He who has once closed hands with Herne the Hunter cannot retreat.

The two closed hands, and the joy of both was unbounded.

And he pushed his closed hands out before him, slowly apart, in illustration.

He raised his closed hands before him, a shoulder's width apart.

The people of Gambudvipa, with closed hands, looking up with reverence, beheld him.

The players stand in a circle and the string passes through their closed hands.

She stood with her half- closed hands gathered against her.

I wanted to refuse such a beautiful present, but he forced it into my closed hands.

Then, with bent head, and closed hands hanging by her sides, she went on her way.

And she slipt both her closed hands into the one of mine, and truly they did be little fists.

We closed hands for parting.

Let him but drink water from the palms of thy closed hands, and he is healed of his hurt.'

Then Anuruddha, observing that the great congregation continued silent and expressed no doubt, with closed hands thus spake to Buddha:-

I held up my closed hands, opened them, and let a stream of bullets fall out to clatter loudly on the table-top.

The game begins by one of the leaders placing his closed hands upon his blanket, and calling upon the other to match him.

"There's four men in her," said Marsden, making a telescope of his closed hands.