I'd leave him in a heartbeat if he ever laid a violent hand on David.
A violent hand had simply swept everything out of the cabinets.
The outrage he felt at the possibility that any man had laid violent hands on her came out of nowhere.
And the door of her room is torn open by a savage, violent hand.
Only those who have laid violent hands upon her are dishonoured.
Why should they seek each to lay violent hands of claim on the other?
"It is against the law for any citizen to lay violent hands upon another."
His father had never laid a violent hand on him, and they both knew it.
They were at the edge of a volcanic mountain range, and the land had been carved with a violent hand.
They fear he may lay violent hands on himself.
