It was just the flat of the hand of Death.

She struck him again with that peculiar flat of the hand, this time across the throat.

If you are only just able to put the flat of the hand between the roof and the head then there is not enough headroom.

It is then pressed, using the flat of the hand, to end up with a spherical shape.

And the only way to deal with a tantrum is to apply the flat of the hand to the round of the bottom.

For the avoidance of doubt, and to help the translators, I mean a smack with the flat of the hand, not a clenched fist.

Although all holds are to be taken upon the jacket, the flat of the hand is allowed to be used to push or deflect an opponent.

The signals were understandable, particularly the final signalthe signal to kill the enginea slicing motion with the flat of the hand across the neck.

It can be hit by the knuckles, or with the finger tips, or the flat of the hand or the back of the hand.

They'd taught this judo-chop stuff with the flat of the hand at SOE, and I practised away at it.

The performance of keyboard tone clusters is widely considered an "extended technique"-large clusters require unusual playing methods often involving the fist, the flat of the hand, or the forearm.

There was no sign of such an opening in the smooth rock wall but a slight pressure with the flat of the hand was enough to cause the wall panel to slide suddenly aside.

The vibration can be felt by placing the flat of the hand on the chest wall and, as several readers have observed, can be “turned off”, as it were, by a glass of wine or spirits.

He raised his eyebrows as he felt with strong impersonal fingers across the palm, spread her fingers to see the lack of webbing from constant practice, the hard muscle along the flat of the hand and thumb pad.

The knife was up and aiming for Ben's heart--flashing, perilous enough, intending death, but not shrewdly held as Judah Marsh would have held it, in the flat of the hand, circling and slicing.

The score instructs the pianist to represent cannon fire at various points by striking "with the flat of the hand, as many notes as possible, and with as much force as possible, at the bass of the piano."

But no matter how many musical events tumbled on one another - darting contrapuntal lines, splatterings of notes, undulating shimmers, hellbent outbursts of chords that climaxed with clusters played with the flats of the hands and forearms - the music sped by with uncanny clarity.

So, if we are grooming a horse and it tries to cow-kick us, we retaliate with a sharp verbal reproach or a smack with the flat of the hand, and usually the horse decides to accept that we are the boss and minds its manners in the future.

At about the same time that "Turkish music" was coming into vogue in Europe, a fashion for programmatic keyboard music opened the way for the introduction of another kind of noise in the form of the keyboard cluster, played with the fist, flat of the hand, forearm, or even an auxiliary object placed on the keyboard.