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• to buy at first hand (from the producer, or when new);
• He lost his job when the factory changed hands.
• With the business back in the founder's hands, there is new hope for the company.
• With John in charge of the project, it's in good hands.
• Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us
• But Albinus, in those troublesome times ensuing under the short reign of Pertinax and Didius Julianus ¶, found means to keep in his hands the government of Britain.
• Give him a hand.
• Also a big hand for Silver Linings Playbook, an exuberant modern screwball comedy we had, in an unseemly fit of cynicism, deemed "too entertaining" for Academy voters.
• This fabric has a smooth, soft hand'.
• They who thought they could never be secure in any peace, except the King were first at their mercy, and so obliged to accept the conditions they would give him, were willing to change the hand in carrying on the war; and many, who thought the Earl of Essex behaved himself too imperiously, were willing to have the command in one who was more their equal.
• Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand.
• in safe hands;  in good hands;
• to buy at second hand (when no longer in the producer’s hand, or when not new);
• It's not a rumor. I heard it at first hand.
• For time is the measure of business, as money is of wares; and business is bought at a dear hand, where there is small dispatch.
• It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
• He handed them the letter.   She handed responsibility over to her deputy.
• to hand a lady into a carriage
• I bless my chain; I hand my oar. / Nor think on all I left on shore.
• Hand me the salt, please.
• This is a stick-up. Hand over the money now!
• To hand a child across the street.
• I was always reckoned a lively hand at a simile.
• I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
• Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
• Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
• On this hand and that hand, were hangings.
• For that the Protestants were then on the winning hand, it must needs be plain; who, notwithstanding the miss of those forces, which at their landing here mastered without difficulty great part of Wales and Cheshire, yet made a shift to keep their own in Ireland.
• I maintain, however, on the one hand, that there are few occasions upon which large bodies of men, such as politics is concerned with, can rise above selfishness, while, on the other hand, there are a very great many circumstances in which populations will fall below selfishness, if selfishness is interpreted as enlightened self-interest.
• My friend Will Honeycomb has told me for above this half year, that he had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator, and that he would fain have one of his writing in my works.
• The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
• an old hand at speaking;  large farms need many farm hands
• But a Dictionary of this sort, containing, as it were, a Natural History, requires too many Hands, as well as too much Time, Cost, Pains and Sagacity, ever to be hoped for; and till that be done, we must content ourselves with such Definitions of the Names of Substances, as explain the Sense Men use them in.
• Her hands are really strong.
• For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.
• Bob gave Alice a hand to move the furniture.
• The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
• a good hand
• I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man’s invention and his hand
• I found written on the other side, in a very good, clear hand, this short message
• "This is a strange note," said Mr. Utterson; and then sharply, "How do you come to have it open?" "The man at Maw's was main angry, sir, and he threw it back to me like so much dirt," returned Poole. "This is unquestionably the doctor's hand, do you know?" resumed the lawyer. "I thought it looked like it," said the servant rather sulkily; and then, with another voice, "But what matters hand of write?" he said. "I've seen him!"
• [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
• Given under my Hand and Seal of the State this 1st Day of January, 2010.
• Receiving in hand one year’s tribute.