"Right-handed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... After 20 days, Piikea sets sail for Hawaii with a fleet of 400 canoes, and a rainbow "like a feather helmet" stands out at sea signaling her approach. The rest of the story has to do with the adventures of Umi's three warriors, Omaokamau who is right-handed, Koi who is left-handed, and Piimaiwae, who is ambidextrous, during the campaign on Maui, undertaken at Piikea's plea to gain for her brother, Kihapiilani, the rule over Maui. The son and successor of Umi is ...
— The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai • Anonymous
... particularly the left hand and the left arm, but he had detected nothing significant; the man used his hands like anyone else, he carried a cane in the right hand, lifted his hat with the right hand, offered the envelope with the right hand. There was nothing to show that he was not a right-handed man. ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... hospitable prompted an invitation to share the fire for the night. However, London was waiting for news and I decided to press on. The road could not be worse than the sea of mud in which I was floundering, and it might be better. We turned right-handed and after a struggle came up against three lorry drivers hopelessly marooned. They had turned in. Up a greasy bank we came to a stop and slid back. We tried again and failed. I relieved the car of my weight and made an effort to push it from behind, but my feet held fast ...
— How Jerusalem Was Won - Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine • W.T. Massey
... in succession. Specimens of quartz have been found which require the analyzer to be turned from left to right to obtain the same succession of colours. Crystals of the first class are therefore called right-handed, and of ...
— Six Lectures on Light - Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 • John Tyndall
... before the Tinman could recover himself, I collected all my strength, and struck him beneath the ear, and then fell to the ground completely exhausted, and it so happened that the blow which I struck the tinker beneath the ear was a right-handed blow. ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... and thirstier whether we moved or halted. On reaching a ridge overlooking Rabah and Katia it was found that the leading battalions were too far to the left. We and the Argylls were therefore ordered to turn right-handed and occupy Katia. The dark line of palms appeared very enticing, if very far away, and the Battalion struggled manfully on, shedding the weaker brethren as it went and, very nearly "all out," reached its objective about ...
— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison
... in the direction or sense of a right-handed screw; the reverse of sinistrotorsal, ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone
... — N. dextrality^; right, right hand; dexter, offside, starboard. Adj. dextral, right-handed; dexter, dextrorsal^, dextrorse^; ambidextral^, ambidextrous; dextro-. Adv. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... A right-handed man, he turned, as Lanyard had foreseen, to the right, and momentarily disappeared in the recess ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph
... properly played, is the most difficult of the out- field positions. A ball hit in that direction by a right-handed hitter always describes a curve and is therefore very hard to judge. A good right fielder should also throw out many men at first base during a season, and this means that he must possess all the qualifications ...
— Base-Ball - How to Become a Player • John M. Ward
... are that way," asserted the Emperor. "To be left-handed is usually to be two-handed; the right-handed people ...
— The Patchwork Girl of Oz • L. Frank Baum |
