manus

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In front of Canda’s grandeur, the cellist Robert Burkhart played Caroline Shaw’s flowing “in manus tuas” while the dancer Selina Hack artfully writhed.

From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2020

The exhibition, which often influences the fashions worn by the rich and famous who attend the gala, is titled, "manus x machina: fashion in an age of technology."

From US News • Oct. 13, 2015

“In manus tuas, Domine!” he said, crossing himself as he passed over the threshold.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Ab hoc antiqui manus ita abstinere voluerunt ut capite sanxerint si quis occidisset.”—Varro,

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Nos miseri sumus ex amplo spatioque perimus; In nos inquirunt fata, probantque manus; Ingenium fati sumus, ambitioque malorum.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard