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The "Here's an excerpt" link above is broken, and as the Bibo Sez, "a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed...he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God" Leviticus 21:19-21.
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“One of them was broken-handed, or lame, or dumb, or blind, or deaf?”
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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The priests are gone; the great bell is gone; the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas have vanished, all save one -- a broken-handed Jizo of stone, smiling with eyelids closed, under the moon.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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anyway, assuming my broken-handed husband can handle himself, count me in!
bloggerers social? 2006
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Pity you don™t have your broken-handed friend with you now.”
Stormblade Berberick, Nancy Varian 1988
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