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Sentences ending with handful

I suppose I deserve that, for I'm a handful. [11]
Ruth culled the blossoms daintily with the tips of her fingers; Ulrich wanted to help, and tore the slender stalks in tufts from the roots by the handful. [10]

Sentences containing handful two or more times

He would let all the judges but a handful go, but he would select the handful himself, and he did. [5]
I never heard a sailor proclaiming himself as a handful of American citizens traveling for recreation, but I wished he might trip and fall overboard, and so reduce his handful by one individual, at least. [5]

More example sentences with the word handful in them

But we will yet bring a handful of good wheat to the storehouses. [10]
This climbing-party he would himself lead, accompanied by his brother Sainte-Helene, Perrot, and a handful of agile woodsmen. [11]
After which, he would go forth in his rags and beg a few farthings, eat his poor crust, take his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch himself upon his handful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeurs in his dreams. [5]
My word "fountain" would be correct; it would speak the strict truth; and it would convey the strict truth to the handful of Syrians, and the strictest misinformation to the North American millions. [5]
One day Dicky, with a sudden burst of generosity--for he had a button to his pocket--gave Mahommed Seti a handful of cigarettes. [11]
But the fossil went on as before, known by name to the merest handful of people in the colony, though they all profited, directly or indirectly, by his scientific services. [11]
The weather and water were blustering all that day, and Phips did not move, save for a small attempt--repulsed--by a handful of men to examine the landing. [11]
The man who was to have had a packed church to hear him expose and denounce the common enemy had but a handful to see him buried. [5]
At least it was all spontaneous; it was not made to order on any page of it, and it is the handful left from very many handfuls destroyed. [11]
Outside of Melbourne, Victoria seems to be owned by a handful of squatters, each with a Rhode Island for a sheep farm. [5]
When I was twenty-three I wanted to squeeze the orange dry in a handful of years, and then go out suddenly, and let the dust of forgetfulness cover my bones. [11]
The half-breed moved to the bar, and, throwing down a handful of silver, said: "It is good we drink after so much heat. [11]
It was strange to hear in that lonely waste, a handful of men, bent on a deadly task, singing a low chant of penitence--a Kyrie eleison. [11]
He came to the top of a ridge on which were a handful of meagre trees. [11]
Iberville stole across the shore and up the hill with his handful of men. [11]
As they passed the Path by the Bazaar every eye among the hillsmen and among the handful of British was alert. [11]
But power is the most common ambition, and only a handful of the hundreds of millions get it in any large way. [11]
Too late had the little yacht with her handful of guns seen the danger and gone about. [11]
In one corner, the hottest that the day saw, Rudyard and Barry Whalen and a scattered handful of men threw themselves upon a greatly larger number of the enemy. [11]
She saw again the ghiassas drifting down the great river, laden with dourha; she saw the mosque of the blue tiles with its placid fountain, and its handful of worshippers praying by the olive-tree. [11]
When they saw the flag and heard the battle-cry there was a movement backward, as though this handful of men were an overwhelming army coming at them. [11]
Before day-dawn, Judge Thatcher and the handful of searchers with him were tracked out, in the cave, by the twine clews they had strung behind them, and informed of the great news. [5]
He belonged to that handful of men who patrol a frontier of near a thousand miles, and are the security of peace in three hundred thousand miles of territory--the Riders of the Plains, the North-West Mounted Police. [11]
In the skirmish that followed, Iberville and Perrot pressed with a handful of men forward very close to the ranks of the English. [11]
I think it takes a double handful of pice to make an anna, and 16 annas to make a rupee; and even in those days the rupee was worth only half a dollar. [5]
If he died suddenly, as his father had died, a handful of people would sorrow with excess of feeling, and the growing world of his patrons would lament his loss. [11]
Must the world stand still because a handful of Crees need a hunting-ground? [11]
One day I showed him my treasure-chambers, at the sight of which he fell into despair, called himself a common beggar and declared that one good handful of these precious things would make him a happy man. [10]
The sacrifice which she intended to impose upon herself would weigh far more heavily in the balance than a handful of beautiful tresses, and would comprise sovereignty and life. [10]
