I was shown a handbill describing my person, giving my name, giving a description of my horse, and offering a reward of fifty dollars for my arrest.
First, he issued the handbill which caused my arrest in Troy, where he knew I was going.
At his death in 1805 he left these to his daughter, who still utilised them as her father had done, as a handbill shows.
Wilding took the faded, yellow handbill with its crude printing.
He stayed the night, and delivered to her the handbill after telling her what he had done regarding the divorce and the search for the murderer.
This curious handbill bears no date, but as Hanway ascertained that the price was sixty shillings in 1660, his bill must have been dispersed about that period.
The best account of the early use, and the prices of tea in England, appears in the handbill of one who may be called our first Tea-maker.
A significant handbill was issued at the time, with a row of coffins at the head, called Bloody Butchery by the British Troops.
In the cabinet of this society is a handbilladopted by the freeholders of Boston, Nov.
Fac-simile of handbill printed to send among the royal troops to induce desertion.
The Connecticut Journal printed an account the same day; and in New York a handbill was circulated, Fresh news just arrived, by an express from the provincial camp near Boston, giving an account by Capt.
The annexed cut is part of a handbill in the library of the Mass.
Hullo, there's that handbill man now," cried Tom, as Giles Frozzler came into the tent.
But Chips wouldn't whoa, and the sight of another white handbill in the middle of the road caused him to shy to one side.
He returned to the purpose which had brought him to the cottage--and produced the Handbill that had been sent to him in Emily's letter.
She must have destroyed all her papers, poor dear, before her last illness; and the Handbill and the other things can only have escaped, because they were left in a place which she never thought of examining.
Following the impulse that urged him, he secured the Handbill in his pocketbook--snatched up the card which his patient had presented as her introduction--and instantly left the house.
It was the Handbill describing the man who had escaped from the inn, and offering a reward for the discovery of him.
Miss Jethro laid aside the Handbill without any visible appearance of agitation.
The Handbill offering the reward, and describing the suspected man, had failed to prove of any assistance to the investigations of the police.
I knew that Miss Emily possessed a Handbill describing personal peculiarities in Mr. Mirabel, not hidden under the changed appearance of his head and face.
May I ask if you are authorized to act for the count, in relation to the reward which this handbill offers?
I exhibit to you another handbillwhich we will mark as Commission Exhibit No.
Did you have a conversation with Mr. Surrey as to the purpose for which the handbill was to be put?
My handing it to you a moment ago was the first time you ever knew of the existence of a handbill of that type?
This is a handbill of Young Americans For Freedom, Inc.
He stood dumb with emotion when he first saw the handbill at the door of the newspaper office, headed "Revolution in France!
In this handbill he stated his intention to lecture on the Bible in the Assembly Rooms, which had been engaged for the 27th and 28th for that purpose, and invited free and fair discussion upon his lecture.
This notice was printed in one or two newspapers on the morning of Saturday the 30th, but not issued in the form of a handbill until the afternoon.
But we cannot pass over the following remarks made by Mr. Cunningham on the handbill method of controversy adopted by the proselytisers.
You, the Ratepayers of Dudley, will, I am sure, weigh well these words, and you will not shrink from showing the estimation in which you hold the writer of a Handbill who thus ignores the most sacred claims of Truth and Humanity.
From the falsehood of the insinuations thrown out, you may judge how far the actual assertions which the writer of this Handbill ventures to make, are to be depended upon.
The writer of theHandbill does not tell you, that whatever may be the expenditure of the Board of Health, it will always have to be audited by a Public Officer, and the Balance Sheets open to the inspection of any Ratepayer.
The Handbillwould deceive you again in reference to the stake in the Parish which those proposed as guardians on the List nominated by Messrs.
It appeared in the handbill (after some desperately hard work) in this guise: tO-NIGHT!
The following handbill is curious, on account of the light it sheds on what was considered attractive to the million a hundred years ago:-- "According to Law.
Jabez ranged up and down till he found a thinner place, and with clean snicks of the handbill revealed the original face of the fence.
Jabez rubbed his wet handbill on his wetter coat-sleeve.
It assumed the form of a handbill of protest, supposed to have been issued by the foremost citizens of San Francisco, urging him to return to the States without inflicting himself further upon them.
At the corner by Charing Cross Telegraph Office a man thrust a handbill under his eyes, but he shook his head impatiently.
There had been depths in those little bright eyes which his glance had not been able to sound, and the man's manner in making him accept the handbill had given the whole transaction a kind of ludicrous significance.
Anyhow, it seems, as though that handbill is a genuine piece of downright foolishness.
II Eustace was impressionable but not temperamentally morbid, and he was troubled a little by the fact that the gruesomely bizarre handbill continued to recur to his mind.
Illustration: Reproduction of front and back of original handbill distributed on London streets in 1831, to advertise Master M'Kean.
Illustration: Handbill used by the original Indian jugglers in England during 1818, in which the sword-swallowing trick is featured.
Illustration: Reproduction of a handbill distributed on the streets of London in September, 1822.
Illustration: Very rare Testot handbill printed about 1800, presented by Testot to Henry Evanion.
In my collection is thehandbill of a stone-swallower who exhibited at No.
There came a morning when the people saw a handbill posted upon the walls which said that the men who were misleading the people were bankrupt in purse and character.
He knew that the sentiments of the handbill were those of Mr. Shrimpton, and suspected that his hand had penned it.
It was a tantalizing handbill which Benjamin Edes printed on his press at Watertown.
A handbill was, at the same time, posted about the town, notifying the people of Boston and the vicinity to be present at the same time and place, to witness their resignation.
Probably the following handbill is referred to: "Brethren and Fellow Citizens!
On the morning of December 14, the following handbill appeared in Boston: Friends!
She imagines she has been insulted by this bit of flattery, hence these tears," and he held out the handbill for inspection.
That abominable handbill turned my brain, I do believe; and I thought I was learning to control my temper!
Dexie pointed to the crumpled handbill that she had tossed under the table as she threw off her wraps, and her father stooped and picked it up, then smoothing it across his knee read the cause of offence.
The captain, who had carefully dogged his steps thus far, entered the boat also; and employed the short interval of transit to the opposite bank in a perusal of the handbill which he had kept for his own private enlightenment.
The handbill revealed plainly enough that the man's next object was to complete the necessary arrangements with the local solicitor on the subject of the promised reward.
But if the inference which the handbill suggested was correct--if she was really alone at that moment in the city of York--where was she likely to be?
He immediately replied, to the best practical purpose, by producing the handbill from his pocket.
If my mind had not been made up before, that vilehandbill would have decided me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handbill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: advertisement; bill; insert; leaflet; pamphlet; placard; poster; promotion; publication
