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Example sentences for "handiwork"

Lexicographically close words:
handiest; handily; handiness; handing; handis; handkercher; handkerchief; handkerchiefs; handle; handlebars
  1. For even to-day whoever has mastered the first principles of the new philosophy cannot look at the commonest product of man's handiwork without perceiving something of its evolutional history.

  2. Whatsoever was not the fresh handiwork of the soul and true to its present demand was bad for that soul.

  3. Even costumes should be the handiwork of the scenic artist.

  4. The reader mentally producing a play from the book in his hand looks through a magic casement at what he gloriously will instead of through a proscenium arch at the handiwork of a mere human producer.

  5. They are the true children of the soil, Nature's product unadulterated, the specimen of her human handiwork in this special environment.

  6. From hence may have come the Toltecs originally, with their wonderful native knowledge and stone-shaping arts, among famous objects of whose handiwork is the famous Calendar Stone, to be seen in the Museum of Mexico.

  7. It was the handiwork of the poor French creature, that had no other Christian employment but making these and suchlike, out of sheep-shanks and marrow bones.

  8. You commented favourably upon that supreme of lobster and the Ris de Veau a la Renaissance we tasted last week, but never again will you meet the handiwork of Narcisse.

  9. They are such that the lowliest among Thy creatures hath been made by Thee a manifestation of Thy most august attribute, and the most contemptible token of Thy handiwork hath been chosen as a recipient of Thy most mighty name.

  10. Cut on one of these pillars we discovered the crude likeness of a mummy, by the head of which sat what appeared to be the figure of an Egyptian god, doubtless the handiwork of some old-world labourer in the mine.

  11. And he looked into the basket at his handiwork still lying there.

  12. He had been standing by, a stricken witness, but with a common impulse the captain and I turned on him, and he started from contemplation of his handiwork as if he had pulled a secret wire.

  13. It was the handiwork of the poor French creature, that had no other Christian employment but making these and suchlike, out of sheep- shanks and marrow-bones.

  14. Anton Tucher dedicated the Angels' Greeting and also the great bronze chandelier, which may contain the handiwork of both Veit Stoss and Peter Vischer.

  15. As Bertram studied the handiwork of the absent one, his admiration diminished, however, and he withdrew the “Rodin.

  16. Arthur Jones paused, and looked about him bewildered, and yet with a lofty, poetical feeling at his heart, aroused by a sense of the glorious handiwork of the Almighty encompassing him.

  17. There was something in the sublime and lofty handiwork of God which fell soothingly on the sad heart of the Indian.

  18. Yes, Watson, we have come upon the handiwork of a very remarkable individual.

  19. One could almost hear the Devil laughing at the handiwork of his children.

  20. It was a rare opportunity to see the handiwork of the enemy at close quarters, and we did not wish to miss it.

  21. Perhaps in their kindly sentimental way they were satisfied with their previous handiwork there.

  22. At the first sight it appeared to be as unblemished in every part of it as Nature's choicest and most perfect handiwork could be.

  23. Then we instantly say--'Tis the handiwork of a God.

  24. Diderot, as has been justly said, himself the son of a cutler, might well bring handiwork into honour; assuredly he had inherited from his good father's workshop sympathy and regard for skill and labour.

  25. They were the handiwork of a god, who had chosen Mualox for his servant and prophet; such was the judgment of the king.

  26. And if this be the handiwork of Huitzil',--and what more likely?

  27. The handiwork so rudely treated was not as stout as the ships Martin Lopez sailed on the lake.

  28. It was curtained with lace, the handiwork of a Syrian peasant woman, and into the elaborate pattern of which had gone many years of her toil.

  29. The artist in love with the vital qualities of form, or those of his own handiwork in expressing such qualities in modelling-clay, will never stop until he learns how to translate them for himself in marble.

  30. The great merchants of London, Paris, Vienna, New York and Chicago have buyers there picking up curious articles of native handiwork as well as staples like shawls from Cashmere and rugs and carpets from Amritsar.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handiwork" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.