Use handling in a sentence
Sentences ending with handling
- The gold coins with the head of Alexander the Great are some of them so fresh one might think they were newer than much of the silver currency we were lately handling. [6]
- He fought with skill, but he fought without gloves, and the House needed gentle handling. [11]
- It is a point of etiquette with us not to press our inquiries about these anonymous poems too sharply, especially if any of them betray sentiments which would not bear rough handling. [6]
- His images are noble, or, if borrowed from humble objects, ennobled by his handling. [6]
- This is matter for the law's consideration, not private and unofficial handling. [5]
- I had pawned every thing but the clothes I had on; so I clung to my dime desperately, till it was smooth with handling. [5]
- The Flemish Beauties come off readily from the stem, if I take them in my hand: they say all kinds of beauty come off by handling. [4]
More example sentences with the word handling in them
- It would be very difficult to find a really clever "situation" in Cooper's books, and still more difficult to find one of any kind which he has failed to render absurd by his handling of it. [5]
- May I recommend to you the following caution, as a guide, whenever you are dealing with a woman, or an artist, or a poet--if you are handling an editor or politician, it is superfluous advice. [6]
- They helped me, they fed me with dialect, with local details, with memories, with old letters, with diaries of their forebears, until, if I had gone wrong, it would have been through lack of skill in handling my material. [11]
- And nobody but the Trust will have the handling of it. [5]
- Cars will carry the ore through the tunnel and dump it in the mills and thus do away with the present costly system of double handling and transportation by mule teams. [5]
- An' _I_ had the handling o' the villain he should roast, or I am no true man! [5]
- And he said that handling a snake-skin was such awful bad luck that maybe we hadn't got to the end of it yet. [5]
- Then the accused stands up and testifies that he may have done it, but he was receiving and handling a good deal of money at the time and he doesn't remember this particular circumstance--at least with sufficient distinctness to enable him to grasp it tangibly. [5]
- It was a sort of partnership arrangement in which Clemens was to furnish the money to make the book, and pay Osgood a percentage for handling it. [5]
- Nothing was for show, for self-love; there was no rhetoric, no declamation, no triumphant "I told you so," but the plain statement of a clear-headed honest man, who knows that he is handling one of the gravest subjects that interest humanity. [3]
- He does not seem to have been very accomplished in the handling of agricultural implements either, for it is told in the family that his little son, Waldo, seeing him at work with a spade, cried out, "Take care, papa,--you will dig your leg. [6]
- Henderson handling the reins, and making a part of that daily display which is too heterogeneous to have distinction, reverted quite naturally to the tone of worldliness and tolerant cynicism which had characterized his conversation in the morning. [4]
- It was not really the first attempt at handling a theme belonging to past generations, because I had written for Good Words, about the year 1890, a short novel which I called The Chief Factor, a tale of the Hudson's Bay Company. [11]
- Thirty years of practice had taught Nurse Byloe the art of handling the young of her species with the soft firmness which one may notice in cats with their kittens,--more grandly in a tawny lioness mouthing her cubs. [6]
- Lawless noticed that Pourcette seemed scarcely to take any aim at all, so swift and decisive was his handling of the gun. [11]
- Guida counted as one of the crew, for there was little in the handling of a boat she did not know. [11]
- I think there must be as much of a knack in handling poi as there is in eating with chopsticks. [5]
- They had scarcely made half a dozen passes before each knew that he was pitted against a master of the art--an art partly lost in an age which better loves the talk of swords than the handling of them. [11]
- He looks just like our kind of folks, the college kind, that's brought up among books, and is handling 'em, and reading of 'em, and making of 'em, as like as not, all their lives. [6]
- So they took it, handling it as cautiously and devoutly as if it had been some holy thing come from some supernatural region; and gently felt of its texture, caressed its pleasant smooth surface with lingering touch, and scanned the mysterious characters with fascinated eyes. [5]
- Not everybody, it is true, has a sufficiently good ear, a sufficient knowledge of rhymes and capacity for handling them, to be what is called a poet. [6]
- The old bookworm is so intoxicated with the sight and handling of the priceless treasures that he cannot bear to put one of the volumes back after he has taken it from the shelf. [6]
- Study, practice, experience in handling my end of the matter presently enabled me to take my new position almost seriously; a little bit later, utterly seriously; a little later still, lovingly, gratefully, devotedly; finally: fiercely, rabidly, uncompromisingly. [5]
- Sally was lost in admiration, to note with what swift and sure strides her genius and judgment developed and expanded in the forecasting and handling of the securities of both the material and spiritual markets. [5]
- In former years I used to keep a little gold by me in order to ascertain for myself exactly the amount of pleasure to be got out of handling it; this being the traditional delight of the old-fashioned miser. [6]
- But think of him and the significance of the symbols he is handling as compared with the empty syllables and words we are using to build our aerial edifices with! [6]
- I often read her stories partly from my interest in her, and partly because I find merit enough in them to deserve something, better than the rough handling they got from her coarse-fibred critic, whoever he was. [6]
- Before he retired he studied the room, handling things that lay where his father placed them so many years before. [11]
- But without handling doubtful subjects, there are many curious medical experiences which have interest for every one as extreme illustrations of ordinary conditions with which all are acquainted. [6]
- Here was a deep, significant problem, a situation that needed more expert handling than he had ever shown. [11]
- No wild Indian could handle his bark canoe more dexterously or more vigorously than we have seen you handling yours. [6]
- But his special correspondent knows other methods of handling statistics. [5]
- I cannot write books handling the topics of the day; it is of no use trying. [14]
- There must, therefore, be an air of newness in the new mansion, which was too much in keeping with the new money, the gold as yet not worn smooth by handling, the staring, brand-new sovereigns looking like impostors. [11]
- Mrs. Eddy's known and undisputed writings are very limited in bulk; they exhibit no depth, no analytical quality, no thought above school composition size, and but juvenile ability in handling thoughts of even that modest magnitude. [5]
- Why this new and simple method of handling the stages was not thought of when the first steamboat was built, is a mystery which helps one to realize what a dull-witted slug the average human being is. [5]
- Fame is after all a kind of rude handling, and a name that is often on vulgar lips seems to borrow something not to be desired, as the paper money that passes from hand to hand gains somewhat which is a loss thereby. [6]
- From reading the above extract, you would imagine that this student of Sir Walter Scott is an apprentice, and knows next to nothing about handling a pen. [5]
- One naturally feels a certain delicacy it handling from a purely artistic point of view persons who have been so near to him. [6]
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