"Handyman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... surprise that "very few here know any more than how to make a rule, others a pair of dividers, and suchlike." Here we see that even at that early day division of labor had won its way in London, though yet unknown in the country. The jack-of-all-trades, the handyman, who can do everything, gives place to the specialist who confines himself to one thing in which practice makes him perfect. Watt's mission saved him from this, for to succeed he had to be master, not of one process, but of all. Hence we find him first making brass scales, parallel-rulers ...
— James Watt • Andrew Carnegie
... ancient disreputable car had been repaired by Rodding, the village handyman, who by some conjuring trick had made it run again. Marjorie ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper
... was staying with the rector of a parish in the West, where the society to which I belong owns property. I was to go over some of this land: and, on the first morning of my visit, soon after breakfast, the estate carpenter and general handyman, John Hill, was announced as in readiness to accompany us. The rector asked which part of the parish we were to visit that morning. The estate map was produced, and when we had showed him our round, he put his finger ...
— Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - Part 2: More Ghost Stories • Montague Rhodes James
... lively little town with two newspapers, the Chronicle and the Ledger. Between these two was a sharp journalistic rivalry in the matter of "beats" and "scoops." In the preceding spring Clifford had been taken on the Chronicle on trial, as a sort of general handyman. There was no pay attached to the position, but he was getting training and there was the possibility of a permanency in September if he proved his mettle. Mr. Baxter had died two years before, and the failure of the company in which Mrs. Baxter's money was invested had left the little family ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Douglas Commander-in-Chief of British Armies in France, Issues a Dispatch, Issues historic order, Haldane, Lord Debt to, for Territorials, Lectures on Education, Retires from Chancellorship, Hamlet, U.S.A., Hampshire, the, mined, Handyman, A, Hardinge Report, Lords discuss the, Harvest, a successful, Haunted ship, Havre, Belgian Government removed to, Hay, Ian, book by, Healy, Mr. Tim, champions Government, Held! Heligoland Bight, Naval engagement in, Hertling, Erzberger's campaign against Chancellor, Hidden Hand, the, ...
— Mr. Punch's History of the Great War • Punch |
