handy-looking

Updated: June 25, 2025

Breaden, too, came in for Sir John's approval, and was similarly patted and pulled about. Godfrey had taken a rather handy-looking tomahawk from the buck, made from the half of a horseshoe, one point of which was ground to a pretty sharp edge a primitive weapon, but distinctly serviceable.

David Wynford Carnegie - Spinifex and Sand

Fuliginous, monstrous, slowly, shamefully, the thing went by to what final goal? in the lovely weather. There attended it, besides the driver of the lorry, a straggling retinue of half-a-dozen men on foot handy-looking mechanics, very dusty. I should have liked to question one or another of these as to their mission. But I was afraid to do so.

Sir Max Beerbohm - And Even Now