Sentence examples for upon their hands from inspiring English sources

Servants walked upon their hands.

("At once did all that are called Basemen and Fielders spit upon their hands and stoop and watch again").

Or, more plainly, they have their blood upon their hands.

But I feel you are utterly on the wrong track in your stand on Viet Nam... [A]ren't you being unfair when you place all the burden of blame upon America and none upon the Communist forces we are fighting... Why is it, Martin, that you seem to ignore the blood which is upon their hands and to speak only of the "guilt" of the United States?

For example: One other rick and then the task of summer will be done The farmer then shall count his gains and with the setting sun The husbandmen at harvest home shall crowd the genial board And think complacently upon the wealth their hands have stored.

Guests would sit around a table resting their hands upon its upper surface.

For two and a half hours, the students had to sit quietly with their hands upon their desks and the contents of their desks in plain view.

Tied with a decorative ribbon!" Then, as the people laid their hands upon me, my demon cackled and swore: "A bonnet!

Some of the businessmen had the temerity to lay their hands upon Mandela's shoulders, as if posing with a lion they had shot.

There are several steps patients can take to avoid problems, like checking to see that clinicians wash their hands upon entering a hospital room.

The guilty laid their hands upon the head of the sacrificial animal (an unblemished bullock or goat), thereby identifying themselves with the victim, making it their representative (but not their substitute, for their sins were not transferred to the victim).