Taking a handful of gravel he threw it with unerring aim at a window on the second floor.
There should be a handful of oats left in the corners of the bags up in the old loft; and if not, he'll may-be find some dry hay in the byre.
Each had a shield and a handful of spears; about one in ten was furnished with some sort of firearm, which was of more danger to himself or his neighbor than to any one else.
Each of these ladies in succession taking a handful of yellow rice, threw it over us, repeating some mystical words, and dilating on our heroic deeds, and then they sprinkled our heads with gold-dust.
And were it possible to make even the possession of the cupful or handful permanent (i.
It is true that a cupful does not, but a lake does; just as a handful of dust does not, but an acre does.
There are two rocks in mid-sea, on each of which, neglected equally by instructive and commercial powers, a handful of inhabitants live as they may.
This, with a handful of army artillerists, was the entire force.
Whenever we got this chance we put our loads on a handful of willow-brush and dragged them after us, finding it far easier than carrying them on our shoulders.
After we had boiled our last handful of tea-leaves three times over, Saltatha ate them with great gusto, and in future we drank the water in which the meat was boiled.
Following him, Fleda saw that the Romanys had broken camp, and only a small handful remained, among them the woman who had befriended her.
With a mere handful of dollars, and some debts, he left the world of scholarship and superior pedagogy, and went where the head offices of railways were.
When the old Indian knew his loss, he gave a harsh cry and stooped, and, gathering a handful of dust from the ground, sprinkled it on his head.
Dinah opened a bag and took out a handful of coffee berries, which she roasted over the fire in a small frying-pan which she had brought in addition to the pot.
He was so moved that he had difficulty in keeping back his tears, and he felt a deep relief when the last gun had fired, and the cheers given by his own handful of men and by those on board the prizes had ceased.
I having got a handful of ground-nuts for my support that day, they gave me my load, and I went on cheerfully, with the thoughts of going homeward, having my burthen more upon my back than my spirit.
Here one asked me to make a shirt for her papoose, for which she gave me a mess of broth which was thickened with meal made of the bark of a tree; and to make it better she had put into it about a handful of peas and a few roasted ground-nuts.
Your whole tribe would appear but as a handful of dust in the eyes of the Hova army.
According to promise, Ranavalona had set out from her palace that morning without her wonted display and ceremonial, with only a few of her courtiers and a handful of troops around her.
Its essence is a mystery in which only a handful are initiated.
They were now reduced to a handful of raw maize a day.
To a handful of hungry men, without food and without ships, even the gardens of Granada appeared hateful.
These successes were obtained with only forty-seven men--a mere handful being able to keep up in the rapid and headlong charge.
While, with these thoughts, standing with eye directed forward towards thathandful of sailors, suddenly he thought that one or two of them returned the glance and with a sort of meaning.
The boy would then leave the office, jingling a few pence, and reappear with a handful of ginger-nuts, which he delivered in the hermitage, receiving two of the cakes for his trouble.
And yet I reflect that I should doubtless be a better man, even with a shrewish wife and a handful of heavy, unattractive children.
So she ran hither and yon, trying to drive the silly handful toward the little grange where they were kept.
The usual handfulof three or four passengers alighted, and exchanging remarks up and down the village street, quickly disappeared within the generous portals of their hereditary houses.
All so active and busy about their own concerns, all living on a handfulof rice--no wonder they succeed where others fail, with their ceaseless energy and thrifty habits.
It is known that, according to the Parsee burial, each body is reduced to one handful of dust.
Some kind friend had given some copies of a leaflet containing it and a few other new songs to this little handful of Christians, and they were singing them as if they had been a thousand strong.
He drew out a meager handful of nickels and pennies, his vacant smile grown wistful.
Ma auld tittie has dee'd and left me some siller,' Merton dragged a handful of dirty notes out of his trousers pocket.
All three sprang up in a rage, looked up, and received another handful of coppers in their faces.
Through the crowded streets I urged my way, escorted by a handful of Meer Jaffier's horsemen, and seeing on every hand the tokens of the anarchy which had followed upon the news of Plassy.
After that I know no more, for when the morning broke, and the officers came to release the handful left alive, the energy that had held me up so long forsook me, and I sank down unconscious.
I have done my best to procure a peace, knowing the risk I run by undertaking the attack of an army of forty thousand men with the little handful I have here under my command.
Do you believe the paltry handful of English whom you drove out of Calcutta count for anything in the strength of our nation?
Sedgwick asserts with truth, that all despatches to him assumed that he had but a handful of men in his front, and that the conclusions as to what he could accomplish, were founded upon utterly mistaken premises.
Four months before, a mere handful of the enemy had successfully held these defences against half the Army of the Potomac; and an attack without careful dispositions seemed to be mere waste of life.
We have very little central authority, and only a handful of officials.
They expressed sorrow at the fact that Captain Jinks had taken such a resolution when only a handful of the fair women of St. Lewis had had the opportunity of saluting him.
He paused abruptly by a little table, and took up a handful of splintered wood and tangled catgut.
You amuse yourself," he said sternly, looking straight at her over the handful of raisins which she tendered him, "by wearying my friends.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
