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Sentences starting with handy

Handy thing to have in the house! [11]
Handy burned my hair, apologized, staggered, and I took the torch! [9]

Sentences ending with handy

So we allowed we would steal everything there was that come handy. [5]
They don't know, themselves--they just work whichever arm comes handy. [5]
You better have the lead in your lap, handy. [5]
It is all so handy. [5]
We have located, near by, a fine site for a mill; and when we strike the ledge, you know, we'll have a mill-site, water power, and pay-rock, all handy. [5]
It seems to me odd that he should put the astrologer so far away; he could have dumped him in Germany just as well, where he would be handy. [5]
It is an instance of our national adaptability, learned from an experience on long coasts where navy-yards are not too handy. [9]
When something fresh in this line came out she was in a fever, right away, to try it; not on herself, for she was never ailing, but on anybody else that came handy. [5]
Betwixt them all I should soon have been in slivers had not the main shrouds offered themselves handy. [9]
In the old days they were tough, but now they come handy. [5]

Short sentences using handy

Handy-pan, handy O! [4]
I'm handy. [11]

More example sentences with the word handy in them

By George, Joe, you are as handy at the game as if you had been in training for it all your life. [5]
And how gladly would I work for us both--for I am very handy and hard-working, but. [10]
Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up to it. [5]
Parties said earthquakes were handy enough on the Pacific coast--they did not wish to own one. [5]
In the morning we went out to the woodpile and chopped up the brass candlestick into handy sizes, and Tom put them and the pewter spoon in his pocket. [5]
So the gun was a purse; and very handy, too; you could pay out money in the dark with it, with accuracy; and you could carry it in your mouth; or in your vest pocket, if you had one. [5]
The sugar-troughs came very handy as horse-troughs, and we had plenty of corn to fill them with. [5]
I can print under it statistics, hotel arrivals, or anything that comes handy, without violating faith with the reader. [5]
With such a tongue as thine, lad, thou'lt spread the ivory thighs of many a willing maide in thy good time, an' thy cod-piece be as handy as thy speeche. [5]
The village--Dublin--is bunched together in its own place, but a good telephone service makes its markets handy to all those outliars. [5]
Not entirely; for, to the last, he would cram into the satchel sacred to literature any odds and ends of rubbish that he couldn't find a handy place for elsewhere. [5]
There's no difference to me 'twixt making your feet handy and clever and full of music, and playing with your fingers on the piano or on a melodeon at a meeting. [11]
In a moment those handy men had his clothes off, and had tucked him into his bed in the chamber where I had washed my hands. [5]
Now have the thing set up and printed and posted, right off; that is, give the order; then, if you've got a couple of bicycles handy at the foot of the hill, ho for Merlin's Cave! [5]
I didn't hear their names, but I heard they was handy men with guns an' they looked more like rustlers than riders. [13]
The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. [5]
In addition to the use now made of the newspaper by the classes called "advertisers," I expect it to become the handy medium of the entire public, the means of ready communication in regard to all wants and exchanges. [4]
And so now, the thought of its being there, so handy and close by, and yet not get-at-able, made it all the worse and the harder to bear. [5]
Mrs. Marco cleared the table, placed the beer keg handy, and went away to eat her dinner of leavings in humble privacy, and the rest of us soon drifted into matters near and dear to the hearts of our sort--business and wages, of course. [5]
If you want the spittoon in a certain spot, where it will be handy, they don't, and so they move it. [5]
We put all the other things handy at the back of the cavern. [5]
Certain it is that in his wandering among strangers he had come to be a mighty handy, wide-awake fellow, with much that was good in him, inasmuch as with all his subtlety he had kept his true Nuremberger's heart. [10]
He didn't suspect that his careless words were being weighed, and so he often delivered sentence of death when it would have been just as handy and all the same to him to pronounce acquittal. [5]
The telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the typewriter, the sewing-machine, and all the thousand willing and handy servants of steam and electricity were working their way into favor. [5]
Before Mr. Easton's tavern Joe Handy, the fiddler, was reeling off a few bars of "Hey, Betty Martin" to the familiar crowd of loungers under the big poplar. [9]
Leastways, I's suffered so much dat mournin' seem to come mo' handy to me now den stormin'. [5]
And they was so handy, spoke short, Sossy and Minthy,--she never should know how to call 'em anything else. [6]
This was a short and stout crowbar of iron; not one of the long crowbars that farmers use to pry up stones, but a short handy one, such as you would use in digging silver-ore out of the cracks of rocks. [4]
A coat or shirt is handy for cold weather. [5]
What a handy right-fielder he was! [5]
A citizen stumbled over that head, and drove his own head into the back of somebody in front of him, who turned and knocked down the first person that came handy, and was promptly laid out himself by that person's friend. [5]
I will make out a little itinerary for the pilgrim; then you will see how handy the system is, how convenient, how comprehensive. [5]
We picked up one excellent word--a word worth traveling to New Orleans to get; a nice limber, expressive, handy word--'lagniappe. [5]
The dedication lay on the top, and handy, so, by-and-by, I unconsciously stole it. [5]
Laurence Hutton is on the staff of Harper's Monthly--close by, and handy when wanted. [5]
Look at them now--how they set there, wishing they hadn't been so handy with their tongues; anyway, they'll wish it before I get done. [5]
Ef y' did n' care abaout 'em, though, I should n' min' keepin' on 'em; they might come handy some time or 'nother; they say, holt on t' anything for ten year 'n' there 'll be some kin' o' use for 't. [6]
Also, we will mention it now and then, casually; sometimes to a friend, or if a friend is not handy, we will make out with a stranger. [5]
It was too long for handy use, anyway; so I reduced it. [5]
I hid the letter behind the first thing that come handy, and rushed. [5]
Because he was just the kind of person you could depend on to spoil a little thing like that if you didn't warn him, his tongue was so handy, and his spirit so willing, and his information so uncertain. [5]
Rogers was not his name; neither was Jones, Brown, Dexter, Ferguson, Bascom, nor Thompson; but he answered to either of these that a body found handy in an emergency; or to any other name, in fact, if he perceived that you meant him. [5]
She was a handy person to have along on a raid. [5]
Would it be handy for you to send me the $43,200 first, so I could be counting it as I come along; because railroading is pretty dreary to a sensitive nature when there's nothing sordid to buck at for Zeitvertreib. [5]
She said she had to have things handy to throw at them when she was alone, or they wouldn't give her no peace. [5]
That notion he got up here did look as handy as anything in the world; and how him and Si did sit up nights working at it with the curtains down and me watching to see if any neighbors were about. [5]
How handy for fighting this would have been in the war, if Tennessee had gone out and Virginia stayed in. [4]
I missed the Fair it is true, but I picked up some diplomatic tricks which I and the reader may find handy and useful as we go along. [5]
And there, marching down the middle of the street at the head of a ragged and most indecorous column of twos, in the centre of a circle of light cast by a pine-knot which Joe Handy held, was Mr. Nicholas Temple. [9]
He and his copper arrived at just a handy time to save South Australia. [5]
They would all come handy by and by, I judged. [5]
But by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry, and I couldn't stand it. [5]
I set my boots and Bud's side by side, where they'd be handy. [5]
I got to be pretty handy with guns. [13]
We were all armed with revolvers, and we had half a dozen rifles handy. [11]
But there warn't any other place as handy after that fool of a job. [5]
Clods were handy and the air was full of them in a twinkling. [5]
Breechings were loosed and gun-tackles unlashed, rammer and sponge laid out, and pike and pistol and cutlass placed where they would be handy when the time came to rush the enemy's decks. [9]
First names are always handy for me. [13]
I negotiated for a box of them and took them away with me, so that I might be sure of having them handy when I want them. [5]

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