1 Actually he was not used to writing by hand.
2 Two fingers of his right hand were inkstained.
3 Parsons, on the other hand, would never be vaporized.
4 He made an apologetic gesture with his softpalmed hand.
5 She held out her free hand to him, and he helped her up.
6 When he got up to it he saw that it was a human hand severed at the wrist.
7 As he put his hand to the door-knob Winston saw that he had left the diary open on the table.
8 Apart from the bloody stump, the hand was so completely whitened as to resemble a plaster cast.
9 But at the last moment, while the crowd still hemmed them in, her hand felt for his and gave it a fleeting squeeze.
10 The sudden jerk out of sleep, the rough hand shaking your shoulder, the lights glaring in your eyes, the ring of hard faces round the bed.
11 Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees.
12 He pushed his pannikin aside, took up his hunk of bread in one delicate hand and his cheese in the other, and leaned across the table so as to be able to speak without shouting.
13 Nevertheless it had been very difficult not to betray a momentary surprise, for in the two or three seconds while he was helping her up the girl had slipped something into his hand.
14 So tricky a piece of work would never be entrusted to a single person: on the other hand, to turn it over to a committee would be to admit openly that an act of fabrication was taking place.
15 There was no evidence, only fleeting glimpses that might mean anything or nothing: snatches of overheard conversation, faint scribbles on lavatory walls--once, even, when two strangers met, a small movement of the hand which had looked as though it might be a signal of recognition.
16 He did not remember the raid itself, but he did remember his father's hand clutching his own as they hurried down, down, down into some place deep in the earth, round and round a spiral staircase which rang under his feet and which finally so wearied his legs that he began whimpering and they had to stop and rest.
17 At the Ministry he was employed in some subordinate post for which intelligence was not required, but on the other hand he was a leading figure on the Sports Committee and all the other committees engaged in organizing community hikes, spontaneous demonstrations, savings campaigns, and voluntary activities generally.
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