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Example sentences for "either hand"

  • He would have preferred not to have known that plain, wiry-haired Augustine, but to have been able to imagine that he was occupying the room of a sister, some bright sweet girl of whose budding womanhood every trifle around him spoke.

  • As they passed he tasted to the full all the bitter joys of self-sacrifice.

  • Gavard had rented two compartments, which he had thrown into one by removing the partition between them.

  • Thus she made her appearance in the Rue au Lard, where she lived, with a child clinging to either hand.

  • Here on either hand, from end to end, big clumps of flowers bloom as in the borders of a garden walk.

  • And a last blow was dealt to him by the spectacle which he perceived on either hand as he halted opposite the Rue Pirouette.

  • As they neared the gate, the squaws broke up their several groups, and, forming a line on either hand of the road leading to the drawbridge, appeared to separate solely with a view not to impede the action of the players.

  • Captain Blessington presided; and next him, on either hand, were the first in seniority, the two junior occupying the lowest places.

  • Occasionally they came upon the stream, and found easier going along its gravel bars, till a bend threw them again into the meadows and mesas on either hand.

  • The stranger balanced the weapons, one in either hand, then he did the "double roll" neatly, following which he executed a move that Gale had not witnessed for many years.

  • At her back was another bark shanty similar to the one that sheltered himself, while on either hand a shoreless expanse of water danced and sparkled under the rays of the newly risen sun.

  • Starting from a point beyond the truck patch and leading straight away to the woodland beyond was a fenced lane, with the corn-field and the pasture-lot on either hand.

  • But after the moon rose the constellations paled; and clear in her light the tree-clad banks stood on either hand as we steamed steadily against the swirling current of the great river.

  • The lofty and matted forest rose like a green wall on either hand.

  • In this case no one could foretell that the river would cleave its way through steep mountain chains, cutting narrow clefts in which the cliff walls rose almost sheer on either hand.

  • Drift and spray lash the faces of officer and helmsman, and through the grey gloom misty bergs glide by on either hand.

  • Shod with crampons, the rear of the sledge secured by a tail-rope, we had a trying afternoon guiding the load along the narrow ridges of ice with precipices on either hand.

  • To the north a headland appeared on either hand, each about twenty-five miles away, and between them lay an expanse of sea dotted with many bergs.

  • The sunset came, and the river lay beneath the colored clouds like molten gold, with the gaunt forest black upon either hand.

  • We left them behind, and found ourselves upon the neck, with the desolate murmur of the river on either hand, and before us the deep blackness of the forest.

  • Our Greek doctor had physicked him, and he was now compelled to lead us under Ranjoor Singh's directions, with his hands made fast behind him, he riding on a mule with one of our men on either hand.

  • Smoke occupied the center, with his warriors on either hand; the young men and boys next succeeded, and the squaws and children formed the horns of the crescent.

  • Tall woods lined the river, with green meadows on either hand; and high bluffs, quietly basking in the sunlight, flanked the narrow valley.

  • We moved slowly over the rocks, up the passage; and in this toilsome manner we advanced for an hour or two, bare precipices, hundreds of feet high, shooting up on either hand.

  • A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand.

  • The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through.

  • Life throbs about me, yet I stand Outgazing on majestic Power; Death rides with me, on either hand, In my communion hour.

  • On either hand, These fight to keep, and those to win, the land.

  • Another hill followed, and then another, and finally we swept swiftly down a long slope densely bordered by trees and with irregular piles of rock uprearing ugly heads on either hand.

  • A hundred yards or more of sharply curving road densely lined with shrubbery on either hand, and then Craig swung into saddle and again gave spur to his horse.

  • On either hand, ahead, the low, livid green banks of the Hooghly were closing in, imperceptibly constricting the narrow channel through which the tawny tide swirled down to the sea at the full force of its ebb.

  • The heroes kindle at his fierce command; The martial squadrons close on either hand: Here Troy and Lycia charge with loud alarms, Thessalia there, and Greece, oppose their arms.

  • Clad in refulgent steel, on either hand, The dreadful chiefs amid the circle stand; Louring they meet, tremendous to the sight; Each Argive bosom beats with fierce delight.

  • In half an hour I was moving up an opening in the land with mountains on either hand, streaky crags at their summit, umbrageous boscage below; and the whole softened, as it were, by veils woven of the rainbow.

  • When I looked about with the return of light I saw majestic fir-grown mountains on either hand, almost meeting overhead at some points, deeply shading the mossy gorge.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "either hand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    distant thunder; either actually; either bank; either belligerent; either branch; either case; either directly; either end; either flank; either from; either good; either hand; either house; either party; either real; either the; field officers; followed him; grand ball; important part; make report; party measure; personal experience; public welfare; rigor mortis; will crush