"Old hand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Phebe, shortly, moving just out of reach of the bland old hand, which stretched itself out to chuck her under the chin, and was left patting the air with infinite benevolence "mother ...
— Only an Incident • Grace Denio Litchfield
... old hand at the game and has learned to take things as they come. She'll be at work upon some other case within a week and will have forgotten that this ...
— Mary Louise • Edith van Dyne (one of L. Frank Baum's pen names)
... of adventures, that, were I to relate them to you, would make each particular hair of your heads stand on end, like the quills of a punched hedge-hog. I am—if you will kindly permit me to use a slang expression—an old hand at the business of hunting and trapping, and have accomplishments in which I can not be beaten. Among them, stands my ability to whip a grizzly bear in a fair fight, with no weapon but my knife. I have hunted wild gorillas in the streets of New York ...
— Frank Among The Rancheros • Harry Castlemon
... when I meditated that history of English fiction to include within its pages some rules for the writing of novels;—or I might perhaps say, with more modesty, to offer some advice on the art to such tyros in it as might be willing to take advantage of the experience of an old hand. But the matter would, I fear, be too long for this episode, and I am not sure that I have as yet got the rules quite settled in my own mind. I will, however, say a few words on one or two points which my own practice has pointed out ...
— Autobiography of Anthony Trollope • Anthony Trollope
... wit and the gathering's response to the appeal he would have been in the same boat with us, or rather, on the same boat—the old hand ferry! Subsequently, he became a speaker of foreign and national repute, but at that time he might have traveled from Scarboro' to Land's End without attracting a ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
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