11.   But, without the looming specter of poverty that pervades some islands, shoppers are spared high-pressure sales pitches and open palms.

12.   Customers pass a far longer gantlet of open palms.

13.   He imitates a Mohawk, brushing open palms on the side of this head and drawing an imaginary strip down the center.

14.   He brushed his open palm through the blossoms and then wiped his brow with the cool water he had harvested.

15.   He gesticulates with open palms and half-fists.

16.   I ordered, open palm extended.

17.   It has an unusually elegant shape, a slender-handled, shallow pan that lies like an open palm.

18.   Or make that open palms.

19.   Outside his apartment building, Resto said, Livoti hit him on his left cheek with his open palm.

20.   Ross clenched his jaw and pressed his open left palm against the glass separating him from Nobles.