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1  His head jerked; his hand fell.
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2  Giles hollowed his hand and lit another.
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3  David and Iris each had a hand on the gramophone.
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4  She had lent him a hand to help him up a steep place.
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5  He bowed deep over her hand; a century ago, he would have kissed it.
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6  It was Aunt Lucy, waving her hand at him as he came in, who made him change.
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7  She waved her hand at the trees standing bare in the clear light of January.
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8  One hand was deep stuck in her jacket pocket; the other held a foolscap sheet.
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9  With his head on one side, his hand dangling above the dog's head he slept; he snored.
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10  Then she ran her hand over the sunk books in the wall on the landing, as if they were pan pipes.
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11  And she waved her hand upon which there was a glove, and under the glove it seemed rings, at old Mr. Oliver.
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12  The dream hand clenched; the real hand lay on the chair arm, the veins swollen but only with a brownish fluid now.
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13  Amy was saying something about a feller when Mabel, with her hand on the pram, turned sharply, her sweet swallowed.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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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