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.

There is a lack of mastery about a woman's handling of the ribbons which is quickly detected by horses, especially when they are of more than average intelligence.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But the multiplicity of ordinal preferences, second, third, fourth, fifth, up to tenth, which the single transferable vote system would involve, will require a more scientific handling in party interests, and neither party will be able to face an election with any hope of success without the assistance of the most drastic form of caucus and without its orders being carried out by the electors.

By the time that they came up for the fourth round, after both men had undergone some vigorous handling by their respective seconds, Pennington was a good deal revived and far more confident.

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

I was as dirty as a collier, my coat was half off my back from my handling on the moor, and there were long rents at the knees of my breeches.

The orator who has once seen things in their divine order will never quite lose sight of this, and will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and, though he will say nothing of philosophy, he will have a certain mastery in dealing with them, and an incapableness of being dazzled or frighted, which will distinguish his handling from that of attorneys and factors.

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

" 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.

I tell you on behalf of women: there is not one of us who does not prefer a little rough handling to too much consideration.