There you are, displaying your handinessfrom the very beginning.
Only do be quick and illustrate the handiness of which you bragged.
This handiness of the men was in part the result of their native Yankee ingenuity and strong self-reliance.
The author does not wish to create the impression that this handiness and mechanical skill was wholly confined to the Twenty-ninth Regiment.
Katy made an excellent wife; she took home her husband's old mother and nursed her with a dutifulness and energy worthy of all praise, and made her own keen outward faculties and deft handiness a compensation for the defects in worldly estate.
She was skilful in all sewing and embroidery, in all shaping and cutting, with a quiet and deft handinessthat constantly surprised her energetic mother, who could not conceive that so much could be done with so little noise.
At the Lech (1632) Gustavus seems to have obtained a local superiority over his opponent owing to the handiness of his field artillery even more than by its fire-power.
An awkward address, ungraceful attitudes and actions, and a certain left-handiness (if I may use the expression) proclaim low education.
A great deal is now said about "technical education"; but how little there is of technical handiness or head work!
Well," he said, "you may go on in your own way in the use of your left hand, but I fear you will be an awkward fellow in everything that requires handiness in life.
General handiness is one of the many valuable results that issues from the practice of handling the variety of materials which are more or less employed in mechanical structures.
They soon gave evidence of their general handiness and efficiency in all the departments of work in which they were engaged.
The taste of the workman and the handiness of the seaman enabled him to furnish his rooms at the Hospital in a most quaint and amusing manner.
Fritz was hurling plenty of "hate" at the solitary little craft, and only her speed and handiness saved her from annihilation.
Nevertheless, the dauntless little craft went about their work, nothing but their small size and handinesssaving them from annihilation by the terrifically hot fire maintained by the enemy.
It may have been the memory of this, or it may have been his ghastly handinesswith the butcher’s knife, or perhaps the thought of my cosy quarters at Miskitchee, that made me resolve that go to that place I would not.
Here, then, I had a splendid opportunity of witnessing the really wonderful handiness of Russian peasants in extremities.
The two hundred ships of varying rates of speed and handiness could not move in the ordered lines of a modern naval armament, but streamed along in an irregular procession, closing up when they anchored for the night.
Even if she had not been half-sinking already, the Chinese ship had neither the speed nor handiness to ram the swiftest ship in the enemy's line.
In view of the subject of this book--namely, the transition from an old social order to present times--it should be considered whether the handiness of the villagers is after all quite so natural a thing as is commonly supposed.
But Turner's manner is so ingratiating that people have a personal liking for him, and it is certain that his strength and all-round handiness make of him an extremely useful man.
The girls quickly gathered and, after due examination, expressed by cries of praise their admiration of the handiness and deftness displayed by the two girls, and the first tent feast was held.
In this they simulated sewing, taking their stitches with a precision and handiness that rivalled the little maids of Puritan days.
A knowledge of carpenter work also develops in a boy a handiness for devising and putting together articles and apparatus for his own use.
If the bank clerk had surprised them all by his handiness on board ship, and by making a crane to swing the pots over the fire, he surprised them all still more in these days by an apparent eclipse of his talents.
This weapon has all the advantages of quickness and handiness of mounting to the shoulder, so essential in snap-shooting, and yet fires a conical bullet (see fig.
In the ‘Paradox’ all the advantages connected with the lightness andhandiness of a gun have been retained, while great accuracy when fired as a rifle with a smashing conical bullet has been added.
Many of the inferior machines show marked improvements over the better sorts, so far as handiness goes, while there is nothing to hinder the handy from being good and the good handy.
Handiness becomes the more desirable as the machines are smaller, but handiness is not to be despised even in a large machine, except where solidity is sacrificed to obtain it.
But these elements of superiority would be to some extent neutralized by the greater handiness of his own machine in navigating the narrow gorges of the valley.
His lesser speed and the greater handinessof his aeroplane enabled him to fly out at the exit without the almost certainty of dashing against the cliff.
With the stiffly drilled professional soldier of England, Austria and Russia the handiness of the new weapon could hardly have been exploited, for (in Russia at any rate) even skirmishers had to march in step.
First, the handiness of the musket was so far improved that one man could reload while five, instead of as formerly ten, fired.
Bob inherited his handiness from his father, who seemed a master of all crafts, a true Yankee genius.
