Sentence examples for hand upon him from inspiring English sources

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His owner kneels and lays her hand upon him.

Laid her hand upon him would be a better way of putting it.

As for the title, it refers to many things: the fearsome view of constitutional order propounded by Thomas Hobbes, in 1651; the skeleton of a whale, stranded and whitened on the beach; and the monster named in the Book of Job, of whom the Almighty says, "Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more".

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He was warring upon the military, and this gave the military constitutional jurisdiction to lay hands upon him".

She leaned forward, stroked him, laid her hand upon his head, and whispered to him.

When lo! an angel called him out of heaven, Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, Neither do anything to him.

"They were Hitler's," he said, laying a proprietary hand upon the nearest one.

And I felt her hand upon my arm and I could not breathe.

Psalm 80 17 states "Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself".

When Thomas feels the Almighty's hand upon his shoulder, that's only his own hand he's placed there.

She keeps him in place with one forearm and brings the other arm across her body, extending a long-fingered hand upon which one of his tiny hands rests.

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