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Little hand   /lˈɪtəl hænd/   Listen
Little hand

noun
1.
The shorter hand of a clock that points to the hours.  Synonym: hour hand.






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"Little hand" Quotes from Famous Books



... little hand, and recoiled—his lips touched her engagement ring. As he went out he met the Countess Styvens and hardly recognized her, so terribly was ...
— The Idol of Paris • Sarah Bernhardt

... now at strange viands that it would have been difficult for him to name. Matrena Petrovna laid her fat little hand on his arm: ...
— The Secret of the Night • Gaston Leroux

... bread, and searching for mislaid scraps of India-rubber, and mixing of water-colours, and adjusting of palettes on the prettiest thumb in Christendom, or the planting a sheaf of brushes in the dearest little hand that ever trembled when it met the tenderly timid touch of an amateur drawing-master's fingers;—all these little offices, so commonplace and wearisome when a hard-worked and poorly-paid professor performs them for thirty or forty clamorous girls, on a burning summer ...
— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... 2. Raise Thy little hand to bless All our childhood's happiness; Bless our sorrow and our pain, That each cross may be our gain. Be Thine own sweet childhood, Lord, Sanctify each though and word, Set Thy seal on ev'ry thing Which we do, O ...
— The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book • Various

... the day by noon, he had since insensibly walked about the town so far and so long that the lamp- lighters were now at their work in the streets, and the shops were sparkling up brilliantly. Thus reminded to turn towards his quarters, he was in the act of doing so, when a very little hand crept into his, and a very little ...
— Mugby Junction • Charles Dickens


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