But first he sent to the handful of people in the port a liberal gift of money and wine and provisions from the ship's stores. [11]
Satan put the seed in the ground, put a handful of dust on it, and said, "Rise! [5]
Following him, Fleda saw that the Romanys had broken camp, and only a small handful remained, among them the woman who had befriended her. [11]
Yet I could restore it with a thousand men and a handful of European officers, had I but a show of authority from Cairo, which they think has deserted me. [11]
I kneeled, and put in the tin of water left behind by some other pilgrim, a handful of tea from the same source--the outcast and suffering giving to their kind. [11]
The Maid of Provence carried a handful of guns and a small but carefully chosen crew, together with Sainte-Helene, Perrot, and the lad Maurice Joval, who had conceived for Iberville friendship nigh to adoration. [11]
He thought it pity to subject so many judges to the prostrating fatigues of this trial when it could be conducted plenty well enough by a handful of them. [5]
The mob found out a most strange thing, an almost incredible thing--that this handful of soldiers had come on this hardy errand with empty guns and no ammunition. [5]
One may feast on a fish and a handful of olives. [4]
Let a thousand of them come face to face with a handful of soldiers once, if you want to see what running is like. [5]
She involuntarily thought of the great Napoleon and his toy kingdom of Elba, of Garibaldi and his handful of patriots. [11]
You little handful of people here--little more than half a million--imagine that you can defeat thirty-five millions, with an army of half a million, a hundred battle- ships, ten thousand cannon and a million rifles. [11]
Already the handful of people at the fort had gathered. [11]
The mere handful of miners still remaining, had seen the town spring up spread, grow and flourish in its pride; and they had seen it sicken and die, and pass away like a dream. [5]
On one side of it, far beneath, lay the village, huddled together as if, through being close compacted, its handful of humanity should not be a mere dust in the balance beside Nature's portentousness. [11]
If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars. [5]
Without any sign of fear it flew direct to St. Peter, who looked formidable enough with his long beard and great keys, and, pointing with its little forefinger to the hard-hearted woman, cried: 'She once gave me a handful of nuts. [10]
P. S.--A handful of choice (Southern) watermelon seeds would pleasantly add to that lady's employments and give my table a corresponding lift. [5]
Yonder Nubians are not enough --a handful lost in the melee. [11]
But neither we nor the Eng lish'll get a handful of gold or silver thereabouts. [11]
I have only my little craft and a handful of seamen picked up at odd prices. [11]
But no, these must be only a handful of scoundrels. [2]
Barbara, who was moving about in the kitchen and just on the point of catching three chickens to kill them, let them live a little longer, and even tossed half a handful of barley into their coop, as she heard her sister-in-law come singing down-stairs. [10]
Presently, in the midst of the sword-flashes, I saw a handful of hair skip into the air as if it had lain loose on the victim's head and a breath of wind had puffed it suddenly away. [5]
A handful of men came galloping toward him. [2]
The word fountain means one thing in Syria, where there is but a handful of people; it means quite another thing in North America, where there are 75,000,000. [5]
By the flickering light of a handful of fire he saw Lepage--rather what was left of him--a shadow of energy, a heap of nerveless bones. [11]
I could at least enjoy life with my handful of old friends. [5]
A wanderer, an Ishmael then, her handful of household goods and her father in the grasp of the Law: to-day, Mademoiselle Victorine, queen of animal-tamers! [11]
He struggled along inwardly for quite a while; then he said, with a manner of a person who has to say something and hasn't anything relevant to say: "You said he had a handful of special-brand cigars on the table? [5]
In a few instances it will leave the establishments of great pet churches undisturbed, but in all others only a handful of priests will be retained to preach and pray, a few will be pensioned, and the balance turned adrift. [5]
When the old Indian knew his loss, he gave a harsh cry and stooped, and, gathering a handful of dust from the ground, sprinkled it on his head. [11]
This country's been in the war six months, since April, and no guns, no munitions, a handful of men in France--while the world's burning! [9]
Another evening, when I was dining with Sir James Barrie, he showed me a handful of shrapnel fragments. [9]
I called at his house and when no one was looking borrowed a double handful of his very choicest; cigars which cost him forty cents apiece and bore red-and-gold labels in sign of their nobility. [5]
