The Senator sighs, nods as I grip the handle. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

What about guns with sensors in the handles that could detect if you were angry, and if you were, they wouldn’t fire, even if you were a police officer? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had gained a new painful experience; the Count could, it was evident, handle the earth-boxes himself. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Bod tried the door handles on the backseat. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I say that it was morally wrong if it was secretly given and secretly handled. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The man with the shovel handle had dropped it and had his hand over his nose. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull back the curtain of ivy where he’s scratching and see moonlight shining off another door handle. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The National Park Service, a bureau of the Department of the Interior, prepared to handle the huge crowd that was expected. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It was stable in the air and easy to handle, and thought of as one of the best Soviet fighter aircraft available. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Her funeral was filled with people, another broken community jammed into a church, this one working to handle the sight of a teenage girl in a casket lined with purple silk. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“You get who you can to show up, I’ll handle the rest.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I will not hush or so handle my heart. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the smaller kids loved to handle that rifle. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Their graying hands stand out in contrast to the black lacquered finish of the rickshaw handles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, to be fair,” I said, “I mean, she probably can’t handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn’t have to handle it. And you do.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The only lines that can handle that are the rover recharge lines. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through Paula, Tracy met Luma, who mentioned that she was looking for a coordinator for her soccer program, someone who could handle team logistics like travel and scheduling and be in charge of tutoring. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Dad gestures for Mom to go in and let him handle this. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I waited to see how Lily would handle this. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Hanging on the handle of the door that gave access to the next compartment was a large-size checked rubber sponge bag. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pounding on his door comes much too early for Alex to handle loud noises. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But are you sure you can manage two kids right now? Are you sure you can handle something else to worry about?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would stay late in Pretoria preparing for our case, or rush back to handle another case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Ted must have passed it around right after practice, because there were all these water spots where wet swimmers had handled it, smudged the ink. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Nat handled their business quickly, while Captain Prince relaxed and waited. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They touch your back as though there’s a handle there, and direct you where they want you to go. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ignatius grabbed the handle of his cart and pushed off. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Astrea managed to beat out of Salem Harbor, every man on board was going to need four arms and six pairs of hands to handle sail. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just when you think you’ve got a handle on ’em, more of ’em show up on deck.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Teddy lingered for a moment at the door, reflectively experimenting with the door handle, turning it slowly left and right. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

My fingers graze the smooth wood and cool brass handle, then clutch it and pull. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias steps back, turns the gun in his hand, and offers it, handle first, to the nearest Dauntless traitor. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I know how to handle records,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

My fingers finally closed on the door handle and only then, as I was climbing out of the car, the moon came out from behind a cloud and I saw the house. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The outside of the Berg was littered with various boxy protrusions and handles for maintenance workers. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He tested the heft and strength of his hoe handle and studied me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, yes, and a sizable winch. The cables wrap around it like a big spool, and the guards just turn it with some kind of handle or wheel.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The rover has external handles near the front and back. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rick said, “It’s going to be hard even for the two of us to take out Luba Luft; she’s more than I could handle, anyhow. Let’s keep our attention focused on that.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My mother taught Prim and I to eat properly, so yes, I can handle a fork and knife. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They thought preschoolers did not have the attention span to handle anything other than very short, tightly focused segments. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sprinted noiselessly across the room, removed the chair from under the door handle and with precaution unlocked and unbolted the door. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I suppose the school board figured that if Mrs. Sidman could pick up two huge rats by the scruff of their necks and carry them through the halls, she could certainly handle middle schoolers. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The officer stalled for a moment, like he was mentally searching his protocol book for how to handle this particular situation. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A big heavy phrase is easier to handle if it comes at the end, when your work assembling the overarching phrase is done and nothing else is on your mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

His knuckles are white around the knife handle as the gate swings open with a moan. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

After a couple of weeks, Painter knew he could trust Kelley to handle the job alone. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I asked, one hand on the passenger side door handle. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The hospital employed top-notch military surgeons and offered excellent rehabilitation services, geared to handle the most devastating of battlefield injuries. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Clamping his arm down, Reggie pinned the man's hand to his side while stabbing at the man's face with the mop handle. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

With my heart beating fast, I would prime the handle frantically and then run back to the shed as fast as I could, spilling half the water on the way. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, but no thanks. I can handle myself just fine.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

That was where the blood and guts and feathers and such were handled. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I think back to the way our own neighbors handled the division of those water bottles, and how so many of them were ready to turn against me, the one who brought it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I pull up Instagram and type in the handle. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In the rearview, I see him gripping the door handle with one fist, clutching his own thigh with the other. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then she turned both handles off and stepped out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the captain gets antsy again, handle him. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They move away from the doorway, but I stand on the edge with one hand on a handle, watching the city pass. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The vault had a five-spoke wheel that controlled the dead bolts and two keyholes on either side of the handle. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"No; listen, Jake. If I handled both our expenses, would you go to South America with me?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was planning to open an office in Paris which would handle his business directly with the big companies, on the spot, and he wanted to know how I felt about going there. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He attached the other end of the cuff to the metal case’s handle. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Bri, let me ask you something. Promise not to fly off the handle, okay?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The moonlight glanced off their polished bone handles. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The first time Sefia let him handle the bow, they used trees for targets. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

His attitude in turn intensified the debate over how to handle him. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To Feltz and many others in Clarkston, the housing plan showed everything that was wrong with the way refugee resettlement was being handled in their town. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It will be locked, he thinks, when he reaches the polished dark-wood door, but the silver handle moves easily as he turns it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m about to lose my eyesight and she can’t handle it.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m very sorry. I wasn’t thinking. I mean, the sex doesn’t matter. You could handle either job. I mean, I’m not concerned with sex.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We don't offer it to everyone. Only a select few whom we believe can handle this type of trust." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Un crespón,” she said, tying it around one of the handles. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was holding a small radio, one of the old ones with a CD player and a handle. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I’d been plowing all afternoon, holding a green cedar club between the plow handles. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on one side of the square is...is that a handle? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dad’s truck might handle better in the rain than Mom’s car, but no one would call it comfortable. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My father used to tease me about it, saying that when I was born he made my cradleboard out of the handle of a wooden spoon. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In general, they weren’t ones to intervene in matters outside schooling, expecting early on that my brother and I should handle our own business. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Mother handled him easily with the casual confidence of a baby nurse, but I dreaded being forced to change his diapers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was, of course, a vague uneasiness about it all, but I would be able to handle that when I came to it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing that I couldn’t handle about the outhouse was the flies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The young mouse strode onwards, his mind working coolly and without fear, confident that he could handle the situation. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Prince Humperdinck’s recluse lived behind the ornate green handle on the bottom door. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The handle was of black leather and silver to match the belt and scabbard. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She gave the pump handle a few quick jerks, hurriedly splashed water on her face, then headed over to the barn, grabbing the feed sack that hung on the fence as she went. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He sits on a chair in the corner, whittling on his mop handle, like he’s turning it into a very thin totem pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She’s doing everything she can to be an easy passenger, but the fact is, there is only so much weight I can handle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

How is she going to handle four classes full of this school’s rejects? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Ugwu will have to handle my class. But I know he can manage.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“An old dear like me being able to handle three spoilt Pollyannas ‘amazingly.’” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The pumpkin had been transformed into a gleaming coach with brass door handles and windows through which lacy curtains peeked. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of injuries to be dealt with, but the tiny sparks handled it all quickly and effectively. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And I saw the newspaper spread open on the kitchen counter, Harold’s glasses on top, his favorite coffee mug with the chipped handle off to the side. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the bin, sitting on top of the trash, was a broken mop handle. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now, with only one day to go until his ninth birthday, Gerald was almost as confident in the kitchen as Aunt Queen, and more important, she trusted him to handle any situation there. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She said she couldn’t handle it,” he told me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

No light switch, no water running free and clear after a turn of a tap handle. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lock was broken, but I’d wedged a chair under the handle. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He selected an old broom handle and a short piece of inch-square scrap wood. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Pam lets Uncle Carlos handle the grill and greets Momma with a hug. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He just didn’t seem to pay any attention to how he handled the boy—as though he didn’t care. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mark gripped the handle of the axe tightly and leaned in, taking little chops instead of full swings at the small but stubborn brackets. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

My parents handled most of my new fans. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“None given. I wouldn’t have put you there if you couldn’t handle it.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Many men in prison were able to handle anything the authorities did to them, but the thought of the state doing the same thing to their families was almost impossible to bear. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you guys think you can handle it, I might let you have a taste,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever known your old man to get himself in a situation he couldn’t handle?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You can trust me. And you can let me be the judge of what I can handle.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And Ran Laurie handled the stroke oar an awful lot like Don Hume. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It’s just that I was sure now that I could handle anything I met: My fists and my brains and my feet were as good a set of charms as the charm from Hand Clap. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the cubbies was a very long, very narrow drawer, as tall as the counter it was set into and only wide enough to accommodate a coin-sized handle. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Any of the friends could have handled the monkey or the antelope meat while they were bouncing around in the Land Rover. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water is almost at the top of the tub, so I leap over Mango and quickly turn the handles. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I stand, holding the handle next to the door for balance. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Finn gripped the handle so tightly he could imagine crushing it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to find it there, difficult for fingers accustomed to grasping the handle of a broadax to pick up an object as tiny as a needle. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved on to the next, and then the door handle turned. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

If the room grew too hot or too cold or she handled the worms too roughly, they died. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He clenched down on the revolver’s handle and steadied his right hand with his left. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m surprised the GSS servers can handle the load, with so much activity in one sector. But there doesn’t seem to be any lag at all.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Never have I been handled more superbly by an interviewer. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot lose either one of them. And if they don’t get back together, August will be impossible to handle.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I say bring him to the police and let them handle it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not ask you to handle it,’ he cried, turning sharply and seeing Pippin coming up the steps, slowly, as if he were bearing a great weight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The sweat on my hands froze my fingers to the canister’s fastenings the same way a curious child’s tongue sticks to a pump handle in the dead of winter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Men, irrigating in the silver fields, paused, leaning contemplatively on their shovel handles, to listen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teeth were his legs, the handle his head. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It howled like ten pigs being gelded, rolling and thrashing in the rain-swollen mud, weeping a black river of itself, viscous fluid pumping over the blades’ rusted handle. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Pa said, “I know some folks in Chatham what can handle this.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I began to feel like things might be all right, that I might be able to handle it. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The secretary of war wished the Booth situation to be handled with as little public outcry as possible, and this meant forbidding a public funeral. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He’d say it was his job as captain to tell Tad to beat a path to safety and let him handle saving the day. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Heat built up under my hands as I turned the handle. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In New Orleans the boys bought a pistol and carved two notches in the handle. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed the cart up under the trailer but the handle wouldnt clear. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He pulls on the door handle, fully prepared to leap out of the moving car. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I told Mom I wanted to call Augustus to get her out of the room, because I couldn’t handle her I-can’t-make-my- daughter’s-dreams-come-true sad face. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Jessie hung the dishtowel on the oven handle and fiddled with it until it was perfectly straight. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

There was one contingency, though, that would have to be handled delicately, should it arise. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The old man reached out and, with a metal handle, touched me on the neck. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could you leave your umbrella behind if it had a parrot’s head for a handle? Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I can handle the basement,” I tell Dad. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Jimmy took a broom handle and smacked one of the cats hard, skidding it halfway across the yard. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But there was a log extending about twenty feet out into the water of the lake—a beaver drop from some time before—with old limbs sticking up, almost like handles. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deafening silence that filled the room was broken by the squeal of the wheel handle as Mark wrenched it tighter and tighter. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere we took a wrong turn. Life got to be more than we could handle. Your father carried too much baggage from his past—baggage he never dealt with.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Within days of his arrest, Richard’s family scraped the money together to hire a private attorney to handle his defense. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Silently he drew the amulet string over his shoulder and loosened the loop from the horn handle of his great knife. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unsteadily he fell against the front window of the bus and his right hand grasped for the handle to the front door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How are the engines?" she asked, grabbing a wall-mounted handle to stay attached to the slowly turning room. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he gripes about the way she handled Thanksgiving, then he has to prove he can do a better job. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin is almost too hot to handle. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his other hand, he turned a handle that was attached to a pipe, running down the side of the boat, into the water. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“But I worry that the flock might have gotten caught in this icy weather. I do not think they would handle it well.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If Mother headed to the back porch while I was behind the tree, Constantine would rush out and bang her broom handle on the iron stair rail. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Phil allowed me to squirm so the cabinet’s handle did not press into my back. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

You may not have shared political views with Beck, but you would share my pride in seeing how he has handled this. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The cart handles were wrenched from his hands, and the cart tipped onto its side. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I’d been raised to handle my own business, but now that seemed almost impossible. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“That’s an understatement. It was a disaster. He cried all night, apparently. The night crew couldn’t handle it. They were really frazzled by the time I got to work.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the policeman grunt, then say, “Stay where you are, kid,” as he reached for his door handle. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Where a nova could possibly be regarded as a miracle, a comet was too commonplace an occurrence to be handled in this way, so if comets were supralunary phenomena, Aristotle was wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Stick bombs hung handle down from their belts. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Kate had always been able to handle this ever-present danger, but now the slow-depositing calcium and the slow growth of apprehension caused her to need help and to look for it from Joe. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The future of the network, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, and Welles’s career rested on how he handled himself. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I clutch the handle of the viola case with one hand, and Papa's hand with the other. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Blessington yelled at me, “I can handle this. Sit back down!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I push my family from my mind, set my feet shoulder-width apart, and delicately wrap both hands around the handle of the gun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Harry’s numb hands slipped on the broom handle and his Nimbus dropped a few feet. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have to break the news that we don’t need storage anymore,” Father says as he reaches for the door handle. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath, grip the knife handle and bear down as hard as I can. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Would you want someone of Zeebo’s capability to handle the town’s money? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The scabbard was embossed in silver, and the handle was black and encrusted with precious stones. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell the other gods, but Fleecy handles most of my messages these days. She’s wonderful at it, really, and I don’t have time to answer all those requests personally. It messes up my wa.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for Oliver to respond, Angie grabbed one of the two handles of the cookie basket and together they lugged it to Angie’s apartment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"You think you can handle the one hundred too?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And the Bear turned away and began to spin the handle of the turnstile again. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the juvenile lifer cases we handled involved clients who shared Evan's confusion about their adolescent behavior. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The handle of the powder blue suitcase was slick in Zane’s hand as he made his way into the last of the upstairs bedrooms, the Owner’s. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Other statesmen fell by the wayside, lacking the stamina to handle the relentless political pressure. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The teachers all told me I was going to have four hours of homework a night, but I didn’t believe it—plus I believed I could handle it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I can see her stiffen and tighten her grip on the handle of her briefcase. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basket had two handles, so we each took a side, and Connor held the rope as well. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I reasoned that tightening the inner angles would allow the egg to handle a bigger impact.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Johnson signed for it, took it by the handle, and walked away without even looking at it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess you didn’t hardly use a pistol at all, so you didn’t know how to handle it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had taken it along in one of her bags as a souvenir, but had gotten it out—just in case we met more than Fathers club could handle. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, this is a secret. I don’t usually tell people until they’ve been here for a while. Years. But you seem . .. serious enough to handle it.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She stamped her boots a couple times then reached for the door handle. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But the little animals atop the incense burners, the handles of some vessels, the water droppers—they were not thrown. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

