new hand

The new hand is not always better than the last they were dealt.

He is not like a new hand altogether, having already had two years' experience in a fore-and-aft craft.

The former had shouted "bank" at the beginning of a new hand, when the bank contained a hundred and forty thousand francs.

I must say I don't think that was a poor record for a perfectly new hand.

He felt so ashamed that he cut off this hand, and afterwards the Blessed Virgin restored a new hand to the arm.

But the fact that a new hand had seized the Atlantic was apparent in other places than in the Atlantic office itself.