white-handed

Example Sentences

• "As exemplified by the white-handed gibbon, the commonest and best-studied member of the group, they show a remarkable convergence in social behavior to the dusky titi and other monogamous New World primates."
• "He was one of the miserable little pretty white-handed, curly-headed boys, petted and pampered by some of the big fellows, who wrote their verses for them, taught them to drink and use bad language, and did all they could to spoil them for everything in this world and the next."
• "The lady understands best what is required to make others like herself, and it is required to make all girls into ladies; not, perhaps, into delicate white-handed beauties, but to give their souls that gentleness, and their minds that beauty, which are better than the whiteness of lilies or the morning blush of the summer rose."
• "If you want to know more particularly how he looked, call to your remembrance some tawny-whiskered, brown-locked, clear-complexioned young Englishman whom you have met with in a foreign town, and been proud of as a fellow-countryman—well-washed, high-bred, white-handed, yet looking as if he could deliver well from 'the left shoulder and floor his man: I will not be so much a tailor as to trouble your imagination with the difference of costume, and insist on the striped waistcoat, long-tailed coat, and low top-boots."
• "A white-handed, useless young aristocrat, by your account, married to a preacher's daughter, without capital, or useful knowledge, or any handicraft to live by."
• "Also by that time, he doubtless thinks, a white-handed aristocrat like Herbert will have tired of the affair and betaken himself back to the Towers where he belongs."