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
I did not lift a hand against them.
From The Blood Ship by Norman Springer
At the same time, you will remember that I did not lift a hand against you.
From Frank Merriwell's Races by Burt L. Standish
Indeed, soldiers, spies, and government agents were quartered on the citizens, doing what they would, and none dared to lift a hand against them.
From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Henry Rider Haggard
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
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