Handled

Examples

• A horn-handled clasp knife was lying in a pool of blood beside him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The operator had worked so mechanically that he had handled the news without the slightest knowledge of its significance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Helstone pushed up his spectacles from his nose to his forehead, handled his snuff-box, and administered to himself a portion of the contents. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We could thus take care of a snow-storm by diminishing the bulk of material to be handled. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• On the ledge at the side, were an empty laudanum-bottle and a tortoise-shell handled penknife--soiled, but not with ink. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• At the end of this line it is shaken out over a grating, and the sand handled in the same manner as on the smaller conveyors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was small, gray-faced and no one handled a cape better. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• While moving on this elevator the cases are cooled so that they can be handled as soon as they are lowered. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Some of the giant redwood logs must be split in the woods with powder before they can be handled on the saw carriage, and the average yield per acre is in the neighborhood of 150,000 feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Little Sophia, bred in the school of nature, handled her brother rather oddly, I thought. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The Greek took it, but he handled it in no artist-like way; at length he said: I must confess to you, my Lord, that I did not make this drawing. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The most complicated problems of multiplication, division and fractions may be handled with ease on these machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Nay, he made this foil of his so very widely known, that third parties took it up, and handled it on some occasions with considerable briskness. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Mr. Reid also notes as a very thorough test of the perfect practicability of the system, that it handled the President's message, December 3, 1876, of 12,600 words with complete success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Paul that morning handled them: he spared nothing--neither their minds, morals, mannersnor personal appearance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The shining metal tables and trucks, on which the product is handled, give a new confidence in sausage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They have taken a great part in the day’s work of modern business, and it would be hard to imagine how the world’s finance and industry could be handled without them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But you handled the Molesey Mystery with less than your usual--that's to say, you handled it fairly well. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Within the last few years liquid soaps have come into favor, especially in schools, railroad stations, and other public places, where a cake of soap would be handled by many persons. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The elder of the two young gentlemen handled his weapon with a grace that marked the possession of extraordinary talent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Meantime the galley, which was very skilfully handled, had crossed us, let us come up with her, and fallen alongside. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It is handled by two men, one to aim and fire it, the other to feed the cartridges which are held in brass clips of 30 each. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When Woodrow Wilson argues that social problems are not susceptible to treatment in a party program, he must mean only one thing: that they cannot be handled by the state as he conceives it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Lemons are handled throughout the processes in practically the same manner as oranges. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The subject had been already handled in the drawing-room; it was revived in the dining-parlour. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• So far as I can see, it is just as tangled a business as ever I handled, and yet at first it seemed so simple that one couldn't go wrong. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• They are handled with a dull solemnity quite out of proportion to their real interest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled them ever since I was a nipper? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The enemy had intercepted him about New Market and handled him roughly, leaving him short six guns, and some nine hundred men out of his six thousand. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• What if he told them that two insubordinate seamen had been roughly handled by their officers? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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