you going down to Jenny?"
Harland_Alone_45160.05It was more clear to him.
Evans_Infelice_40030.05Infelice!
Collins_The_Moonstone_58820.05No!

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_46870.08"The old woman" had behaved as if the trifling injury that Kitty had sustained were the gravest consequence of the disaster, and the doctor had never stirred from his post, only relinquishing his clasp of Kitty’s hand when the bandage upon her brow needed renewing.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_4670.21And at these words the young girl fixed her imperious look on the Catalan, who, as if fascinated by it, came slowly towards Edmond, and offered him his hand.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_4690.21And at these words the young girl fixed her imperious look on the Catalan, who, as if fascinated by it, came slowly towards Edmond, and offered him his hand.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_4530.19said Dantes, and without relinquishing Mercedes hand clasped in one of his own, he extended the other to the Catalan with a cordial air.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_4550.15said Dantes, and without relinquishing Mercedes hand clasped in one of his own, he extended the other to the Catalan with a cordial air.
DeMille_The_Cryptogram_124040.13With this determination in his mind he went on, and bowing down his head like a decrepit old man, he hobbled along, leaning on his staff, but at the same time keeping his eyes upturned and fixed on the lady.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_46190.12Dantes seized the handles, and strove to lift the coffer; it was impossible.
Wood_East_Lynne_97440.11He set up a half cry, and struggled his arms, and head free again, crowing the next moment most impudently.
Evans_St_Elmo_27720.09Shake hands with Clinton Allston?
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_4420.09Edmond and Mercedes were clasped in each other's arms.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_4440.09Edmond and Mercedes were clasped in each other's arms.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_15370.09said the gendarmes, thrusting Dantes forward.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_15030.09Dantes pressed the gendarme's hand as though he would crush it.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_88140.05'How much?'
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_47840.05said the farmer.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_6510.05"Certainly not, if, as you said just now, you have the means of having Dantes arrested.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_52470.05asked the abbe.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_9380.05"That I believe!"
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_77900.05Vijal was silent.

Bronte_Jane_Eyre_37780.09Mr. Rochester was standing near me; he had taken my hand, as if to lead me to a chair.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_42420.07"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.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_16000.14She had taken the cigar from her mouth for a moment, and held it delicately between her fingers.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_48950.12I did not see that at the moment she vanished from my sight a demon glided to my side and clutched my very heart-strings.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_36270.10The young wife dropped her hands by her sides.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_27960.09Then she dropped the hand gently and left his side: her task was done.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_29810.08the bailiff repeated, with a look of dismay, while the hand that held his pipe dropped as if paralyzed at his side.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_62600.08I 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."
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_34470.07The forester, who, until now, had been leaning against the opposite wall listening with the greatest attention, suddenly stood by his side, and clutched his arm convulsively.

Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_2210.20George Talboys had stood motionless, with his cigar in his hand, listening to her so intently that, as she said the last words, his hold relaxed, and the cigar dropped in the water.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_71180.18--Gertrude shook her head, and glanced at Willie, who now stood at her side "and gladly bestowed by him upon her faithful and far more deserving lover."
Whitney_Faith_Gartneys_Girlhood_11340.16I dropped things just where I stood, you know.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_24220.15Cecil stood a moment, irresolute, touched and pained at the man's spaniel-like affection--yet not yielding to it.
Lewald_Hulda_34090.14As she lifted her head, the curate was standing by her side.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_129640.14Then she walked on through the hard rain, steadily holding her arm against her side, but still looking every moment through the trees on the side from which George might be expected to reach her.
Collins_Woman_in_White_40600.14She stooped, and looked down at the spaniel's injured side--brightened suddenly with the irradiation of a new idea--and pointing to the wound with a chuckle of satisfaction, said, "That's Baxter's doings, that is."
Kingsley_Hypatia_42450.13I knew you would stop a moment--not for the ring's sake, of course, nor even for the sake of one who once offered it to you.--Ah!
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_63080.12Troy looked in, dropped his wife's hand, knowledge of it all came over him in a lurid sheen, and he stood still.
Evans_Inez_10980.12Suddenly she paused by the river side, and clasped her hands convulsively over her head.
Bronte_Shirley_107930.12"Great effects may spring from trivial causes," she remarked, as she loosened a bracelet from her wrist.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_105520.12asked Irma, suddenly grasping Madame Gunther's hand and as suddenly dropping it again.
Whitney_Leslie_Goldthwaite_3820.12With which she darted her head quickly from side to side, looking about the room, and, spying a scrap of paper on a table, had the eyestone twisted in it in an instant, and pressed it into Elinor's hand.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_37320.12Gerard grasped his axe tight, and shook a little: he heard a rustling in the wood hard by, and at the same moment Denys sprang into the wood, and his crossbow went to his shoulder, even as he jumped.
Holmes_Ethelyns_Mistake_34500.12At other times, when the fever was on, no arm availed to hold her as she tossed from side to side, talking of things at which a stranger would have marveled, and which made Richard's heart ache to its very core.
Warner_Queechy_132450.12Again the same motion of the other hand to her face, the quick token of great pain suddenly stirred.
Roe_Opening_a_Chestnut_Burr_73910.12At first, in wild alarm, she put her hand to her side, and leaned against a chestnut-tree for support.
Evans_Beulah_47180.12Her arms suddenly dropped to her side, and only their hands met in a firm, tight clasp.
Roe_Jest_to_Earnest_58470.11She 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.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_16510.11It was a spot of wild and gloomy grandeur, and as I gazed on it intently, suddenly I felt a hand upon my shoulder.
Collins_No_Name_81430.11In the all-mastering agitation of the moment, she clapped her hands together, and cried out suddenly in the darkness: "Miss Vanstone again!!!"
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_13530.11The little man stood tiptoe, and putting his head first to one side and then the other, and snuffing considerately in the directions of the various bottles, ordered at last a mint julep, in a thin and quivering voice, and with an air of great circumspection.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_58790.11Around the sides were boxes.
Evans_Inez_36600.11Dr. Bryant could not repress a smile at the drowsy tone of the ranchero, who scarce five moments before had crept from his side.
Cooper_Pathfinder_1670.11Both glanced at the rifles that leaned against a tree; and then each stood without stretching out an arm, as his eyes fell on the form of the girl.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_12860.11"We shook and shook till we got red in the face, but not one dropped, for the tree was large, and our little arms were not strong enough to stir the boughs.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_123430.11Bothwell rode at his side.
Collins_No_Name_141490.11she said, faintly, and let them drop again at her side.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_35520.10he exclaimed, suddenly quitting Lady Anne, and snatching hold of a sweet little thing, Miss Berton, standing modestly beside him.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_56510.10One of those, however, that stood near him, fancying he was mocking them, lifted up a long staff he had in his hand and smote him such a blow with it that Sancho dropped helpless to the ground.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_38030.10Ernestine's arms dropped at her sides.
Harris_Rutledge_22880.10He held out his hand, and I was by his side in a moment.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_55320.10He sprang into the cage, but suddenly a slender white hand was laid on its grimy edge, and a clear voice said: "Wait a moment, Hartmann, I am coming with you."
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_17630.10And Balaam he stands for men, and for you at the head of them," cried she, turning round with flashing eyes on David; "you have known me and my true affection more than seven years, or seventeen.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_80660.09But don't you tell him so," and she nodded with her head to the side of the house on which the office stood.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_55810.09These two held on; side by side they pressed forward, and always in the van.
Reade_Foul_Play_62830.09But he got worse, and he had hardly any use in his right side, from the waist downward, and was in great pain.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_114300.09All at once, as I stood trembling on the very edge, I saw you on the other side, looking towards me, and stretching out your arms as if you wanted me.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_109470.09"Vijal," said Potts, dropping back so as to wait for the Malay.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_138980.09But now as he turned his face round to the side where he knew that he might expect to find an enemy, that tremor again came upon him, and the stick which he held in his hand was heard as it tapped gently against the side of the witness-box.
Howells_Their_Wedding_Journey_9470.09It was the local photographer urging them to succeed the young couple he had just posed at the brink: the gentleman was sitting down, with his legs crossed and his hands elegantly disposed; the lady was standing at his side, with one arm thrown lightly across his shoulder, while with the other hand she thrust his cane into the ground; you could see it was going to be a splendid photograph.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_167490.09Clement eyed him a moment from the door, and thought of all the tower, the wood, the letter.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_34190.09Suddenly his tone changed, and he said, quickly and decidedly, "Hold on every thing!"
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_54680.09He paused for a moment; he let his head droop on his breast, then suddenly raised it again.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_9700.09At the last moment she drew Anne Silvester on one side, out of hearing of the rest.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_49840.09Her hands, which had before been locked convulsively together, fell apart and dropped heavily at her sides.
Stowe_Uncle_Toms_Cabin_27660.09"Then it's no account talking," said the woman, suddenly growing quite calm; and, clasping her child tighter in her arms, she sat down on her box, turned her back round, and gazed listlessly into the river.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_86130.09Then Cigarette laid her hand on the Cross that had been the dream of her years since she had first seen the brazen glisten of the eagles above her wondering eyes of infancy, and loosened it from above her heart, and stretched her hand out with it to the great Chief.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_38080.09The 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.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_72210.08'Nohows,' said the lover, shaking his head and still standing upright with his hands by his side.

Evans_St_Elmo_48870.12You can not know how I dread the thought of your leaving me, and being roughly handled by a cold, selfish, ruthless world.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_49080.10The 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.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_64170.09inquired the master, touching his hat; "for the chase?"
Holmes_Lena_Rivers_15860.05She could not help it.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_10980.12She took the bracelet instantly, and with trembling lingers laid it back in its box and closed the cover.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_40810.11The young widow tottered, closed her eyes, and with uncertain hand grasped the table-cover as if to support herself.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_20060.10The Professor covered his eyes with his hand for a moment.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_17810.10He pulled his hat down over his forehead, and walked towards the house.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_33950.08Young Franz recoiled involuntarily; for one instant the two men measured each other silently,——there was none of the warmth of friendship in their eyes.
Wister_Marlitt_OMS_15170.06She could distinctly see the bracelet which he held.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_21130.18My eyes filled with tears, and the old lady put her arm around me, and drew me towards her.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_10530.12Until now the eyes of the latter had been quietly fixed upon Liana ; suddenly they became wandering and anxious, and she clutched in her deli- cate left hand a small object hanging from one of the chains ; it appeared to be a little silver flacon. "
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_9470.12A burning blush rose to her face, and her first movement was to pull the sleeves down- over her bare arms.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_17750.10Hate 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-AtTheCouncillors_19770.10She thrust her face close under the white hat.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_41490.08The strong woman struggled against her tears; I heard her laboured breathing; for one moment she clasped me to her convulsively.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_25000.06THE SECOND WIFE.
Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_26700.06The housekeeper recoiled, raising both hands in protestation.
Wister_Marlitt_Rubies_1770.05"I never laugh at genuine il1-breed- ing, of that you may rest assured.

Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_89730.25In an instant his aunt's arms were about him, tears streaming down her cheeks, her imploring eyes lifted to his: "Forgive me, Victor, forgive me!
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_7570.19Her eyes full of tears, she pointed the spot out to Eberhard.
Kingsley_Hypatia_73590.18But he was disarmed the next instant by old Wulf, who advanced to him, and looking him fully in the face with an expression which there was no mistaking, held out his broad, brown hand.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_130600.17Her features grew rigid; her hands fell to her side, as if palsied; her eyes closed, an expression as of death lay on her lips.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_25740.16"Farewell," said he, half mechanically, as he grasped my hand in both of his, and the large tears rolled down his cheeks.
Evans_Macaria_34430.16His eyes filled instantly, and drawing her close to him, he exclaimed tremulously-- "My dear Irene!
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_75420.16her tears flowed freely on the way, and Mr. Edmonstone, now that it had really come to the point of parting with his little Amy, was very much overcome, while his wife, hardly refraining from tears, could only hold her daughter's hand very close.
DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_17490.16At last Dick raised his face and rolled his eyes toward the organ-loft, and instantly bowed his head again.
Whitney_Real_Folks_35270.15"One mustn't ask for all one would like," said Kenneth, relinquishing the cup, and looking straight in her eyes.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_143940.15It is but a few days since I closed the eyes of my old friend Eberhard.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_77240.14The eyes of the veteran were at that moment closed with heavy slumber.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_35980.14She held out her hands imploringly, her eyes full of tears.
Evans_St_Elmo_72450.14He 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.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_164380.14Valentine trembled convulsively; she loosened her hold of the gate, her arms fell by her side, and two large tears rolled down her cheeks.
Evans_Beulah_9770.14An over-powering perfume of crushed flowers filled the air, and Beulah stood on the threshold, with her hands extended, and her eyes fixed upon the table.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_52440.13"To keep your oath," said Salterne, clutching his arm, and looking up into his face with searching eyes.
Harland_Jessamine_5390.13His auditors felt the rush of the favoring wind that had sprung up at dawn; heard the flap of the sails as they filled, and the creak of the line that strained at the anchor; saw the knot of parting friends; the close, tight hand-clasp, that helped force back the tears from eyes that would fain smile farewell.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_31160.13Guy felt the lips that were murmuring in his car grow still at first, and then cold; the tender arms unknit themselves, and his imploring eyes could draw no answer from hers that were closed.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_58000.13Adelaide raised her eyes, in which hot tears glistened, and offered her hand.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_82070.13"You said you could do it, and you have done it," cried his wife, her eyes glowing with triumph, her head erect and proud.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_101980.13The eyes that she lifted to her husband were deprecating, beseeching, heavy with a speechless pain.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_170190.12Marius closed his book, then opened it again, then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming straight towards him.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_18460.12There stood Wolff bowing before her husband, his hat in his hand, his face covered with smiles.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_1440.12Oak stepped up behind, where, leaning down upon the roof and putting his eye close to a hole, he could see into the interior clearly.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_35980.12Mr. Bishopriggs piously closed his available eye, and held the cover firmly on the dish.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_170940.12She snatched her slate from her side; and, writing on it rapidly, held it, with both hands, close under his eyes.
Collins_Armadale_130560.12Bashwood the father made straight for the bag with eager eyes and outstretched hand.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_211650.12Adrienne turned her head, and saw a poor little girl, pale and wan, with mild, sorrowful features, scarcely covered with rags, holding out her hand, and raising her eyes in supplication.
Reade_White_Lies_3350.12She just slowly unclasped her arms, and, keeping her eye fixed on Dard, pointed with a domineering gesture towards Beaurepaire.
Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_35640.12As he shook hands with Lucy, his imploring eye turned full on hers, and sought to dive into her heart.
Lewald_Hulda_42210.12Her bearing and expression gained by this mood ; she held herself more erect, and her voice sounded full and free.
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_47550.12'Aunt,' said he, holding me fast by the hand, his eyes shining so happily, 'is she not a good, charming little wife?'
Collins_No_Name_71050.12Her hand was trembling violently on his arm, and her lips were fast closed with an expression of speechless pain.
Collins_No_Name_104650.12She grasped the whole contents of the bag in one handful of papers, and drew them out violently, tearing some and disarranging the folds of others.
Collins_Armadale_55890.12My wife--" One of his hands closed fast on the pocket-handkerchief; he moistened his dry lips, struggled with himself, and went on.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_82490.12I saw the white of his vicious eye, and struck him there with all my force, with my left hand over her right arm, and he never used that eye again; none the less he kept his hold on her.
Aguilar_The_Days_of_Bruce_11080.12She looked up in his face, with an expression both of bewilderment and fear, and her hand unconsciously closed on his arm, as thus to detain him to her side.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_2670.12Then his eyes closed, and all was still.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_37110.12Her eyes closed again.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_129610.12His eyes were closed.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_122390.12She was seated at the further end of the room on the floor, enveloped in a mass of scarlet velvet she had drawn off her bed; her hands clasped her knees, and she bent forward, with her eyes fixed on the door at which they entered.
Kingsley_Westward_Ho_115520.11Amyas drew himself up to his full height, and waved his hand majestically, as one about to speak; while the eyes of all men were fastened on him.
Evans_St_Elmo_39730.11Mr. Hammond's eyes filled with tears as he looked at his pupil, and his hand trembled when he stroked her bowed head.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_158910.11"But," said the countess, breathlessly, with her eyes fixed on Monte Cristo, whose arm she convulsively pressed with both hands, "we are friends, are we not?"
Wister_Schillingscourt_910.11For 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. "
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_6110.11With his clenched hands he grasped convulsively the arms of his chair, the perspiration stood on his brow, and he scarcely breathed, whilst his burning and fixed eyes never quitted mine; his agony was equal to his wife's.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_10950.11After watching the victim's struggling approach with a calm smile and unabashed eye, the foul-hearted little villain lifted his staff and struck Ilbrahim on the mouth so forcibly that the blood issued in a stream.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_170620.11And at last tears forced their way through her fingers.
Reade_Foul_Play_85170.11She asked me, with those sweet imploring eyes, might she have it; and I looked yes.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_51600.11His fingers closed over it convulsively.

Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_8940.12The doctor seized his hat, and bowed to Helene and the baroness, the latter only vouchsafing him a slight wave of the hand in token of dismissal, without turning her face from the window.
Wister_Marlitt-GoldElsie_39250.07But 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.
Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_30350.07Moritz hastily seized his hat, and would have given Kitty his arm, but she slipped past him into the corridor.
Wister_Marlitt_Baliff_14360.05He took up his hat.

DeMille_The_Dodge_Club_55740.19Most conspicuous in the turn-out was Dick, who was seated in the coupe, waving his hat triumphantly in the air.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_1640.17So I went in again with my courage up, and Bob came smiling for victory, and I hated him for smiling.
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_111990.17As to Bazin, he went and lay down on a truss of straw; and as he had more imagination than the Swiss, he dreamed that Aramis, having become pope, adorned his head with a cardinal's hat.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_64710.16At these words he held up triumphantly the French assignat, and waved it before the eyes of the court.
Hawthorne_Marble_Faun_vol2_300.15cried the sculptor, waving his straw hat, for he recognized the face, after a moment's doubt.
Marryat_Peter_Simple_55700.14cried Swinburne, waving his hat with joy.
Evans_Vashti_4320.13The girl's usually firm mouth trembled as she laid her hand on the torn straw hat that shaded Stanley's features, and answered, hurriedly,-- "Yes.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_148170.12Then he came forward, waving his little straw-hat in his hand, and made his salutation.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_71760.10Picton presses forward, waving his plumed hat above his head; his proud eye flashes with the fire of victory.
Wood_East_Lynne_109950.10"/You/ dare to lift off your hat to me!
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_82760.10Muriel smiled, and nestled to him.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_40760.10An' he hates Elsie 'cos she don' like him.
DeMille_Cord_and_Creese_40550.10Wave after wave has been impelling us on.
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_64090.09Who would have supposed that I should go about in my old age sitting upon straw hats?
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_40190.09He advanced, hat in hand, a smile on his face.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_15620.09The thought was maddening, and Dantes threw himself furiously down on his straw.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_27980.09The book again trembled, but it was with a waving and dissatisfied motion.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_4880.09Half-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?"
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_8740.09He raised his hat, and received a wave of the hand in return.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_12130.08Once, as he rode away, he turned back--she kissed and waved her hand to him with a smile.
The_Alpine_Fay_Clean_48770.08the president repeated, catching at the word as a drowning man clutches a straw.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_2650.08And Margaret held the hat imploringly in both hands till he inserted the straw once more.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_102880.08And for this"--she touched the blood flowing from her side with the old, bright, brave smile--"it was an accident; they must not grieve for it.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_159040.06He waved his hat round his head several times and then flung it into a tree; then danced a _pas seul_ consisting of steps not one of them known at the opera house, and chanted a song of triumph the words of which were, Ri tol de riddy iddydol, and the ditty naught; finally he shook hands with both.
Yonge_Heir_of_Redclyffe_2960.05'Why?
Wood_East_Lynne_118790.05Why, oh!
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol4_16940.05Let her out when I have gone.
Cummins_The_Lamplighter_5290.05"Oh, I will," said Gerty.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_66760.05What is it?"
Bronte_Shirley_74210.05Do that first."
Collins_Armadale_23790.05Allan bent over him, and looked at the miniature.

Wister_Marlitt_The_Second_Wife_44770.12She 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_The_Second_Wife_2310.0617 " Oh, Gabriel !"
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_31800.06his fingers through his hair.

Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_13010.16You 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."
Heimburg_A_Sisters_Love_Clean_25790.15I stroked Susanna's hair gently.
Collins_The_New_Magdalen_28980.14Lady Janet's many-ringed fingers, mechanically stroking the cat in her lap, began to stroke him the wrong way.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_222410.13repeated the doctor, drawing back as if he had trodden upon a serpent.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_44530.13When the Doctor said, "Untie his hands," the circle widened perceptibly.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_143390.13she said again, as still holding her hair between her fingers, she drew her hands back over her head.
Mulock_John_Halifax_Gentleman_24260.13And almost as if it had been a child's feeble head, mechanically he smoothed and patted mine.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_149540.13She had given him her hand mechanically; she advanced a step mechanically--and then stopped.
Broughton_Nancy_39620.13say I, beginning to laugh nervously, and looking appealingly toward him, "both of us coming to sojourn in a strange land!
Harland_Jessamine_47820.13The wife's hands lay crossed upon her knees, and the husband did not offer to hold or touch them, or stroke the beautiful hair with which the betrothed had toyed unrebuked.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_172680.13Villefort 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.
Harland_At_Last_14210.12They began to pour back into the room, while she was speaking, laughing, and talking, all together shaking the snow-powder from their hair and hands, and anathematizing the cold and their thin boots.
Cervantes_Don_Quixote_66950.12The governor lowered the staff, and as he did so the old man who had the stick handed it to the other old man to hold for him while he swore, as if he found it in his way; and then laid his hand on the cross of the staff, saying that it was true the ten crowns that were demanded of him had been lent him; but that he had with his own hand given them back into the hand of the other, and that he, not recollecting it, was always asking for them.
Porter_Scottish_Chiefs_39930.12Lady mar kissed the hand that relinquished it, and gave way to a flood of grateful tears.
Bronte_Shirley_21520.12Moore, to act consistently, should have let her go; whereas he stood in the doorway, and, holding out his hand, gently kept her back.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_38940.11And then I gave her the wine, and covered her with the quilt to the throat; for although it was so warm, she had begun to shake and tremble as she lay.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_51390.11He began to respect her, began to feel drawn as if by another spiritual sense than that of which Amanda had laid hold.
Evans_Inez_1910.11Mary gazed sadly on her cousin, who stood mechanically smoothing her glossy black hair.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_55980.11Max began again.
Warner_Queechy_44020.11said the old doctor, shaking his head at her with a comic fierce expression of countenance, which Fleda perfectly understood and laughed at accordingly.
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_31190.10He laid the light burden that scarcely weighed upon his arm down on the pillows, very softly and gently, smoothing them mechanically with his hand.
Collins_The_Moonstone_23020.10YOU have got a head on your shoulders--and you understand what I mean."
Alcott_Eight_Cousins_4120.10he asked, stroking her smooth head.
Collins_Woman_in_White_104550.10I saw her temper smouldering in her eyes--as plainly as I saw her hands grow restless, then unclasp themselves, and begin mechanically smoothing her dress over her knees.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_94060.10He just ground it in his hand, and then he began to act.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_50720.10Elsie gave him her hand mechanically.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_93390.09She 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.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_3080.09She then began to stroke it with gentle yet firm hand.
Hardy_A_Pair_of_Blue_Eyes_48820.09He reluctantly relinquished her, and then surveyed her from crown to toe.
Roe_Barriers_Burned_Away_6430.09The proprietor looked at him for a moment, slapped him on the back, and said: "Yes, you are the man I want, I reckon.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_49580.09The doctor approached, and taking his hand began to feel his pulse.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_48310.09The Doctor took his hand and placed a finger mechanically on his wrist.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_37890.09His fingers slowly relaxed; he let her hand fall, and stepped back.
Collins_Armadale_5660.09The doctor was still at the bed head, with his fingers mechanically on the patient's pulse.
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_11480.08She shook her brother's hand so heartily that he drew back with a slight shudder.
Reade_A_Terrible_Temptation_40900.08She raised her clinched fists, she clutched her beautiful hair as if she would tear it out by the roots.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_80920.08All Nature began to minister to one who had begun to lift his head from the baptism of fire.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_50480.08Sir Rupert displayed his tongue, and submitted his pulse to the doctor, and let himself be pulled away by May.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_33850.08"Oh, papa, that would not be fair--" began Ethel; but Margaret knew he would not act on this, squeezed her hand, and silenced her.
Howells_A_Chance_Acquaintance_24840.08But 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!
Evans_Beulah_4200.08She put the child in Mr. Grayson's extended arms, and only saw that her sister looked back appealingly to her.
Collins_Armadale_155860.08The doctor held up both hands, in polite deprecation, and looked as if he was beginning to recover his good humor again.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_92840.07"By both names h'entitled to my greatest respect," said the old man, stepping back and making a very low bow to Ellen, with his hand upon his heart, at which she could not help laughing.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_47860.06A.D. mdxliii.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_54140.06The Doctor appeared anything but enchanted.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_76430.06"Oh, that's beautiful!"
Warner_Queechy_95760.06said the doctor.
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_94310.06'He thinks more of you than of himself, and would give you all that he has.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_178360.06But; oh my G----!
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol1_4160.06said the Chourineur, laughing.

Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_292870.15Thinking he would also make use of the sprinkling-brush, which, Faringhea, still motionless, held with a trembling hand, Father Caboccini stretched out his fingers to reach it, when the half-breed, as if determined to confine his favors to Rodin, hastily withdrew the instrument.
Harland_Alone_30240.14The first-named was upon his etiquette stilts; and Josephine's fingers, as I touched them, were as limp and warm as the digits of a frozen frog.
Collins_Armadale_240.13The musicians seized their instruments, and silence fell on the whole community.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_480.11The member thus exposed was evidently petted by its head, for it was dainty and sleek, and also garnished with a blazing ring; and he solemnly held it up to contemplate it, concluding such performance by giving one fixed stare to each nail in particular.
Collins_No_Name_46570.11A man well used to working in the dark; a man with endless resources of audacity and cunning; a man who would hesitate at no mean employment that could be offered to him, if it was employment that filled his pockets -- was this the instrument for which, in its present need, her hand was waiting?
Broughton_Nancy_56030.09"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!"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_82560.08On this stern refusal the tender Manon sighed, and clasped her palms together despondently.
Alcott_An_Old-Fashioned_Girl_47640.05Who else should it be?"

