156 adjectives to describe handling

"You gave me a rough handling," I said, "Where was the need of it?"

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.

For it may very well be the case that as the revolution has been so largely military, and parts of the army need careful handling, as the recent riots in Peking showed, the Republican Government will assume something of a distinctively military character, and Yuan Shih-kai, as its head, be in a position not very different from that of a military dictatoras Diaz was in Mexico.

For the teacher here is of opinion that children of even three and four are not too young to begin to learn the lesson of meum and tuum, and she also thinks it is good to have some treasures which do not come out every day, and which may require more delicate handling than the ordinary toy ought to need.

None of you can guess the harm that might follow the careless and ignorant handling of a switch.

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

Of those early days, in which he suffered acutelyin idleness, apparentlyand perhaps that was one of the causes of his disorderhe told us at length, but many of the incidents were so evidently worn by the constant handling of his mind that they gave no clear impression.

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

But Lamb always took things by the better handle.

hattering, swallowing, and rude handling necessitated.

I thought the horse would be better to walk this far and get thy more skilful handling.

" "I shall enjoy the mere handling of your tackle," said Tom; and began breaking the tenth commandment over almost every article he touched; for everything was first-rate of its kind.

But in the main it was hard work, and at the end of an hour Joe's back was aching from the unaccustomed strain, and his fingers were cut and bleeding from his clumsy handling of the sharp-edged oysters.

Indeed, it is safest always to sterilize milk before using, since during the milking or in subsequent handling and transportation it is liable to become infected with germs.

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.

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

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

Another consummate example of the dramatic handling of detail may be found in the first act of Ibsen's Little Eyolf.

On the one hand we need some broader handling of business than is possible in the private adventure of the solitary proprietor or the single company, and on the other some more completely organised development of the collective bargain.

I tell you on behalf of women: there is not one of us who does not prefer a little rough handling to too much consideration.

By the time that they came up for the fourth round, after both men had undergone some vigorous handling by their respective seconds, Pennington was a good deal revived and far more confident.

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.

Undoubtedly the immemorial traditions of English justice came in for very severe handling, simply because Priam would not take his collar off.

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

156 adjectives to describe  handling