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RIGHT HAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The hand that is on the right side of the body
Example:
hit him with quick rights to the body
Synonyms:
right; right hand
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("right hand" is a kind of...):
hand; manus; mitt; paw (the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb)
Context examples:
Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece with his right hand.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We promise you a hearty welcome, and a loving greeting, and a health as true as your own right hand.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She then joined them soon enough to see Lydia, with anxious parade, walk up to her mother's right hand, and hear her say to her eldest sister, Ah!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
And, finally, there was this very important piece of evidence which was found clasped in the dead man’s right hand.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was drinking in his words and smiling away, as conceited as a cock upon a wall, when, all in a breath, back went his right hand over his shoulder.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I took them all in my right hand, put five of them into my coat-pocket; and as to the sixth, I made a countenance as if I would eat him alive.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
At the same time he dropped the hatchet and shifted the club to his right hand.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Miss Ingram placed herself at her leader's right hand; the other diviners filled the chairs on each side of him and her.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She would hardly join even when William was the subject, for his commission came all from the right hand too, and there was pain in the connexion.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I was anxious and watchful, while my right hand grasped a pistol which was hidden in my bosom; every sound terrified me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dearly and not shrink from the conflict until my own life or that of my adversary was extinguished.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
