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
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 William MacLeod Raine
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 Henry Rider Haggard
But one thing I will promise you—whatever father does to me, I will not lift a hand against him.
From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
He could never lift a hand against anyone.
From My Young Alcides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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