Willie, although he had never yet considered how shoes are made, had seen at once that nothing could be done until he had got the command of a manageable bit of leather; he found too much only a shade better than too little; and he saw that it wouldn't be wise to cut a piece out anywhere, for that might spoil what would serve for a large pair of shoes or even boots.

* Man is not quite so manageable in the hands of science as boiling water or a fixed star.

The adjacent mountains too, were arable, though bold, and promised, in time, to become a fertile and manageable district.

He settled his affairs so as to leave her all his little property in the most manageable shape, and left her with two children, to seek a separate fortune in the wide world.

There are relics of the shambles, and here is the great form on which they cut them up into manageable pieces.

I have just written a letter to my friends the Imperial Commissioners here, which will, I think, shake their nerves considerably, and bring them to a manageable frame of mind.

You would be compelled then to raise the rate until it had cut these enterprises down within manageable limits.

At length the rope gave way, and the elephant became more manageable, but not before a fine skin had been totally ruined, all owing to this primitive style of fastening by ropes to the pad.

Yet he seemed a quiet, manageable man, and likelyagain in Mrs. Tipping's phraseto prove a "good provider;" so she had risked his heterodoxy, which indeed was a somewhat fanciful objection on her part, and made him, as he declared with his dying breath, the best of wives.

There was a long while to wait yet before Jenny was to bear what seemed to her the finest of all names, for old Mrs. Talbot, easily manageable as a rule, had a way of quietly putting her foot down on occasion that would have surprised you.

That was a manageable seduction.

And if in the comparison the advantages preponderate, then we must persuade our hearers, not only that what we are advising can be effected, but we must also take care that it shall appear easy, manageable, and agreeable.

An adroit foe, in a light craft of greater speed, avoiding her batteries, which are planted behind her armor, might possibly assail her unprotected ends, and, although he could not sink her, still, by shot between wind and water, he might render her more unwieldy and less manageable,a weight of water being thus admitted which would bring down the ship so as to endanger her lower ports and prevent the use of them in action.

The explanation lies of course in the possession by such men of several more or less independent plantations of manageable size.

"But, taken the right way, they are still manageable.

And then he is as gentle and manageable as a this-year ox; Agnes can lead him by the horn,she will be a perfect queen over him; for he has been brought up to mind the women.

Such an act will never be perpetrated again; but directors will have a more manageable mass of documents to deal with henceforth.

They were of the bore of twelve-pounders, but light and manageable, There was also abundance of ammunition in the vessel's magazine, no ship coming to the Fejees to trade without a proper regard to the armament.

During this period we were unable to carry more canvass than was barely necessary to render the vessel manageable.

This was only at Paris, where the people, from their number, are less manageable, and of course more courageous.

And here is the great form on which they cut them up into manageable pieces.

Two or three times the barometer rose again, but its oscillation, comprising a dozen lines, was too sudden to announce a change of weather and a return of more manageable winds.

But could they not hope, as the novice had said, that the weather would become more manageable, and that it would be possible to set some sail, when they should make the land?

Alberto, the young partner and heir of the rich usurer of Venice, would be a more manageable son-in-law than the middle-aged though wealthy Rodicaso.

Both ends being alike, the mast central, and the sail large and manageable, a canoe of this description is well adapted for working to windward.