You know, if I had to right now, I think I could handle the lower tip of Manhattan. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hesitated, my hand on the door handle, trying to prolong the moment. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her back' was hunched like the handle of a pitcher. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He did, taking one handle as I took the other, and we tried to lift it free of the grave. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“They try that the first two or three days after you move them, but they’ll settle down. We can handle them, Tayo.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each afternoon, the boys learned how to handle weapons and dig protective coverings, such as trenches, foxholes, and earth bunkers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I know it wouldn’t shoot any better for it, but I bought the one with the pearl handle even though it cost fifteen dollars. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this time Jam could see how Pet’s presence was bothering her, how Bitter needed to go and handle that. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“You look dried out,” he said, as he pulled the pail back up by the cord attached to the handle. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mom grabs the back of a chair with both hands, and the mop handle clatters to the floor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The growing part was the only part I knew I could handle. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The theory was that men, whose sex instincts were less controllable than those of women, were in greater danger of being corrupted by the filth they handled. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I set the lantern down and tightened my grip on the handle of the ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched to see how the njuzu would handle the problem. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think so. I mean, I didn’t kill any of the animals I handled.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Such boldness had to be handled properly; he might be able to do something with the factory workers which would make Myma look like a reactionary in the field of social action. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched, curious, as they met at the big iron door of the small building; one of the boys turned the rusty wheel handle, grunting with the effort. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was playing with the handle on the side of the La-Z-Boy, flipping the footrest up and down, apparently barely tuned in. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“If I can just poke the sword through a handle—but how am I going to get up there?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Or was he leaving Mama to handle things, like Daddy did all those years ago? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it would work better if you tried it out on another social species, easier to handle. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wart let go of the handles, when they were beginning to bite into the palms of his hands, and stepped back, seeing stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two, I am getting very serious in my relationship with Barack and I feel that I need to get a better handle on myself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a loud clunk of the huge handle followed by an air-suck sound. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He spanked me so hard with a wooden spoon, the handle broke. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Each trunk had two sets of brass locks on its front and a round brass handle on each end. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He handed it to Dill, who handled it like it was a museum piece. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

"You understand? I handled it. Needles and Noodles are safe too. It's over." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I tried to let go of the pump handle...and couldn’t. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Fencing is all about speed and agility. It’s strategy, it’s technique. And everything comes at you within a millionth of a second. You think you can handle that?” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Instead of konohiki carrying out every aspect of administration for a Hawaiian district, state governments have several separate departments, each with its own hierarchy, to handle water management, taxes, military draft, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. White slammed Horace in the side of the head with the handle of his knife. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He reached for a handle and pulled open a door set in the back of the aircraft, allowing the cold air to rush in. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I can handle things out here by myself.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I grip the wheelchair handles as we go down the ramp, my muscles tight as rope. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just got to work on it during practice, especially the way you handle the ball. You act like you’re scared out there.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you both seem to handle the situation very well.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The one who easily handles and strings the bow and shoots through all twelve axes I shall marry, whoever he may be—then look my last on this my first love’s beautiful brimming house. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right hand on the handle of my reserve parachute. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I try to get a better handle on them, but as I’m doing that, thunder booms again. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The bundle contained a whip as well—a nasty piece of old leather with a handle of brass and bone, stout enough to peel the hide off an ox. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

People with genetic predispositions to violence fly off the handle when normal people keep their cool. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba's been standing to the side, letting us handle the enrollment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She went to the front door, laid her hand on the handle. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Allen carried his heavy machine gun and as much ammunition as he could handle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was one of those that has a handle which you turn, and down below there are a lot of overlapping blades that go whizzing round. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could orient myself only by the surfaces moonlight frosted: the rim of an old bicycle tire, a crumpled water bottle, the aluminum arc of a grenade handle. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

His hand was just reaching out for the handle when he remembered: CL 475/19. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

At the door, I hesitate, my fingers grasped around the handle. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could handle it if he decided to throw her in the dungeons for a little while, too. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Though she hunted through scores of insect collections and handled innumerable specimens, no one could give her the answers she sought. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t get anything from holding onto those handles,” Rick said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He put his hands on his hips, looked up at the top of the door, and then pulled the door handles. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now that I was in seventh grade, Dad had said I was old enough to handle the insulin duties. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I gripped the old wooden handle and pressed until the heat waned. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit was more prone to weight gain than any horse Smith had ever handled. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has even removed one of her gloves to better handle the delicate pages. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I push in and turn the handle to lock it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She could handle sharing the victory with an ally. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Was it that he didn’t deserve to know, or that they didn’t think he could handle it? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I wonder what kind of dog he is. I bet he’s big and strong. I hope we can handle him.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

My fingertips inch closer to the knife handle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He fumbled with the handle of a pinball machine in the darkness of the game room, his liquid eyes as yearning and sincere as those of a puppy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have caps pulled low on their heads, grease on their faces, lumpy bags that could be full of tools on their backs, and one holds a thermos with a handle. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Like she thinks I’m too young to handle it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s a human being, even if he is dead. Now help me pull him out. Pita, you go sit over there if you can’t handle it.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

There is such pain in his heart and the burden is too heavy to handle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see any words etched there, but I did find a small monogram etched in the center of the key’s crystal handle, a single calligraphic letter “A” that I recognized immediately. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Blore was busy on the handle of the chopper and the flour sifter from the kitchen. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The handle, etched with narrow, parallel lines, was surprisingly cool. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He examined it and discovered that he had left the handle off the knife. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

These men, he thinks, probably handle more gemstones in a week than he has seen in his lifetime. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Link can handle most of it on his own now, so I work on my homework. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to hear about this. You know I can't handle it." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The idea was you put one hose into the in-board water, ran the other hose over the side, and worked the plunger handle until the water was gone. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Con watched her carefully, noting the practiced way she handled the bandages, her touch light and quick. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I can handle Uriah’s embrace, or his questions, or his surprise, right now. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We walked around Canal Grove, and my brain fired off more thoughts than I could handle. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I turned the handle of the door and went inside. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about my prayer—that he would get a handle on this whole drinking thing. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ll accept no excuse if you return a book to me that has been badly handled.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hesitated for a moment and then pressed the door handle down. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s how he handles all of his problems, from fights with mom to a bad fiscal quarter for his business. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She reached for her door handle, then paused and swiveled round to look at Fang. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I crushed them with the bottom of the pill bottle and then pounded them into finer particles with a scissors handle. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Radar trotted beside them carrying Nunu’s backpack, the handle clenched in his teeth, always careful to keep his head up so it wouldn’t scrape the ground. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He fumbled for the light switch and re-armed himself with the broom handle, just in case. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The FBI still depended on her to handle the brunt of their code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

An ivory- handled riding crop lay neatly across his lap. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push my finger against the very tip of the mirror's handle, and the blood pools inside an indentation. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When the handle from the icebox fell off, all the deweys got whipped, and in dry-eyed silence watched their own feet as they turned their behinds high up into the air for the stroke. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But she would side with him. And I don’t think I could handle that.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The power breakfast is getting soggy, but I can handle it, when possibilities exist. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about the word handle, and all the unholdable things that get handled. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He whipped out a short dagger with an ivory handle and a wavy blade. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All dressed up, pretending to be grown-up, and inside I couldn’t even handle a kiss. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He maintained that he could tell the strength of a player by the way he handled the pieces. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say anything to him. If he puts his hands on you, let me handle that.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The Soviets made them saw the handles off. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Fwooper owners require licences, as the creatures must be handled responsibly. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrap it around the inside of the handle twice and slide it into place. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He opened the door, looked in, and then, seemingly as an afterthought, looped Faro’s leash around the door handle. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A sheath knife with a compass in the handle. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mina finds an old-fashioned one with a carved wooden handle in Mr. de Vries's desk drawer. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It turned out I could handle bad babies but I couldn’t handle Kermit. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poirot picked up the sponge bag and hung it on the handle of the communicating door into the next carriage. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every thing that could shine—faucet, refrigerator handle, stainless steel spatula—shined. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The boy felt warm and proud inside when he saw his father’s great hand take hold of the handle of the hot lid without using a pot rag the way his mother always did. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sits in front of the fire in her bedroom, drinking a cup of nettle tea from a clay mug shaped like a snake, its tail coiling to make the handle. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’m used to seeing my mom on the other end of that handle, so I do a double take so fast I crack my neck when I see my dad standing there. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

In her hand she holds a hammer, its wooden handle worn and splintered. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a while to wait and wonder why God hadn’t handled things a little bit better. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She curved my fingers around the handle, pressing the iron against the fabric while with the other hand she pulled the cloth taut. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Game Time and Crunch Time engaged in a particularly sweaty and determined fencing match, their improvised swords—a fireplace poker and a snow shovel handle—whizzing and clanking. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sierra reached the thick metal door that led to the archival basement and turned the handle ever so gently. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The manager dropped his handle on their backpacks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The jockeys, he said, would have to be able to handle their horses without aid. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I have one saving grace, it's that I'm lucky enough to have found someone willing to handle the ugly business of day-to-day living. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, she goes behind me and takes the handles of my wheelchair. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Spider hung off the top handle of his backpack, threading their safety line. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“If he doesn’t knock this off, I’m going to handle him myself.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“No offense, but I don’t think this is somethin’ you could ‘handle,’ Mama.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it was status just to be known as a client of West Indian Archie’s, because he handled only sizable bettors. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Setting the lantern down, I eased the pole from under the handle. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He interrupted, “Too much for The Brain to handle?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

His arms were getting tired, but he could feel tension on the handle, the wheel inching up, then dropping back down again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They didn’t think she could handle work and taking care of me on her own. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

At the top of the handle, the space dropped off with one of those craggy cliffs of shale rock. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I wrapped one rein around each hand and grabbed the plow handles. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s not going to fly with me—but his hands are firmly locked on the handle of our cart, and there’s nothing to prove that it’s ours and not his. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He knew that his thanes couldn’t handle me alone, and he was too old and tired to be much impressed—however useful it might be to his kingdom—by their fathead ideas of honor. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could be sealed off from the outside world while you handled a hot agent inside them with the rubber gloves. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brown politely informed him again that this wasn't a matter the president would handle. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Radar has walked away from the raccoon and is tugging on the handle of one of the four locked steel doors. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Reports from his sources indicated that the riot was going to grow, and the Chicago police force was too small to handle it alone. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until I grabbed the handle and shook the door that he finally clued in. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

A small block of plastic served as a handle on the exposed end of the rope, so you could pull it without shredding your fingers. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, you are going to be surprised. I can handle myself just fine. I already did handle myself. Wait, that came out wrong.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“The withdrawals were too much for me to handle.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were carrying between them a heavy case of polished wood with brass handles. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, driving in the country, he had seen bicyclists with huge bunches strapped before them on the handles, the bloom already fading from the dying heads, the ravaged stalks straggling naked and unclean. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We are considering sending Lucy to another school next year. It’s a sort of boarding school, and I need to know if she can handle it. In your honest opinion.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Panicked, I picked up the letter opener handle and pounded at the lock, again and again, until finally, the trunk popped open. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sergeant kicked all the ax handles into a pile and scooped them up. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please help me! I don’t know if I can handle it anymore! I don’t understand why you hate me so much!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one tells Volpe; these are the types of things he does not handle well at the last moment. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When it gets hard to handle what has happened, I remind myself I didn't really know Tariq. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Mark felt the jolt through his entire body but held on, slipping his forearm into the gap between the handle and the ship so that his elbow took the weight. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It sticks, handle out, from a large hunk of cheese they positioned on top of the dresser. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had gotten bolder again now that he had a sword on his belt, even though it was just a shortsword and he handled it like a cleaver. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A small boy stood at the Victrola turning its handle and smiling at the sound of Bert Williams’ “Save a Little Dram for Me.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was fine as long as your neighborhood’s fire department could handle your fire. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And he never gives you more than you can handle.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My grandmother made me a tiny toothbrush, using a matchstick for the handle, and into this she stuck little bits of bristle that she had snipped off one of her hairbrushes. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

There were times he had to go out and inspect the cabins, or handle an argument, but I almost always stayed up in that musty old room. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I have a job you might be able to handle. Go find Marlena. Make sure she doesn’t go behind the menagerie for a bit.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He added that he knew all about cops and how to handle them. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“When he...When the shooter was...unraveling after I rejected him, when I was scared that he might harm himself or me or someone else, I thought ‘people’ would handle it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He nudged his head up and lifted the handle, and the gate swung open. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He rubbed the dirt from the steel and pressed the cold handle to her open palm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I can handle Ty, though, because he’s not a big spitter. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Anybody who helps him is asking for it too, and they better be able to handle it.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He went on poking, and then with the tip of the broom handle, he shoved the basket away—and out it came. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s not the money. It’s you being here, taking care of this. Taking care of all I’m going to leave you. Getting to know it, know how to handle it.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo saw beds and tall chests with many handles in one of the rooms. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how to handle all this attention from my father. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She pulled and pushed and hauled on the handle—and the door moved, not inward or outward but sideways. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Not if we find some snakes for you to handle. And I slipped some arsenic in your latte when you weren’t looking.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

"Once you get to Mark, how fast a relative velocity can you handle?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I roll over, reaching for the bed warmer's rubber handle to pull it closer, but it's cold. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins laid a firm hand on the handle of the perambulator. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Kate had told herself she could handle the Executives, but she’d been fooling herself—just as she had fooled herself for so long. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph crouched on a small platform on the back of the vehicle while struggling to keep his arm looped through a metal handle. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She can handle one night in there—if anything, she’ll be safer than us.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She pulls on the door handle to show me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked forward — he stretched out his hand for the handle — “Done,” said Mr. Malfoy at the counter. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

These applications operate like traditional software programs and can handle a wide range of business tasks. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was picking up the cue from my brother that this thing that had happened to me might be handled lightly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Dale had a gun and everything. They know how to handle themselves.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A large round handle resembling a steel steering wheel marked the only way to open the door, just like something within a submarine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, Joaquin couldn’t even handle Mark being in the room with him after a nightmare. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I caught hold of the handles of the barrow and was barely able to lift it; it weighed perhaps four times as much as I did. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reverently he placed both paws around the handle. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He trotted over to the table, grabbed the mirror by the handle, dashed to the pool, and dove in. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And the drug game was everywhere, with a gun handle protruding from the top of every tenth teenager’s waistline. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

All Eliza needed was one friend and she could probably have handled the teasing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The flashlight was at his side; the gun was lying beside the flashlight, the handle pointing toward him, so he could get it quickly and be in a position to use it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The adinkra was two crossed swords with holes in the blades and handles, and it pulsed with dark light. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When another inmate appeared, walking down the flats, the porter attacked him, first breaking the broom handle over his head and then trying to gouge his face with the splintered ends. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our fingers, loosely woven a moment ago, now clutch together, her palm tacky with moisture, mine rough in places where I have grabbed too many handles on too many moving trains. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He put his hand on the handle of the door to the lecture hall and turned around to glance at her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She stood at the door, waiting, and then gently tried the handle. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Laying it on the bed, August reached into the hatbox and unwrapped a hairbrush with a wooden handle and offered it to me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one could get what we call a “handle” on your shopping habits, like for example you asking for information about all those wow and brag products and then never buying anything. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tied a piece of string to the spoon’s handle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Is that how you handle all of this?” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The gentle snow gully Fischer and Lopsang had been gingerly descending ended here amid outcroppings of loose, steep shale, and Fischer, like Gau, was unable to handle the challenging terrain in his ailing condition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was like he forgot how to handle a basketball. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shaking, I wipe it with the cloth I had on the handle a the pitcher. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Tinkering kept us going, so I figured I’d do my share if I could get a handle on it. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

My own hands are clenched, I note, tight around the handle of my basket. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gritted my teeth, furious with him for coming so close when he knew I couldn’t handle it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I saw him take out a sort of scalpel which had a long steel handle and a small pointed blade. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I can handle the stares and the whispers. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Eight rats, two from each group, ran to the round pieces of wood Mrs. Frisby had noticed earlier; these resembled sawed-up pieces of broom handle, each about a foot long. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And Kino gripped the handle of the big working knife and took a sense of protection from it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the wheels finally ceased spinning, I reached for the door handle, a spike of total and complete grief cutting through me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Dockworkers’ unions around the world threatened not to handle South African goods. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His ears stuck out on either side of his head like teapot handles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex grabbed the wet rag he used to clean the kitchen, took the scalding skillet by the handle, and hurried to the sliding door at the back of the kitchen. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It's closed, but I can see the handle to open it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Hugo and I will handle this. You kids have done enough.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Others handled brooms and sent shards of glass leaping across the room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped two quarters into the newspaper vending machine and pulled up on the handle, but it wouldn’t open. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

