But to tell the truth, I never was a very forward old fellow, nor what my farming neighbors call a forehanded one.    From Wordnik.com.  [I and My Chimney] Reference

Toby was said to be the most thrifty and "forehanded" darkey in the settlement.    From Wordnik.com.  [True To His Colors] Reference

"forehanded" with the wood, he was not ready to give it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)] Reference

"forehanded" than Marsdenites in general, had neglected to provide one for herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brass Bound Box] Reference

Mr. Jacob Allen was a forehanded farmer, and the house was by far the best in town.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

Jacob Newell had been known for years as a "forehanded man" in the rural neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861] Reference

Adams he raced back to the house, where the forehanded Matak was already packing his bags.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference

There was, of course, the strange forehanded, subtle planning of the other girl, of Janet Spencer.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference

Ye knows ef a man hev a wife and young 'uns' pendin 'on him, an' arn't much 'forehanded, he'll work like th' devil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference

It was far from winter yet, but this purchaser was forehanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shavings] Reference

First of all, that they were canny, a thrifty, forehanded race.    From Wordnik.com.  [On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners] Reference

"I expect she will be my wife when I get forehanded enough," replied.    From Wordnik.com.  [In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia] Reference

In Alaska, our ever thoughtful and forehanded Biological Survey of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference

I find it is the habit of the forehanded sheep-grazers in the Sacramento.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands] Reference

He was sure they were quite as forehanded as their white creole neighbors.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference

"He did not," the Inkstand replied; "he isn't at all forehanded at repartee.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantastic Fables]

Other folks don't work themselves to death the way you do, and you're forehanded too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Neighbors] Reference

'Sence you're so blamed forehanded about it, no; I'd b'lieve nature first, and facts.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of the Wolf] Reference

Marthy was always forehanded, and she made money there and never spent any to speak of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ranch at the Wolverine] Reference

When they get a little forehanded they forget that they were once poor, and owned dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks] Reference

Instead of which, she was very often ready to help somebody else not quite so "forehanded.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobody] Reference

This, however, is not being what the old New England housekeeper used to call "forehanded.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Public Speaking] Reference

If the local repair man were a forehanded sort of a person, keeping on hand a good stock of parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life and Work] Reference

Eunice is real forehanded, Eunice is; and does seem 't the more she gives away the more comes in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brass Bound Box] Reference

He had prospered and was forehanded, and his married son and daughters had been fairly successful.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old Boston] Reference

Beth is the best of little creeters, and a sight of help to me, bein so forehanded and dependable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Women] Reference

"You're so forehanded that all your presents went a week ago, I suppose," Eleanor swept clear a chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Book of Christmas Stories] Reference

They were not a forehanded people, and the plenty of summer was no guard against the scarcity of winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness] Reference

Does it not look as if the forehanded nuthatch was laying by a supply of ants for a coming time of hunger?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

Though I am barely twenty, I am a man, and one who is quite forehanded and able to take unto himself a wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Stone House and Other Stories] Reference

The dread and trouble of the times filling all minds, men wished to be forehanded with the decrees of Providence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bronze Hand 1897] Reference

He's a good, steady man, forehanded and all that, and will make her a good husband, and she'll keep growing older.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old Boston] Reference

The deacon's forehanded himself, but he likes money -- all them Meakins do -- an 'he's been as oneasy as a fish out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brass Bound Box] Reference

It is quite apparent that he was a forehanded person who acquired property and impressed himself upon his neighbors.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Washington]

Few had been so forehanded as George Houghton, who had the advantage of abundant means, and good, fearless help in his efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Trembled] Reference

In the afternoon a slashing spring rain set in, and Mr. Stanley, who was a forehanded worker, found a job for all of us in the barn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment] Reference

Not that I want anybody to think I am so long-headed or forehanded a chap as to spend time only with people who could tell me things!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sonnie-Boy's People] Reference