"Old hand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... take an interest in my struggles. I often sit in his room in the rue Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, smoking and sipping whisky into the small hours. He is an old hand, who knows the market and frankly manufactures ...
— Ballads of a Bohemian • Robert W. Service
... As Taylor was an old hand, and wrote a most legible script, and style currente calamo, I told him to write what he could as the ceremony went on, and, the moment the doors were opened, to consign what he had written to a messenger whom I had hired for the day,—an American clerk of one of the exhibitors under ...
— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman
... room, having been informed of the presence of a visitor. The Duca looked up, and his head shook involuntarily, as he at once began the slow process of getting upon his legs. But Macomer was already pressing him into his seat again, holding the old hand in both of his with ...
— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford
... in the doorway, shading her eyes with her withered old hand, and staring intently in the direction that the soldiers ...
— Lucia Rudini - Somewhere in Italy • Martha Trent
... so, my boy," answered an old hand. "Depend upon it, he intends trying what the mounseers will think of ...
— Will Weatherhelm - The Yarn of an Old Sailor • W.H.G. Kingston
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