The chief waved his hand proudly towards the armed warriors behind him, as if showing their strength, speaking meanwhile, and then with effective gesture, remarking the handful of French. [11]
But this time he would go to mass with a fine handful of those gold pieces in his pocket, just to keep him in a commendable mood. [11]
Arrogant and insistent, he had his way, and, on a division, the Government was saved by a mere handful of votes--votes to save the party, not to indorse Eglington's speech or policy. [11]
Many a time he had caught up a handful of the damp dust and smelt it, as an expert gardener would crumble the fallen flowers of a fruittree and sniff the sweet perfume. [11]
He thanked me, he did not know me, and once more he offered me a handful of gold. [10]
As it was, he and De Troyes preferred to make the expedition with his handful of men, and so parted with the Indians, after having made gifts to the chief and his people. [11]
Higbie brought a handful to the cabin, and when he had washed it out his amazement was beyond description. [5]
Spain, with a handful of subjects inherited from the France of Louis the Fifteenth. [9]
We are a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation, and unostentatiously, as becomes our unofficial state! [5]
Man achieves a handful of good, and forthwith his heart swells with a camel-load of pride. [10]
Would not a handful of gold bind them to me? [11]
But that little handful of English officials in India set their sturdy and confident grip upon it, and ripped it out, root and branch! [5]
With a mere handful of dollars, and some debts, he left the world of scholarship and superior pedagogy, and went where the head offices of railways were. [11]
What could the handful of Beggars--which at the utmost were all the troops the Prince could bring--do against King Philip's terrible military power, that surrounded Leyden? [10]
There's but a handful left to preach to in this weather. [9]
Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it. [5]
Meantime the rain had washed away the top of the pan of earth left standing on the slope above Angel's, and exposed a handful of nuggets-pure gold. [5]
And the President had other uses for the handful in the army. [9]
When the two had gone, Old Roses sat in his room, a handful of letters, a photograph, and a couple of decorations spread out before him, his fingers resting on them, his look engaged with a far horizon. [11]
A handful of guards in the prison at Ile Nou were bravely holding in check a ruthless mob of convicts; and a crowd of convicts in the street keeping back a determined military force. [11]
A handful of good men under two leaders of nerve, conscience and ability, to fight an invisible enemy, which, gaining headway, would destroy its scores of thousands! [11]
Well, I told Gobal I would give the man the Ninety-Nine for the cruise and search, and that we should divide the gold between us, if it was found, taking out first enough to make a dot for you and a fine handful for Bissonnette. [11]
Her father wouldn't go into society, her mother knew a mere handful of people, and--" "She knew you, Betty. [11]
A handful of frowners against thirty million laughers in a state of irruption. [5]
This is the footstool of the Most High--Satan owns no handful of its soil. [5]
It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. [5]
Why this heavy expenditure to maintain religious services for a handful of people? [9]
It was not easy, and she only did it to toss me a second, third, and fourth handful of the most beautiful walnuts. [10]
Raleigh was not easily discouraged; he was determined to plant his colony, and to send relief to the handful of men that Grenville had left on Roanoke Island. [4]
As the soldiers drove the old man away with kindly insistence--for Kaid had thrown him a handful of gold--Mizraim, the Chief Eunuch, laughed wickedly. [11]
Grimy sailors came down out of the foretop placidly announcing themselves as "a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation and unostentatiously," etc. [5]
Men near to death, or suffering torture, looked gratefully at her or tried to smile; and more than once Mr. Mappin, whose hands were kept busy and whose skill saved more than a handful of lives that night, looked at her in wonder. [11]
Close after him crowded the handful of his frenzied compatriots in crime. [11]
The Wide West company put a stop to the carrying away of "specimens," and well they might, for every handful of the ore was worth a sun of some consequence. [5]
On the whole Carmen fared pretty well, for he would sometimes give her a handful of bills from his pocket, bidding her take ten dollars, and she would coolly take twenty, while he shrugged his shoulders and declared she would be his ruin. [11]
These fighters under Byng had had their fill of tactics and strategy which led nowhere forward; and at Wortmann's Drift the day before they had done a big thing for the army with a handful of men. [11]

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