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Definition of Handstands
1. handstand [n] - See also: handstand
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handstands
Literary usage of Handstands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1904)
"Wash handstands were used, and were sometimes placed in the bedrooms. Baths seem
only to have been taken in cases of sickness, or occasionally after a long ..."
2. Revitalize Your Life: Improve Your Looks, Your Health & Your Sex Lifeby Jack Lalanne by Jack Lalanne (2003)
"As I was going through the line I did handstands, push-ups, and many of my
hand-balancing tricks. As luck would have it, I wasn't asked to do a full squat ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1858)
"Open doors, one, two, and three, and see the neat berths with their English
crockery in wash-handstands, whilst the fourth admits you to a compartment where ..."
4. Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption: Being an Examination of the Intellectual by William Hurrell Mallock (1900)
"The promoter tinkles a handstands- i * ir bell, and immediately, through a
side-door, the traveller himself enters, bows to the surprised Committee, ..."
5. The Gold Chain: A California Family Sagaby Regina V. Phelan by Regina V. Phelan (1987)
"Following the overture, the clowns entered the arena, executing somersaults,
cartwheels, handstands, talu flips, somersaults from a standing position, ..."
6. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1836)
"Tables of al I kinds, sideboards, wash-handstands, and other articles of a similar
nature, and which do not refaire to be often moved (a» state is, ..."
7. Amateur Circus Life by Ernest Berkeley Balch, Ernest Berkeley Blach (1916)
"Pyramids may come in at any time, the front handsprings after handstands and diving.
Back handsprings I leave to the last. The roll is the most important. ..."
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