hand on
verb- To transfer (something) to someone else, especially as a replacement for oneself (such as an official office or duty); to transfer something that was originally given to oneself from someone else.
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She knelt there, lost to everything but the loveliness around her, until she was startled by a hand on her shoulder.
When he put his hand on my shoulder as we were parting, it was like a father’s blessing before you go out into the cold, cruel world.”
It just satisfied me here”--she put one hand on her breast--“it made a queer funny ache and yet it was a pleasant ache.
Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge.
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