Handles

Examples

• Anselmo came out of the mouth of the cave with a deep stone basin full of red wine and with his fingers through the handles of three cups. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Well-seasoned timber is an expensive article, sir; and all the iron handles come, by canal, from Birmingham. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Charles Newbold in 1797 took out the first patent in the United States for a plough--all parts cast in one piece of solid iron except the beam and handles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The handles were made from crooked branches of trees. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The fulcrum is at the wheel, the force is at the handles, the weight is on the wheelbarrow. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There are sixteen starving babies from one to six years old in the party, and their legs are no larger than broom handles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The general features, the beam, handles, and share, have existed in ploughs from the earliest ages in history. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Ornaments on the back of spoon bowls and handles were impressed by dies forced together by drop presses or under screw pressure. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Any one who handles electric wires knows that they are more or less heated by the currents which flow through them. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• So few silver forks have been found in collections of old silver that it forces the belief that they were generally made of steel, with bone handles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They have hook-shaped handles at the upper end, and terminate below in forks that are pivoted to the shanks of type hammers, to raise and lower them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• You edge away a little, and no wonder, but the girl who handles it shows no fear as she deftly but carefully presses it into molds which separate it into the proper sizes for primers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The sailor handles his boat in one way in a choppy sea and in a different way in a rolling sea, for he knows that these two kinds of waves act dissimilarly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• There were so many lodgers in this house that the doorpost seemed to be as full of bell-handles as a cathedral organ is of stops. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But certain of the Popes stand out and supply convenient handles for the student to grasp. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The wardrobe shelf with handles, that served as a supper-tray on grand occasions! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Edited by Gertrude