Sentence examples for unhand from inspiring English sources

At one point Praxinoa - Sappho's (fictional) slave and lover - actually does say "unhand us".

The night I saw "Pelléas et Mélisande," I could almost read the white-on-black text of implicit dialogue ("Unhand me, you beast!") as Dessay silently fought to free herself from a violent, jealous assault by Naouri — although, given that he was pulling her hair and shoving her to the ground, it seemed insensitive of Debussy to have given all the lines to Golaud.

"Unhand me," his reversal says.

Lillian's mother threatens to put down "two of her 12 horses", unless she unhands the servant serving her cheese at "cheese time" so that her sister can use the servant in her own way.

Consider the beginning of "Haunted Hayride," in which the speaker (Maxwell himself, in this case) has stopped with his family at a roadside fair: At the near edge of the field, a dollar a shot, the hay cart waited with its horse and man, handing the children on and their mothers on, unhanding them to a place on a hay-cart seat, swivelling for the next.