Do you think you would be a good hand at hunting up the missing links in the chain of a family history?
And now, my dear Hawkehurst, you're a sharp fellow, and I daresay a good hand at guessing social conundrums; so perhaps you begin to see my idea.
I never was a good hand at remembering dates, and this illness has thrown me altogether out of gear.
The player who is about to deal notes among the cards lying upon the table those which would provide him with a good hand.
For the present, it is sufficient to say that the cards are so manipulated that the dupe has always a good hand.
The vicar of their pleasant rural parish was not a controversialist, but a good hand at whist, and one who had a joke always ready for a blooming female parishioner.
B has a good hand, and E has nothing; but if he is a bold player, he may still win.
The landlord was carrying away the valise and the books, but the curate said to him, "Wait; I want to see what those papers are that are written in such a good hand.
She writes a good hand, does long division promptly, and reads well.
He writes a good hand, reads fairly well, and promptly does a sum in long division.
A good hand at making out bills of costs is an invaluable acquisition to a legal practitioner; a superior statement of charges being, in fact, a concise but clear history, subdivided into items, of the suit to which it refers.
Though they're but boys even now, they lent Aggie a good hand at working the boat, from the time poor Larry, their father, was lost to us.
A good hand, we were told, can make eight dozen pairs a day, and is paid eighteen cents a dozen.
New York, they pay a good hand from $4 to $5 a week, ten hours a day.
After working at it constantly four or five years, a good hand may be able to earn from $5 to $7 a week.
I write a good hand, I can assist a gentleman as his secretary, and I intend being a scribe when I get home.
He thought that the art of a scribe solely consisted in possessing a good hand, and that the fairest writer would be the best scribe.
He was unsparing in his praises of his pupil, saying that he played the flute capitally, danced and fenced admirably, rode well, and wrote a good hand.
If they have a good hand, they eagerly ask for cards, and when they have a bad one, they pretend to hesitate.
I kept "going blind," until the chief got a good hand, and then he came back at me strong.
Well, your Honor, he must have swindled me; for every time I had a good hand he would beat it," said he.
He'd just keep you on, help you get on your feet--that is, if you were a good hand.
Anything you wanted, you could git if you were a good hand.
But if you weren't a good hand, he'd just let you have enough to keep you alive.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good hand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
