It would be handier for some things,fighting, for instance.

In this the heroine is and the hero handy with a .

"We'll be handy in case any Indians or the like come after you.

She was handy at repairing and working in fur, and said she was "all right" on this bright autumn morning when the Boy went in to say good-bye.

They drink when they feel like it, and they drink where the water is handy to the feed.

The countryside had become too hot for him; and, as the seventy-five shillings were wanting which might have carried him to America, he took the only way handy of getting himself out of the way.

Here did she now with all her train resort, Panting with heat, and breathless from the sport; Her armour-bearer laid her bow aside, 30 Some loosed her sandals, some her veil untied; Each busy nymph her proper part undressed; While Crocale, more handy than the rest, Gathered her flowing hair, and in a noose Bound it together, whilst her own hung loose.

I have, on many such occasions, actually run past a beautiful bone that lay handy on the side-walk, and never stopped to smell it.

I remember the time when some of our well-bred Country-Women kept their Valet de Chambre, because, forsooth, a Man was much more handy about them than one of their own Sex.

Guess yeou'd see a thing or tew, an' find livin' on a log come as handy as ef you was born a turtle.

"My new sect forbids me to wear a blade, but I think I'll keep this handy beside me in the chimney corner.

We can't get water to him very handy without leaving some sign.

Young Adams was handy around a kitchen.

This we fancied, during our inspection, was the "penitent form"it seemed close and handy during a season of stern excitement and warm eruption; but in a moment we were told it was for "sacrament people," who patronise it in turns, on particular Sundays.

I'd rather be around, handy like" "You'll get killed some day, don't you know it?" "No, sir.

The warter-varl be tu handy vur yure brewin'.