"They deserve to know. You think Commander Lewis can't handle the truth?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shay twisted the handle again, and the ribs retracted. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He quickly closed the door and wound the chain around the handles in a tight knot, securing it with the lock. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She could only handle so much before breakfast. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Most of his competition was stiff but nothing he couldn’t handle. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he moves to beside the door, gripping the knife’s handle tightly. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I fiddled with the tiller handle, looking for a way to end the conversation. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cut was clean and deeper than she thought a plain Band-Aid could handle, than she would’ve thought a razor blade could cause. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The office is dingy, but he knows that Panglobal handles almost half of the ornamental souvenirs that enter the U.S. from the Far East. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They were made of dark green metal and had gray metal handles on top and a kind of latch on the side. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s trash and recycle day, so Junie, you get to handle that tonight.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Me? No, I thought this was too serious for me to handle alone. I stopped the bleeding as best I could and called Lou George. He bandaged you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She grabs the handle of the first pan and steps back from the stove. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I usually have a partner, someone who helps me handle stuff. He’s gone, and...I don’t know if I’m going to ever get him back.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Good! Good!” cried Jo, pounding with the handle of the old warming pan on which she leaned. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached forward and grabbed the handle and entered the Golden Glen. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“But you have to stop being so talented. I can’t handle it.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She’d brought in a broken hoe, and she was giving it a new handle. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Miles stopped at the fourth door on the left, touched the handle hesitantly a few times as if he thought it’d be scalding hot, and then pushed the door open. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I heard he cut a guy with a razor, he almost died, and everybody says the best way to handle Tony D. and his gang is, you avoid them. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Doon took hold of the handle that was on the right and pulled sideways, and the door rolled smoothly open to reveal more darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita watched him take the wire handle off the full box and fasten it to one of the empty ones. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I watched from the doorway as he worked the pump handle until the water splashed into the pail. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the handle, leaned my weight against it, and staggered as it snapped off at the base. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I never knew who picked up the betting money for the slips that I handled. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Let us handle the theory and the business of strategy," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “preparation and service” worksheet was coming a little more slowly; he had gotten only a 60, but there seemed little doubt that Don would eventually get a handle on it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not because I wanted her to handle him. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Franek knew how to handle this; he knew my weak spot. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I feel I can handle it, but I am very attentive to what the body is telling me, much more so than I usually am. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And Mr. Johnson, the postmaster, had wanted to sanitize my letter before he handled it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I grip the handle and flush a few times, alternating filling the toilet and flushing it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the handle with both hands and braced my shoes against the sink. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her brain was too tired to handle this, and the board was short on power, anyway. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

We each took a handle of the basket and carried it to the clotheshorse, a rope strung between two wooden frames that we used for drying clothes and linens. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she became a teenager, the quiet and beauty of the park was her solace when the rest of the world just seemed too overwhelming to handle. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

At that moment Dad scooted outside the pony pen and grabbed something out of sight, and when he returned he handed me a new round-nosed shovel with a nice blue bow tied around the handle. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The woman and the van driver had realized that their argument ought to be handled by their insurance companies and were exchanging addresses when the woman saw Will helping Lyra to limp away. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It should be able to handle a few buckets of water. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I do notice it have some scratches, and that the two screws on the handle not match up. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you hard enough to handle it, anyway?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Each subcommittee handled a specific duty, such as obtaining five hundred cords of wood before winter set in, cleaning the streets, or distributing cash to those in need. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He fought it, didn’t know if he could handle reliving the past at that moment. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I lay back on my bed and wondered how many worries my little dolls could handle now that I had to add “lying to Dad.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Just as his fingers closed around the handle someone grabbed a handful of his hair and yanked. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was annoyance that he had been so mightily inconvenienced, that he had been handled by the maid as cavalierly as an inanimate object—a serving bowl, say, or a teapot. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

After the machine has run its course, you let the dishes cool enough to handle, unload the rack, and reload the dishwasher—all the while continuing to clear tables and fetch meals for stragglers. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he should never have been able to indulge so amiable a feeling before, passed suspiciously through Emma’s brain; but still, if it were a falsehood, it was a pleasant one, and pleasantly handled. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The Muslims worked out a new form of farming to handle sugar, which came to be called the sugar plantation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Why don't I handle the ad and the flowers? I have a few errands for you this afternoon: the butcher's and then to Mrs. de Vries's.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She felt that she was being pushed into a way of life that she wasn’t ready to handle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One needed a handle, a lever, a means of inspiring fear. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Father chewed the end of the brush’s wooden handle. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will felt for the knife handle and walked on. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The official suggested a more discreet way to handle the problem. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I thought it was a ridiculous notion, but I helped her carry the furniture we could handle outside. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

—And then I’d ask you to promise me that if you got so depressed that you didn’t think you could handle the situation, you’d call me before you did anything to harm yourself. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in some unspoken way, he did sense that he was crossing a point of no return, that things were about to get complicated in a way he was unequipped to handle. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If the man entered and Hannah was carrying a coal scuttle up from the basement, she handled it in such a way that it became a gesture of love. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I took it to my room and set it in a comer with the handle standing up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on the driveway for a second, wondering: How was I going to handle Zed? Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped the bucket into the well to fill it with water, then turned the handle to bring it back up again. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put out his hand as if to shake hers, but hers were tightly wrapped around the handle of the bag. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The entrance was a wooden door in the grass, and it shook and rattled against Ivy’s palm as she wrapped her fingers around the handle. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He stalked over toward the wastebasket, holding the broom handle out like a sword. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The guard cranked the handle of a telephone, and under a minute later a fresh-faced young priest came hastening into the gatehouse, wiping his palms on his robe in case she wanted to shake hands. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Of course, child. Everybody has slaves. How do you think we handle this land? But my Patrick is a good man and does not mistreat his property. Our slaves like it here.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I reached out and unlocked the door, the metal handle began to jiggle violently. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A kite string led from his pursed lips to the handle of a large tin bucket a few feet away. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a glass canopy over a seat with at least a dozen levers and handles banked in front of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Did they recoil in horror and say, “Wait a minute, we've got to halt the process, or at least slow it down until we can get a handle on how to prevent these effects”? Nope. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t know how to handle it. 1 feel so ambiguous. What kind of wishy-washy person am 1 anyway?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trey’s got one of those chargers that’ll handle multiple phones at once. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We hope you had a safe and restful holiday and have come back ready with a positive attitude to successfully handle the academic tasks before you. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made to shift his grip on the handle. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost more than I could handle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“What, you don’t think I can handle it?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She was almost a full head taller than Seth and could usually handle him in a fight, although if they ended up wrestling he was pretty squirmy. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I was trying to handle what Imani calls “all the feels” I was getting right then. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Quincy, would you mind serving the tea and dessert? It’s important that Biddy talk to my visitor, and I can’t handle the cups and plates.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I held the front door open as Mama carefully carried out her pot by both handles, making sure not to spill the cooked beans. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He backed toward the door, reached behind him to grab the handle. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They both turned to me, and I fell back on the only way I’d learned to handle big problems—I made a dash for the door and left. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He would open a cage door, and the sergeant would slide the mop handle into the cage. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made him food and rubbed his feet, and for this he let her handle all the money. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The syrup was so hot that before she got it set down, the handle hurt her fingers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

First he needed to unseal with the wheel, then he needed to yank the handle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone to handle the media and coach you about what to say in public.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Nat went aboard the Astrea, two sailors handled his gear for him, staggering under the weight of an extra sea chest. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I get Tank’s leash on, I put my left hand through both leash handles and grip the nylon tight. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She rubs her hands together and then grabs the handles. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They handled themselves awkwardly, dropping easy grounders, throwing wild, fumbling fly balls. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“This is free,” he said, binding the fur to the tip of a brush handle. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She swooped down, grabbed Fern’s bag handle, and said, “Yall keep up.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hand held taut the reins of the horse, who was stomping agitatedly, and another clutched the handle of the ax. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

So when he tells a story, he handles it as he would a child of his own. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give the handle an extra twist and it comes off in my hand. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The rotund Ogden Morrow was naturally charismatic, and he handled all of the company’s business affairs and public relations. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

All you had to do was maintain a shellshocked expression and handle a variety of contradictory objects. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I’d gotten it for a total steal on Craigslist because the lens cap was missing and the handle was broken, and even then it had wiped out my entire savings account. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After lunch, Brave Orchid asked her husband if he and the children could handle the laundry by themselves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said, grabbing the handles of my duffel bag and standing up. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“This is my problem, and I’ll handle it myself. I trust you ladies can find your way back to your school.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We find handles on each side and pull. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He winds the handle on his door and his window slides up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He had cast hundreds of small things since he had gone to work for Mr. Lapham, but nothing so intricate and beautiful as the woman with folded wings whose body formed the handle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside there was a hatchet, the kind with a steel handle and a rubber handgrip. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined my arms swinging heavy at my sides like two thick hoe handles. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’m so used to being scolded and herded and managed and handled that I’m no longer sure how to react when someone treats me like a real person. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She just couldn’t handle it, so she’d split and hadn’t been back since. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was a wonderful knife with a gold-washed blade and red dragons curled around the handle. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were clear rules on how to handle evidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’d be hard for her at first, kids would tease her about her Southern accent and stuff, but like R.C. said, Naomi was tough; she could handle whatever Tempe High threw at her. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then I spit another that hits the handle again. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“And don’t tell Mom either, okay? I can handle it.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

But I like Mama Ya-Ya’s signs best: “Ladybugs mean good luck”; “The Little Dipper means freedom. Its handle is the North Star”; “The color blue means strength and friendliness. Happiness.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But maybe he had only found the handle. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men halted at a heavy wooden door leading into the next room, hesitated for the space of a heartbeat, then Snape turned the bronze handle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

James carried a bushel basket by its two metal handles. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands felt hot and sweaty on the smooth ash handle of the ax. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no handle and no keyhole: nothing but a plain expanse of aged wood, and a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Inigo slapped his sword handle, and his finger snapping began to go faster. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities did not know how to handle them, and they turned the island upside down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose great care was needed to handle the boat?” said the coroner. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One of the daughters often strays away to handle bolts of fabric and talk with the merchants in their own language. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

No target was too dangerous for his group to attack, just as no shot was too difficult for Appleby to handle on the ping-pong table. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"We're trying to stop it, kid. Just back up and let us handle this." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

All this time I kept checking the handle of the lantern. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Radiation, in fact, is so pernicious and long lasting that even now her papers from the 1890s–even her cookbooks–are too dangerous to handle. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bankers do not like money to be lightly handled even if the handling is sentimental. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slip between two security bots that have rushed into the fray but are still unsure how to handle the hijacked bots. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t want him to be caught short. Besides, we always give the kids some responsibility with the Student Activity Fund. They’re teenagers. They’re supposed to be able to handle it.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

With my ax handle, I pried apart his locked jaws. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew then that I could handle whatever needed to be done while Papa was gone. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gimli rose and planted his feet firmly apart: his hand gripped the handle of his axe, and his dark eyes flashed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He puts a hand on his belt, and I see the gleam of his gun’s handle. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The Maidens used a small knife with an ornately embellished golden handle to cut and smooth my hair, and many hands began twining small strands into a series of formal hanging braids. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The me that hauled hay in Virginia and handled a four-mule team in the brace. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If he can handle a square like me, he can handle squares like you,” I joked back. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grasped one of the cart handles with both hands. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like the door handle is covered with poison and she doesn’t want to have anything to do with grabbing hold of it and opening the door. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

My fingers slipped from the handle, and I realized the door had given only an inch because it was a slider door. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

These situations can easily be handled by individual treatment of the mounds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ear and Eye yanked on the handle, but the gate was so heavy, it moved with excruciating slowness. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rows of striking pins were controlled by levers on the outside of the cone, which was fixed to a square metal base with a bunch of crank handles. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We watched Cletus try the handle of one of the back doors. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-six point two miles was more than my legs could handle, but I could easily bike about five miles. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She put one hand on my shoulder and the other on the door handle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She knows he’s caught between her and Dina, and utterly unequipped to handle either of them. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The knife flies from Chandresh’s hand, blade over handle, spinning in perfect revolutions through the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“No problem,” said Robert warily, “though I’d appreciate it if you didn’t fly off the handle over every detail.” The Number Devil 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why is everybody worried about my affair? I can handle it.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My babysitters handled the suspense better than I did. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I cling to a handle next to the doorway, my shoulder slamming into the car. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It didn’t seem appropriate to be joking like that, Will, Miss Mattie Lou being so recently dead. But I didn’t know how else to handle it.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

To hold himself steady, he tightened his hold on the two things he was still clutching: the smooth, cold handle of the Triwizard Cup and Cedric’s body. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I had left the handle standing straight up when I had taken the pole away. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew you couldn’t handle that, and it led to our very first multiword conversation. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Gau has insurance specialists to handle insurance needs and stockbrokers to handle investments and retirement specialists for older clients. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth to speak, but my sister throws me a look that clearly says, Shut up and let me handle this. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

You could break right through an electric fence if you were strong enough to handle the current for a second. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was also a hole in the end of the handle. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madame Manec turns a handle, pulls in the two hinged panes of the window, and nudges open the shutter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s more than I want to handle,” he explains. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t reach for the handle, so I push him toward it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When I see an open car, I pickup my pace to keep stride with it and grab the handle on the left, swinging myself inside. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I hooked the handle of the bucket onto the rope and let it down into the well. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get out of the car, but pause with my hand on the door handle. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The other mother pushed down on the door handle and pulled open the door, revealing a corridor behind it, dark and empty. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“I think I can handle him,” she says, looking sideways at us. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“What is it, Violet? I don’t think I can handle surprises.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Just where shall we start? Perhaps it's something that I'm unable to handle." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And before they could think about it anymore, there was a knock on his door, and the handle turned. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Alice’s handshake was a weak clasp, as if she handled herself with much care, as if she would never scrub herself too vigorously. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their swords were wooden sticks, broom handles from the look of them, and they were rushing across the grass, swinging at each other lustily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They throw as fast as they can, others pass them, the handles with the strings already pulled. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, obeying my mother’s floating voice, I hunted for a spot of earth, dug a shallow hole, and buried the stiff kitten; as I handled its cold body my skin prickled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could handle it from here, sweetness,” Bitter said. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A hammer handle stuck out of his pants pocket. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But that evening, they agreed they needed more information about the injury so that they could decide how to handle it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Good thing I know how to handle bees. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Emma challenged, taking the bag from him and tying the handles together so it wouldn’t leak. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They can handle small breaks from the pool. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When push came to shove, he transcended his limited human frame with strength no man could have and weapons no man could handle. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The water cup. The handle broke and the lip was jagged beneath. We used it to cut through our bonds. Once our hands were free...” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A few spirits that could handle those demons while she...Of course! Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As more and more people arrived that morning, the house became crowded and sticky, and the sound of people wailing became too much for Geoffrey to handle. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Suspecting or already knowing who the two strangers were, Mrs. Quesenberry decided that this was too big a job to handle by herself. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the block couldn’t handle the extra weight. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Across the hall from his office is a law firm, affiliated with Kavesh and Gau, that handles wills and living trusts and all other legal matters related to financial planning. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was tense during the days I waited for Granny, and when she came I gave up, letting her handle things, answering questions automatically, obeying, knowing that somehow I had to face things alone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the same time he had a kind of grace, like a well- handled marionette. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The symbols on its handle—adinkra, I realized with a surprise—glowed almost as bright as the fire. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Breedlove handled hers as an actor does a prop: for the articulation of character, for support of a role she frequently imagined was hers—martyrdom. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was obscenely sharp, and had a mother-of-pearl handle, and Shadow suspected it was usually used to give dead men their final shave. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Somebody else could do basic research on what a tangerine is and how it is grown. We thought that you and your friend could handle that.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the light of his lantern, Pinmei could see he had been looking for an indentation in the wall that was like a...handle? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ben, seat belt unbuckled, has one hand on the passenger-door handle and the other on the dashboard. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Rats never stopped eating our palms and feet, and we often were unable to walk or handle anything for days because both areas were like open wounds. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands wrapped around the handle of the pitchfork, and I wiggled it back and forth. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Not far above my head there was a handle sticking out from the side of the garbage-bin. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He was a short dude, with crazy handles, and a mean jumper. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He lifted the handles of a flat-bottomed barrow and trundled it out into the woods behind the inn, his feet crunching in the fallen leaves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My palms sweat against the leather handle of the case he left at the vigil. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The mercenary reached up and curiously touched the handle of the knife lodged in his own neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I am tense, turning the handle in my fingers as we walk down the alley. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

