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"I'm weary of the stairs and I would no trust Minnie. She's handiest at spilling things." Carroll grinned. "It's the third and, I'd better say firmly, the limit." Then he assumed an aggrieved expression as Evelyn moved off with the tray. "I can't see why I couldn't have gone. I think I've discharged my duties as nurse satisfactorily." "I canna help ye thinking," Mrs. Nairn informed him.
And a Dublin paper asserts that anything will be fiction which demonstrates that "Ireland is not the home of rackrenters, brutal batonmen, and heartless evictors"; while political agitation is still being carried on by any means that come handiest, and the eviction of tenants who owe five or six years' rent, and will not pay even one to clear off old scores, is treated as an act of brutality for which no quarter should be given.
"No, indeed he could not. He never could, no matter how hard he worked." Everybody was sure of this; for even little Dick quite understood that if the cleverest and handiest boy in the world were told that he must make a box, he could not even begin to make the commonest box unless he had something given him to make it out of, and something too to make it with.
"For a city gal, you are the handiest creature!" sighed Prudence, marveling. The girl only smiled. She was now used to such comments. They did not make her heart flutter as had any reference to her past life at first.
Gasping for breath, for a fearful stench accompanied the smoke, which enveloped them, all on board could do nothing but hold on to whatever was handiest. A rushing, roaring sound filled their ears as the Dart dashed onward, throwing the boiling water in showers of spray over her bows. The men forward were forced to stagger aft. It looked as if the Dart was doomed!
Aunt Mary had tried to snort and had sniffed instead; she had turned back to the first page, read, "All my head has been shaved, but I don’t care about having any more fun, anyhow," and had let the letter fall in her lap. Every time that she had thought since of "our boy," her anger had fallen hotter upon whoever was handiest. Arethusa the third morning after her arrival.
"Somebody'll have to go back to camp," said Cal Emmett, in the hushed tone that death ever compels from the living. "We've got to have a spade " "It better be the handiest liar, then," Jack Bates put in hastily. "If that old loose-tongued Patsy ever gets next " "Weary better go and Pink. They're the best liars in the bunch," said Cal, trying unsuccessfully to get back his everyday manner.
The Thug carefully guarded against resistance. It was usual to to get the victims to sit down, for that was the handiest position for business. If the Thug had planned India itself it could not have been more conveniently arranged for the needs of his occupation. There were no public conveyances. There were no conveyances for hire.
Only I'll make one suggestion: I've seen this child whipped with a poker, knocked down with the shovel or tongs, whichever came handiest, &c.; and, seeing that she is used to that style of operation, I think your whippings will have to be pretty energetic, to make much impression." "What is to be done with her, then?" said Miss Ophelia. "You have started a serious question," said St.
But perhaps I liked the loft best because the books were handiest there, and because I could be alone. At any rate, it was there that I read Longfellow's "Spanish Student," which I found in an old paper copy of his poems in one of the barrels, and I instantly conceived for it the passion which all things Spanish inspired in me.
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