Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Lullaby'.

'I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.'

-Ballads
'Sir Patrick Spens'.

Heshall feed hisflock likea shepherd: heshallgather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 40:11.

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the L hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. The L hath made bare his holyarm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDIsaiah 52:9^10.

Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the L revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely hehath borne ourgriefs, and carried our sorrows.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 53:1^4.

   Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take the stonefromthestone, taketheskinfromthearm, takethe muscle from bone, and wash them.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Murder in the Cathedral, pt.2.

To disarm the strong and arm the weak would be to change the social order which it's my job to preserve. Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned.

-Thibault
Crainquebille.

Give me your arm, old toad; Help me down Cemetery Road.

-Larkin, Philip Arthur
  'Toads Revisited'.

  And there he bounde the gyrdyll aboute the hyltis, and threw theswerde as farre intothewatirashemyght. And there cam an arme and an honde above the watir, and toke hit and cleyght hit, and shoke hit thryse and braundysshed, and than vanysshed with the swerde into the watir.

-Malory, SirThomas   d.1471
c.1470  Morte d'Arthur, bk.21, ch.5.

And as she wept, her tears to pearl he turned, And wound them on his arm, and for her mourned.

-Marlowe, Christopher
   The mourner is Cupid. Hero and Leander (published1598), pt.1, l.375^6.

Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert,Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? All, all, are sleeping on the hill.

-Masters, Edgar Lee
  Spoon River Anthology,'The Hill'.

I therefore fearlessly challenge the verdict which this house†is to give on the question now brought before it†whether, as the Roman, in days of old, held himself free from indignity, when he could say Civis Romanus sum; so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong.

-Palmerston, HenryJohnTemple, 3rd Viscount
  From his four-and-a-half hour Don Pacifico speech, Jun. Don Pacifico was a PortugueseJew resident in Athens, born in Gibraltar and therefore a British subject. In support of his claims for compensation from the Greek government for damage done to his property by a mob, Palmerston sent the British fleet to blockade Piraeus and brought the two countries to the brink of war.

It asks more steadiness, self-control, ay, and manly courage, than any other exercise.You must take as well as giveöeye to eye, toe to toe, and arm to arm.

-Peel, Sir Robert
Of boxing. Quoted inJohn Boyle O'Reilly Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport (1888).

I'd have given my right arm to be a pianist.

-Robson, Sir Bobby
  On what he would have done if he were not a football manager. In TheTimes, 26 Dec.

[Charlton] Heston thinks America should arm its teachers; he seems to believe that schools would be safer if staff had the power to gun down children in their charge.

-Rushdie, (Ahmed) Salman
  Step AcrossThis Line: Collected Non-Fiction1992^2002.

Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled, And one arm bent across your sullen cold Exhausted face?

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'The Dug-Out'.

Oh, poor Dolly! I never shall see her like again; such an arm for a bandageöveins that seemed to invite the lancet.

-Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Dr Rosy. St Patrick's Day, act1, sc.1.

Look at me! Look at myarm!† I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head meöand ar'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear de lash as wellöand ar'n't I a woman? I have borne thirteenchilernandseen'emmos'allsoldoff intoslavery, and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heardöand ar'n't I a woman?

-Truth, Sojourner ne¤  e Isabella
  Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio. Quoted in Narrative of SojournerTruth (1875), pt.2,'Book of Life'.