Reade_Love_Me_Little_Love_Me_Long_59900.16Lo, and behold, there was David Dodd crossing the very nearest field and coming toward her, an urchin in each hand.
Bronte_Villette_32830.16Above all, there was a pair of handscreens, with elaborate pencil-drawings finished like line engravings; these, my very eyes ached at beholding again, recalling hours when they had followed, stroke by stroke and touch by touch, a tedious, feeble, finical, school-girl pencil held in these fingers, now so skeleton-like.
DeFoe_Robinson_Crusoe_38300.13About three hours after, when we were entered upon, a desert of about fifteen or sixteen miles over, behold, by a cloud of dust they raised, we saw an enemy was at hand; and they were at hand indeed, for they came on upon the spur.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_40940.11Milans-André happened to be there; I beheld him now, and also saw that, taking hold upon that arm I should not have presumed to touch, he drew on our guide as if away from us.
Clemens_and_Warner_The_Gilded_Age_2090.10But bymeby she roused up, like, and looked around wild, and then she see him, and she made a great cry and snatched him to her breast and hilt him close and kissed him over and over agin; but it took the last po' strength she had, and so her eyelids begin to close down, and her arms sort o' drooped away and then we see she was gone, po' creetur.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_107180.09In this appropriate frame behold two felons putting their heads together.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol5_14260.09"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.
Evans_Beulah_41150.08Not even physicians were spared; and those who escaped trembled in anticipation of the fell stroke.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_48110.08He raised his hand, clenched it and smote it energetically against the smoky panel over the fireplace.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_12940.07Liddy held up her hands and arms, coated with dust from the rubbish they were sorting, and looked imploringly at her mistress.
Lewald_Hulda_56990.07Hulda clasped her hands upon her breast aa she curtsied lO the audience when she was called before the curtain ; but she thought only of Clari^a.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_61180.05"Look; that's Chaffanbrass.
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_140770.05But lo!
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_24880.05And I can tell you it will take more than three of you to do it.
Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_56430.05And, lo!
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_15550.05"Laurence, I have come."
Bronte_Shirley_114440.05What mischief came of it, Bob?"

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_152490.21Morcerf, 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_153290.21Morcerf, 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.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_85300.17On the other hand, she found it difficult to force herself to greet him in a friendly manner.
Reade_Foul_Play_22460.15They 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.
Alcott_Little_Women_74880.14cried Amy, dropping the reins and holding out both hands, to the great scandalization of a French mamma, who hastened her daughter's steps, lest she should be demoralized by beholding the free manners of these `mad English'.
Sue_Mysteries_of_Paris_vol2_30220.13Madame Ashton, the governess, held her by the hand, but, directly Claire (that was the name of the little girl) saw her mother, she opened her arms, and, spite of her feebleness, ran towards her.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_4200.11George passed his hand once or twice across his forehead, and then, in a hesitating manner, said, quietly: "That newspaper this morning, Bob; what was it?"
Broughton_Nancy_26280.11But at the same moment an arm of friendly strength comes round my shoulders--a friendly voice sounds in my buzzing ears.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_70700.10I yearned for the strong grasp of your hand, Bob; the friendly touch of the hand which had guided me through the darkest passage of my life."
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_70840.10"Bob--Bob Lawson.
Fleming_Norines_Revenge_63240.10cried the singer, seizing the outstretched hand in a genuine English grip, "happy to meet you, old boy, in the land of romance!
The_Sign_of_Flame_Clean_10420.09After awhile she called in a quite friendly manner: "Moritz!"
Evans_Vashti_20620.09Salome 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.
Reade_Foul_Play_28620.09"Here is the spot, then," said General Rolleston, and placed his finger on the spot.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_15380.09She had both hands on his shoulders--her face was close to his--she was simply irresistible.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_158040.08They drew their blankets over their heads and ran hither and thither looking for a friendly tree.
Reade_Foul_Play_48230.08Holding tight by the tree, he got her to the lee of the tent and waited for a lull.
Warner_Queechy_130640.08A little pleased too to feel quite free, alone from too friendly eyes, and ears that had too lively a concern in her sayings and doings.
Blackmore_Lorna_Doone_2020.08With a long Italian glass in her fingers very daintily, she came up to the pump in the middle of the yard, where I was running the water off all my head and shoulders, and arms, and some of my breast even, and though I had glimpsed her through the sprinkle, it gave me quite a turn to see her, child as I was, in my open aspect.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_28540.06Of this overture she, however, quickly repented her; for, like the overreaching personage of the proverb, Max at once seized the whole hand, which he pressed and shook in the heartiest manner possible.
Warren_Ten_Thousand_a_Year_12790.05Faugh!
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_128800.05The Pope demurred.
Reade_Put_Yourself_in_His_Place_48840.05"Oh, nothing.
Porter_Thaddeus_of_Warsaw_50870.05Somerset!"
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_90110.05'It's a lee.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_163210.05"Do you know English?"
Hillern_Only_a_Girl_12200.05Now the pen.
Harland_Alone_20810.05"You ride, do you not?"
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_260610.05"How so?"
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_74770.05I could say no more than I had said already.
Collins_No_Name_139780.05"Certainly!

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_2340.12she called; and the bird, after flying around the ceiling, dutifully came and perched upon the forefinger she held out for him.

Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_37590.10Bonacieux kissed the hands of the queen, concealed the paper in the bosom of her dress, and disappeared with the lightness of a bird.
Auerbach_On_the_Heights_53370.10The letter comes, and she feels as if surrounded by a flock of chirruping, singing birds, that alight on her hands, her shoulders and her head.
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol2_41220.09Davy sang, though his voice was rather nervous.
Fleming_A_Terrible_Secret_13330.09They flock around her, they catch hold of her, and keep her still by main force.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_141220.07"Hold your ---- cackle," cried one, "he is going to sing;" and the whole party had their eyes turned with expectation toward the bird.
Macdonald_St._George_and_St._Michael_4560.07With trembling hands Upstill raised the latch of the wicket, and to his delight found it unlocked.
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_144510.05how came you to have anything to do with _him_?"
Reade_The_Cloister_and_the_Hearth_105820.05Oh!
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_43140.05"We shall have him now!"
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_76410.05"What do you mean to do with that purse?"
Collins_Armadale_57030.05"This is all I can now tell you.
Alcott_Little_Women_39430.05"No, thank you.

Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_4090.11She held oat her hand to Fraulein Streit, and cried as she kissed me, which frightened me terribly.
Wister_Marlitt_Little_Moorland_Princess_3980.09This rustle of silk that only passed through the room, seldom laying a soft, warm hand upon my head, was addressed as " madame" by Fraulein Streit, and I called it mamma.

Hawthorne_Twice_Told_Tales_24660.13Both are young, both are pretty; but methinks the left-hand lass is the fairer of the twain, and, though she be so serious at this moment, I could swear that there is a treasure of gentle fun within her.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_14870.07"'Mickey,' says he, changing his voice, and putting his head down close to me,--'Mickey, I saw your father last night.'
Dumas_The_Three_Musketeers_88040.05Is it not so?"

Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_150320.20They had actually shaken hands, and the lamb Cheesacre had agreed to lie down with the wolf Bellfield.
Evans_St_Elmo_4240.15Lifting this weight with her uninjured hand, she uttered an exclamation of horror as the white face of the little baby whose fingers she had clasped now met her astonished gaze; and she saw that the sweet coral lips were pinched and purple, the waxen lids lay rigid over the blue eyes, and the dimpled hand was stiff and icy.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol1_20180.12An effort I made at this moment to obtain a nearer view of the party, from whom I was slightly separated by some low brushwood, brought my hand in contact with something sharp; I started and looked round, and to my astonishment saw a clasp knife, such as gardeners carry, lying open beside me.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_132950.11Such is the force, weight and number of the grand topics that lie this day on the world's face.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_51630.11He thought he was dreaming, yet on instinct he rose, staggering slightly, for sharp pain was still darting through his head and temples.
Collins_No_Name_94030.10"Be friends with me again," she said, pleadingly.
Harris_Rutledge_68590.10As one might feel who had buried himself yet living--who had pulled the coffin-lid down on his own head, and heard the devils eagerly filling the grave up and laughing at their work--and at each new shovelful of heavy clay had felt the distance between him and life grow shorter, and felt the weight press heavier and heavier, and the horror and the darkness grow tighter and tighter around him, and the remorse, and the helplessness, and the terror--so I felt that hideous night, and so I feel whenever I remember it.
Macdonald_Robert_Falconer_29410.10How long he gazed, he did not know, but when he withdrew his eyes from the extended scene, there stood the figure of his father, still trying to open the lid of the bureau, his grandfather resisting him, the blind piper with his hand on the head of both, and the stately chief with his hand on the piper's arm.
Sue_The_Wandering_Jew_132220.05.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_73800.05he asked.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_145530.05he asked.

Wister_Marlitt-AtTheCouncillors_32800.08Kitty, as if unconsciously, let her hand remain within her brother-in-law’s arm.

Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_34470.16All this had passed like a flash of lightning, and Friedel had almost at the instant of his fall flung himself towards his brother, and raising himself on one hand, with the other clasped Ebbo's, saying, "Fear not; it is nothing," and he was bending to take Ebbo's head again on his knee, when a gush of dark blood, from his left side, caused Moritz to exclaim, "Ah!
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_50270.14he repeated more vehemently as she remained silent.
Collins_The_Moonstone_104630.14From first to last, he was ominously polite, and ominously silent.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_45010.13"Ulric and all his followers are holding a meeting out in the meadow yonder.
Collins_Armadale_1170.11Tenderly and skillfully he was carried up the stairs, with his wife on one side of him, and the doctor (ominously silent) on the other.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_3590.11The white man seemed to take counsel from their customs, and, relinquishing his grasp of the rifle, he also remained silent and reserved.
Braddon_Lady_Audleys_Secret_56150.10Sir Michael lifted his hand as if he would command his nephew to be silent, but that imperious hand dropped feeble and impotent at his side.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_80660.10He waved his hand, commanding her to be silent.
Prentiss_Stepping_Heavenward_15700.09I 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.
Holmes_Elsie_Venner_49610.09She did not tremble any longer, but remained ominously still, as if she had been frozen where she sat.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_34550.09"A bad sign that," said Moritz, apart to one of the workmen, with whom he held counsel how to carry back to the castle the two young knights, who remained on the bank, Ebbo partly extended on the ground, partly supported on the knee and arm of Friedel, who sat with his head drooping over him, their looks fixed on one another, as if conscious of nothing else on earth.
Yonge_The_Dove_in_the_Eagles_Nest_34180.08cried Friedel, leaping from his horse, and unclasping his brother's helmet.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_4140.08Snatching up the pistol I let fall, he held it to the man's chest and commanded him to be silent.
Collins_No_Name_33000.07His inexorable eyes looked her into submission; and his lean forefinger shook at her warningly, as if he was quieting a fractious child.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_61880.07Whenever a prisoner met an officer he cowered and hurried crouching by like a dog passing a man with a whip in his hand; and as he passed he trembled at the thunder of his own footsteps, and wished to Heaven they would not draw so much attention to him by ringing so clear through that huge silent tomb.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_133500.07"Your--brother--Harry," slowly pronounced George, as he instinctively gave the grasp of greeting--"your brother that was lost?
Disraeli_Lothair_45880.06When that presence was reached, the lancer, still silent, slowly lowered his tall weapon, and offered the general the dispatch which was fastened to the head of his spear.
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_79770.05I'm sure--" "Why, it is what they always say.
Trollope_Orley_Farm_85220.05"I am just off.
Trollope_Can_You_Forgive_Her_126450.05As to the other, I can say nothing."
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_49510.05"What ails you, Ulric?
Lawrence_Guy_Livingstone_37470.05I can say nothing, either.
Heimburg_Gertrudes_Marriage_Clean_20860.05He was silent.
Evans_St_Elmo_20590.05What is the verdict?"
Evans_Beulah_28000.05The ride was rather silent.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_37180.05Well, Dantes, you do not thank me?"
Disraeli_Lothair_1610.05he said, rather anxiously.
Collins_Woman_in_White_32380.05I asked.
Collins_No_Name_67510.05VIII.
Collins_Man_and_Wife_42720.05You have seen him, haven't you?"
Broughton_Nancy_49800.05she says, anxiously.
Broughton_Nancy_35570.05At least, he takes off his hat.
Alcott_Work_39590.05I'm very glad to see you."
Aguilar_The_Mothers_Recompense_vol2_32750.05You are silent.

