Ten Commandments (The)
.Scratching the face with the ten fingers of an angry woman; or a blow with the two fists of an angry man, in which the “ten commandments are summarised into two.”
“Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
Iʹd set my ten commandments in your face.”
“‘I daur you to touch him,ʹ spreading abroad her long and muscular fingers, garnished with claws, which a vulture might have envied. Iʹll set my ten commandments on the face of the first loon that lays a finger on him.”—Sir W. Scott: Waverley, chap. xxx.
