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And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
      - Bible, Genesis (ch. XVI, v. 12)

And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
  And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
      - Bible, Genesis (ch. XXVII, v. 22-23)

Even to the delicacy of their hand
  There was resemblance such as true blood wears.
      - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto IV, st. 45)

For through the South the custom still commands
  The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.
      - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto V, st. 105)

Bless the hand that gave the blow.
      - John Dryden, The Spanish Friar (act II, sc. 1)

One hand washeth another, both the face.
  [Lat., Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto.]
      - John Florio, Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar,
  Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
      - Laurence Hope (pseudonym of Adela Florence Nicolson), Kashmiri Song

Red light hand.
  [Lat., Rubente dextra.]
      - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (I, 2, 2)

'Twas a hand
  White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland.
    The hand of a woman is often, in youth,
      Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless in truth;
        Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
          Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm?
      - Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"),
        Lucile (pt. I, canto III, st. 18)

His red right hand.
      - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 174)

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
  And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
      - John Pomfret, Verses to his Friend under Affliction

Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
      - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at V, i)

They may seize
  On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand
    And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
      Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,
        Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin;
          But Romeo may not, he is banished.
      - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at III, iii)

Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice;
  Handlest in thy discourse, O, that her hand,
    In whose comparison all whites are ink,
      Writing their own reproach; to whose soft seizure
        The cygnet's down is harsh, and spirit of sense
          Hard as the palm of ploughman.
      - William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida
         (Troilus at I, i)

Without the bed her other fair hand was,
  On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
    Showed like an April daisy on the grass,
      With pearly sweat resembling dew of night.
      - William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (l. 393)

God looks at pure, not full, hands.
  [Lat., Puras deus non plenas adspicit manus.]
      - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims

My right hand is to me as a god.
  [Lat., Dextra mihi Deus.]
      - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (X, 773)

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