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Tibbie had been notorious in her day for evil-speaking, especially for her free use of the word handless, which she flung a hundred times in a week at her man, and even at her old mother. Her punishment was to have a son born without hands.
Here a fine figure is without a nose, there Theseus holds aloft two handless arms, and legs without feet.
"Mother," he said, after pondering in silence for a few moments, and taking her hand in his while he slipped the handless arm round her waist, "the news is indeed serious, but our Father whom you have trusted so long will not fail us now.
Who knows, in such a world as this, to what end we may come? Night after night I am haunted with spectres, eyeless, handless " "This is cold comfort for a man just out of hard fighting in the ague-fens!" She threw her arms round him, and held him as if she would never let him go. "When you die, I die.
In another moment Jaffers, cutting short some statement concerning a warrant, had gripped him by the handless wrist and caught his invisible throat. He got a sounding kick on the shin that made him shout, but he kept his grip.
Bathed in an infernal glow, grotesque as a creature of a diseased brain, the unhuman Sancho staggered across the glade and into the darkness of the forest, bearing in his handless arms a ghastly burden in which the hilt of Pascherette's dagger glittered and flashed as the firelight touched it. "Back!
by transposition, as the idea of men with eyes in their breasts. by composition, as the idea of a Centaur. by opposition, as the idea of death from that of life. by a kind of transition, as the meaning of words and the idea of place. by nature, as the notion of the just and the good by privation, as handless
They rose up and confronted the midnight intruder on every side they stared at him with stony eyes from unlooked-for nooks and recesses; they peered at him over fragmentary heaps far down the desolate corridors; they barred his way in the midst of the broad forum, and solemnly pointed with handless arms the way from the sacred fane; and through the roofless temple the moon looked down, and banded the floor and darkened the scattered fragments and broken statues with the slanting shadows of the columns.
At the same moment down came three or four bottles from the chiffonnier and shot a web of pungency into the air of the room. "I'll surrender," cried the stranger, though he had Jaffers down, and in another moment he stood up panting, a strange figure, headless and handless for he had pulled off his right glove now as well as his left. "It's no good," he said, as if sobbing for breath.
'He is most terribly handless. 'He is all that, but, poor soul, he does his best. These familiar initials are, I suppose, the best beloved in recent literature, certainly they are the sweetest to me, but there was a time when my mother could not abide them. She said 'That Stevenson man' with a sneer, and, it was never easy to her to sneer.
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