You'll find me a right handy partner when it comes to fightin', an' I kin back ye up with a gang what will wade through gore fer me.
It came in handy when I saw Pede gittin' keerless with his knife an' goin' fer to cut you up.
Well, with a little handy steamboat that would crawl in wherever there was a beach the ranchers could haul their stuff down to, and a policy of general conciliation, one could cut the ground right from under him.
She has built up the coast trade enough to make it easy for us to raise the money to buy another boat--I'm hanging right on to that trade too--and I know of a handy steamer.
Yes, but I didn't see any of them around yesterday who were handy enough to do your auctioneering.
I explained that it would possibly come very handy to have her Saratoga trunk along occasionally to help satisfy the landlords of our responsibility.
After all, an ark might come in handy soon, if we are going to have a flood.
I bent my ear to the keyhole: then stepp'd to a cask of bullets that stood handy by.
He spun round twice and dropp'd: which I was wondering at (the pistol being but a poor weapon for aim) when I was caught by the arm and pull'd behind a clump of bushes handy by.
When we get into the country these unpleasant people inhabit, I will fill my spirit-flask with it, so that it will always be handy if required.
I have no doubt we can exchange it into silver profitably; besides, it is much more handy for carrying about.
Oh, it's a wonderfully handy situation; they couldn't have picked a better!
Possibly they might find the station a handy place to stop at.
This will be foundhandy for many odds and ends of boyish treasures too cumbersome to be stored away in drawers and boxes.
The small brush ishandy for the shelves and corners.
I’ve found that a tool chest isn’t as handy to have in the work shop as a tool cabinet; so I’m going to tell you how to make a good tool cabinet with less expense of money, material and labor than a tool chest would require.
Of course I could not make curtains, for a boy is more handy with a hammer than a needle; but when mother found what I was up to, she said she’d give me the curtains if I could do all the rest.
Here are the handy men of the army--the divisional engineers with their great pontoons, and their confreres the signallers--wise men with buzzers and telephones and other signalling paraphernalia bedecking their horses and waggons.
With the two cruisers lying handy on the threatened flank, the troops waited anxiously for news.
My master could keep anything he liked," said the boy proudly; and Dick took a two-shilling piece out of his trousers pocket and placed it handy in his vest.
Placing this convenient to his hand, he also took a large blotter, arranged in it a sheet of paper, and wrote in the date and some half-dozen lines, before moving blotter and letter into a handy position.
Gunsight on, fuel tanks almost full, propulsion tubes racked handy to his hand, space patches ready to be grabbed and slapped on in case an enemy shot holed helmet or suit.
He slapped his knee pouches to make sure the space knife was handy to his left hand and the pistol to his right.
The men of the Special Order Squadrons, searching for a handy nickname, had called themselves Planeteers, because most of their work was on the planets.
They were looked upon as the "handy men," the men who had done the greatest portion of the work during the campaign.
We'll keep a stick handy to-night, in case of any more raids.
He swung forward his carbine where it would be handy for instant service and trotted ahead into the darkness.
I waited two hours," said the miller plaintively, "and you know that she is a handy wench, and very fond of me.
And just as one girl is pretty nearly as good as another--if she is handy and sturdy--so one husband is as good as another, if he can keep a house over you.
You seem to be a handy wench," observed the miller.
Nosey began to lay all the blame on the axe, and said, "If it had not stood up so handy near the door, I wouldn't have killed the man.
Julia was prudent and said little; it was best not to say too much to a man who was so handy with the family axe.
He looks nice, and, as he bikes, he'll come in handy as escort to a pair of unprotected females.
I said he looked as if he were nice, and also that he would come in handy as an escort for two unprotected females.
Just get a good grip of your clubs, boys, and keep your revolvers handy in case they think they have a call to stop us.
It's handy for closing up a warehouse when some clerk with his wits a-wandering forgits his job.
I don't want you to kill any one, but it may come in handy as an evidence of your good intentions.
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Keep your buglehandy and sound it when Wort says, 'Charge!
You see I can't go fishin' in this storm, and it comeshandy to be employed as a substitute at the station.
No sooner had our driver got rid of his load of flesh and clay than he sought the handy ale-house, to bait his cattle and moisten his sorrow.
If you haven't got the dime handy I can add it on the bill.
I bought a pound of tenpenny nails, that I thought would come in handy in patching fences at home, and while the clerk was weighing 'em up I saw Tobe leave his chair behind a counter and go out and walk around the hoss.