This is how I handle it at home, but always before a shower, so a bunch of soap and shampoo will go after it and keep everything clean. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The flames, the fear, the feeling of utter desolation were too much for him to handle. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Saturday noon, Johnny, following Mr. Revere’s advice and his curve, had got the model of the handle exactly right. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blade and the handle still held together, but only just; any strain, the slightest push against the water, would break it off entirely. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You see that handle on the trash bin?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

He said he had all the talents he could handle right now. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Centeno was found in the hammock that he was accustomed to hang up in the factory with an icepick between his eyebrows driven in up to the handle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As my fingers tightened on the door handle, I felt his hand push through my unruly mass of dark hair and seize the back of my neck. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the level was too near the theoretical limit of what the suit could handle for him to risk it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Very soon ‘Aadnesen & Dahl’ had more business than the partners could handle alone. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t think your ol’ man knows how to handle his business? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have to hurt you. I can arrange something that will scare you before you have time to think about it. I can handle it.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Wash who had taught him to handle a hammer. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

An ordinary, human-sized door, with an ordinary, human-sized handle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had thought after all of those wins in the United States on the national circuit that I had proven that I could handle a major competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Why not? Who is he? Name. Address. Social security number. Twitter and Instagram handles.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

This time he listened for each quarter to drop before pulling on the handle. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You’re a fine kind of service man if you don’t even know how to put an extra handle on the inside of an icebox door.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

And she immediately texts me back that she’ll handle it and get it delivered. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was an ordinary-looking dagger, with a double-sided blade of dull metal about eight inches long, a short crosspiece of the same metal, and a handle of rosewood. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

William handled the terms of the transfer, and legally the gift was in his name only. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In fact, of the fifty-three crack cases their office had handled over the prior three years, forty-eight defendants were black, five were Hispanic, and not a single one was white. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

You can use the Big Dipper to find Polaris, the North Star, which, by the way, is the tail end of the handle of the Little Dipper. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I said, “What if it really doesn’t handle as good? You know, it’s roomier, but what if it doesn’t handle as good as the Swarp?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just handle the books gently and you’ll get along fine. He’s pretty detached for the most part, but be careful around his books.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I guess that’s okay . . .” “1 assume,” the agent said, “that this is going to be handled basically as a local thing—?” Bruno Martinez nodded. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him sad because I think white people can handle black sadness better than black anger. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I am not allergic to dogs, but I think I will also bring doggie tranquilizers, because I don’t think I can handle getting humped by your gay pug dog. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Charlie was a little different, because Charlie did what she always did when she was afraid or not sure how to handle a situation: she hid. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Officer Cruise claims he saw it in the car door, and he assumed Khalil was reaching for it. The handle was thick enough, black enough, for him to assume it was a gun.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I noticed the door didn’t even have a handle on the inside, let alone a lock. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tom Bolles hustled his freshmen out onto the water that same day, anxious to see how they would handle the unfamiliar racecourse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At first, I thought it was a toy gun, but I could tell by the way he handled it that it was real. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I use it to push open the door to the bathroom and again on the stall handle. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Francis, I wish you would calm down for a minute. I think we can handle this.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can’t make any mistakes; I throw myself sideways, grabbing the handle on the side of the car, and hoist myself into the car. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The gun handle I saw sticking up, jammed between the driver's seat and the middle console. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And they all had the same green plastic handles like the fork. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We left Grandma home, not knowing how she would handle being in the company of Terri and Anna. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“I think you can handle anything,” I said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A thick, gnarled cane with a handle carved in the shape of a cobras head lay across her knees. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A bow drawn backwards and forwards across a string, or a handle mechanism that turned the edge of a wheel against a string, were the most common solutions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“On purpose? I can handle this if you want. I’ll get a ski mask and some gloves and handle this sumbitch in the dead of night. No one has to know it was us.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I...I was going to get some more sheets,” Ophie said, one hand on the door handle. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The service man was still on the floor, putting in the finals screws that held the new handle in place, when the penguin came out to the kitchen on his silent pink feet. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the handle and for one horrible moment I think the door will be locked and I will have to wait and I cannot wait. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Breathing heavily he said to himself, "So I didn't need the locksmith," and he set his head against the door handle to open the door completely. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Philip Lombard drew a breath of relief as he turned from adjusting a chair under the door handle. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

But Grabarek handled his first crisis well, meeting with the students’ lawyer and granting their request for food and cigarettes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My perfect partner, if somebody had asked me, would have been one who handled as lightly as Laura and who would have had the strength to last through a long, tough showtime. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Damasen handled him with surprising gentleness, murmuring words of encouragement that she couldn’t quite catch. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s light, you can carry it around easy, your wife, she could handle it too. It’s a double action.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 60 percent reason that I hold back has to do with something I’m 100 percent sure of: I can’t handle people thinking I come from a messed-up community. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“So your mama ties a mitten to the pump handle,” I said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Other smaller specialist groups existed, in which boys learned how to signal in Morse code, operate antiaircraft weaponry, provide first aid and practical field medicine, perform air-raid warden duties, and handle other weapons. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He braced his feet on the hatch frame, felt around for the latch handle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a long skinny black suitcase that had a leather handle on top of it and said, “And be careful, that’s my bread and butter in there.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The point of Bob’s spear shot from his broom handle. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He’d ease the handle of the cane over toward the imaginary leeward rail, and two of us would haul in an imaginary rope. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Wick handled, the painted demons would be lifeless again. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The Kingsfield, in other words, falls way short of a place like Ruth’s centre in Dover, with its gleaming tiles and double-glazed windows that seal at the twist of a handle. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The handle is smooth and cool, and the sword is heavy. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I always got nervous when somebody handled my Legos. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The pot looks entirely too fancy for a bird rescue, with its rolled copper edges and pristine silver handles. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely,” Mr. Trepid said, reaching for the door handle. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

After a few moments he said, “Like your Gran always says, ‘God never gives us more than we can handle.’” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She stopped there, hand on the door’s handle, and she said, “Do not fail him. Strike when the time comes. Be true.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“First, you must learn how to handle a brush. I would suggest that you all get together and paint someone’s house for a start.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was held together with wires, two of which had been twisted into handles at either side. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

My back was flat against the door again, my hand blindly searching for the handle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the handle, fearing the worst, that someone had taken her and left the seat, but when he turned it toward him, there was the tiny pink face of Nademah, scrunched and sleeping. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Baba yelled, not giving up on the handle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I fumbled at the handle trying to get the door open and scrambled out of the car. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

With faith in Operation Breakthrough, a hundred residents formed a new organization—the Tenants’ Club—to handle grievances with the DHA. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel David Huxsoll was an expert in biohazards, and this was the sort of situation he thought the Institute was prepared to handle. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was holding the sugar tongs in his hands, tenderly stroking their curved handles. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pulling on the door handle behind me, I swiftly move into the peephole’s line of vision, in case Mom decides to check up on things. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t pay much attention to no one else, just kept my eyes on the car and the handle I was getting ready to grab on to. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you can handle that truck, you can handle anything.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

‘And the two of us -’ ‘Seaweed Brain, are you implying that two boys can handle this better than two girls?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The boy drew me to him somehow when he got himself into more trouble than he could handle. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in the back, grappling with Otto as he tried to get the door handle open so he could explore. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling broadly, the little singer reached up and thumped the brush handle on the ceiling. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like you better handle business, Janey,” Doc said, reaching for another biscuit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Simple spinal severing. Nothing too hard for us to handle.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I had my hands on the handles of the doors before Fela’s voice stopped me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The woman dropped a hand from her face and scrabbled about on the floor, picking up the broken handle of some earthenware porringer. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The old man went on drilling, slapping the stone weights around and around with one gnarled hand while holding the handle of the spindle with the other. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And I’m sorry I didn’t trust that you could handle Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The handle sank into his stomach and he belched. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I handled my phone messages, started thinking seriously about what I’d do the moment I got out—would I buy a cup of coffee? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think you’re big enough yet to handle the wagon,” he told me. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn the handle, hoping for a miracle, but it’s locked. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He reached behind the shine stand and brought out a gallon lard can with wires looped through holes in each side to make a handle. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is true that our color was not our distinguishing feature there, so much as the American- ness represented in our poor handle on French. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look her way nor no other way except straight ahead, so Janie ran to the pump and jerked the handle hard while she pumped. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

We were scheduled to go at different times, not as a family unit, because the UN handles people who are over the age of eighteen as individual cases. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It comes straight at me, spinning, blade over handle. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I know you're off to Savannah tomorrow, but I hope to God your dad has internet, because I don't think my heart can handle waiting a full week for an email from you. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Going over to the empathy box, she quickly seated herself and once more gripped the twin handles. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’m just trying to get a handle on what I’m feeling. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him push around the corner to the top of the hill leaning sharp against the cart handle, and heard his voice arise, muffled now, as he started down. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together, they draped it around the elf’s neck and ran it through the handle on the metal box. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“I need you to act as if you don’t have any. Once you’re safely out of the situation, then we’ll handle it. But I need you safely out of the situation. Okay?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She gives me a steady look, as though evaluating how much truth I can handle. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I spent the whole day working beside her: shelling peas, kneading bread dough, turning the handle of the wringer after she’d washed clothes, feeding the chickens, sweeping the porch. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke turned his knife and offered her the handle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her hand trembled as her fingers wrapped around the polished door handle and twisted. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were on the handle of the bedroom door and it looked like the interview was coming to an end. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For the first time he was afraid he could not get the handles right. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy dropped the broom handle and streaked for the nearest exit. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I can handle any more company today.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He reached up and took from the top of it three very thin yellow canes, each with the bent-over handle at one end. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the bones had not burnt and had fallen into the lower bin when he had worked the handle to sift the ashes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Part of me wants to run outdoors into the cool evening to get a handle on myself. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But I could handle them, especially when some huge monster boy was insulting me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

How would Styx have handled Mom last night? The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“How about that Elizabeth! How’d a little kid like that know how to handle those two creeps? I’m pretty good at handling adults and people like that, but boys! Yick!” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust cloths, monthly cloths, rags tied around pipe joints to hinder freezing; pot holders and pieces to test hot irons and wrap their handles. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gripped the handle of the chamber pot tightly. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been an unusually rainy spring in New York, and the track was difficult to handle even when dry. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Jason, I - I’m sorry. About your mom. But the way you handled it . . . that was so brave.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Alec pulled at the door harder, yanking on the handle, still to no avail. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

David asks as I pry his fingers off the door handle. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grasping the handles for balance, she pressed hard with her feet. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Brass hinges and door handles were dull and greasy to the touch. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I throw my body against the door, twist the handle, and fall through. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

To handle the increase in patients, the committee ordered that a new structure be built to accommodate them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“The matter would . . . have to be handled under the strictest sort of secrecy,” he confided to Frank Jewett. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Women can handle the worst kind of pain. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A word of caution, though—be careful, very careful, about the way you handle yourself in this unique position. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure she was trying to make herself feel better. What can I say, Jupes? Despite your preferences, these girls can’t seem to handle the fact that I have a gorgeous female best friend.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Just tell me how you came up with the chat handle, and I’ll leave.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even handle standing up for two minutes to talk in class. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I readied myself, but immediately my mother and my brother each laid one hand on a door handle. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He turned the crank handles, hoping the thing wouldn’t explode in his face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Once she’s got a grip on the door handle, she turns to me. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The man turned back and looked at Grandfather, then lifted the handles of the wheelbarrow and dumped the woman on the street. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean to speak to you man to man. Do you think you can handle that for once?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge repair and urban planning could be handled by the Thunderhead, but taking a life was an act of conscience and consciousness. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She was afraid and he could handle her through her fear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At my insistence, Gay called Karen Gievers, the attorney who had handled the class-action suit involving one of Gay’s guardian children. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to be able to handle those kids. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At that he seized the door handle, banged the door shut, and locked it. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “The doctors told us that you might never remember. And we figured that that was the best way to handle the situation.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just got to where I couldn’t handle it anymore. I couldn’t walk to the helicopter. My feet wouldn’t work.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Just because we were not as rich as she was didn’t mean I had never handled nice things. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He felt through the handles till he came to one that wasn’t too long to conceal, whose blade came to a point and not a rounded end. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mamita and Mami and Tía Isa, not understanding that drumsticks are the only kind of drumsticks that will do on a drum, suggested pencils or the handles of wooden spoons used for making cake batter. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

‘A disgusting spider! Quick! Fetch me the mop with the long handle!’ James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was grateful to let her handle things that had become difficult for his old body. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I would be able to handle them all by myself. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Man to man," he started, "did you handle yourself?" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

If the protest became more than the police could handle, the fully armed troops could be brought onto the streets instantly. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think we should . count on his help this time. He wanted a tribute, and he made it pretty clear it would be a tribute we couldn’t handle.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He lifted the handles of a wheelbarrow and started off. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thousands of years ago it had been handled or worn by other people; bits of their DNA might still adhere to the fibers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After four such loans were made, the white lending agencies called and said: “Don’t take all that business away from us. How about letting us handle a few of those loans?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thatha's lips wobble again, but Patti says yes, and she gives me a shiny new plastic comb and a toothbrush with a bright green handle. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I struggle to breathe and can’t inhale at all, so I reach for the door handle. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“For the last time—I’ll handle things in the arena. Go home.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She said it so easily that I felt like I’d walked into a trap, into something I wouldn’t be able to handle once it arrived. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Arturo turned off the water, twisting the handle so hard I thought he would break it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

K. P. Lewis, manager of the sprawling Erwin Mills in Durham, explained his decision not to join the Klan by observing that “matters could be very much better handled...open and above-board.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One cyclotroneer joked that “its neutrons would reach Chicago”; another wondered, less facetiously, if its beam would be so potent that the targets would be “too hot to handle.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Wait,” I said when Carl reached for the door handle, because there was one thing I had to know. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He could handle a basketball with remarkable dexterity for one who had abandoned the court so long ago. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dasch and Burger spent the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out how to handle their dangerous situation. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In the days ahead, people begged to see the dress, to handle it and marvel at the stains on it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esteban handled it delicately as we all leaned in to look at it with him. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He examined the grain of wood in its handle. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He let the little boy run his fingers across the handle, which was carved from an elk’s antler. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

When my half-brother Wayne was killed in Vietnam, I was able to handle the grief of his loss by writing about it for Essence magazine. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I can’t pry it open without a tool, so I look back to his makeshift kitchen and find a teaspoon, still sticky, and insert its handle into the crack. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘They is not feeling it,’ the BFG said as he turned the handle. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had entered it the night before and turned the various gleaming handles. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She squeezed the handles of her purse tighter, as if that would somehow help, and trotted down the hallway to the girls’ bathroom. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Without saying nothing, he passed it to me, handle first. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Closing the door to the room behind him, Kote said, “I trust you Bast, but I wanted you safe. I knew I could handle it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I just don't know if I can handle it." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The padlock snipped off surprisingly easy, Jamie working one handle and Michael pushing the other. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She must not handle his scarred thigh, or the game was up. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, but gently—I knew you had to handle cold people carefully because of their hearts, their hearts can go kind of nuts and not beat right—I rolled him onto his left side. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how to handle it,” Bloom moaned, swaying a little. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While it was cold, baskets of all shapes and sizes, some with handles, some not, piled up in all the rooms in our house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She picked up the cart’s handles and pulled it up the hill, toward the village. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

