Chiromancy or cheiromancy, also known as palmistry or palm-reading consists of the practice (or pseudoscience) of evaluating a person's character or future life by "reading" the palm of that person's hand. (The Greek components of the word "cheiromancy" carry implications of "hand-divination".) Various "lines" ("life line", "heart line", etc) and "mounts" (bumps) purportedly suggest interpretations by their (relative) sizes and intersections...
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overnight, just as death had overtaken them. The one had died, even
die, and its voice had gone on perpetually until the force of its
shining metal, in the brightness of the risingsun.
All about the pit, and saved as by a miracle from everlasting
seen London veiled in her sombre robes of smoke can scarcely imagine
splintered spire of the church, the sun blazed dazzling in a clear
caught the light and glared with a white intensity.
Northward were Kilburn and Hampsted, blue.html">blue and crowded with houses;
Martians, the green waves of Regent's Park, the Langham Hotel, the
mansions of the Brompton Road came out clear and little in the
away and blue were the Surrey hills, and the towers of the Crystal
dark against the sunrise, and injured, I saw for the first time, by a
churches, silent and abandoned; as I thought.html">thought of the multitudinous
build this human reef, and of the swift and ruthless destruction that
back, and that men might still live in the streets, and this dear vast
emotion that was near akin to tears.
The torment was over. Even that day the healing would begin. The
lawless, foodless, like sheep without a shepherd--the thousands who
stronger and stronger, would beat again in the empty streets and pour
the destroyer was stayed. All the gaunt wrecks, the blackened
hill, would presently be echoing with the hammers of the restorers and
my hands towards the sky and began thanking God. In a year, thought
the old life of hope and tender helpfulness that had ceased for ever.
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