1 They had also their long staves in hand.
2 Close at hand came the howling of many wolves.
3 I could only redirect it and hand it to him in silence.
4 I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix.
5 His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have crushed mine if he had chosen.
6 It was like the intolerable, tingling sweetness of water-glasses when played on by a cunning hand.
7 We promise you a hearty welcome, and a loving greeting, and a health as true as your own right hand.
8 I am sorry that I had to be away so long to-day; but you will, I know, forgive one who has so many important affairs in hand.
9 There are but few houses close at hand, one being a very large house only recently added to and formed into a private lunatic asylum.
10 The sight seemed to paralyse me, and the shovel turned in my hand and glanced from the face, merely making a deep gash above the forehead.
11 This is a terrible thought; for if so, what does it mean that he could control the wolves, as he did, by only holding up his hand in silence.
12 The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me; with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.
13 Between the inner hand and the wood was a crucifix, the set of beads on which it was fastened being around both wrists and wheel, and all kept fast by the binding cords.
14 The shovel fell from my hand across the box, and as I pulled it away the flange of the blade caught the edge of the lid which fell over again, and hid the horrid thing from my sight.
15 There was no lethal weapon at hand, but I seized a shovel which the workmen had been using to fill the cases, and lifting it high, struck, with the edge downward, at the hateful face.
16 I sank back in my seat, having just had time to replace the letters as they had been and to resume my book before the Count, holding still another letter in his hand, entered the room.
17 He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door.
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