Sentence examples for by unknown hands from inspiring English sources

Within hours at least one home was on fire, set alight by unknown hands.

We encounter "fish sticks": improvised traps made by unknown hands to trap carp, tilapia and other species.

Raja Halder, who has always imagined that he only followed caste rules out of social politeness, must eat food for the first time in his life that has been prepared by unknown hands and override a wave of disgust that he had never anticipated.

Though it may have been "modern" to eat food made by unknown hands on dirty streets far from home, those of us who seized on this habit at that moment in time still found ways to avoid the solitary individualism that modernity so often involves.

Much of what survives of church music from the first half of the sixteenth century is due to the diligent work of Thomas Wode (d. 1590), vicar of St Andrews, who compiled a part book from now lost sources, which was continued by unknown hands after his death.

The refugees said they fear the blank papers will be seen again, with confessions written in by an unknown hand.

Later, Mr. Blank finds the labels on the objects have been changed by an unknown hand — DESK is now marked LAMP, and so on.

After a particularly acrimonious row between the two, Carritt's expensive new covert coat, hung on a hook, was found to have been slashed by an unknown hand.

Recently, in an early edition of "Gone With the Wind" (first published in 1936), he found two stuffing recipes, typed by an unknown hand onto index cards.

What was unusual was that this pole was covered up to about eight feet in a snugly fitting multi-coloured sock, knitted by some unknown hand.

This moment in Bleak House is comparable to the trick played by Fielding early in Tom Jones, when the foundling hero has been discovered, as a baby, placed by some unknown hand in the bed of the benevolent bachelor, Squire Allworthy.