"Handy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as I pointed out a while ago, it would have been handy if Darry or Burd had been with us when we saw that poor ...
— The Campfire Girls of Roselawn - A Strange Message from the Air • Margaret Penrose
... had no time to effect, with all his works, before their friend came to ask whether they were relieved about their sister, and was amused at the handy little schoolboy's ingenious preparations. 'After all, I find it is to be more of an affair than I expected; I thought it was to be only ourselves and the Brandons, but they are the kind of people who always pick ...
— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge
... give me a civil answer at all events, and maybe help me to find my aunt, so I'll just speak to you," I thought to myself. "Please, sir," said I, stepping up to him, "can you tell me if a young woman called Bretta Wetherholm lives any way handy here?" He looked at me very hard as I spoke, with some surprise in his countenance. Then I recollected myself; "that was her name, I mean, sir," said I; "it's now Mrs Kelson, I am told. Her husband is Tom Kelson. Yes, ...
— Will Weatherhelm - The Yarn of an Old Sailor • W.H.G. Kingston
... I became an Irishman. But after escaping and getting home I managed to change back into an Icelander, as ye may see! Well, in my father's younger days, before I was born—which was a pity! for he needed help sorely at that time, and I would have been just the man to turn myself handy to any sort of work; however, it wasn't my fault,—in his younger days, my father one summer went over from Iceland to Norway,— his ship loaded till she could hardly float, with skins and peltry, chiefly grey wolves. It's my opinion ...
— The Norsemen in the West • R.M. Ballantyne
... duels—a harmless institution whereby the protagonists honour themselves; they confer, as it were, a patent of virility. The country people are as warmblooded as the citizens, but they rarely indulge in suicides because—well, there are no hospitals handy, and the doctor may be out on his rounds. It ...
— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas
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