I have seen parents and masters strike the heads of their children with pieces of wood, of much larger size;in one instance with a common sized tailor's press-board; in another with the heavy end of a wooden whip-handle, about an inch in diameter.

I squinted along my hickory stick which was even then beginning to assume, rudely, the outlines of an axe-handle.

But Lamb always took things by the better handle.

The little handle at the side fell out, but suddenly he stopped me.

They followed their balls silently, dragging golf bags behind them on two wheeled carts with long curved handles.

He at length fixed upon a plan for seizing him; and told me that he would go out in the morning, ride along by the side of Harry and talk pleasantly to him, and then, while Harry was attending to him, I was to steal upon him and knock him down, by a blow on the head, from the loaded and heavy handle of my whip.

XXVII She was still brooding over this last failure when one afternoon, as she loitered on the hotel terrace, she was approached by a young woman whom she had seen sitting near the wheeled chair of an old lady wearing a crumpled black bonnet under a funny fringed parasol with a jointed handle.

There it was, the stout handle of a hunting knife.

A young woman, very soberly attired, was straining at the double iron-handles of the copying-press.

A large cedar chest, curiously inlaid and provided with silver handles, first attracted her attention.

The old man went to the writing table, pushed aside the papers, and then stooped down and turned a mysterious handle or winch under the knee-hole, and the writing-desk moved slowly on one side, while the pigeon-holes sank, and a deep well full of secret drawers was laid open.

It is next in value to white oak for making hoops; it makes the best screws, the smoothest and most durable handles for chisels, augurs, gimlets, axes, and many other common tools.

This other bow of handsome sides and golden handle is Bhima's with which that son of Pritha, that chastiser of foes, had conquered the whole of the eastern regions.

" Here the car stopped; Pendleton got out, ascended the white marble steps and tugged at the polished, old-fashioned bell-handle.

Even the choice of the subject serves the same purposeat any rate the Hellenic literati of all ages have found an especially suitable handle for their Graeco-cosmopolite tendencies in this very manipulation of Roman history.

"Where are your checks, Miss Allen?" "Here are the checks for the trunks, and there are three suit-cases; the one that hasn't any name on is mine, and you tell it by the fact that it has an extra handle on the end.

The iron bed; the chest of drawers, scratched and with broken handles; the closed colonial desk; the miserly rag carpetall seemed mutely asking, as Bobby did, why their owner had deserted them the other night and delivered himself to the ghostly mystery of the old bedroom.

His arms had come down, he dropped the big shears with insulated handles which he had drawn from his pocket, but he didn't speak a word to me and I did not speak to him.

Of course the cartridges are not prepared as stated, and they form the mere handle for designing men to work with.

In the shattered estaminet we had just left, one of the men went behind the almost unrecognizable bar-counter, and operating an imaginary handle, asked a comrade, "And what's yours, mate?"

A heavy spike was driven into an old hammer to serve as an indestructible handle.

The lower part of this section of the wardrobe consisted of three deep drawers with inset brass handles, an exquisitely exact piece of mahogany cabinetwork.

The inside handles of the doors had apparently been removed; the wooden shutters were permanently fixed in their places; and a paper label, stuck on the transom below each window, had a suspicious appearance of having been put there to cover the painted name and address of the job-master or livery-stable keeper who had originally owned the carriage.

She drooped there, hands in her lap, wrists crossed, palms turned upward and fingers curled stiffly like clawsfrom holding to the jarring handle of the junk-cart.

In innumerable armies the frost besieges the portal, creeps in beneath it and above it, and on every latch and key-handle lodges an advanced guard of white rime.