Troy threw the coin dexterously across the front plot and over the fence towards Gabriel, who shunned it in its fall, his face turning to an angry red. From Wordnik.com. [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference
And riding swiftly on horses and managing them 'dexterously' the princes began to hit marks with shafts engraved with their respective names. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
The dark youth shuffled the cards twice dexterously and dealt. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
He need only avail himself dexterously of the original contour of his ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Presently, his half-crown went spinning in the air: he caught it dexterously -- heads. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
He fought dexterously for four months, helped in some measure by Stanley, who had left the. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
As she speaks she drops the flower, and he dexterously, by some fortuitous chance, catches it. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Judith did not know whether she was being chaffed or not, so she dexterously changed the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
Alberich, coming forth again, is greatly flattered by Wotan and dexterously led on to show his might. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Placing one hand on his lips as a warning for silence, he dexterously cut steps in the ice with the other. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
In one of them she held a long silken scarf, and not until this had been dexterously twisted and tied over old. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
He had never seen gentlemen move so gracefully and dexterously in a crowded room as these young Americans did. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
The town will understand who is the principal character if you manage your article dexterously and with humour. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Sartoris wheeled his chair rapidly and dexterously across to her, and then raised his fist in a threatening manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
This superstitious party faith was what the unscrupulous politicians handled dexterously for their own selfish ends. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
His mouth was liberally marked with Smith's home-made blood, for the carmine had been generously though dexterously employed. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
Now she picked her course dexterously down the hillside with the cream-colored mare of Pierre following half a length behind. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
These are the materials which are so dexterously woven into the complicated plot and which furnish to many funny qui-pro-quos. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
When the time came for leaving, one of the deputies dexterously left upon the table a bag containing six hundred pounds in money. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
"You have taken all the peas, sir; allow me to give you all the pepper," said Lorrimer, dexterously suiting the action to the word. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Not the least of its merits lies in the text, which Friedrich worked out dexterously, and which is amusing and interesting throughout. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
She stalked on grimly, and when she came to Reid's lot she promptly and dexterously climbed its fence and continued her way in silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
This is dexterously pounced upon by "blacky," the moment its head appears peeping from the aperture at the top of some of the branches. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
Belle is in the drawing-room reading a yellow-bound novel, which she slips dexterously out of sight at the sound of her visitor's voice. From Wordnik.com. [Only an Irish Girl] Reference
Cyrano, their most famous member, was wont to convey his thoughts at the end of a sword, but none the less dexterously and delightfully. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
He slipped into them smoothly, Pooh-Bah dexterously using its little claws to help put its turret and body through the neatly hemmed holes. From Wordnik.com. [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference
Painters were seen in various parts of the city dexterously using their brushes in wiping out standing advertisements for the sales of slaves. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Next he dexterously turned the yolk into this latter emptied shell and then got rid of the white left in the half previously occupied by the yolk. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
So was Smith, and before any one could realize the situation, the bottle of red ink in his hand had dexterously performed its office over the mouth of the prostrate actor. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
Then, dexterously passing from the game to the players, he went on to say, under cover of giving Fred a warning, that a man need not fear going too far with those girls from. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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