It was an unhandy weapon for single-shot work but it was loaded with explosive shells.
The sub-machine gun was unhandy for accurate single shots, and no pistol can be used to effect at long ranges.
Sooth to say, neither were the horses big or good, nor the men fit for the work, saving for their hardihood; and their spears were short withal and their bucklersunhandy to wield.
Then he threw the unhandy weapon into the air whirling, and caught it as it came to hand again, so that it balanced on his palm, and so he held it as I went to him, and told him the king would speak with him.
The pole-axe man hit you with the flat of hisunhandy weapon.
Sarah had managed to pry apart the shells with her unhandy weapon far enough to nibble a wee bit at the cold and clammy world within.
They are also unhandy in directing the flame on parts of the work.
Illustration: The Filed Edge on the Coiled Metal Retains the Sand Particles as It is Rubbed over the Glass Surface] Long Handle for a Dustpan [Illustration] The dustpan is a rather unhandy utensil to use, especially for stout persons.
He was standing south at the time, the wind being well in the north-east; and Martin Alonso Pinzon, whose caravel pointed into the wind much better than the unhandy Santa Maria, was standing to the east.
It was good to see the run of the decks clear again from that unhandy barrier.
The unhandy canvas set us to leeward, and, moreover, the water gained quickly as the strained upper planking was hove down with the new list of the ship.
Then we set it up as best we might with the running rigging, and so had a mightily unhandy three-cornered sail of doubled canvas.
But he spoke too late, for as Griffin stepped back a pace on seeing his enemy himself in the doorway, Havelok had gone a pace forward, and now was outside, where he had a clear swing of his unhandy weapon.
It seemed unhandy to me, but I had no time to think of it for a moment, for now Cadwal had a last question.
