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Just try it once, and you'll see how ingenious it is—only one must be careful not to throw out the elbow in turning out the wrist.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
At present she is throwing her whole weight upon my wrist, which I hope will get limber under it!
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
Phœbe Chiffinch, breathless, is holding Alice Arden's wrist with a firm grasp.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
Like lightning he turned and seized by the wrist a man who had already opened the bag and laid hold of some of its contents.
THE GARRET AND THE GARDENR.M. BALLANTYNE
"Slap your saddles on them fresh hosses," he grated harshly from the back of a deep-chested, lean-flanked gray.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
Slap through the town, whispered Sikes; therell be nobody in the way to-night to see us.
OLIVER TWIST, VOL. II (OF 3)CHARLES DICKENS
He wears a real pearl stud and a good signet ring; also a gold wrist watch, face broken and hands stopped at seven-fifteen.
DOPESAX ROHMER
Black Hood let the clutch slap in and the roadster bounded back onto the tarvia drive.
This was too direct a slap at Elmer Spiker to pass unnoticed; Elmer was too old an arguer to use any ponderous weapon in return.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYD
McKibben's fingers gripped the wrist of the hand as it was withdrawn and shook a knife out of it.
MOTOR MATT'S "CENTURY" RUNSTANLEY R. MATTHEWS
WORDS RELATED TO SLAP WRIST
- abuse
- attend to
- batter
- beat
- beat up
- blacklist
- castigate
- chasten
- chastise
- correct
- crack down on
- cuff
- debar
- defrock
- discipline
- dismiss
- do in
- execute
- exile
- expel
- fine
- flog
- give a going over
- give the works
- harm
- hurt
- immure
- incarcerate
- injure
- knock about
- lash
- lecture
- maltreat
- misuse
- oppress
- paddle
- rap knuckles
- reprove
- rough up
- scourge
- sentence
- slap wrist
- spank
- switch
- teach a lesson
- throw the book at
- train
- whip
- abuse
- attend to
- batter
- beat
- beat up
- blacklist
- castigate
- chasten
- chastise
- correct
- crack down on
- cuff
- debar
- defrock
- discipline
- dismiss
- do in
- execute
- exile
- expel
- fine
- flog
- give a going over
- give the works
- harm
- hurt
- immure
- incarcerate
- injure
- knock about
- lash
- lecture
- maltreat
- misuse
- oppress
- paddle
- rap knuckles
- reprove
- rough up
- scourge
- sentence
- slap wrist
- spank
- switch
- teach a lesson
- throw the book at
- train
- whip
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.