lift a hand against
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And he had said it and meant it: “If I lift a hand against you, friend, may God strike me dead.”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
At the same time, you will remember that I did not lift a hand against you.
From Frank Merriwell's Races by Standish, Burt L.
Not one of his fellows would dare lift a hand against her.
From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by Raine, William MacLeod
Why, for your sake, once, years ago, I made a vow to the Blessed Virgin that, whatever I worked on men, I would never again lift a hand against a woman.
From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Haggard, Henry Rider
Now you may be at rest concerning me, Oswald, for there is not one left to lift a hand against me of whom I need think twice.
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
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