625 collocations for handling

Drelincourt, she said, had the clearest notions of death and of the future state of any who had handled that subject.

Indeed, she was a little embarrassed how to handle so delicate a situation.

Aesculapius was represented as an old man, with a long beard, crowned with a branch of bay tree; in his hands was a staff full of knots, about which a serpent had twisted itself: at his feet stood an owl or a dogcharacteristics of the qualities of a good physician, who must be as cunning as a serpent, as vigilant as a dog, as cunning and experienced as an old bashaw, to handle a thing so difficult as physic.

Any one could have handed Potts that proof, but it took you to handle the case after the scoundrel had said 'Which one?'

However, my inexperience at handling such men, and the anomalous character of my position to some extent consoled me.

Gents that handle their guns like they was born with a holster on the hip.

He did not approve his step-father, but admitted that Cartwright could be trusted to handle a matter like this.

Undoubtedly a little gang of men makes the deals, handles the money.

11 needs a great imagination to handle the present-day problems of business and finance.

The particular points in which this specially intimate knowledge is required are: (a) The science of navigation and of handling ships of all types and classes.

It leaves the brain clear to handle the tremendous affairs of state that engross our attention.

Care must be exercised, but children have quite a strong instinct for self-preservation, and if shown how real workmen handle their tools, they are often more careful than at a much later stage.

Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters, and assorting them for the flames?

Pope, however, went far ahead of his masters in style and in delicacy of handling a mock-heroic theme, and during his lifetime the Rape of the Lock was considered as the greatest poem of its kind in all literature.

"Listen here, Wilson," said he, "you seem to be able to handle such people discreetly.

Thought he might mean trouble and I'd better come along" "Well," he resumed, "I'm sorry I handled the job clumsily, since I might have hurt you worse; but I hated the fellow on my own account and saw red.

She could handle a rook-rifle as well as any woman, and was really a very fair shot.

'I don't quite see Vincy handling that double-edged Chinese sword, do you?

Accordingly you must learn to handle books expeditiously and to comprehend quickly.

As we think of the young boy who died of continually taking drugs and felt that he could "handle" his own life, we see how he chose to travel the wrong road.

The deftness and skill with which the girl handled the horse she rode forced a smile of admiration to the lips of the Ramblin' Kid.

He was a skillful and experienced pilot, handling his boat with remarkable dexterity.

Instead of using him, however, the man was dismissed; the gentlemen preferring to handle the oars themselves.

When a nayre becomes seven years old, he is set to learn the use of all kinds of weapons, their masters first pulling and twisting their joints to make them supple, and then teaching them to fence and handle their arms adroitly.

The man neither understands how to handle business himself (how or by what means could a person that lives in drunkenness and dicing?) nor has he any companion who is of any account.

625 collocations for  handling