Full-handed

A spit on the palm and a full-handed slap was a deal but if only fingertips slapped then the bargaining would continue.

As they passed Shack he reached out and gave Helen a massive, full-handed pinch on the buttock and winked at me with relaxed, expansive good cheer.

Genie swung a full-handed slap that sent the gaudily dressed cop staggering back.

The circular strokes on the joints; long, full-handed strokes over the long bones

Then Manuel touched the jangling, jarring little machette to a queer tune, and sang something in Portuguese about "Nina, innocente!" ending with a full-handed sweep that brought the song up with a jerk.

All that was about what you should do in a full-handed hold 'em game when you're the small blind versus a big blind. But, suppose instead that the game is two-handed from the get go.

The switches go in either direction around the triangle, and a player may find himself playing as many as three positions in a full-handed game.

So in the first hour of my lone voyage I had proof that the Spray could at least do better than this full-handed steamship, for I was already farther on my voyage than she.

He regarded his younger brother as a “full-handed man of practice” and himself merely “a supported theorist.”

It was a new and sorry sight for our full-handed American farming men to see those poor, hard Asiatic hands trying, by main strength, to break the tough straw or pull it by the roots.

She had, after all, learned from the same master he had although matched daggers offered no reach compared to a full-handed sword.

It seems to be a full-handed failure. The bankrupts must have a good deal of the values remaining in their hands.

On this occasion the minister came full-handed. He told her, first, as appears from her notes and letters, that he had definitely decided to appoint a Sanitary Committee at the India Office. He read out the list of names;

The want met in this case was that of a delegate to go full-handed from the home to the field, who should in due time return again to the home with pledges from the absent ones;

One does not remember one's birth -- one has to be told. But with me it was different; life came to me full-handed and dowered me with all my faculties and powers.

O, Death, we come full-handed to they gate, Rich with strange burden of the mingled years

By the promptings of religious instinct and principle, our churches have been built and our asylums founded, and charity full-handed has bestowed her lavish gifts upon the unfortunate.

Art deals with what we see, it must first contribute full-handed that ingredient;

Can scribble, grasping crayon full-handed and awkwardly.

But if we must run, who are left to run? From Bull Run they ran full-handed. But we have fought until maimed soldiers, women, and children are all that remain to run.

...though in the case of the bakers and confectioners at Winnipeg, the shops and factories concerned are running full-handed and most of the employees affected have obtained employment elsewhere.

Language is also elemental: at the tender dawn of childhood, it enters life with laughing eyes and prattling lips; at maturity's noon, it moves full-handed and deep-voiced in all the concerns of men;