His hands had missed it and he had not been cut.
Part of its other arm lay beside it, but the hand was missing.
Both arms reached up from the sea to catch the flying line: head went under - hands missed their hold.
His hands missed the edge of the building and he began to plunge down.
Her right hand, he noticed, was missing the little finger.
She would have slammed the door, but her hand missed it.
The right hand and the entire left arm are missing.
Now he saw what his hands had somehow missed before.
The hand that reaches for her bag is missing the first two fingers.
His right hand is missing at the wrist, and has been since before he can remember.