1 His head jerked; his hand fell.
2 Giles hollowed his hand and lit another.
3 David and Iris each had a hand on the gramophone.
4 She had lent him a hand to help him up a steep place.
5 He bowed deep over her hand; a century ago, he would have kissed it.
6 It was Aunt Lucy, waving her hand at him as he came in, who made him change.
7 She waved her hand at the trees standing bare in the clear light of January.
8 One hand was deep stuck in her jacket pocket; the other held a foolscap sheet.
9 With his head on one side, his hand dangling above the dog's head he slept; he snored.
10 Then she ran her hand over the sunk books in the wall on the landing, as if they were pan pipes.
11 And she waved her hand upon which there was a glove, and under the glove it seemed rings, at old Mr. Oliver.
12 The dream hand clenched; the real hand lay on the chair arm, the veins swollen but only with a brownish fluid now.
13 Amy was saying something about a feller when Mabel, with her hand on the pram, turned sharply, her sweet swallowed.
14 Allowing ten seconds to intervene, she rose; paused; and then, as if she had heard the last strain die out, offered Mrs. Giles Oliver her hand.
15 But no water; and the hills, like grey stuff pleated; and in the sand a hoop of ribs; a bullock maggot-eaten in the sun; and in the shadow of the rock, savages; and in his hand a gun.
16 And he wished to kneel before her, to kiss her hand, and to say: "At school they held me under a bucket of dirty water, Mrs. Swithin; when I looked up, the world was dirty, Mrs. Swithin; so I married; but my child's not my child, Mrs. Swithin."
17 In her yellow robe, leaning, with a pillar to support her, a silver arrow in her hand, and a feather in her hair, she led the eye up, down, from the curve to the straight, through glades of greenery and shades of silver, dun and rose into silence.
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