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Stronghand

Stronghand \Strong"hand`\, n. Violence; force; power.

It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand.
--Sir W. Raleigh.

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stronghand

n. (context obsolete English) violence; force; power

Usage examples of "stronghand".

Stronghand wiggled one of the planks until it shifted, and he turned it sideways and squeezed through, then paused, lying up against the building as the two men walked out of the house not three paces from him, down a pair of steps, and onto the grass, still talking.

His face was that of the oversized bronze sculpture of Valence II Stronghand that she'd just seen in front of the mausoleum of the bor-Torials.

Stronghand signaled, and Last Son struck down the dogs while Quickdeath twitched and croaked in agony as the venom coursed through his body.

But that magic cannot harm the host of Stronghand, and Nokvi's strength will not avail him in the confusion brought on him by a dawn raid.

XV GRIM'S DIKE JHLJh country north of Hefenfelthe was rich and sweet, as green as any land Stronghand had ever seen, laced with fordable rivers and manifold streams, and so gentle that it placed few obstacles in the path of his army.

Stronghand leaned forward to taste the wind: was that the scent of their enemy's fear, leavened with the stink of decay?

The beauty of the half-seen landscape and the quiet night washed over Stronghand as if on a rising tide, enveloping him.

The old creature thrashes, jerking, trying to call down a curse, but the amulet protects Stronghand and his followers from magic.