Sentence examples for hand offend from inspiring English sources

It's right there in the Book of Matthew: "If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off".

Matthew 5 29-30 If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out; if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off.

On the one hand, it offends all his notions of fairness in arguing; to ascribe an opponent's opposition to his going soft in the head is surely the most outrageous of ad-hominem arguments.

Allen's "Café Society" star Blake Lively, on the other hand, was offended by the joke.

"Sourdough," she announced, handing the offending muffin to her husband.

Now, holding your fork in your right hand doesn't offend anyone, and if most people are doing so it doesn't even make you bang elbows with your neighbours.

On the other hand, you might offend loved ones and dear friends who would think that their opinion has some weight, as it should.

The pope, mortified at feeling desire for the woman, ordered a servant to cut off the offending hand.

Usually, a meeting is arranged so the patron can hand off the offending books or DVDs in Ziploc bags to an employee outside the library.

Also hailing from the 1920s, Kiss of Death tells of a man so haunted by his own guilt that he finds a more gruesome method than Lady Macbeth to deal with the offending hand.

Utopian also must be stoning to death "a man or a woman who does evil in the eyes of the Lord," or cutting off the offending hand of a woman who, in trying "to rescue her man from the hand of the one striking him," inadvertently seizes his genitals.