Though these threescore years I never handled weapon but a knife, To cut my meat, yet will I meet thee there.

But, recalling some of his earlier triumphsthe Sipperley Case, the Episode of My Aunt Agatha and the Dog McIntosh, and the smoothly handled Affair of Uncle George and The Barmaid's Niece were a few that sprang to my mindI felt justified at least in offering him the opportunity of coming to the aid of the young master in his hour of peril.

Never had the Bird boys seen an aeroplane handled with more extraordinary skill and dash than was the one that had been stolen from the hangar of Percy Carberry.

You might just as well have the credit for the job as anybody; and man to man, now I want to say that I'm full of admiration for the fine way you handled that hydroplane of yours.

But that fire may safely be handled by human beings, and not at the risk of being burned, I am about to demonstrate to you.

"Do you really suppose some of those old magicians actually handled fire in the way it is stated?" "Well, at least they pretended to," said her friend.

And, of course, some of the circus employees plight have pointed Joe out to the man as the actor who handled fire.

This serum is tested on a small animal that has been inoculated with a deadly dose of the diphtheritic poison; if it saves the little creature from death, it is assumed to be potent enough for use on human beings, and, handled with all possible precautions against putrefaction or any contamination with pathogenic bacteria, it is furnished to physicians, its degree of potency being designated in "units.

He came to the bookcase and, taking out the volume, handled it carelessly.

The better a captain handled his ship the more likely he was to beat his antagonist.

Still, Mr. JEPSON has handled his wildly-preposterous plot with great verve; and even if the central situation is one that has been often encountered before, this only proves again that HOPE springs eternal....

Socrates' frequent discussions were often followed by his being severely handled, and he bore it all mildly.

After the galleons to Acapulco, which had been maintained at the expense of the government treasury, had stopped their voyages, commerce with America was handled by merchants who were permitted in 1820, to export goods up to $750,000 annually from the Philippines and to visit San Blas, Guayaquil and Callao, besides Acapulco.

They were too often laden with a total disregard to seaworthiness, and wretchedly handled.

The principal habits are two in number, virtue and vice, whose peculiar definitions, descriptions, differences, and kinds, are handled at large in the ethics, and are, indeed, the subject of moral philosophy.

The meter, too, is very freely handled.

He at no time showed inclination to bite and could be handled safely.

On Wednesday, March 10, the banana was suspended as formerly, and three boxes, all of them small and light enough to be readily handled by the ape, were placed in distant parts of the cage.

Skirrl handled the boxes with ease and with evident pleasure and interest.

With a bit of this kind it is almost impossible to injure the mule's mouth, unless he is very young, and it cannot be done then if the animal is handled with proper care.

In a year from the above date we handled upward of seventy-four thousand mules, each and every one passing under my inspection and through my hands.

"Nice gun," he said to the first man whose revolver he handled, "but I don't like a barrel that's quite so heavy.

As a crowning stamp upon his dignity he had a clerk who handled the ordinary routine of work in the front room, while Hardy set himself up in state in a little rear office whose walls were decorated by two brilliant calendars and the coloured photograph of a blond beauty advertising a toilet soap.

The musician preluded very well, played European as well as Persian melodies, and handled his instrument with great facility; the singer executed roulades, and, unfortunately, his voice was neither cultivated nor pure; but he seldom gave false notes, and they both kept good time.

He was willing to give Mr. Thomas work, and put tools in his hands, and while watching how deftly he handled them, he did not notice the indignant scowls on the faces of his workmen, and their murmurs of disapprobation as they uttered their dissatisfaction one to the other.