10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HANDSTURN»
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handsturn in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
handsturn and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Their blood was up and they were declaring toaone another they would not do
another handsturn until .paid their wages. For two days we were left alone, for the
manager and the overseer had left with the sheriff. The Men made no stir, waiting
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Land and Freedom: An International Record of Single Tax Progress
... we indicate those individual members of the com— munity who are engaged in
producing. Is there not still another class we may call Idlers? Do you not
everywhere find persons who are doing no handsturn of work of any description
and ...
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The Australian Captive: Or, An Authentic Narrative of ...
After we got on board, however, the deposed officer called all hands aft, on to the
quarter-deck ; stated his grievance, and told them, that they were not men, if they
would do another handsturn of work, before they saw him put to his duty.
William Jackman, Israel Chamberlayne, 1859
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Jennett Cragg, the Quakeress
I am glad to see thee employing thyself," said she, " for idleness is the parent of
vice and folly ; thou wast ever a handy lad ; and as Molly will have much to do
whilst I am away, thou mayest as well stay here, and give her a handsturn
whenever ...
HANDSTURN, a turn of work. HAND-TIED, unable to leave a job you are
engaged in. HAND-WAVE, to " streek " a measure of corn with the hand by
waving or passing the fingers over it to leave good measure. HANDY, a hand-
basin; also a ...
Richard Oliver Heslop, 1894
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A Glossary of the Dialect of the Hundred of Lonsdale: North ...
“She niver duz a handsturn ”= She never turns her hand to any labour. Handy,
adj. ready, expert, clever. S.G. handig, nimble, quick, active. Handy-cuffs, n.
blows. Hang-gallows, n. a villain, a fellow who deserves the gallows. Hang in the
bell ...
Robert Backhouse Peacock, John Christopher Atkinson, 1869
HANDSTAFF, the handle of a flail. The moveable end is called the " soople " or "
swingle." HANDSTURN, a turn of work. HAND-TIED, unable to leave a job you
are engaged in. HAND- WAVE, to " streek " a measure of corn with the hand by ...
Isaw his handsturn into fists. Every sensation was new. Every amicable
impression of him changed, and he was a hunter. Hewas like that, back when we
used to hunt. Now it'sjustanimals and blood bags, butIguess Iwas okaywith that.
Even if ...
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Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi ...
170 ipse dominus dives, operis et laboris And your plutocrat of a master, that
never expers, does a handsturn of work himself, takes it quodcumque homini
accidit libere, posse retur: for granted that any whim that comes into a man's head
can ...
Titus Maccius Plautus, 2012
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Nature in Books: Some Studies in Biography
... who unremittingly and ungrudgingly have with will and fervour devoted
themselves to an art or an idea, but among tricky speculators and men who
would laugh to scorn the suggestion that they had ever done a handsturn at
anything except ...
Peter Anderson Graham, 1891
