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dead hand
1. By the time he realized his error the dead hands were on him, dragging him into the depths of the horde where the name of his bride-to-be sprayed from his lips in a gout of blood
2. All around him undead hands reached out
3. His leash was still wound around his dead handler's wrist so that the dog flipped upside down from the momentum of his lunge
4. Melissa remembered the drop dead handsome service boys in their crisp uniforms, with their
5. With dead hands fumbling his silken coat;
6. He took Gabriel’s dead hand into his and started to cry
7. always give you the worst-case scenario, and in doing so, try to gen-erate as much fear as possible so that they can extract the maximum fee from your cold, dead hands
8. the spikes withdrew, and it rolled out of his dead hand
9. The bus floor lurched and threw Barbara off-balance, allowing newly dead hands to clasp tightly onto her shoulders
10. "A dead hand?"
11. It’s finished then isn’t it?’ Sophie said, gesturing with a dead hand
12. It was Keith, he was coming for her, his cold, dead hands just
13. She screamed as his cold dead hands clamped against her arm
14. "How thin you are! What a hand! Quite transparent, like a dead hand
15. The pale roses Amy gave him were the sort that the Italians lay in dead hands, never in bridal wreaths, and for a moment he wondered if the omen was for Jo or for himself, but the next instant his American common sense got the better of sentimentality, and he laughed a heartier laugh than Amy had heard since he came
16. In chuckling over the vexations he could inflict by the rigid clutch of his dead hand, he inevitably mingled his consciousness with that livid stagnant presence, and so far as he was preoccupied with a future life, it was with one of gratification inside his coffin
17. It was sharp and the dead hand held it fast
18. It is a happy business that operates away from the dead hand of government
19. Already, however, the legal tongues are wagging, and one young law student is loudly asserting that the rights of the owner are already completely sacrificed, his property being held in contravention of the statues of mortmain, since the tiller, as emblemship, if not proof, of delegated possession, is held in a dead hand
20. Their dead hands pulled streets straighter, loosed rivers of asphalt over soft dirt to make roads harder, more confi ning, so that open country and freedom were pushed further and further away, so that one day, years from now, green hills would be a distant echo, so far off that it would take a lifetime of travel to reach the edge of the city and peer out at one lone small forest of dying trees
21. But there was only silence and the clock, a mindless ghost, hanging in the sky with limp, dead hands, saying naught, doing nothing
22. He watched the Russian stagger back to the computer and peck awkwardly at the keyboard with dead hands
23. "By the dead hands at my throat but he shall die, Bar Comas
24. From the thong which held them stretched another to the dead hand of the little old woman; as I touched the cord the skeletons swung to the motion with a noise as of the rustling of dry leaves
25. ‘How thin you are! What a hand! Quite transparent, like a dead hand