All I could do was pray to God that he would get a handle on it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They drag me into an alley and handle me in much the same way I took care of Gavin. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Grandma Knife says, "Don't worry, boy. There's nothing you can't handle." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The queen, his step-grandmother, became regent in his place, and would handle all affairs of state until the prince was old enough to take over. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ranofer picked up the ingot, which was now cool enough to handle, and carried it to the nearby workbench on which the drawplate stood. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth would have known exactly how to handle it, without thinking twice. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“They wanted to send some hotshot Miami lawyer down to handle his case,” Mom said, “but I told them it wasn’t necessary.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Carl came away with the lantern’s handle between his fingers and went to lock back his knife. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Papa dropped his head as if he couldn’t handle more bad news. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I unhooked the handle from the seat, laid the umbrella in the bow and went back to Catherine for the oar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He felt that he would have been able to handle it then. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the basket was full, we each took a handle and lugged it up to the high rocks where we spread it to wait for rain. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The Army would handle the monkeys and the monkey house, which was the nest of the outbreak. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will laugh and laugh if he thinks I can’t handle a few sips of wine. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It had a handle and several little drawers stuffed with powders and pigments in tiny jars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Besides, if I can’t handle the idea of walking down a hallway with him, how will I cope with him escorting me in front of the entire town? Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A long, thick handle was braced by a heavy bar; two heavy rings, like the links of a great chain, were set in either side. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She stops spinning her handles and switches into her victory dance, windmilling her arms as she leaps around the room. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He has held—held!—a dagger handle at least four hundred years old, made of white jade and inlaid with emeralds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m fine. You handled it perfectly, man.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Parvin and I will handle it. You have to go to school.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Inside we could hear the faint rasping as the two mice tugged on the bolt handle, working it back. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn't sure he was the type who could handle it or not. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

As I reach for the door handle, Christina says, “You know who did that, right?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I have handled a number of business matters for Monsieur Lefèvre of late and I have put in a strong recommendation, but you should do whatever is needed to secure the position.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Besides, before we left México I had promised him I would handle everything here. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Ellen stopped her work and stood for a moment without speaking, her rough brown hands resting on the handle of the hoe. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought: This is something I can handle. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I grab the handle and lift it out of the wet snow. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I know she losing more than a person can handle. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They used a mop handle with a soft U-shaped pad on the end. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As she had handled her quarry, we thought we could give her a name.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I searched for a door or handle but found nothing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Gaskill stopped me; he moved quietly and surprisingly quickly, and before I could put my hand on the door handle he was standing in front of me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Apparently I can’t trust you children any more than I can hardened criminals. Well, fine. I’ll handle this like I would an uprising in the cell house. All of you will be punished without exception.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A barrel bristled with canes, some with ivory handles. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When Moch resorted to that one, Ulbrickson said, “the boys get so hot they have to wrap asbestos around their oar handles to keep the boat from burning up.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"It's just a rumor. Clearly, you can't handle reading these"—she waves the paper in my face—"and take them too seriously." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Now all I had to do was un- stow the locking handle, and crank, and crank, until— finally—it was locked. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

You didn’t need a space suit to handle an Ebola patient. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a swift gesture, he caught the handle and flung the door open. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He was breathing fast, and his right hand was gripping the handle of the knife in its sheath. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even with the anger and the secrets, Axel can’t handle seeing Byrd hurt. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I can show them I’m not some china doll, handle with care. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was a little too close for comfort, but my real scissors, the ones made of steel with a black handle, were packed away, and I had to get this done. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t handle having some hostile clerk telling me I was making mountains out of molehills. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya stared at him, hands still clasped securely on the cart’s handles. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The hands were the weak point, the most vulnerable part of the suit, because of what they handled. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even newspapers that opposed female suffrage condemned the way Judge Hunt handled the case. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was no door handle on his side of the door. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“How? Is it one of our adventures? Do we run into something we can’t handle?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The handle of his cane too well polished beneath his pristine gloves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Tialys was looking closely at the knife handle, but he wasn’t touching it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was in West Sacramento, California, a lawyer heading to his job at a firm that handled property-loss cases for State Farm insurance. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sergeant fished his mop handle into a cage and pinned a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am very proud of the way you handled yourself today,” my father said, looking at me over the rim of the glass. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Outside, Tiller said, “Nothing much to it. Just hook this here rope to the handle, careful-like, and then you lower it down.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the handle of the door and went inside. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He would go on binges, three- or four-day hauls that were tough for everybody to handle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy realized that what he saw of Tartarus was only a watered-down version of its true horror—only what his demigod brain could handle. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Regis had two guys who could handle the ball pretty good and we had three guys, me, Trip, and Nick, who could go get it. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I lower myself to the grass, holding the handle to keep me steady. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The wooden handle was still warm from Samuel’s hands. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Someone can always be counted on to tell the victim of some unfortunate incident how he could have handled the situation better. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ted Koppel had called several times before coming up, and he had asked Morrie, “Do you think you can handle it?” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is, Emile. But nothing you can’t handle when the time comes.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The captain offered the knife to her, handle first, and held out a scrap of wood. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The pump bucket and pump handle, for example, were straightforward applications of existing technologies, and the boiler was basically a large brewer’s copper. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I put my fingers around the handle and swung it closer. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Please help him feel better and learn to handle when time is up. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe I hoped she would handle it like God. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My fingers squeezed the door handle, but no matter how hard I pulled it, it didn’t budge. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In her lap is a kelly green Bermuda bag with pink piping and wooden handles; inside the bag is a tube of 7UP-flavored lip balm that she draws from time to time across her mouth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were comparing details, like the way light struck a fingernail or a wrist bone, the look of a woven basket handle or a curl of hair. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The ANC men brought in an outside lawyer to handle the case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m no math whiz—hate the subject with the passion of a Firebird, if you want the truth—but I can handle basic subtraction. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Jesper and Wylan fell to the floor as the chain zipped through their hands, one end vanishing through the slot, the other sending the winch handles spinning. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hell, if you handled hot agents without a space suit, that would be hazardous work. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cari grabbed the handle of the case and yanked it closer. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Evan let Scott handle all the money while he took care of the pouring and the "sweet talk." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I guess I don’t blame them for leaving, because, like I said, we’re a tough bunch to handle sometimes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

This is another situation best handled by a little white lie about my feelings. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I got a broom and tried to hit the rat with the handle, but it dodged me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I scream and he sticks the knife in to the handle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The way you handled it at the creek tonight?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but you handle him with your bars, not your fists! You trying to get disqualified before you start?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But Burger deftly handled the situation, smoothly spouting off some lies in an effort to calm them down. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

For a second, I got a peek at the handle of a pistol, tucked into his waistband. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I know what I’m doing. I handle stuff like this all the time.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Look,’ people will say—are already saying—‘he can’t handle his own son. How can he possibly handle a church?’ Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was my brief case, extended to me by its handles. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fezzik’s father handled tactics and ring strategy, while his mother was more in charge of diet and training, and they had never been happier. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I followed her across the room to the kitchen where she turned the brass faucet handle with her wrist and let the water run over her hands. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We stand side by side in the open doorway, each of us holding one of the handles. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Though slow to quarrel, and for sport killing nothing that lived, they were doughty at bay, and at need could still handle arms. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Although people felt certain that she could handle a spaceflight, they were concerned about what would come afterward. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Alma, I know we can fix this. I know it,” he said, reaching for the door handle. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Do you think I can handle seeing him?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m angry you kept this from me. That you were treating me like a baby who couldn’t handle something big. That you didn’t think I deserved to know.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Beginning the day after the shooting, Dr. D. W. Bliss organized a medical team to handle President Garfield's care. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I take a plug a Pine-Ola cream and start rubbing it onto the silver, working the cloth around the rose design, the lip and the handle. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I squeezed my fingers tighter around the revolver’s ivory handle. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought: if it could be done, if the books would become safe to handle, and Mr. Loomis did not want to go, I could go. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was for him, not them, to say who should handle the bow, and he bade Eumaeus give it to Odysseus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The metal grilles curved up and down like mouths, and an extra set of handles slanted like eyebrows. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s not worth it... you got to let the Lord handle it.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I grab the door handle and then, remembering, let go and pull out my phone. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But, rummaging in his pouch to free the rope, Shadow’s claw had closed on the handle of his dagger. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I understand it might feel that way sometimes, but in the future, we really need for you to say something if a classmate is bothering you. Don’t try to handle it all yourself, okay?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

You can always tell skillful spellers by the way they handle full-bodied words—the kind that contain ful or full. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But their hands dosed about hers, as she pulled on the big iron door handle, and suddenly she felt strong. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Tall for her eleven years, Nya could switch the handle from one hand to the other, swing the container by her side, or cradle it in both arms. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the colour had been washed out of him, it seemed, so as to leave no handle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I once handled the case of a Coloured man who was inadvertently classified as an African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following information is classified, as it refers to a location that handles several million very well-kept secrets. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His mother couldn’t handle teaching the kids at home and running the farm, too, so she sent them off on the bus to school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Looking down, John Isidore saw his own hands; they gripped the twin handles of the empathy box. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Beads of moisture ran down the handle of his shovel. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He swiped his library card, yanked on the handle, and dashed into the room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He retrieved it, found some thin line tangled in a ball, and untangled enough to cut and tie ten feet to the handle of the bucket. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured if I handled some stuff for myself, that would help. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They were the glass kind, the ones with gilded rims and no handles. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“He’s very strong. I’m sure he’s told you he never has known his father. His mom got another boyfriend and had another child. He handled it. He handles everything.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A picture of a heart drawn in the sand came up next to the handle @CARSAN2121. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Could they handle themselves while undergoing violent vibrations or being exposed to extreme forces ten times that of gravity? Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“About what happened with the cleaner. And about how Forrest handled it. But I shouldn’t have run away. I run away too much.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I drop my jacket outside the stockroom door and turn the handle, but it’s locked. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I took the handle off, straightened it out, and bent a hook in one end. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scoob traces the handle of his door and gulps down his true feelings. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He pulls the car into a spot right in front of my apartment and I reach for the door handle. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Madame Padva wished not to be involved any longer, but she is confident that Miss Burgess can handle her responsibilities.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

According to reports from the neighbors, boys ran alongside the car, holding onto the door handles from the outside, while my brother drove really fast. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Almost against my will, I closed my fingers around the handle of the knife still concealed in my bag. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We were curious to inspect and handle these intriguing objects, especially the little pink madonna, but Mother felt we should not show excessive interest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were better ways to handle the situation, I knew, but none that I seemed capable of at the time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scrap once again silently asks, “Want me to handle that?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The handle of her knife grew hot in her palm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Both of them bent low over the handles of their trolleys and walked purposefully toward the barrier, gathering speed. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Then his father reached out a hand for Conor’s shoulder, but Conor ducked it and pulled on the door handle to get out. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

They could be handled by skilled nurses in a good hospital. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read the line Just got some business to handle right quick over and over again. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I am, a little. I hope we can handle all four of them.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Harry asked the other two, his hand on the door handle. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Yes, everyone in the districts will be watching me to see how I handle this death sentence, this final act of President Snow’s dominance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t be adding to her troubles just because I can’t handle a few bullies. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He pulled on the handle with all his might. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He crosses the room and slams the point of a knife so hard into the table that it sticks there, handle toward the ceiling. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t wait for us to answer before grabbing the cart’s handle, and wrestling it forward far more effectively than we did. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He sat for a moment, not reaching for the door handle, before turning to Lydia. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The agent’s telling him that if he handles this just right, this crisis could propel him to the national stage. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He moved nice and knew how to handle the ball. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I slip the small rubber ring off the inside of the handle. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the center was an elegantly carved coffin with brass handles. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other end was tied to the rope handle of the wooden bucket below, midway between the fire and the greystones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I nearly flew to the sink and turned the spigot handle. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s a thing of your mind,” he said, “and you can train your mind to handle it just like you can train your arm to throw a rock.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

A temporary morgue was set up in a tiny stable to handle the remains of the dead. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He handled the car expertly, picking up speed at the beginning of each block and slowing slighdy as he approached each street intersection. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I crouched lower and tightened my fingers around the wok handle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“And you couldn’t handle the teacups. Would you ask one of your friends to serve the cake?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His eyes were hard when he faced her, his knuckles white on the handle of his pick. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Once they passed a snow machine in operation, with the Cloud-Men turning the handle and a blizzard of snowflakes blowing out of the great funnel above. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Near each handle, the chains extended in taut spokes through slots in the stone. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Looking happily into Mr. Reilly’s area, he noticed that the bean vines were growing so healthily that they had even begun to twine downward through the handles of the file drawers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that why you handle Alexia differently than any of the other girls?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He waves, which means truce, which means he still can’t handle talking about anything remotely heavy and would prefer to ignore it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The medical personnel were trained to handle drug overdoses and minor injuries, and knew very little about cerebral palsy. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know how far he’d lose it, and I didn’t know if I was ready to deal with someone who would lose it so totally that I couldn’t handle it.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He can see the bulge of the gun handle beneath dude’s shirt. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When I had finished I lashed the oar in a vertical position to the inside of one of the corners of the raft, flat part, the masthead, rising in the air, handle disappearing underwater. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes watered so much I could barely see the pump handle. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I even looked behind his weapons cabinet, though of course it was locked, the handle ringed by scratches where he’d tried to pick it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My thighs are thick with cellulite and my love handles hang over the waistband of my shorts. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I put my hand on the door handle, ready and waiting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Yeah, I might. You don’t think I can handle this, do you?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dad reached into his pocket and pulled out his favorite jackknife, the one with the horn handle and the blade of blue German steel that we’d used for Demon Hunting. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What could you say to me that I couldn’t handle?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then how ’bout trusting me to handle it?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Oh...my...G—it was a pistol—the handle of a pistol! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The three Witchlings went inside the ornate Hall of Elders, where all government business was handled and the council kept their records and held their meetings. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I touched the handle, tugged on it cautiously. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He wails in fury and kicks the door handle until it breaks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The human mind can do only a few things at a time, and the order in which information comes in affects how that information is handled. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Seven highly polished, brand-new handles and seven sets of fine gold lettering spelling the words Nimbus Two Thousand and One gleamed under the Gryffindors’ noses in the early morning sun. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I was almost fourteen years old, had never handled a tennis racket in my life and knew absolutely nothing about the rules of the game. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The handle felt funny in my hand, cool and smooth-edged, like it had been worn down by excessive holding. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn the handle and water sputters out. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her hand clenched the handle of the fork. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jemmy picked up the handle of the kettle. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was the same vibration as before—Otto thought it felt like holding the handle of Grandma’s vacuum that time he tried sucking up her curtains. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I grab the poker and the broom handle from the grass. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And then she saw how he hooked his amulet neck-string about the horn handle of his great knife, so that it hung down in front of him and left both hands free. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way, I carefully picked up the gun by its handle, using my dress. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m a big girl; I can handle it.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pumping my arms, I run alongside the last car until I can grab the handle and swing myself in, wincing as pain darts through my sore body. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I remember playing with the lounging chair when I was little, tipping the wooden handle and lying back. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

There was a marker on a dial that turned with a handle. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

So, taking a deep breath to steady himself, he grasped the twin handles. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The knife had done almost everything it was brought to that house to do, and both the blade and the handle were wet. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“And if you felt I couldn’t handle it?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

