LEFT HAND in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 He washed his left hand and wiped it on his trousers.
2 He had tried a few practice matches with his left hand.
3 His left hand was still cramped, but he was unknotting it slowly.
4 He could feel the steady hard pull of the line and his left hand was cramped.
5 I feel good and my left hand is better and I have food for a night and a day.
6 The old man held the line delicately, and softly, with his left hand, unleashed it from the stick.
7 But his left hand had always been a traitor and would not do what he called on it to do and he did not trust it.
8 He put his left foot on the heavy line that the left hand had held and lay back against the pull against his back.
9 There was a small sea rising with the wind coming up from the east and at noon the old man's left hand was uncramped.
10 Then, as he leaned against the line and slapped his left hand hard and fast against his thigh he saw the line slanting slowly upward.
11 Holding the line with his left shoulder again, and bracing on his left hand and arm, he took the tuna off the gaff hook and put the gaff back in place.
12 He let the line slip through his fingers while he reached down with his left hand and made fast the free end of the two reserve coils to the loop of the two reserve coils of the next line.
13 He was still bearing the pull of the fish across his shoulders but he placed his left hand on the gunwale of the bow and confided more and more of the resistance to the fish to the skiff itself.
14 Now alone, and out of sight of land, he was fast to the biggest fish that he had ever seen and bigger than he had ever heard of, and his left hand was still as tight as the gripped claws of an eagle.
15 With his prayers said, and feeling much better, but suffering exactly as much, and perhaps a little more, he leaned against the wood of the bow and began, mechanically, to work the fingers of his left hand.
16 The sun and his steady movement of his fingers had uncramped his left hand now completely and he began to shift more of the strain to it and he shrugged the muscles of his back to shift the hurt of the cord a little.
17 It jumped again and again in the acrobatics of its fear and he worked his way back to the stern and crouching and holding the big line with his right hand and arm, he pulled the dolphin in with his left hand, stepping on the gained line each time with his bare left foot.
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