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Examples
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At one point, going outside bare-handed and touching metal will take your skin and end up giving you gangrene.
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Not that she expected to have any more bare-handed wrestling matches with bombs.
Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Happy Birthday: Kevin Mitchell, who while playing for the Giants made a bare-handed catch.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2012
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It would not be fair to the teacher, it would not be fair to classmates, and it would not be fair to ourselves ... to arrive on June 27th bare-handed and brouillonne (or muddleheaded)
French Word-A-Day: 2010
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Happy Birthday: Kevin Mitchell, who while playing for the Giants made a bare-handed catch.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2012
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And how, moreover, can one not be astounded by the courage of the men and women who confront, bare-handed, the forces of repression the Egyptian counter-example seems to have decided to cede absolutely nothing?
Bernard-Henri Lévy: In Cairo. DSK's Golden China. A Film on Sollers. My Friend Dollé. The Jardin Case. Whither Pakistan? Ahab or Musil? Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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And how, moreover, can one not be astounded by the courage of the men and women who confront, bare-handed, the forces of repression the Egyptian counter-example seems to have decided to cede absolutely nothing?
Bernard-Henri Lévy: In Cairo. DSK's Golden China. A Film on Sollers. My Friend Dollé. The Jardin Case. Whither Pakistan? Ahab or Musil? Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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Still, I sat interestedly through the anecdotes of yak herders, a spot of dangerous gorge-rafting, a lightning storm that shook the ducks on my wall and a scene in which Steve wrestled bare-handed with a snake big enough to swallow his sniffer dog.
Lost Land of the Tiger; Unequal Opportunities; Excluded; Spooks; Seven Days Phil Hogan 2010
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And how, moreover, can one not be astounded by the courage of the men and women who confront, bare-handed, the forces of repression the Egyptian counter-example seems to have decided to cede absolutely nothing?
Bernard-Henri Lévy: In Cairo. DSK's Golden China. A Film on Sollers. My Friend Dollé. The Jardin Case. Whither Pakistan? Ahab or Musil? Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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It would not be fair to the teacher, it would not be fair to classmates, and it would not be fair to ourselves ... to arrive on June 27th bare-handed and brouillonne (or muddleheaded)
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