HAND in Classic Quotes

1  Elizabeth impatiently caught it from his hand.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 49

2  Mr. Darcy, with grave propriety, requested to be allowed the honour of her hand, but in vain.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

3  I wish you very happy and very rich, and by refusing your hand, do all in my power to prevent your being otherwise.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

4  She held out her hand; he kissed it with affectionate gallantry, though he hardly knew how to look, and they entered the house.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 52

5  The next morning, as she was going downstairs, she was met by her father, who came out of his library with a letter in his hand.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 57

6  But her commendation, though costing her some trouble, could by no means satisfy Mr. Collins, and he was very soon obliged to take her ladyship's praise into his own hands.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

7  My reasons for believing it are briefly these: It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

8  When they parted, Lady Catherine, with great condescension, wished them a good journey, and invited them to come to Hunsford again next year; and Miss de Bourgh exerted herself so far as to curtsey and hold out her hand to both.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 37

9  He concluded with representing to her the strength of that attachment which, in spite of all his endeavours, he had found impossible to conquer; and with expressing his hope that it would now be rewarded by her acceptance of his hand.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 34

10  Her mother stepped forwards, embraced her, and welcomed her with rapture; gave her hand, with an affectionate smile, to Wickham, who followed his lady; and wished them both joy with an alacrity which shewed no doubt of their happiness.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 51

11  With no expectation of pleasure, but with the strongest curiosity, Elizabeth opened the letter, and, to her still increasing wonder, perceived an envelope containing two sheets of letter-paper, written quite through, in a very close hand.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

12  The envelope contained a sheet of elegant, little, hot-pressed paper, well covered with a lady's fair, flowing hand; and Elizabeth saw her sister's countenance change as she read it, and saw her dwelling intently on some particular passages.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

13  Perhaps not the less so from feeling a doubt of my positive happiness had my fair cousin honoured me with her hand; for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

14  When the dancing recommenced, however, and Darcy approached to claim her hand, Charlotte could not help cautioning her in a whisper, not to be a simpleton, and allow her fancy for Wickham to make her appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man ten times his consequence.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

15  When those dances were over, she returned to Charlotte Lucas, and was in conversation with her, when she found herself suddenly addressed by Mr. Darcy who took her so much by surprise in his application for her hand, that, without knowing what she did, she accepted him.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

16  I am not now to learn," replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, "that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second, or even a third time.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

17  Miss Bingley's civility to Elizabeth increased at last very rapidly, as well as her affection for Jane; and when they parted, after assuring the latter of the pleasure it would always give her to see her either at Longbourn or Netherfield, and embracing her most tenderly, she even shook hands with the former.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12