HAND.
Without the bed her other fair hand was,
On the green coverlet; whose perfect white
Showed like an April daisy on the grass,
With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night.
Lucrece. SHAKESPEARE.
The hand of a woman is often, in youth,
Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless, in truth;
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm,
Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm?
Lucile, Pt. I. Canto III. (Owen Meredith). LORD LYTTON.
They may seize
On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand.
Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
As if the world and they were hand and glove.
Table Talk. W. COWPER.
With an angry wafture of your hand,
Gave sign for me to leave you.
Julius Cæsar, Act ii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Then join in hand, brave Americans all;
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
The Liberty Song (1768). J. DICKINSON.