About a hundred golden taps stood all around the pool’s edges, each with a differently colored jewel set into its handle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They were made in varying sizes, and the Prince’s looked to be one of the largest, being wrist thick where it joined the handle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When he reached a challenge he couldn’t handle, like winning at Joust, he could just hand control of his avatar off to one of his underlings. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Fizz unlocks the handle, yanks the door open, and walks out. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

His destrier seemed a pony in between his armored legs, and the lance he carried looked as small as a broom handle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then it uncurled its handles and one handle lifted its lid with exaggerated courtesy while the other helped him to a generous spoonful. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the tent is dark, the ceiling covered with open black umbrellas, the curving handles hanging down like icicles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Crick turns back to me and picks up a corposcope by its metal handle. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I manage to keep a good handle on them. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I will take responsibility for these cupcakes. Now that I’m eleven, I can handle that kind of responsibility. If there’s one thing I am, it’s responsible.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She grabbed one handle of the big cooler. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

‘Sir,’ said Johnny, ‘it’s a matter of handles.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t say that like I’m a little kid who can’t handle things. I’m old enough to understand this. In case you forgot, I’m twelve years old.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

A pair of baby shoes dangle by tied laces from a drawer handle. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were no houses nearby, so he broke the lock with an ax handle he found on the ground. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

My arms tremble as I hold the scythe up in the ready position: vicious curved blade pointing down, body-length handle at an angle across my chest. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Not until Haven,” she says, “which we have to hope is big enough to handle an army.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The straps on the side were huge, the handles were further out from the Wall. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you think you can handle walking two dogs each, then we can give it a try,” Dad says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I lifted the oar in the air and I shoved its handle into this looseness, into this lifesaving de­tail. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Arthur, you’re supposed to be on holiday! This hasn’t got anything to do with your office; surely they can handle this without you. “I’ve got to go, Molly,” said Mr. Weasley. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Amid the gold he had in that place lying the son of Atreus picked a wine cup, wrought with handles left and right, and told his son to take a silver winebowl. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers tighten on the iron door handle. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He walked over to the door and tried the handle. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He was left-handed, and it always fascinated me to see the way he handled things, like a street magician’s parlor tricks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And to be honest, I haven’t been sure I could handle your reaction.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I mean, DD is this lunatic man on Richmond Avenue who makes believe he’s the leader of organized crime on Staten Island, but all he handles are the hubcaps and radios that kids steal. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on a stump and stared at his hands, calloused where the hammer and saw handles rubbed against his skin. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The gardener bent to the handles of the machine and walked slowly along the bank scattering the short-tipped grass and the pin-point daisy heads. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And when Marian performed before predominantly white audiences in the big cities of the Northeast and Midwest, reviewers who praised her voice often commented that she did not handle foreign languages well. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The firm would handle their loan applications, and then take a commission, which it would split with the real estate agent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On deck, Carlyle jabs at the squid with a mop handle sharpened into a harpoon, but the creature’s flesh is too thick for him to do much damage. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

One drinker in the house is about all I can handle. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the war, her team would break into dozens of spy networks, including thirty-seven circuits linked to Hamburg, and a further twenty-four that were handled from Berlin. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“But I was just carrying a little more . . . freight than this old crate could handle.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think Madoc was enormously concerned about what I could handle then, and I don’t think he will be too worried about Oak now.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It only takes an instant for Pattie to find the handle on the closet door. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Behind him walked a slave boy about my height, whose arms were weighted down with a wooden contraption and a small case with a rope handle. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You take care, Miss Mira. And remember”—she winked at me—“you can handle anything life dishes out.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Dude. You told my mom to her face. You said it. And I think you made it up because you can’t handle not being the perfect little Unity Valley Homecoming princess anymore.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The Spackle hovers on the edge of my vision but I do not look at it as I handle the knife. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Wart took up his position in the circle round the monster’s lair, and knelt down on one knee in the snow, with the handle of his spear couched on the ground, ready for emergencies. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa and Uncle Henry carried the cradles by their long, curved handles, and swung the blades into the standing oats. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Computers were finally powerful enough that they could handle more than one “appointment” at once. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Business is handled in my office or not at all.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a present, he had already prepared an old orange crate to carry them in, tied with neat rope handles at either end. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

These kinds of discussions were similar to talks he and Emma had been having for years; they were much easier for him to handle. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the money was handled, they took seats in the hard plastic chairs that made up the waiting room. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean, you scored against a team of little plastic men who were frozen in place with no one to spin their handles,” I say. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Grasping the two handles, he wheeled the cart onto the road. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

And hadn’t Toby said he could handle it? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Kathy was the business’s secretary, bookkeeper, credit department, public-relations manager—she did everything in the office, while her husband handled the building and painting. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Let me handle this. On TV, detectives and spies are always looking for people, getting in where folks don’t want them to get in. I’ve been studying their moves.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

For long moments nothing happened, except the ground getting closer, and Tally wondered again if bungee jackets could handle a fall from this distance. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I stood up, grabbed the handles of Beau’s duffel, and slid past her and out into the aisle. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Gabe dropped the paddle and caught the handle of the weapon awkwardly, relieved that the blade had not sliced through his hand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was no handle, naturally, and no keyhole, and it fitted so closely at top and bottom that no light showed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

What he thinks is a pump in the distance is an ax handle still lodged in a stump. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried pushing on the handle with my side, but the door was so stiff, I could barely move it. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In two strides, if I need to, I can reach the handle and flip it over. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“He can’t handle it when I get mad at him,” she said. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Or “I’m sure you do a good job at money management. However, did you know most wives outlive their husbands? If something should happen to you, would she be able to handle everything by herself?” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about me, Noah. I know how to handle Captain Muleman.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

His car handled a lot easier than my truck. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And it was right then that God didn’t handle things too well. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I switched the whip to my left hand without meaning to, without even realizing it at first, took hold of its worn handle, lifted it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The manager dropped his handle on their backpacks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Even if business had been normal the Bureau couldn’t have handled it because the workers began to go. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hand was clenched on the door handle, the other on her seat’s armrest. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

While the handle could be seen, it was dark enough to be almost indistinguishable from the wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m not saying I think the school handled this right,” he said. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Will felt the handle jump three or four times with the dying heartbeats, and pulled it out before the cliff-ghast could twist it away in falling. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As he turned, a few scattered rays of sunlight caught the metal handle of the gun tucked into the waistband of his jeans. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In memory—and Briony later gave this matter some thought—she had no particular expectations as she placed her hand on the brass handle and turned it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He went to help his children unload the car, gripping the suitcase handles in his bony fingers, his bony wrists locked. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is nothing I give you that you cannot handle.’ Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But the tough woman seized her hand and bent her fingers around the handle of the cup. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was three steps from the door handle when I heard voices inside the office. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“But don’t you worry. Let me handle this.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cal knew his brother and could handle him by keeping him off balance, but this only worked up to a certain point. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned on the handle and looked down the long straight of way. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“We’re looking for a big, old-fashioned one — probably silver, like the handle.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I swung most marvellously from handle to handle, and I was enjoying myself so much that I completely forgot I was in full view of anyone in the kitchen who might happen to glance upwards. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But he allowed Beregond to handle his head gently and stroke his great flanks. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Fuchsia proceeds to spin her handles like a maniac for the next five minutes, missing the ball nearly every time it passes by. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Apparently, the more you stroke and handle a falcon, the easier they are to train. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing the handle again, he shoved off up Carondelet Street, waddling slowly behind the cart. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His friendly advice on how to handle Luzan was that I actively seek out his weaknesses, expose and use them to take him apart, limb from limb, cell by cell. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t appreciate you speaking to me that way in front of those police officers. You should’ve let me handle it.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I smoothed my finger across the nose and down the L of the handle. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe they couldn’t handle the dirty play, or the acorn throwers. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes me in and shows me the bathroom, which has handles in the shower. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid he’s already filed the papers. I probably shouldn’t have told you, but you all are señoritas now. I think you can handle it,” Abuelita Remedies said. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He stood up and caught hold of one of the handles of the trunk and pulled. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before I even pull the door handle, I hear locks clacking. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Hincty, that’s why. Comes from handling money all day. You notice that? How people who handle money for a living get stuck-up? Like it was theirs instead of yours?” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See how he handles it, the sly old buzzard!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t know how to handle something like this. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He looked thoughtfully at the door in front of him, then, lifting off the sponge bag, he tried the handle. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, that’s the worst reason to have a child, anyone on the street can tell you that, because no one can handle being an attempt at something from the very start. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached to open the building’s front door, but where the lock and handle should have been, there was only a hole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once I've got a groove, the work requires less effort but is almost more than I can handle. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He yanks the door handle hard, and then lets the door slam behind him. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My old friend Thutra took me one morning to a cupboard, and showed me a cup with a handle, and two arm bands. One of them was overambitious.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Sheed ceased his grooming, wedged his pick tight into his thick hair, so only the handle protruded, and dug into a bowl of Frosty Loops. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Nya took the hollowed gourd that was tied to the handle of the plastic container. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otto’s nimble fingers handled the camera with ease, aiming and snapping a photo. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Whatever the door concealed, he wanted to confront it bravely—or at least more bravely than he’d handled the Waiting Room. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As far as anything else a girl might need, he decided the nuns could handle it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the barn he became a disarmingly affectionate glutton, “as gentlemanly a horse,” marveled Smith, “as I ever handled.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes got full-up with tears that got bigger than Quincy could handle. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Shelly used the rake handle to poke at the unconscious man on the sofa. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a .12-gauge Savage shotgun, Model 300; a delicately etched scene of pheasants in flight ornamented the handle. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blisters had grown and pulsed in red painful flashes whenever the handle rubbed against them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then I headed my skiff in the right direction, grabbed the stern line, and looped it around the outboard’s handle. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

As he handled the fruits there was something very peculiar in the fellow’s face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I think it will be better if I handle this alone,” she said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wrapped both hands around the handle and ground my feet deep into the soft, black dirt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He got to his feet, his eyes glued to the handle. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It took only one of those seconds for Kate to think: It has to be all four of us, but Constance can't handle them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The FBI agent who was in charge of the Oklahoma field office had assured Hoover that the transfer could be handled without any “unfavorable comment” in the press. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Connor will probably get picked again too. He’s a little hard to handle, but he’s great with trivia.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Quick! In the closet!” hissed Harry, stuffing Dobby in, shutting the door, and flinging himself onto the bed just as the door handle turned. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

His right hand glided across his holstered gun, lingered over the handle of his knife, then came to rest on his belt’s brass buckle. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There was no handle, nothing to grab on to. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I say, “There must have been a handle. Once. Something to pull.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She says, “It’s better for me here. My mom really can’t handle being a mother.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His fingers pinch the knife handle, careful not to touch me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was always “Mbuyi, your son did this,” and then my mother would handle it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“And they can be useful. They handle most of my gardening. But good? Safe? Not so much.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Mike knocked on the door, waiting for the “Come in,” before daring to twist the handle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Once the water in the kettle boiled, Joseph lugged it upstairs, using a towel he found by the sink so the hot metal handle wouldn’t burn him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Cooperatives sprang up to handle the farmwork and try to keep everyone fed. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dug with his hands until he found the leather handle, and then he pulled the suitcase up and out of the dirt. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She tore around a corner so fast, Conor had to grab on to the door handle to stay upright. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

His hand closed around the handle of his knife and he walked up the hill. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Then she stood up and grabbed the door handle—which was glass too, by the way—and threw the door open. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the room was taken up by a long winch, handles at each end, thick loops of chain spooled around it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You handled yourself pretty well out there,” he says finally. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It would be better to handle this myself, in case I got in trouble. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I believed he knew everything and could handle anything. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He looked like he could handle just about anything. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The pain wasn’t bad, but it was the overwhelming emotion that was all too much to handle. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But what will you do? How will you handle your bully?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Gen yanked her jump rope off her shoulder like a whip, only it didn’t look very threatening since it was hot pink and she’d put happy-face stickers on the handles. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, there are plenty of other ways we can handle this one,” Colonel Kom assured him confidently, and continued to Piltchard and Wren. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the bar handle of the next door so I couldn’t open it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Next to me she laid out the Q-tips, a magnifying glass, the bottle of anesthetic, and the cauterizing instrument, which was a wooden handle with a six-inch-long thickish wire coming out of one end. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“No. We ain’t hiding this behind no closed doors. I want this thing out in the open. Right is right, so let’s handle our business here,” Juju says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

And even though I hated getting shuffled around and grabbed by my love handles, my rubbery constipated face did relax into a smile. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Before that happens he dips his hands in the cold water and freezes them to the oar handles so he can’t let go. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He’s not sick, he got alcohol poisoning because he can’t handle real liquor. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“We’ve talked about this, Miranda. I thought you knew how to handle yourself. It’s the only reason I let you walk around alone!” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Seth tugged the handle, but the door was locked. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“I think Mr. Terupt handled them the way he did because he was trying to teach you guys some personal responsibility.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She'd never failed before, and she didn't know how to handle defeat. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I know I’m only a kid, but I’m sure I could handle it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Now he had a knife in each hand—a flint knife, and a knife with a black bone handle—and he said, “Get back! Keep away from me! Don’t get any closer!” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“My belief is that this situation should no longer be handled by the Circle,” one member finally said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I tried to handle it here”—he shows us his palms—“but the orders have come from the top.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the redheaded Avox girl comes in with a note from Effie saying that, given our recent tour, both she and Haymitch have agreed we can handle ourselves adequately in public. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn't sure and couldn't handle the thought of rejection. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

They weren’t making out or anything—a kid named John had announced that he had sprayed pepper spray in there and people were going in to see if they could handle it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She could do that somehow—melt me when I was cold, cool me when I was too hot to handle myself. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Daddy reached for the handle on the motor, to steer it away from Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bars don’t begin to warm under my grip, not like a subway handle or a railing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wrapped her fingers around the door handle; to her surprise, it turned without protest. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“On my momma they messed with the wrong one. Point them out and I’ll handle them fools.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He stood leaning on the handle of the grocery cart. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You know what...I really shouldn’t filter. You can handle the more mature stuff, and one thing you’ve got is plenty of time. Vonnegut. Erdrich. Morrison.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the hand towel off of the refrigerator handle and held it to Jeffrey’s nose. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was while he was full of such dreams, his body already feeling the rough work clothes, his hands already curved to the pick handle, that he spoke to Nel about getting married. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Would she handle it any differently this time? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He told me to stay put while he handled everything. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the doctor changes his bandages I give Captain Smith the handle of a wooden spoon to bite on so that he can endure the pain. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She would never have been in this mess if she’d let a much younger and smarter fox handle things. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I released the handle and the bucket splashed, a distant sound. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, both Dad and Mother had more clients than they could handle. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

From outside came a heavy grunt, and the handle was nearly yanked from my grip. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Is it any wonder Oppenheimer handled the challenges of his life so brilliantly? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

His downstairs neighbor knocked his immediate protest with a broom handle. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We've decided to use the manual chair today since the electric one, even with the car ramps, is a little too heavy for Mom to handle on her own. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the bar handle so I couldn’t open it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Arriving at the door, I grabbed its thick golden handle and pulled. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When there’s no answer, I try the handle, but it’s locked, and so I walk up to the house, heart going faster because what if someone has been there since? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was thinking more of how I could ask her out than how our firm would handle her case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I should be able to handle them. The problem is that I’m so lazy.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Old Yeller could handle a skunk easy enough. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1920s, Knighthood had been handled by an able conditioner named Bob Rowe, one of only a handful of black horsemen training in that era. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atticus drew the line at having someone feed him, and Dr. Finch solved the problem by jamming the handles of a fork, knife, and spoon into the ends of big wooden spools. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, I resolved the problem by driving an oar, handle first, deep into the algae and tethering the boat to it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sheed stepped past them, grabbed the handle of the closest mirror. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the identical way, people volunteered to handle drinks, desserts, posters, and decorations. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It was tedious work, and in August when the acorns were ready, I found that they made better flour and were much easier to handle. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could never handle the little tweezers, or solder a delicate joint, or shape the little gold leaves. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But what I heard then in his question wasn’t could I handle the hard work as a full-time athlete? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She pulled the handle to the left, and with a deep rasping sound, the door slid away, into a slot in the wall. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His reputation was derived from the way he handled the words. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever I was saying at any time was being handled by a small comer of my mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A score of ioo is average; you probably need to be just above that mark to be able to handle college. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He stopped work for an instant to level the hammer handle and a sharp glance over his shoulder at Ranofer. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I paused before pushing open the door to my house, my hand frozen on the handle. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

