The quality of being at hand when needed.
1 When you come to try this method, you will appreciate its handiness .
2 Everything depends on the perfect discipline and handiness of your crew.
3 He had a specific technique, a professional's handiness with the brass.
4 What the Basutus gain in art and handiness they lose in manliness and gentlemanly feeling.
5 What I prize most is safety, and in the second place swift transit and handiness .
6 Nearly all of them had the handiness then required for life in a new country.
7 Rifle exercises have for their purpose the development of " handiness " with the piece.
8 The English galleon gradually developed more sail and gun power as well as handiness in action.
9 Besides, their speed and superior handiness give them a pull over us, when fighting under sail.
10 He missed Jaina's handiness with flames as they lit fires against the encroaching darkness and cold.
11 When the 'Ariel'-forso they called her-arrived ,thefriends were delighted with her speed and handiness .
12 She and Mrs. Burton had both marvelled that day at the exceeding handiness displayed by Jervis Ferrars.
13 Considering this, and the well-known handiness of Americans, there need surely be no disease and death from privation.
14 Mr. Potts, having carefully removed all traces of his handiness , gazes with recovered courage on the coming foe.
15 Bob inherited his handiness from his father, who seemed a master of all crafts, a true Yankee genius.
16 But the wheel plough, having grown up, as it were, out of the soil, fulfils the condition of handiness .
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