Many-handed

It now appears that playing two unsuited high cards may not be so great in a many-handed pot.

Low-country planters sent slaves to grow rice, a many-handed task performed in the watery provinces of thousand-acre empires.

The ceiling was so high overhead that he could not see it, only long fingers of rock that depended out of the dark like icicles ... melting icicles, for they dripped with water shose mineral content -- the rich tang of iron and limestone freighted the cold air -- had accreted into slick stone fingers on the cavern floor that reached up to clasp what had given them birth, a many-handed infant grasping for its many-handed mother.