He made an open-handed gesture of acknowledgement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

I can't very well become more open-handed in a moment!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

Surely no man had ever found so open-handed an employer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

I thought Sir you wou'd have been more open-handed, I sell no.    From Wordnik.com.  [The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women] Reference

He was open-handed and unsuspicious -- and wonderfully beloved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crooked House] Reference

Mrs Thorne went beyond all others in this open-handed hospitality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference

This was too much even for the patient and open-handed London burgess.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference

But the open-handed foreign policy is a promise with an expiration date.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2009] Reference

To hear it told now, he had been the most selfless and open-handed of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shadow in Summer] Reference

I do not for a minute sell short the open-handed impulses of most Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liz Peek: Givers Versus Takers: What's Driving Resistance to Obamacare] Reference

Stanton pulled back, getting out of the way of the Nipe's open-handed judo cuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference

None of the open-handed, bold and reasoned intelligence of the prairie criminal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

But they were far too many for one man, big-hearted and open-handed as he might be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russell H. Conwell] Reference

So it began experimenting with methods like water-boarding and open-handed slapping.    From Wordnik.com.  [A TORTURED DEBATE] Reference

I was hit open-handed across the back of the head by almost everybody in my company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Semper Why?] Reference

She stretches her hands out to the poor for she is open-handed to those who are in need.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angels' Day] Reference

He is very generous, and always ready, open-handed, to help any good work of the Sisters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference

She was not exactly open-handed, but she had a great idea of the claims of family ties, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference

Many times, however, our Farmer was open-handed to persons who had no personal claim on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Washington: Farmer] Reference

Many conservatives have accused Obama of being weak on defense for his open-handed philosophy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan E. Dowlin: What's Wrong With Empathy?] Reference

My husband, her stepdad, gave her three whacks on the behind, open-handed, over her blue jeans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abusing The Rights Of Parents] Reference

He was open-handed to chiefs and powerful men, but still he ever showed most care for poor men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns] Reference

But whilst duly recognizing such calls upon her, the queen has never been regarded as open-handed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

He, they passed their sacred word, lifted in his mother's arms and turned open-handed towards them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

The simplicity and light-hearted good-nature of these open-handed and kindly people touched and charmed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

Master Rababull regarded her, and tossed an open-handed gesture to Prut that he might release Si'Wren's arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference

They are, as someone has said, "ferociously virtuous," and share in the open-handed generosity of their husbands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spanish Life in Town and Country] Reference

And then, according to the report, open-handed strikes were applied to the suspect's facial area by both officers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 18, 2009] Reference

We have been pretty open-handed now in facilitating the development of Chinese technology even for military purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2001] Reference

“If I can help …” He made an open-handed gesture, like a man who is being generous but knows he may be refused.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

"I haven't got enough to spend upon myself and here I have you, better still, to instigate me to be more open-handed!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

And while we are getting rid of loose-lipped, open-handed loudmouths, Liz Cheney must go ... and your little (old) dog, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Threats No Less?!?] Reference