A pair of porters holding a handbarrow between them stared in horror. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
When the last coffin came alone upon the handbarrow, Crofts accompanied it, followed by two little girls. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Cashel waited for two porters carrying a handbarrow and a woman with a large wicker basket of washing to pass the obstruction going the other way. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Porters, hucksters, errand boys went through with basket and handbarrow, passing across aisles and nave before the very screen that shut in choir and altar. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
We found no plough, horse, or cart -- only a spade, fork, wheelbarrow, and handbarrow. From Wordnik.com. [The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished] Reference
Our men had nothing better to carry them on than a handbarrow with canvass laid across it. From Wordnik.com. [Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present] Reference
A handbarrow is now brought, on which is placed the gardener, with a spade, a cord, and a large basket. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852] Reference
The trophy is then replaced on the handbarrow with the gardener, who has to hold it upright, and prevent any accident. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852] Reference
Our trunks were put into a handbarrow, and wheeled by two men a few hundred yards, the whole occupying half an hour of time. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Europe] Reference
The communication trench we found to be one of the widest we had ever seen; a handbarrow could have been wheeled along the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Horizon] Reference
In the Old English period, his word entered the English language through the West Saxon bær and the Anglian ber which basically meant "handbarrow, litter, bed". From Wordnik.com. Reference
The first one was put upon a long handbarrow, over which the captain had previously spread a tablecloth, and, followed by the ladies, was deposited by the side of the body of Red. From Wordnik.com. [Romance of California Life] Reference
Frenchman had set the leg skilfully; the Prussian had scoured a neighboring wood for some men to carry her forward; and they were all at it, behind the hut, making a sort of handbarrow on which to bear her. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference
The handbarrow-organist is not uncommonly some lazy Irishman, if he be not a sickly Savoyard, who has mounted his organ upon a handbarrow of light and somewhat peculiar construction, for the sake of facilitating the task of locomotion. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852] Reference
"Will this assist in explaining the difficulty"? said Heyward, pointing toward the fragments of a sort of handbarrow, that had been rudely constructed of boughs, and bound together with withes, and which now seemed carelessly cast aside as useless. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Mohicans] Reference
"Will this assist in explaining the difficulty?" said Heyward, pointing towards the fragments of a sort of handbarrow, that had been rudely constructed of boughs, and bound together with withes, and which now seemed carelessly cast aside as useless. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757] Reference
Exactly before the opening, however, stood a melancholy impedimenta handbarrow, placed upon the ground, on which two monatti were laying out a poor creature to bear him away: it was the head of the customhouse officers, in whom the plague had been discovered just before. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXXIV] Reference
The equivalent of a dollar to a dollar-fifty a week in rent was sometimes a fifth of a worker's salary, and when one of these Ebenezer Scrooge slumlords decided to raise the rent, sometimes a large family found itself homeless with nothing but a handbarrow to tote away all its worldly goods. From Wordnik.com. [Portrait of a Killer]
I might as well have asked for porters and a handbarrow.”. From Wordnik.com. [Mansfield Park] Reference
I might as well have asked for porters and a handbarrow. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mansfield Park] Reference
A handbarrow. From Wordnik.com. [Balderdash] Reference
"I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a handbarrow, a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the saber cut across one cheek, a lurid white.". From Wordnik.com. [The Writing of the Short Story] Reference
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