“Then Thursday Coyle had his left wrist tied to his right ankle and was still beating this new kid Stockhausen until Schtitt sent Tex Watson down to tell him to knock it off.”
Infinite Jest (1996)
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Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 34
“That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier’s wrist.”
On his visit to the deathbed of Marcel Proust, as quoted in "Cocteau: The Great Enchanter" by Edmund White Vogue (May 1984)
“If I could I would kiss his wrists.
If I had half the courage to face his pain.”
"A Man of Forty" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-man-of-forty/
Drinking the Moon (2006)
"The Pit of the Serpent" (1929)
Context: The men on the Dauntless have disliked the Sea Girl's crew ever since our skipper took their captain to a cleaning on the wharfs of Zanzibar--them being narrow-minded that way. They claimed that the old man had a knuckle-duster on his right, which is ridiculous and a dirty lie. He had it on his left.
La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)