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Example sentences for "handgrips"

Lexicographically close words:
handers; handes; handful; handfull; handfuls; handgun; handhold; handholds; handicap; handicapped
  1. As the Scottish masses moved forward they were assailed with showers of arrows, and the wild Galwegians raced to handgrips just as, for centuries thereafter, the Highland clans were to charge, brandishing their swords and yelling ‘Albanach!

  2. The archers came to a stand, still plying their bows; and the heavy infantry pushed up between their intervals and came to handgrips with the English.

  3. Since poor Deeping's murder I had come to handgrips with the assassins more than once, but Hassan had proved too clever for me, too clever for Scotland Yard.

  4. The peculiar handgrips at bow and stern are characteristic, though the shape and size of the grips vary among the villages; the style shown is that of St. Michaels.

  5. The Chukchi kayak differs only in the ends, which are wholly functional and without the handgrips that distinguish the Alaskan type.

  6. Some Indians rotated the drill between the palms of their hands, or by a string with handgrips at each end.

  7. Thus the old borderer; and being only too eager to come to handgrips with the enemy, we were up and running faster than ever Joab's messenger ran, long before the old man finished with his Scriptural simile.

  8. The shower cabinet was a cubbyhole with handgrips on all four sides and straps into which one could slip his feet.

  9. He ascended and went along the curious corridor--it had handgrips on the walls so a man could pull himself along it when there was no weight--and went to the engine room.


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