Of course, this may have been due to the fact that the traffic was so skilfullyhandled that it defied their inquiries.
Rain had ceased and the mist had cleared shortly after dusk, as often happens at this time of year, and because the night was comparatively clear the pursuing boats had to be handled with care.
For use in a water-creamery, ice is most conveniently cut and handled when not more than fifteen or sixteen inches thick.
She handled it gingerly, and as I gazed at the small gray piece of chalky secretion, something of her own awe of it communicated itself to me.
He knew also exactly how many cubic yards of soil or gravel could be handled by any particular gang.
He handled the sticks of giant-powder with due circumspection, and no longer exposed himself to any unnecessary hazard from falling stones.
They undoubtedly had material for a fine team, and it was being handled in a most careful and vigorous way.
They have already engaged Mr. Moulton, the veteran trainer, who has handled Crum so well in his running-work this year.
He ought to have handled the warning she had given him in another way.
The professor's sister put up a long-handled eye-glass as if to scan the novel surroundings, but in reality searching for poor Arthur anxiously.
But their wonder was soon changed to admiration at seeing the perfect skill with which Dantes handled the helm.
The British had been so roughly handled that they were unable to advance for three or four days, until the entire army came up.
He not only guided his craft, but himself handled the torpedo by means of two small ropes, one of which put it in place, while the other exploded it.
Both of these men handled their little vessels with remarkable courage, skill, and success, fighting them to the last, and inflicting serious and heavy damage upon the Union fleet.
A man inured to hardships can fast with very little thought about the matter, but he decided if Jolycoeur had not yethandled this meal he might hazard some last service from a man who had missed so many opportunities.
The Abbe's ragged cassock scarcely showed such wear as his face, which the years that had handled him could by no means have cut into such deep grooves or moulded into such ghastly hillocks of features.
However, after a moment's hesitation, she lifted her long-handled eyeglass and read it.
Since Natalie was probably saved, why trouble himself and her with the exposition of mysteries which she would be unable to comprehend, and concerning which the injunction was laid that they be "handled with especial care.
But at the least I had kept Harry occupied with something besides his amatory troubles, and at the best we had two heavy, easily handled bars of metal that would prove most effective weapons against foes who had none whatever.
The children were ugly little devils and the woman very little above a brute; still we handled them as tenderly as possible.
It took us some time to get it to the edge of the water, though it was close by, for we handled it with extreme care, that it might not be torn on the rocks.
Plainly it was not the first time they had handled men in that wise.
My knowledge of the ways in which Carl handled his men would be of use to him, and a place and honour would wait me.
Not for one moment did they falter, but with an unerring movement, gracefully and uninterruptedly handled this cumbersome article, which must have had a soothing effect.
In the gallery sat parties in groups; over each stood stalwart coolies, in whose hands were held a long-handled palm-leaf fan.
Every holy secret of human nature, all those subjects of which the grace and the power consists in their exquisite delicacy and tender refinement, were here handled with coarse fingers.
In short, they all handled the subjects which were allotted to them, so as plainly to show that wisdom was given to them from on high.
I knew he had more green money in his clothes that minute than he'd handled in a month before, but he acted as sheepish as if he was goin' to strike 'em for a loan.
The cannon of the fort had been very well handled and the accuracy of the rifle practice had been remarkable.
More than all, and he said so as he rode onward, he had been spoken to by the Big Knife of the palefaces, and he had not only seen but had handled the "heap medicine knife" itself.
We beat it on the run for the place he pointed out, and as we started away I seen him throw out his chest and say to one of the dames, "That's the way those stars should be handled all the time!
There were no chests among them, but the canvas clothes-bags were the genuine article, and they shouldered and handled them as only sailors can.
There was little need of gun fire now; but the forward-turret guns belched once during the charge, and the more quickly handled eight- and six-inch rifles stormed away while there was time to reload.
Philadelphia, and other manufacturing chemists, make compressed tablets or wafers, which are very convenient and easily handled by any person of average understanding.
While the workmen were stretched off on the ground in groups eating their lunch Hauke rode along the deserted works and his eyes were keen to discover spots where careless hands had handled the spade.
He is a box that contains many good wares, but is to be handled with care.
His sword and scabbard were the only really soldierly things about him, and were handled about as awkwardly as we had handled ours, when first transformed from citizens into officers, two or three years before.
We realized that we were within shot of friends; that five minutes before, that piece of iron had been handled by "boys in blue," under the protecting folds of the stars and stripes.
She handled it so deftly with her white hands, and used such skillful surgery that, by the grace of God, who loveth all true lovers, the shoulder came back to its place.
Kraus, writes of this elaborate production as follows: "Neither before nor since has the subject matter of this work been handled with such skill and thoroughness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