If the computer’s operating system was rewritten, computer scientists realized, the machine’s time could be shared; the computer could be trained to handle hundreds of tasks at the same time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He grabs the handle of the car with his free hand just as I turn off the engine. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The bats could handle the load, but it meant four inexperienced fliers would be alone on one bat. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well then, it’s a fine thing that you have an Attendant to handle it for you, ain’t it?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When the Science Patrol encountered a threat they couldn’t handle on their own, Hayata would use an alien device called a Beta Capsule to transform into an alien superbeing known as Ultraman. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“All you’ve got to do is lock down the construction site for the next forty-eight hours. Think you can handle that?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s in a group of other women, dressed in the same fashion; she’s holding a stick, no, it’s part of a banner, the handle. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn the handle and walk right into a sobbing woman. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nine hours of gripping the crutch handles had stiffened his hands to claws. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“She lived in an apartment, and her husband died suddenly. She couldn’t handle the dog on her own. Bless her heart.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I heard him trying the handle. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Nancy raises up from her seat, turns back to grip the handles like she’s just remembered they were on their way to the nest, but not like she remembers the real question. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, whatever the reason, I just really can’t handle it right now.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Many of them were worn around the edges, as if they had been handled often. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Money? Course not. Identify a demand, handle its supply, make your customers grateful, kill off the opposition.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The object had a lid and gold handles. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They were not the kind his mother would let sit at her table with dirty hands to handle her salt and pepper shaker angels. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

For decades the two of them owned a pawn shop, where Charity would handle the customers—she was always the cool-tempered one. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Because I was in bed and my sponge bag was hanging on the door handle.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seized the handle of the starter rope and, from a squatting position, yanked with every ounce of muscle I had left. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He grabbed some masking tape out of the desk drawer and began to create makeshift handles looped on the back of the poster. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He knocked with the handle of his knife, while they leaned their faces and shoulders against the wall. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

If she neglected to check that hollow bedpan handles were cleaned and dry she would be in deeper trouble with the sister. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I suppose she realized that I couldn’t handle everything at once—and she was right. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Mary Poppins turned and faced him, one hand on the handle of the perambulator. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Edward rips the sledgehammer handle from the Erudite man’s hands and swings again. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The guards, too, treated the common criminals with a certain forbearance, even when they had to handle them roughly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was an odd pause, and then he said, “So do you feel like you’re starting to get a better handle on who your grandpa was, being here?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Next to the bed was a chest of drawers with drawer handles shaped like teardrops and a mirror attached to the top. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear lowered the handles of the cart to the ground and bowed his head. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The Cookes can handle it on their own. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Beckendorf had given him some tools and spare parts, and now Tyson spent every night tinkering, though I wasn’t sure how his huge hands could handle such delicate litde pieces. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up as the cellar door shut, and something scraped the outside, jiggling the handles around. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Their first response was, “Mandela, why don’t you retain a lawyer to defend you? He will be able to handle the case properly. Why put yourself out?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Skeeter nod, say, “I can handle Hilly. This doesn’t implicate you, or the other maids, or the book at all.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We knew she was fond of the Shirley Temple cup and took every opportunity to drink milk out of it just to handle and see sweet Shirley’s face. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d walk over to a bookcase and touch a book and stroll by a table and admire the handle on a drawer. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without needing to discuss it outright, I knew he could handle a partner who had her own passions and voice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Xenocrates went to the express elevator, not trusting his security detail to handle the situation down below. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I nodded, not letting go of the door’s handles. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She reached for the handle of the bell, but before she could reach it, the door opened. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He rapped its head with his knife handle and tossed it beneath the shelter. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third time he managed to get a better grip, but it still took all his strength to yank the handle down. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And there was always the danger that a voracious army of ants would swarm through, eating up their specimens and leaving trees and bushes “clean as the handle of a broom.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If there’s one thing he can’t handle right now, it’s pity. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I recognize the sword—it has a C molded into the handle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Each of these phases is specialized and unique, and neither India nor China nor Russia has a critical mass of talent that can handle the whole product cycle for a big American multinational. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Impetus theory was used to handle some anomalies, not to bring about a revolution; indeed, medieval natural philosophers were incapable of imagining a revolution that would supplant Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you worry about it. I’ll handle it. You talk to Melba while I make a cup of tea for you.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy didn’t think she could handle June walking right past her and not even saying hi. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Once we got a handle on the footwork, we finally got to pick up our weapons. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The sergeant spotted the ax handles on the floor by each cot and kicked one with his boot. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother handled the photos with mostly casual interest, except for the ones that showed my sisters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held my breath and went under, feeling along the van’s side panel until I found the handle of a door. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

These soldiers all wore the same stern, tense expressions and handled their bayonetted rifles nervously, as if they were in the camp of the enemy. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look like you could handle some seconds,” he says. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I can handle the other kids and the teachers and everything about it but the memory. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He is something of a legend to the handful of people in the world who really know about hot agents and how to handle them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma started to reach up for the handle of the front passenger door, but Chess shook his head. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was the one who wasn’t sure he could handle one more thing. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Your mom will handle that beef,” he said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Releasing the handles, he examined his arm, then made his way unsteadily to the bathroom of his apartment to wash the cut off. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Across the room, Bast froze with his hand on the door handle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can handle more than two dogs on my own, and this summer, Nora and I can sign on even more clients. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

No one answered so 1 turned the handle and went in. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Some wanting charges, others not, but all of them, in one way or another, seeing themselves in Reggie, viewing this tiny moment in time as a projection of how they would’ve handled themselves, or have. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She bends over and tucks the handle of the leash under a big rock. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There were no handles, or anything else to hold on to. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of place where all the door handles shone with polishing. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There weren’t enough people on staff to handle the influx of broken bodies. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

While Dad spoke to her in a low, sad voice, I stared up in awe at the silver handle of her suitcase, the perfection of her nails, the silky blackness of her hair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She hit the handle with the heel of her right hand. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes moved from the golden registration number at the top of the handle, right down to the perfectly smooth, streamlined birch twigs that made up the tail. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s selfish, but I don’t really know how to handle her doing something I haven’t. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I walked along the hot, dusty road, sweating and leading the bicycle by the handle bars. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I became more familiar they became more friendly and at ease, and I joked with them that I would handle any of their legal problems. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You come help me with these fancy contraptions, let Old Familiar take care of those poison flies, and my ax will handle that giant over there, sure it will.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The leiter-wagons contained great, square boxes, with handles of thick rope; these were evidently empty by the ease with which the Slovaks handled them, and by their resonance as they were roughly moved. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A hand wrapped around my bare ankle and tugged me back across the ground—but not before my fingers closed around the handle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He tried to kiss her, but she easily swung under his arm and reached for the door handle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If they grew too damaging, the farm boy handled things, emerging silently from his hovel, thrashing a few of them, sending them flying. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Release your weapon. Let the law handle this.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I pull on the door handle and a dog starts to bark. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t making a lot of money, but I realized that my ability to handle any written material gave me a versatility that many of my friends looking for jobs did not have. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was his responsibility, he’d say, to handle the family finances. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Char says Juju told her not to worry, Juju says she’ll handle things. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I trust you two can handle yourselves?” she says to Alex and Henry in the hallway, a glimmer of mischief in her eyes as she hands them the third key. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I know it is. But you can handle it. I told Clarence what happened,” he says of Mr. Wyatt, his friend who used to own the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“You handled it pretty well. I’ve seen grown men faint dead away!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I close my hand around the knife handle and squeeze. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she lifted one white arm out of the bath, and reached for a scrubbing brush on an ivory handle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The palace would send only an expert—a true connoisseur—to handle the task of commissioning work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

As a result, the Greeks couldn’t handle the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The handle struck Nathan’s head with a sickening thud, and he crumpled into the straw. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Community Center you could always tell when he had been playing table tennis by the dampness of the bat handle. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I went straight into the house, rummaged through my things, found an old mitten, and went back out and tied it to the pump handle. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I'd started working in Atlanta, staff were scrambling to handle one crisis after another. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“This edge,” said Giacomo Paradisi, touching the steel with the handle of a spoon, “will cut through any material in the world. Look.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gloves rubbed with each bump of the handles. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I told myself I could handle whatever the segregationists had in store for me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brush the door handle as I walk by, but don’t open it. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His hands were the size of catcher’s mitts, but he handled the spider with amazing skill. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It looked sort of like a gun, with a stubby handle that I held in my right hand. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea where they’d found them, but they had, and now my sisters were trying to drive away in a compromised vehicle without a clue as to how to handle it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’m at this low-key coffee shop with Hudson since our exam is on Tuesday and I really need a solid study session to handle my weak spots. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Finn leaned on the handle of his shovel and pointed past the fence. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He handled the game’s controls with the calculated perfection of a machine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“My mother was in the car that day you ran into us. She’s the only reason you are here at all. I had other ideas on how to handle your disrespect.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She could tell just by the way April picked a book up and handled it, and by the way she forgot about acting so grown-up and Hollywoodish. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pleased, she clamps the handle between her gums and reaches her arms up to Finnick. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Picking through the clutter on the table, she bends to examine a spoon with a distinctive floral pattern on the handle. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think I won’t be able to handle it or something?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see Mrs. Fitzgerald, but I wouldn’t have wanted her out there, even though I was sure she was tough enough to handle it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

To handle the growing traffic from Western climbers and trekkers, new lodges and teahouses are springing up across the Khumbu region, but the new construction is especially evident in Namche Bazaar. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

With the big wire fork that had a wooden handle, he pulled the ham half out of the water and turned it over. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rashid didn’t look back at him and instead went to the next door and tried the handle. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There are five in all, and the main one—the one I’m sure Oprah Winfrey stayed in—stares down at us with its beige paint and white trim, gold handles for the glass French doors. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And, if I may say so without boasting, I can handle a quilting needle with the best of them. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sherrie smiles and handles my arm again, the ball of my shoulder. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, thank you,” the man in the grey suit says, shifting in his chair and resting his hands on the handle of his cane. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Father handled these with a control held in his right hand. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The screen of the empathy box now showed rushing streams of bright formless color; taking a breath, his wife hung on tightly to the two handles. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, the more I talked with Jesse, the more misgivings I had about how he would handle higher education. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn back to Harriett’s feed and scan the post for Instagram handles. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The door had a metal handle, and just below the handle was a keyhole. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He showed Joe wood planes, their wooden handles burnished by decades of use, their blades so sharp and precise they could shave off curls of wood as thin and transparent as tissue paper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

From the look of things, it appeared my father had been properly handled. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Again I gripped the handle of the pitchfork. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He tightened the rag on the handle of his fiberglass knife to give it a better grip. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing. He’s just shown he can run the station perfectly. I’ve never seen an electron storm handled so well.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

When he was finally overcome, a long glass shard with cloth wrapped around it for a handle was found in his waistband. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny flinched when the knife hit the sand and stuck there, handle up. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One twisted metal vine veers to one side ending in a handle. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

This twenty-four/seven hallucination was more than I could handle. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Andy was still running alongside, holding on to the door handle, but as I sped up, he had to let go. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one that says, I can handle anything. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Inej noted the glint of knives tucked into their belts, lead pipes, weighted chains, axe handles studded with rusty nails, and here and there, the oily gleam of a gun barrel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His mother had handled them all, with the help—through the mail—of his father, and he had some money in an account for college. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

We talked a little more, about things like scheduling — my mom and Jeffrey would be in Philadelphia at least two days a week for the first month of treatment — and how to handle telling people. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held it on both sides, sitting astride the handle hooked over the seat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

To learn this job, I had to handle the keys. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tightens her grip on the handle of the knife. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I talk to some of the guys around the street about how they handled it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a large umbrella, with a heavy curved handle, and once Celia manages to get it open it provides quite good cover against the rain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And they can handle written transactions in institutional America. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the bag handle cut into my fingers. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Anya grabbed the cart’s handles so she could pull it away from this strange boy. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She reached up and eased the handle down. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Gavril and Sender handled the ropes while Lev and I guided the board to the shallow bath at the other end of the room. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Before he made contact with the Russian, however, Saxe had to learn how to handle something much more delicate: the T-50 subminiature camera, a tiny device fitted inside a brand-name pen. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Perchance later you'll tell me how a nine-year-old girl the size of a wet rat managed to disarm you with a broom handle and throw your sword in the river." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Emmy offered to work for me today, but I said no, I can handle it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He walks over to what I thought was an enormous closet, grips the two handles near the top and pulls to reveal a bed. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He reached down, turned the brass handle, and opened the door. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I had a good handle on Europe, as my family had gone to Germany the summer before to visit my dad's relatives. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I don't think my sister derived any pleasure from blowing my carefully crafted reality to pieces, but maybe she couldn't handle being alone in her teen angst. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When the news spread about Baba's death, most of my classmates handled me like I was made of glass. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A thin chain loops through an opening in the handle. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I could see his whitened knuckles around the handle and the thick veins standing out in his forearms, but I couldn't do anything to stop him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My right hand hits the door handle when, slowly, I stop and turn again to the woman hanging from the rope. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had handled the Columbia account for twenty years and didn’t like the idea of losing even a small part of the business to a competitor. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not like to handle them, squashing the spiders the way Bloom squashed them—she usually opted for drowning. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grab the handle and the frame,” he says, coaching me forward. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“This is you thinking I can’t handle it,” Axel says, and not in a calm voice. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As much money as Hamp has made, and still makes, he would be broke today if his money and his business weren’t handled by Gladys, who is one of the brainiest women I ever met. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as he moved carefully and knew what he was about, he could handle things, he thought. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even when the sentence structure gets more complicated, a reader can handle the tree, because its geometry is mostly right-branching. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the months after the Times story about the Fugees, Luma was frequently approached by teachers, parents, coaches, and volunteers who wanted her advice on how to handle various situations involving difficult children. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Clamped to the handle of the cart was a chrome motorcycle mirror that he used to watch the road behind them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Toby didn’t know what else to do, so he reached for the door handle. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There’s a handle on the cover, and she passes the whole thing to Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She screamed, gripping the handle harder even as she stumbled, vaguely aware that keeping the weapon was her only hope for staying alive. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He would know how to handle Britten next time. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its long silver barrel was embellished with cottonwood leaves and clusters of seedpods, its ivory handle inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I just needed to get a better handle on where we were and what was ahead of us. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Twelve paces farther on, the bell tied around the handle of a shop door rings, and two women come out, jostling her as they pass. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Life or death. OK. I can handle that. I’ll see you on Monday.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting in there and slamming the thing closed, spinning the wheel handle, keeping it shut. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Just—I’m not sure she’s quite ready to handle a knife that sharp.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Kyle gripped the handles as the platform rose higher and higher. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“You-you-you—!” she stuttered as she tried desperately to open the door handle, but her fingers were so rusted together she gave up trying and leaned out the open window. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Seven nights ago Shadowfax returned; but the king’s anger is not less, for now the horse is wild and will let no man handle him.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I said to Dad, grabbing one of the handles. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He wraps his soft, ink-smudged hands around the handle, just above Edward’s, and they push into each other, teeth gritted. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He catches my eyes and silently asks a deadly question: “Want me to handle that?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Jesper pushed to the front and took a big gulp from the cup tied to its handle. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But Dijksterhuis is suggesting the opposite: that maybe that big computer in our brain that handles our unconscious is at its best when it has to juggle many competing variables. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I didn't know how I could handle this if Seema wasn't here. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He took a broom from the corner and poked about with the handle. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My present is a Brownie box camera, black and oblong, with a handle on top and a round hole at the back to look through. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the handle turns and the room lets me right in like it’s been waiting for me, like it’s been expecting me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He holds the handles on either side, his arms stretching wide, and leans forward so his body is mostly outside the car, though his feet stay planted inside. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I go to the sink and turn the handle, hot water pouring loudly out of the tap. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Matilda pulled up the rope and hooked the handle of the bucket on to the end of it. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could see it then, my small hands and Polly’s together on the handle of the churn. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

