His arguments were good, but he could not convince the hard-fisted magistrates of the righteousness of his cause.
He is as complete a heavy-footed, uncomprehending, bungle-fisted fool as any memsahib in the East ever took into her establishment.
And Emma, the hired girl, was raw-boned and big-fisted and frightfully cold-blooded and unsympathetic.
Their mother was away for the afternoon and the children had a delightful sense of freedom, even with the grim, big-fisted Emma in charge.
Mr. Burnside's refusal had been definite and final, and he had been the last to whom the investor had applied, merely because he was undoubtedly the most close-fisted man of business of all who had invested in the invention.
The two-fisted Reed and the other two-fisted Left Wingers would be here.
There wasn't, if for none other than the reason that Carpentier gave away nearly twenty pounds to probably the hardest-boiled, two-fisted fighter of his weight the prize ring has ever known.
In his mental purview, man was fisted and framed to no other purpose than for individual selection agreeably with his brawn and bent.
Perhaps public rumour was not altogether wrong, when it averred that the D'Orleans were too tight-fisted to spend their money in electioneering literature.
There never was a man as close-fisted as Mr. Enderton who hadn't money.
I have, at times, wondered that the hard fisted Yankee did not revenge impositions on the skulls of some of these blue-skinned sons of the old continent.
Good enough--thet binds the bargain," said the close-fisted farmer.
Marcy was a close-fisted fellow who never wanted the schoolboys to have any of his fruit, and Dave, through no fault of his own, had once had considerable trouble with the fellow.
I loved old Roosevelt because he was a hearty, two-fisted fellow.
He is a poor correspondent, as most two- fisted young chaps are apt to be.
The country wants some manly, two- fisted administrator and it doesn't care where he comes from.
There were plenty of sweet, charming characters and amateur workmen in it, but the hard-fisted toilers and the brave financiers were absent.
Like the other early Canadian pioneers of his race he was a hard-fisted man battling by necessity in a hard-fisted new world, but he kept in that new world the spiritual vision born of Scottish glens and mists and hills.
She did make the tight-fisted one pay up eventually, but months were to elapse before that desirable consummation was reached.
For Mr. Clifford's step was upon the platform of the store and in another moment the door opened and the tight-fisted one himself appeared.
Barkeepers took "a pinch for a drink," meaning what they could grasp with their fingers, and one huge-fisted man estimated that this method netted him three dollars per glass.
There was a dauntless quality about the man, a rugged double-fisted force which made him feared by his opponents.
Dixie gaxed with reproachful eyes at his close-fisted friend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fisted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
