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Hand: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Even to the delicacy of their hand There was resemblance such as true blood wears.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto IV. St. 45.

For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto V. St. 105.

'Twas a hand White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland. The hand of a woman is often, in youth, Somewhat rough, somewhat red, somewhat graceless, in truth; Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm, Or as sorrow has crossed the life line in the palm? OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Lucile. Pt. I. Canto III. St. 18. His red right hand.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 174.

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 1. L 57.