Then he knelt, his hands checking with the experience of many battlefields.

His hand was where his gun would have been if he hadn't checked it at the gate.

Snaresbrook raised her hand to stop her, checked again that the recording light was on.

The old hands in Kazan's section quietly checked their survival equipment.

Her own hand checked the weapon Aygar had taken from the dead man behind the bar.

Ding's hand checked the automatic clipped under his loose shirt.

"Take your time," he told her, his hands busily checking the leather bags of gold.

She had heard the door open, footsteps and then a hand checking her shackles.

Four hands extended as each man checked his watch.

He glanced up at the minutes board, checked the second hand on his wrist-watch.