"One laid hands on my trunk"
Lucy Snow arrives with her luggage at London harbour. Quote in context: “[T]he watermen commenced a struggle for me and my trunk. […] One laid hands on my trunk. I looked on and waited quietly; but when another laid hands on me, I spoke up, shook off his touch, stepped at once into a boat, desired austerely that the trunk should be placed beside me – ‘Just there,’ – which was instantly done […].
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trunk
One laid hands on my suitcase
One laid hands on my behind. (slang, not listed in OED but in the Urban Dictionary online, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trunk)
One laid hands on my prolonged flexible snout.
One laid hands on my torso. (according to OED)
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structure of two or more elements, expandable, may be composed ad hoc or be established components (e.g. phraseme, single phrase, figure).
one or more elements and/or complex elements, which may be structurally linked and form a self-contained unit of meaning (e.g. sentence; group of figures)
the part of a whole which carries a message, is thematically essentially self-contained, and which is structurally and/or thematically separated from the whole it belongs to (e.g. section of text/discourse/speech; picture (with cotext))
network of thematically, structurally and/or functionally linked sub-units, separated and independent from other complexes, and complete in itself (e.g. text; discourse; speech; poem; dramatic text; picture and circumstances of reception)
an in principle indefinite amount of thematically, structurally and/or functionally comparable complexes (e.g. thematically, structurally and/or functionally linked texts/discourses/speeches/pictures in comparison; political debate)
