Possible Clues:

• Handles sliced white, a lady's
• Exercises or makes solid connections across Italy
• Commands, as power
• Brandish or use a weapon
• Holds and brandishes, say a weapon
• One handles what is the way one joins metals around one
• Holds and uses, say weapon, with the hands
• They're desolate around the East the way one handles this
• How one handles what one does with a torch about one
• Joins one in exercises