August holds the cane and slaps its silver handle repeatedly against his palm. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I twirled the flag handle on the ground between my feet. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The old-timers wanted to see how we’d handle it, wanted to cull the faint of heart. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t have the tools to handle this situation. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her dealings with him she was very bossy and businesslike, treating him in much the same way she handled her kindergarten pupils; he responded in kind, alternately wheedling, affectionate, or sulky. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

‘It was an orc-weapon,’ he said, holding it gingerly, and looking with disgust at the carved handle: it had been shaped like a hideous head with squinting eyes and leering mouth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“The problem is, apparently we’ve handled it wrong,” Nelson Bookman said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want a little less showing off next time you handle the ball, you understand?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lets me handle the float out of the yard and into the frosty streets and I wish I could drive forever and never go home. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At first Regina could handle him, but by the time Bobby reached six, he was dictating policy about his own regimen. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Alec had the sledgehammer in his hands, ready to slam it against the beaten-up handle of the door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I brought you along today because I thought you were mature enough to handle it. I guess I was wrong.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I grab the door handle again and push down as hard as I can, but it doesn’t budge. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We talked about this. A dog is a big responsibility. And you have to show us you can handle that kind of responsibility.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It means that government brass thinks the local police can’t handle the situation by themselves.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I heard the Feds been pulled back from the front to come handle the rioters.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She blew on the sediment and began turning it over with the handle of the spoon, prodding it to let the heat out Later, she was able to sort it with her fingers. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Expenses for books, clothes, and social events would be more than they could handle, and in any case they needed the money that Marian could earn by doing domestic work for neighbors and by singing. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She gripped the leather handle and held her knife in front of her for me to see. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lay here all night and I promised myself that I’ll get a handle on things. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am also very embarrassed by how I handled myself in this situation. I give you my solemn vow that 1 will never behave in that manner again.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Butterfly bodies and legs are thin and sleek.Some moth caterpillars have stinging hairs and must be handled very carefully. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the leaden evening he stood leaning with his elbows on the cart handle and looking across the fields at a house perhaps a mile away. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

But you can tell a lot about cultures too, by how they handle pooping, cause it’s the other half of their cuisine. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It appeared he had a better handle on this vehicle than he did on the bicycle. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He rocked the vial of HeLa cells back and forth in his hand as he started talking about how careful you have to be when you handle them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Everything you touch will burn and multiply, but the copies are worthless—and if you continue to handle the treasure, you will eventually be crushed to death by the weight of expanding gold!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Except the days keep ticking by, and I still haven’t handled it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

So when my hand closes on his suitcase’s handle, I twist hard—and the suitcase comes away in my grasp. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hope it isn’t another article, because I’m not sure I can handle any more hostility directed at me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then he puts his hand on the door handle. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They passed the weasels that became brass door handles, the carved flute player overhead, the stone lions mounted high above the landing. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I have to make rounds this morning. We can talk this afternoon. I know you can handle it, azizam.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“You can let the cord go, hand, and I will handle him with the right arm alone until you stop that nonsense.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Progress was slow, since they each had to handle two seventy-pound loads. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said out loud, flipping the hoe in the air and catching it by the handle. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, I jumped up and hooked my tail around the handle of the garbage-bin. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The blade sliding through his unbuttoned black coat easily, hitting his heart as though it had always been its intended target, the silver handle jutting out just beneath his crimson scarf. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When issues arose, the cabinet departments handled them without the president's input. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Carver handled us pretty easily last year,” Mr. Nipper said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“How I would handle it, if you and I...” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the handle of the purse tore and she was free. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The new sled was a classic: polished wood, red runners, steering handles. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

And now that she worked close to animals, she made sure Satchmo knew how to handle himself around dogs. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

More current than the wire could handle had passed through. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early indications were that I didn’t handle it so well. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for when I’m too much for my teachers to handle and they send me to the principal’s office. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It will be rough, but you can handle them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Alex used the handle of the harpoon gun, swinging it around and up to hit him, hard, under the chin. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The bear hooked a claw through the handle of the jar and lifted it to his mouth. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“George, will you kindly let me handle this situation? Put that applesauce away immediately!” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then the ax handle come ’live; it shakes and cracks into long skinny splinters, Pap screams, and his hands come flying off the handle like it had turnt itself into a lightning bolt.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

"Trust me, I've cut enough babies to know how to handle that kind of stuff." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But I can handle the pain if that’s what it takes to erase the old me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood in silence as the pump handle creaked. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after losing each other, they won’t be able to handle losing me, too. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“You sure you don’t want me to handle them guards?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I think—I should go find—” I reach for the door handle, sure I’m being terribly rude, but not able to stand the air in here, the smell of liquor and cigars. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Not even close, but he could handle it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I curl my pinkie around the handle first, then my second finger, then the others. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why not listen? I’m saying that whatever powers this ship is enclosed, and evidently not meant to be handled. The ship is running by remote control.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The tool sank almost to the handle, and Viola made a terrified bellow. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

With a resigned expression, Mo took hold of one handle. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Here was my favorite teacher, in front of the class, telling me I couldn’t handle it. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The scythe was no longer a scythe: it had stretched into ribbons of iron, anchored to the ground with the handle the scythe had once been fastened to. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Prometheus only helped human beings to pick up the handle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I let go of one handle, and the bag unraveled quickly, reaching the size of a soccer net and then doubling every second. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was only the steady creak-creak-creak as we took turns working the handle. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a screwdriver from a coffee can and opened the handle. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was looking to see how I could hitch the wagon to my bike without the handle getting stuck in the spokes or dragging on the ground, when Chris rode up. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Things that before would have made me embarrassed or squeamish were now routinely handled. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inigo stretched his right leg as far as it would go and managed to touch the handle. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I reluctantly let go of the door’s handles and followed her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Do I have it in me to handle another assault? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His father paused at the door, his hand resting on the handle. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I can handle it now. You go ahead.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was most unusual, with a gold-washed blade and red dragons curled around the handle. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The knife handle whips me across the face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

This Mr. Dreher has already been a great nuisance to Father, and I’ve always admired the saintly patience with which he handled this pathetic old man on the phone. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Liz reaches for the handle of the door then stops short. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her thumbs tripped over each other, running up and down along the handle. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this Promenade is expensive or if we'd both be out of place, but Warren seems like he can handle being anywhere, even with his diamond studs and sneakers. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She scrabbled in the sand, pushing against the pitmaster’s corpse, and her fingers brushed against the handle of his whip. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Raising a child on her own was more than she could handle, so she came to me ’cause...she knew I needed help, too.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The only doors that defeated him were those with porcelain handles, for he found it impossible to get a purchase on the shiny surface with his long monkeylike paws. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like her heart was being stabbed with the most immense kind of love, and regardless of its source, the pain was still too much to handle. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But Fatima’s hands held to the handles of her jug. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you are a small son. Someday you will be tall and strong and then you will be able to handle a big canoe.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long strip makes a handle to be strapped across the wearer’s chest. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Four grabs the handle on the side of the car and pulls himself in smoothly, like he doesn’t have more than six feet of body to work with. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“That is Grandma’s satchel,” Fayge shrieked, pointing to a tapestry bag with wooden handles. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

To launch the entertainment, two tall, splendid gladiators were set to fight, one armed with a sword and the other with a net and a trident—a fork with spiked tines and a long handle. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“How do you want to handle this food thing?” he asked Henry. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sheer fluke that it was the blade's handle that hit my rib and not its fang. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When she was sure she wouldn’t be seen, she dashed to the home’s front door and tied the vial to the handle. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t handle her; she was too big and strong for that. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too much for the elevators to handle, so some was just dumped on the ground. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Its handle is bent, like a bull hook. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He’s wringing the bag’s handles as he walks back and forth. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It had a handle made of bone and a teardrop of meat hugged by a thin rind of fat. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I start toward the door, and as my hand closes around the handle, she says, “Just leaving so that you can have the last word, that’s really mature!” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I slid my hands up, right into place inside the looped rope handles at either end of the crate. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So when I want to put my body between him and the ball, I’ve got to make sure I have a handle on him, and then maneuver in front of him.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Most jobs could be handled by anyone with a willingness to work and some reading ability. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day I wait by the school steps, hand tight on the handle of my small flute case. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The other two interviewers had asked a bunch of questions about how he’d handle various repairs of the company’s numberless desktops. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had exactly enlarged the handle in his wax model. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrap some packing tape around them to close the package and to make a handle. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m lying on my bunk now, listening to the Little School discussing how a woman revolutionary should handle a low remark by a comrade. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hughes has one. The handle’s off, though. Almost. So wear a mitt.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Two kerosene lamps and a huge broad-bladed knife with a carved ivory handle. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold the handle and lean out just enough to see where the tracks go. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He leans, grabs the handle of a trunk, and drags it across the floor. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Children wandered the twisty alleys and found eld bronze coins and bits of purple glass and stone flagons with handles carved like snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And his uncle Q. One I can’t handle; the other I can do something about. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It's a lot to handle before the sun has even cleared the horizon. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The pretty ones are always trouble, Moose, but I think you can handle her.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is not your problem, shinálí. Focus on your project and let me handle your uncle.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“He wants me to handle the dudes that killed my brother. I'm not trying to have that on me though.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Taking a deep breath, Ash picked up the wooden bucket and went to the pump, where she lifted the cold iron handle, creaking, to release a flood of icy water. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, but we know how to handle any monsters we meet.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw struggled to get down, and for a moment, caught the leather satchel against the gear handle of the tractor and was trapped. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

"Besides, I'll be here in the morning to handle Harper," says Mrs. Johnson. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I can handle it. When things get right I’ll go back.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman from the after-hours cleaning crew stops, her hand on the handle of the coffeepot. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Mom,” I call out as I turn the handle. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only to look down into the open suitcases, at the neatly folded black and gold uniforms, and see the labels on the handles, C. J. N. Kingshaw, Drummond's School, written in Mr Hooper’s handwriting. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She hands the leash handle over to me, and we head to the elevator. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The tiny golden cup, skewered by the handle on the sword’s blade, was flung into the air. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“He’s been working for the INS for years, handles a lot of Afghan cases.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Cool,” I say, catching up with him and taking the glass by the handle. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“As ready as I’m going to be,” Rashid answered, wrapping the edge of his shirt around the handle on the door, turning it, and pushing it open. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When we got home, Sisi had Papa’s tea set out, in the china teapot with a tiny, ornate handle. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

James asks, taking a broom handle to the stack of ready boxes to straighten the tower we’ve made. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

"It's a nice yellow one," said Wilson, as he strained at the handle. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A sugar basin would have to have two such handles and they would be larger than the one on the creamer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made a scraping sound as they placed it up against the glass, and Jesper began turning the handle. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There were so many pipes, valves, levers, knobs, brackets, dials, and handles—and I didn’t have any idea what most of them did. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went to grab the door handle, but someone pulled it open from the outside. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was just a handle to wind up the tongue with. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The meeting to discuss and vote on the petition began in the orderly, careful way such meetings had always been handled. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

THEN, when we got to the dorms, and I reached for the car door handle, she goes, "So congrats again on winning the tournament." Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Firing—the final step in the process that determined the color of the celadon—was handled well by no man. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Neither Rush nor his assistants could handle the press of sick people demanding his cure. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I cross the bedroom to the wardrobe and am about to open it, my hand resting on the handle, when I hear him call out, “There’s coffee here!” and I jump. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama keeps an old mitten tied to the handle,” he said. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wait in the hall until they come out again, Papi patting his shirt pocket, a gun handle visible under his belt. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She hesitated by the doorway, her hand on the handle of the open door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He lifts the knife and gets ready to hit me across the face with its handle. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“So the lady asked if I could handle getting up very early. When I said sure, she asked if I had my own car. ‘ The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Silver fish scales flew around the kitchen, landing on kettles, walls, vegetable peelers, the fridge handle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jack handle was slippery with greasy mud. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The figure 1 was a pretty baby girl just learning to walk, and easy to handle; 2 was a baby boy who could walk and talk a little. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came back, the handle on the toaster was still down, but nothing was happening. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I nervously handled the four dollars we had scraped together. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The oar handle pushed up against the tarpaulin, but tarpaulin, rope and oar held. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another of the young toughs lurched toward Lieutenant Washington, aiming to bring him down with an axe handle. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I didn't think I could handle the risk of bleeding out of every orifice in public, even if it meant no longer cursing my reflection. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Joseph’s father was probably driving a whole lot faster than he could handle. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Matthias knows prison procedure, and Nina can handle any guards without a noisy fight. Your job is to keep them from killing each other.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The doctor had put in a replacement ligament, but it was hard to construct one that could handle the natural stress caused by the constant starting and stopping of running with the football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Stingers razz him, my guys razz him, and he can't handle it. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Curled around the handle, his hands were as smooth and hard as river stones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to hold the plastic handles. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you take the day off? I can handle things here.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He moved back along the path, or rather along the grass beside the gravel, and came to the kitchen door again, fumbling at the handle and almost falling inside. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“She’s leaving for Florida next year, and I don’t know if I can handle being so far away from her. And I really don’t like to fly. Maybe I can take a boat?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

"Look, I can handle Cato. I fought him before, didn't I?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She helped me see that even after an ugly fall from the high bar, a giant was nothing I couldn’t handle. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s because I handle the entire business and accept the risk.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was a cardboard name tag on the handle of the suitcase he carried; he could feel it with the tips of his fingers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

If he tried to hold course and continue to take the waves nearly head on he wasn’t sure the boat could handle it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had laughed when he handled it, a fat baby gun that would be loud as a cannon. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers tighten on the knife handle at my belt. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put her hand on the door handle. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Its handle was carved to look like a crow’s head, with a cruelly pointed beak. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had that look where you just knew he had a ton of hard information to share but was having a difficult time passing it on, probably because he thought I couldn’t handle it. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

As it did for everyone who at this moment clutched the handles, either here on Earth or on one of the colony planets. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My parents had raised us to handle our own business, which meant that I had to trust him to handle his, even if he could, at that point, barely put on his shoes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Its increasing strength makes it harder to handle. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I keep you here to handle things, and I expect them to be handled. Never thought you’d make more problems for me.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But it was still warm, and it still smelled lovely, and so Celaena, with a bit of mustered courage, turned the handle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They put the cloth-covered casket with its shiny handles into the plain box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his T-shirt off and stood to the helm, not sitting but standing with the tiller handle against his leg, the boat heeled over at a mild angle. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, it was not anything Shorty couldn’t handle, but why stick around? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a pile of money to be made out of this if only we can handle it right. You wait and see.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The car gained speed, and Roza had to grip the door handle to keep from sliding in her seat. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A Belgian doctor on the team knew how to handle this situation. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper saw that for all his words of agreement, the service man had no intention of putting on an inside handle. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

A handled of reporters gutted out the wait with them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

True, the Babylonian seldom handled the sweep, nor had he stolen the little ingot as Ranofer had at first suspected. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t think it was equipped to handle even a fraction of the masses here. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I think she was trying to do what was best for the baby. She knew she couldn’t handle things.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If I held the other trigger down, gas would squirt out through the jet in the handle, in a direction opposite that of the two jets. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lays the axe in with the pile of wood and strings her scarf through the rope to make a handle. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z