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Example sentences for "right hand"

  • David himself said: The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

  • But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give.

  • And Jesus said, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; but to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give.

  • David, himself, said in the book of Psalms, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool.

  • I moved rapidly over an undulating country; a region of hills, or rather of mountains lay on my right hand.

  • I proceeded slowly along the road, the lake below me on my right hand, whilst the shelvy side of Snowdon rose above me on the left.

  • As I passed a red public-house on my right hand, at the door of which stood several carts, a scream of Welsh issued from it.

  • If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.

  • The Lord said to my Lord: Sit thou at my right hand: Until I make thy enemies thy footstool.

  • Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.

  • I looked on my right hand, and beheld, and there was no one that would know me.

  • I set the Lord always in my sight: for he is at my right hand, that I be not moved.

  • I therefore thanked God for my deliverance, and strode through my woods with a daring and heroic step; with independence in my eye, and freedom swinging in my right hand.

  • After what you have heard, I hope you will pardon my seeming incivility during the course of my illness, in giving you my left instead of my right hand.

  • In the mean time the lady, curious to know what ailed my right hand, lifted up my garment that covered it; and saw to her great astonishment that it was cut off, and that I had brought it along with me wrapped up in a cloth.

  • I replied, "I beseech you excuse me; I have a swelling in my right hand.

  • Right hand goes--and we camp at the first good water and grass.

  • Bud dared not look at her, nor at Lew, who sat glowering at Bud's right hand.

  • The doctor placed it in Leonard's right hand, and quietly slipped to the wrist of the left his forefinger and thumb, as physicians are said to do when a victim is stretched on the rack.

  • You may call it so, if you like--and each of you will be a right hand to the other.

  • If I threatened her, then and afterwards, with the terrors that encompassed her, did I hold them in my right hand?

  • And when he sat on Mrs Meagles's right hand, Mr Meagles looked as gratified as if his whole family were there.

  • Arthur de Pendennis bore his banner; Wilfrid of Ivanhoe fought on the King's right hand.

  • So for us the one central thought about the present, in its loftiest relations, should be the throned Christ at God's right hand.

  • But to sit on My right hand and on My left hand is not Mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it its prepared.

  • And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.

  • Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

  • I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

  • I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

  • The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

  • And if your Highnesse knew my heart, you were: My Lord the Emperour resolue me this, Was it well done of rash Virginius, To slay his daughter with his owne right hand.

  • Come on my right hand, for this eare is deafe, And tell me truely, what thou think'st of him.

  • Do not thinke Gentlemen, I am drunke: this is my Ancient, this is my right hand, and this is my left.

  • At Godwin's right hand, but not immediately near him, stood the last of the group, Gurth and Harold.

  • Where hadst Thou hidden Thy strong right hand; That this should happen under the sky, And be looked at by Thy All-seeing eye For we spread our sails to leave that spot, Secure in that God regarded not.

  • He is gone away to battle, He's always in high command; As a man of vast resources, Who is as the king's right hand.

  • Shy on their native strand, The mild Algonquins stand And gave the heart's right hand To the white stranger.

  • I lost my right hand in his cause, and when I was no longer fit to serve him, I was cast off like a worn out hound, my loss ridiculed, and a cloister recommended, instead of the halls and palaces in which I had my natural sphere!

  • I am a disgraced man, thrown aside, as I may now fling away my right hand glove, as a thing useless.

  • Certainly I were best strike my right hand off, and nail it to the door of a church, that it may never do me discredit more.


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


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