Their method was, on reaching a village where there were no chuff troops, to distribute certain handbills which Bleak had been able to get printed by stealth.
These handbills thus coming into the hands of the privates were passed about secretly, until the officers got wind of the device, and complained to the Americans.
When the wind was setting toward the British lines at Charlestown, the Americans at the Medford lines scattered handbills that were driven to the British sentries.
Glassdale pulled out the two handbillswhich he had obtained from Bryce.
From them he extracted the two handbills which Mitchington had given him and handed them over.
I think, myself, that it was not just the fair thing to send those handbills broadcast without making her acquainted with the contents beforehand.
By and by they passed a fence that was covered with posters, and in the most conspicuous place Dexie saw the obnoxious handbills with their great, staring letters.
Humphry Price, for issuing inflammatory handbills at the time of the late strike between the Kidderminster weavers and their masters, was made absolute.
The judge told the jury the handbills were libellous, so they returned a verdict of guilty.
The superintendent, who was then Major Cullen, had handbills struck off, giving the description of the deserters, and offering $600 for their capture and the return of the money.
Couriers were dispatched in all directions to effect their arrest, and one of the handbills reached Henderson, which was the county seat of Sibley county, some twenty miles down the river from the point at which I took the stage.
No sooner had the handbills been issued, than a most scurrilous placard appeared, calculated to inflame the passions of the ignorant, and to make them act after their kind.
I want them handbillsyou just got printed," replied the spokesman.
At three o'clock Artie went to the printing-office, and found the handbills all ready for him.
And we had no other leads on the handbills at that time.
I had previously received the information early in the morning from the sheriff's office that such handbills had been found on the streets.
Isaac and I often worked all night putting up handbills for our meetings, for in those days there were no professional bill-posters.
I was too young to vote, but I remember my brother George and I posting political handbills at three o'clock in the morning; this hour was not so inconvenient for us, for we were bakers.
Raymond ordered, pointing to a litter of handbills where the wavelets lapped the marge of seaweed.
Seeking the widest possible publicity the free speech committee had printed and circulated thousands of handbills in Everett to call attention to the proposed meeting.
Stirring appeals were made by the authorities, new bodies of militia were ordered to be raised, handbills calculated to arouse the people were issued, but all with unsatisfactory results.
Handbills were issued giving information of the advance of the enemy, and to awaken the indignation of the people printed sheets were circulated describing the insults to which the women of New Jersey had been subjected.
Church's defection encouraged the tories, and on the 6th, handbills appeared in Boston, reminding the patriots of the fate of Wat Tyler.
He'd got a flag-basket with handbills in it over his shoulder.
He had seen some handbills carrying the insinuation that there was a discreditable indebtedness to Jermyn on the part of the Transomes.
I again put out handbills warning the mobility of Exeter of riot; and at the show of hands by the Sheriff the mob held up both their hands, and there was a great majority of legal (loyal) votes.
There are handbills describing the appearance of Berwin in every police office in the kingdom.
Advertise a full description of the man who called himself Berwin, note his physical peculiarities and looks, and circulate such description by means of handbills and newspapers.
Handbills inviting tenders for the work have for some time been in circulation.
The county magistrates, assembled for other business at the Shirehall, Norwich, ordered the printing of 3,000 handbills giving notice of the murder.
Nothing could be done now but to wait and see what effect the advertisements and handbills would have in discovering her whereabouts.
Thomas Saffold knew well the value of advertising, and scattered his very varied handbills broadcast.
Saffold, originally a weaver, who distributed his handbills broadcast, advertising his ability to cure every disease under the sun.
A few of us at Deptford, where I then resided, had had printed a quantity of handbills announcing the debate with the Rev.
During the week following the 24th the excitement continued to increase, and morehandbills and placards were distributed.
Have handbills printed, and send out sandwich-men.
Oswald inquired at the printers in Greenwich, and handbillswere an awful price, and sandwich-men a luxury far beyond our means.
I want a boy to distribute handbills in front of the saloon.
Sam returned to his post, and began to distribute handbills once more.
They can be used for a variety of purposes; but they will be found most particularly serviceable for distributing handbills and posters, especially in inaccessible places.
We have it on the very best of authority that the discharge of handbills from aërial bombs is to be entirely surpassed as a method for advertising a commodity, by a new and protected process.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handbills" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