Wister_Marlitt_OMS_2260.05.A.

Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_209210.23Monte Cristo took the pistols he held in his hand when Mercedes entered, and fixing an ace of clubs against the iron plate, with four shots he successively shot off the four sides of the club.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_210310.23Monte Cristo took the pistols he held in his hand when Mercedes entered, and fixing an ace of clubs against the iron plate, with four shots he successively shot off the four sides of the club.
Cooper_Pathfinder_7760.21The group was standing on the narrow strand, the Pathfinder leaning on his rifle, the butt of which rested on the gravelly beach, while both his hands clasped the barrel at the height of his own shoulders.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_59580.21He 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.
Cooper_The_Deerslayer_14510.17He rose on the instant, and levelled his own rifle at his uncovered foe; but his finger hesitated about pulling the trigger on one whom he held at such a disadvantage.
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_36040.14Many shook their heads, and more than one veteran tar, as he paced his narrow limits with both hands thrust into the bosom of his jacket, was heard to utter his belief of the inefficacy of ordinary shot, in bringing-to that brigantine.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_190310.13CHAPTER XVIII MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS Suddenly, the distant and melancholy vibration of a clock shook the panes.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_51580.12Almost 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.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol2_31610.11cried he, as he held him fast to the earth with one hand, while he presented a loaded pistol to his face.
Cooper_Pathfinder_69640.11He leaned on his rifle, and at moments the sinewy fingers grasped the barrel with a force that seemed to compress the weapon; while, once or twice, as Mabel's language rose in intimate association with her thoughts, he lifted his eyes to the floor above him, as if he expected to find some visible evidence of the presence of the dread Being to whom the words were addressed.
Success_and_How_He_Won_It_Clean_51670.11He stood motionless, his finger ready to press the trigger, following every movement of his foe, until the latter receded.
Alcott_Little_Women_3640.11Timidly she crept from her lattice, put her hand on Roderigo's shoulder, and was about to leap gracfully down when "Alas!
Bronte_Shirley_69410.10My finger was on the trigger of this pistol.
Werner_No_Surrender_Clean_64930.09Raven averted his pistol at the last moment.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_288100.09At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_194200.09And his finger sought the trigger of his pistol.
Lever_Tom_Burke_of_Ours_vol2_12070.09On the pistol both our hands met, and the struggle was for the weapon.
Hardy_Far_From_the_Madding_Crowd_21710.09There was a creaking of machinery behind, and some of the young ones turned their heads.
Ouida_Under_Two_Flags_65210.09Above 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.
Hawthorne_Scarlet_Letter_19690.09The old man, on the other hand, had brought himself nearer to her level, or, perhaps, below it, by the revenge which he had stooped for.
Dumas_Edmond_Dantes_46230.09Edmond was seized with vertigo; he cocked his gun and laid it beside him.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_46360.09Edmond was seized with vertigo; he cocked his gun and laid it beside him.
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_141760.08They walked on hastily, guns ready, fingers on trigger--at war.
Dumas_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_7300.08said Caderousse, rising with all the offended dignity of a drunken man, "I can't keep on my legs?
Hugo_Les_Miserables_272580.08The urchin took in his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and fired.
Hugo_Les_Miserables_268160.08The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house tremble, but did not shake the door.
Cooper_Last_of_the_Mohicans_9000.08Uncas, with instinctive quickness, receded, and the three foresters held another of their low, earnest conferences.
Lever_Charles_OMalley_vol1_76060.07At length O'Shaughnessy came forward, and putting my weapon in my hand, whispered low, "Remember, you have but one chance."
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_159270.05"You have taken a load off me!"
Yonge_The_Daisy_Chain_127260.05"New Zealand at once?"
Warner_Wide_Wide_World_122200.05what are you thinking about?"
Trollope_The_Way_We_Live_Now_182090.05What should she now do with herself?
Streckfuss_Castle_Hohenwald_Clean_46220.05What did she mean now?
Sheppard_Charles_Auchester_vol1_25650.05"Oh!
Reade_It_is_Never_Too_Late_to_Mend_174170.05I never saw him with a pistol before."
Cooper_The_Water-Witch_60280.05What You Will.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_7280.05"No," she said.
Collins_The_Law_and_the_Lady_53560.05Come in!"
Bronte_Shirley_1480.05weapons I mean."
Alexander_Ralph_Wiltons_Weird_22020.05Let me take away your plate.