994 examples of handy in sentences

They simply open piggy's head with a pick-axe or other handy instrument, introduce a handful or two of salt, close up the head again, and piggy is all right.

Mitrailleuse would be a capital acquisition to the English language, and very handy for any man having a vixen of a wife, with no nice pet name convenient with which to conciliate her.

She don't sleep in her own bed any more because I hev ter hev her handy ter rub me when the rheumatiz gits ter jumpin'.

In two minutes Maudie was twirling about with the handy gentleman, who seemed as accomplished with his toes as he was reputed to be with his fingers.

"Search him!" "No tellin' what else he's got!" "and he's so damned handy!"

And so I had; for I did nothing but admire its Handy-work, but I cou'd not have pray'd heartily, if I had been dying; but

Six years ago you were a charming kitten, and I used to enjoy being your 'visiting governess'to say nothing of finding the guineas very handy while I was waiting to qualify.

While you were gone, I oiled it over, and, rushing down to my rooms, where I always have a little plaster of Paris handy for such work, took a mold of the part where the teeth had left the clearest marks.

This series of monographs upon our great English Cathedral Churches has been framed to give students of Architecture handy reference volumes, and the visitor trustworthy guide-books, at once cheaper and more fully illustrated than any previous works of similar character.

"The volumes are handy in size, moderate in price, well illustrated, and written in a scholarly spirit.

It is not for me to boast, but I am as handy a man with a lancet as with a rapier, and it was an evil day for some sick folk when I first took to buff and bandolier.

"And you, Amos, you are a handy man with a tool.

My office is right handy; let's get him in before the marshal sees us.

She had better get a bed ready, and have some boiling water handy.

" "Well, 'ta'n't always handy," replied the other; "one doesn't like to break into a five-pound note for nothing; and I like to let it run till it comes even change.

With great pleasure we heard, with his attentive and affectionate congregation, the Unitarian clergyman, Mr. Conant, and afterward visited him in his house, where almost everything bore traces of his own handy work or that of his father.

Ponting has had to fend for himself under primitive conditions in a new land; the result is a 'handy man' with every form of tool and in any circumstances.

Each iambic foot or metre, is marked by a swell of the voice, concluding abruptly in an accent, or interruption, on the last sound of the foot; or, [omit this 'or:' it is improper,] in metres of the trochaic order, in such words as dandy, handy, bottle, favor, labor, it

"If you do you want to have the address of a good dentist handy.

That's why you make me so tiredalways keeping your martyr's halo polished and handy where you can slip it out of a pocket when you get just what you've been asking for.

BAKER, A. G. SEE Webster's new handy dictionary.

Bugs of America; a handy guide to all kinds of insects except butterflies and moths.

"'You mean,' says I to hermy eddication in the Mormon Church, and what I learned about play-actin' in St. Looey, standin' me in handy for manners'that these here children, the offspring of cold water and vegetables, is expected to pass to-morrow in prayer and meditation, and be better for it?' "'Yes, sir!' says she, impressed by my manners.

And it comes in quite handy for the potatoes.

and I’ll keep it handy.

994 examples of  handy  in sentences