I like a rifle better than I do the handles of a plow, and I'd rayther bring down a ten-pronger than to raise an acre of corn, and I don't care who knows it.

But Lachesis, her hair adorned, her tresses neatly bound, Pierian laurel on her locks, her brows with garlands crowned, Plucks me from out the snowy wool new threads as white as snow, Which handled with a happy touch change colour as they go, Not common wool, but golden wire; the Sisters wondering gaze, As age by age the pretty thread runs down the golden days.

We do not, however, remember having seen that subject handled in the Sun.

" Fourth classmen are always addressed as "mister," and they must use the same "handle to the name" when addressing upper classmen.

I am extremely sorry for it, Sir,and you shall see how I will have this fellow handled for the Affront to a Person of your Gravity, and in my House.

The room had no less than three doors, with a handle on no one of them.

It consists of a chain with handles at each end; the chain is put round the wrists, the handles brought together and twisted round until the chain grips firmly.

The yacht had been every bit as well handled as the great steamship; but then, she had reached her port in safety, and she was such a little thing, after all.

And then, for shame at being handled like a rogue" Surely there is something in the blood of a gentleman that tempers his spirit to a degree scarcely to be comprehended by men of meaner birth, thinks I. "When did Simon urge him to dispute my rights?" asks Moll.

In the same way, he tried his hand at fishing in a wretched little stream behind the Deanery at Winchester, using, however, a net, as easier to handle than a rod.

Johnson explains the word in the text as 'A handle by which anything is turned.']

To supply German ammunition needs, lead and zinc have been taken from the roofs of mosques and door-handles from mosque-gates, and the iron railings along the Champs de Mars at Pera have been carted away for the manufacture of bombs.

Conceive it pawed about and handled between the rude jests of tarpaulin ruffiansa thing of its delicate texturethe salt bilge wetting it till it became as vapid as a damaged lustring.

After this there was a long turning of the handle without any sound being heard, for the first part of the next tune was gone entirely.

A whole week I remained labouring under the impression that I had acted imprudently in my disclosure; that I had foolishly given a handle against myself, and had been anticipating my own dismissal.

Look at this," replied Caddy, fitting a broom handle into the end of a very large tin dipper.

So, taking the dagger in his hand, he softly stole in the dark to the room where Duncan lay; and as he went, he thought he saw another dagger in the air, with the handle towards him, and on the blade and at the point of it drops of blood: but when he tried to grasp at it, it was nothing but air, a mere phantasm proceeding from his own hot and oppressed brain and the business he had in hand.

They exacted from each member five dollars "for organizing expenses," and they took a commission on all the business handled through the wholesale.

Think the stock was worth saving?" He lifted his whip-handle toward a pin-point of light across the stretch of snow.

Move him out of the crowd, Moloney;' and a gigantic constable pounced on me with a broad grin, snatched the barrow-handles out of my hands, and started off at a trot that made the effigies rock in the most alarming manner.

A strap went from the handles over her shoulders, and, stopping now and then to ask the news, she would slip off this harness, gossip for a time, then push on again.

" He went to the sled and illustrated, laying his hands on the arrangement at the back that stood out like the handle behind a baby's perambulator.

Finally, he placed his feet on the broom where the handle joins the splints, seized the handle near the top with his hands, drew himself up as far as possible, and then launched himself in the air and tried to seize the banana.

"How did you manage, Lou, to get that handle before the Marvin?" "Oh, do shut up!" was Lou's emphatic reply.

Mr. Penman was so highly Indignant at the manner in which he had been handled during the initiation that he immediately wrote an expose of the secret work, with numerous illustrations, and had it published in Harper's Weekly.