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• Irene's bowling was peculiar; it was left-handed, which is quite uncommon in a girl, and the more difficult on that account. —  The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life
• Rest and abundant feeding are the only known means for its cure This is one of the reasons why the medical profession has abandoned all thought of endeavoring to fight the disease single-handed, and is striving and straining every nerve to enlist the whole community in the fight. —  Preventable Diseases
• With a cutlass or a heavy stick he would have attacked the whole tribe single-handed, and have fought till his brains were knocked out; but when he thought of the small arrows that would pour upon him in hundreds if he made a dash for the woods, and the certain death that would follow the slightest scratch, he discarded all idea of rebellion One of the animals killed by the Indians at this time was a black jaguar,--a magnificent animal, and very fierce. —  Martin Rattler
• Shall we attack the village of Newlyn single-handed, and set fire to it, as did the Spaniards of old, or shall we swim off to the fleet of boats, cut the cables, bind the men in charge, and set sail for the mackerel fishing Neither, my chum, and especially not the latter, seeing that a thundercloud is about to break over the sea ere long, if I do not greatly misjudge appearances in the sky; but, man, we must see this testy old fellow again, and warn him of the danger which threatens him. —  Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
• I only wish you heard Cappen Wopper hoistin' French out of hisself as if he was a wessel short-handed, an' every word was a heavy bale. —  Rivers of Ice

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