How To Use Handiness In A Sentence
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Women were forced to be notable housekeepers; men were compelled to attend to every detail of masculine labor in their households and on their farms, thus acquiring and developing a "handiness" at all trades, which has become a Yankee trait.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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A handiness for visualizing in six dimensions or for abstracting the motion of a pendulum favors an agility of mind but apparently has little to do with anything else.
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It is a ‘butcher's block’ bench, simple and easy to construct (given my lack of handiness, it would have to be.)
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Rifle exercises have for their purpose the development of "handiness" with the piece.
Military Instructors Manual
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We have got some big ones and they are getting to be whales regarding the size and unhandiness of them.
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Their compactness and convenience is appealing, but for pure handiness and rough and ready durability, the fixed-blade sheath knife is still king and the choice of most seasoned outdoorsmen.
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Although Paulette is suffocating under his egotism, there is a great scene in which she watches the great man at work and is entranced by his handiness with a brush and paint.
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= The object of these exercises, which may also be performed with wands or bar bells, is to develop the muscles of the arms, shoulders, and back so that the men will become accustomed to the weight of the piece and learn to wield it with that "handiness" so essential to its successful use.
Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition
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Concentrating on the high-class image of Bussel, we came up with an innovative idea that could remove the unhandiness of existing stoves.
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Though a little awkward at first in the use of his unfamiliar implements, his practice in all athletic accomplishments bestowed on him that invaluable quality which is termed "handiness," and he soon distinguished himself by the superior activity and neatness with which he performed his work.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 02
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He then made himself a star through his handiness in combat - verbal and physical.
Times, Sunday Times
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he can do any sort of work requiring handiness and dexterity
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It is due to the high overhead and the unhandiness of the previous fault-tolerance systems.
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Some linguists have attributed the appeal of this misinterpretation to its "handiness" as a rhetorical device and an optimistic "call to action.
Fragments From Floyd
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Obviously art teachers aren't hired for their handiness.
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From his Indian half he had his love of tramping which made him choose the wandering trade of trunk pedler; his French half made him a good trader and talker; while his Yankee half endowed him with a universal Yankee trait, a "handiness," which showed in scores of gifts and accomplishments and knacks that made him as warmly greeted everywhere as were his attractive trunks.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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An attempt to increase the magnifying power would inevitably lead to a reduction of the field of vision and to an unhandiness of such spectacles.
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Calluna, the flowering shrub also known as heather, seems to have been appreciated not so much for its beauty as its handiness as a broom.
From the Teeth of the Lion to the Dandelion
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One was a singular "handiness" about doing anything and everything, from laying out a railroad or organizing a political party, down to sewing on buttons, shoeing a horse, or setting a broken leg, or a hen.
Roughing It
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Handiness with a needle and thread made her eldest child the obvious choice for such a task.
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He can do any sort of work requiring handiness and dexterity.
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They become ‘unhandy’ and in this unhandiness they fail to serve the function that they had served so inconspicuously up to that point.
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The instruction shall aim at providing he pupil with the general handiness which is of great importance to every man, especially to the manual laborer, and also with skill in some home industry (sloyd) most suitable to the general public of our land.
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By 1998, the publisher began producing mini books only because the public ‘just liked the handiness of a smaller phone book.’
