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lay hands on

VERB
  1. manage with the hands

How To Use lay hands on In A Sentence

  • And because, said he, they would the better displant me, if they cannot lay hands on me, they have gotten a nephew of mine called Eparacano, whom they have christened Don Juan, and his son Don Pedro, whom they have also apparelled and armed, by whom they seek to make a party against me in mine own country. The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 50-102
  • Do not lay hands on the old verging on death, on women, children and babes.
  • However, don't let this color your view of the states, there are inclusive, loving and existential Christians out there too, but we don't go up to strangers and "piously" lay hands on people in King Soopers ... God
  • `Us builders can always lay hands on a few bob in readies when we have to. KICK BACK
  • _And because_, said he, _they would the better displant me, if they cannot lay hands on me, they have gotten a nephew of mine called The Discovery of Guiana
  • All in all, anything anyone ever wanted to know about the inside of a Lancaster is here for casual browsers or would-be restorers of a Lancaster - if they can lay hands on one!
  • A quarter of a mile in either direction, looking out along the shallow canyon of the sand-hills, Dag Daughtry could see the sentry-boxes of the guards, themselves armed and more prone to kill than to lay hands on any escaping pest-man, much less persuavively discuss with him the advisability of his return to the prison house. CHAPTER XXI
  • I never thought such a chap as Magellan would have had the sense to lay hands on the barrico as he did and serve it out on allowance -- considering the little amount of water there was, and how all must have been pretty nigh as thirsty as myself; but, I suppose the peril he had been in and the fact of his not seeing any river near taught him caution! The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
  • He did not know what substances to use in his operations; for when he was told to employ "the homogeneous water of gold," for example, the expression might mean anything, and in despair he distilled, and calcined, and cohobated, and tried to decompose everything he could lay hands on. The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
  • C other other purpofe •, for he cannot juftify the committing an affrayer to gaol till he fhall be punifhed for his offence: and it is faid, that he ought not to. lay hands on thofe, who barely contend with hot words, without any threats of perfonal hurt, and that all which he can do in fuch cafe, is to command them under pain of imprisonment to avoid fighting, i Hawk. The law of a justice of peace and parish officer: containing all the acts of Parliament at large concerning them, and the cases determined on those acts in the Court of King's Bench. To which is added, a collection of precedents revised and settled by
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