hand-running

Their wants were few -- a pint of beer at the end of the day, sipped in the semi-subterranean kitchen, a weekly paper to pore over for seven nights hand-running, and conversation as meditative and vacant as the chewing of a heifer's cud.

THE SEA WIFE 2010

"I've run across country, played quarter three seasons hand-running, and hardened myself in all manner of ways; and then I pilgrim it into this God-forsaken land and find myself an effeminate Athenian without the simplest rudiments of manhood!"

GRIT OF WOMEN 2010

Caught in the pinch with a part sack of rice and a few pounds of dried apricots, rice and apricots was his menu three times a day for five days hand-running.

Chapter 24 2010

The door opened and emitted Gunn for the second time hand-running, this time all the way.

Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

You've had it on your head for ten years, hand-running.

Miss Lulu Bett 1921

Caught in the pinch with a part sack of rice and a few pounds of dried apricots, rice and apricots was his menu three times a day for five days hand-running.

Chapter 24 1908

Moreover, some days later, the _Boreal_ had found herself in a bank of cod making away northward, millions of fish, for I saw them, and one afternoon caught three, hand-running, with the hook.

The Purple Cloud 1906

Their wants were few, -- a pint of beer at the end of the day, sipped in the semi-subterranean kitchen, a weekly paper to pore over for seven nights hand-running, and conversation as meditative and vacant as the chewing of a heifer's cud.

The Sea Wife 1903

I told her, "he stated sweepingly," that you'd been on a big jamboree and had licked fourteen men hand-running.

The Uphill Climb B. M. Bower 1905

Why did you say they wouldn't both be likely to have accidents hand-running?

The Quirt B. M. Bower 1905