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dead hand
dead hand
noun
- an oppressive or discouraging influence or factor
the dead hand of centralized control
- law a less common word for mortmain
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Why should the dead hand of an Augustine or Calvin be exempt from giving its authority?
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It drew sustainment from the dead hand in his grasp, and cowered down to the earth claiming all we touch.
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The hand held a bit of paper, at which I blankly stared, thinking it held by a dead hand.
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All one night a dead hand lay across my throat, but I could not disengage my hands to remove it.
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Again she saw, through the blinding mist of her tears, Guy Kenmore extricating the fragment of paper from the dead hand.
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