A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: hands

Number of occurrences in corpus: 39

A.3.4 333 s reveal it and carve it with hands in marble, / when the day and
A.3.4 441 took a long journey / into the hands of vicious creatures, where t
A.4.2 100 lled him toward her / with her hands, insultingly, and cleverly pla
A.4.2 229 ried / adversaries. With their hands the fighters / drew from sheat
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 61 ofty Thunderer and with their hands stretched out to the stars / l
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 7 11 cease to stretch out his holy hands in prayer, / while another, be
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 10 12 e sought for himself with his hands, / he now eagerly distributed g
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 47 ent and confirmed it with our hands , / before the day of death in
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 66 blessed me with his splendid hands. Eadfrith proceeded / from there
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 93 ystal, / and drew off with his hands the gift of venerable liquid,
AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 23 m attests shining brilliance: / hands, hands are wondrous, feet very
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 513 realm, / covering wicked right hands with the blood of kin, / and n
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 703 own in prayer, when the right hands of young men could not manage
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 9 5 rol of their taxes from their hands . / / # / Then Willibrord the eva
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 12 3 ng multiplied talents in both hands. / For this reason, he travelled
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 18 8 ys accustomed to carry in his hands. / But soon, on the following ni
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 22 6 natched clothes and food from hands / and cast them into flames; th
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 22 10 snatched from death by family hands. / No priest was able to purge t
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 31 8 in faith, / brought by friendly hands, to the church / in which the pi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 476 he maimed to live with healed hands. / Although one were to swallow
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1047 e of the church with his dark hands. / And for that reason the bisho
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1238 e her holy chastity / by laying hands on her respectable body with
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1728 flamed by filthy lust / can lay hands on my limbs with shameful sin
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1730 ive to seize me with polluted hands.’ / Thus the woman devoted to God
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2495 ed, / and had moulded with holy hands this fresh inhabitant of the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2589 h a dark dodge: / with frenzied hands like a thief, he stole the p
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 149 h the pleasant warming of his hands; / and Cuthbert asks earnestly
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 296 ith his word — as the right hands of the young men could not. /
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 373 g to gather food with his own hands, / he attempts to break up the
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 712 o take the prize with our own hands. / Nor does a man stand rightl
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 743 raised up his face and kindly hands / to the stars, and committed
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 824 fever, / is barely conveyed by hands of his servants / to the holy
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 512 and beat his breast with his hands, / and he summoned up the pious
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 787 felt the force / of the right hands of his own citizens and the h
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 902 gue and dipping them with his hands in the water of baptism. / But
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1009 up his eyes to heaven and his hands to the earth / and he pardoned
N.MiraculaNyniae 430 venerating him in consecrated hands, / under the ancient temple’s
N.MiraculaNyniae 435 e care to touch him with your hands.” / Then the pious priest, relyi
N.Nyniae.Hymn 36 chaste body, / by angelic hands his spirit seeks the stars. / B