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Meanings of folded hands in English

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Usage of folded hands in English
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A few hours later, Sabine sat in the window with folded hands.
Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
2
Mr. Keene leaned forward, looking at him intently over his folded hands.
IT
3
Bread had got up, and stood by the fire with folded hands.
The American
4
Trace was staring down at his folded hands, seemingly deep in thought.
Starcraft ii: heaven's devils
5
Silently Gertrude sat with folded hands, waiting till the storm was spent.
Veronica
6
She pressed her folded hands into her lap and cleared her throat.
"Undo": A Novel
7
The Knight puts his folded hands into the hands of His Holiness.
The Hyperion Cantos
8
Molly sat completely still during this, staring down at her folded hands.
Ghost Story
9
He dropped his hat, and with folded hands offered a short prayer.
After Long Years and Other Stories
10
So he said to himself, as she waited quietly with folded hands.
Allison Bain; Or, By a Way She Knew Not
11
Dismas sat on his stone with folded hands, pale as a corpse.
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
12
She was silent, still resting her drooped head on her folded hands.
Infelice
13
She sat with folded hands watching Lawrence with a vague, observant smile.
Nightfall
14
But to accomplish such marvels, they must not sit with folded hands.
Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02
15
Cathedrals sing, and they also pray, with pointed arches for folded hands.
Memories of Hawthorne
16
She sat with folded hands and the old dreamy look in her eyes.
The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
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Folded hands through the time
Folded hands across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common