Significados de close hand em inglês

This they reluctantly assented to, keeping, however, a close hand upon him.

She noted another thing: at close hand he was more handsome.

Round this ship there raged a close hand-to-hand fight between Danaans and Trojans.

A moment later, after a close hand-clasp, he was gone.

Now he was led unscientifically by pure feeling, like a child by a warm, close hand.

The 26-year-old Pearson found out at close hand, immediately realising at the finish she had lost her title.

And the victory that comes, comes only as a result of close hand-to-hand conflict of soul by the leaders.

He told the BBC that Norway had not experienced such extreme violence at close hand for over half a century.

They were deliberately biding their time, drawing out the essentially formal and meaningless conversation because they were studying me at close hand.

I flew around and over and under them, watching at close hand the play of light and shade over their great, billowing folds.

At close hand he seemed even larger than from a distance, a burly figure with ludicrously inadequate support from the narrow-heeled riding boots.

Prodigal sons in the distance of thought are apt to be both silly: and disgusting, but at close hand they usually dazzle the eye.

It is written in a fine, close hand on a sheet of letter-paper, which it entirely covers, and bears date January 10, 1843:

On a beautiful sunny day, a small crowd of 2,000 fans, including many children, turned up to watch the mighty Milan at close hand.

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

From out of Charlotte's closed hand there issued an entirely new sound.