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  • But even a nation of many-handed gods can't juggle all things at once.

    India and Currency Wars Sujata Srinivasan 2010

  • But even a nation of many-handed gods can't juggle all things at once.

    India and Currency Wars Sujata Srinivasan 2010

  • And on yet another hand (it's a many-handed monster), much nonsense about how a Brave New World was about to dawn where instead of waiting for robots created by Japanese electronic firms we could grow them in a test tube to do whatever humans wanted them to, up to and including removing all the oil from the Gulf, ending world hunger, and stopping global warming.

    David Horton: Wind, Meet Whirlwind 2010

  • The Opera Boston production we saw played the Orientalism up to the hilt, with shadow puppets, projections of many-handed (I'm guessing) Hindu gods, and sinuous dancing girls.

    Brahma, mon dieux! Roger Sutton 2007

  • The Opera Boston production we saw played the Orientalism up to the hilt, with shadow puppets, projections of many-handed (I'm guessing) Hindu gods, and sinuous dancing girls.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Roger Sutton 2007

  • I'll leaving that task to the many-handed team at Millipede.

    Archive 2007-07-29 2007

  • I'll leaving that task to the many-handed team at Millipede.

    Your Faithful Blogger on the VIDEODROME set 2007

  • The result of this many-handed collaboration is claimed, proudly, to be a 'truly awful book, a serious contender for Absolute Worst Book Ever Written.'

    Hoaxing PublishAmerica Michael Allen 2005

  • Heavier than she appeared at first glance, she was robed in velvet of ecclesiastical gray with the many-handed Sun of the Sole God like a splash of blood on her shoulder.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • A German family, many-handed, patient, and economical, occupying a small vineyard and paying no wages, finds the business profitable; but an American, who lives freely, and depends upon hired assistance, is likely to fail.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

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