"Right-hand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... such glad haste through the wide air they flee. The King was placed alone, and o'er his head A well-wrought heaven of silk and gold was spread, Azure the ground, the sun in gold shone bright, But pierced the wandering clouds with silver light. The right-hand bed the King's three sons did grace, The third was Abner's, Adriel's, David's place: And twelve large tables more were filled below, With the prime men Saul's court and camp could show. The palace did with mirth and music sound, And the crowned goblets nimbly moved ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... one and a half inches wide at the mouth and sharpened like a chisel; the mouth, or blade, being half an inch in thickness in order to give the necessary strength to so slender an implement. From the mouth, a, on the right-hand side, a ring of steel, b, six inches long and two and a half broad, projects at right angles; and on the left, at fourteen inches from the mouth, a tread, c, three inches long, ...
— Farm drainage • Henry Flagg French
... space big enough for us to creep through at the right-hand corner above, I think," said Nigel, taking the lantern from Moses ...
— Blown to Bits - or, The Lonely Man of Rakata • Robert Michael Ballantyne
... on the present occasion the guest-chamber was furnished with couches which ran around the three sides of the table in the usual manner. Authorities differ as to which was regarded as the "highest seat" some maintaining that this was the outermost place on the right-hand couch; others, again, preferring the arrangement followed in the painting, where ...
— The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young • Richard Newton
... the name to apply to Sadik Pasha, the terrible right-hand of the Khedive. But Dicky's tongue ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
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