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
“Nay, by your leave, sergeant,” interrupted one of the troopers, “I wouldn’t be the man to lift a hand against a pretty girl like that, if you would give me a regiment for it.”
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay
Who would lift a hand against the pillage of this splendor, and the desecration of this magnificence?
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
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
"What dogs are these," she cried, "that dare to lift a hand against the Inkosazana and her servant?"
From The Ghost Kings by Haggard, Henry Rider
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