Some taught with dextrous hand to twirl the wheel. From Wordnik.com. [A Poetical Cook-Book] Reference
Rumps, and were as dextrous with their two Feet, as any of our. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country] Reference
Ba ssist Reeves and drummer Rob Mailhouse make a dextrous team. From Wordnik.com. [Giving In To His Bass Desires] Reference
That was a very dextrous remark, vastly pleasing to the Countess. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
In these feats, they are far more dextrous than the white civilians. From Wordnik.com. [Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party] Reference
Cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally dextrous teenage girls. From Wordnik.com. [Coffee Break: Feb. 21] Reference
Pleader, but yet a dextrous and very elegant one, who might appear in the. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
He was far more dextrous and lyrical with his flow much like an East Coast emcee. From Wordnik.com. [Style Master Generals AKA The Originators (The Emcee Edition Revisited) Part 1 Of 4] Reference
I wrote last by a lady on the twenty-third, and she is so discreet and dextrous, that. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
At Smithfield he used to be very dextrous in cheating country graziers of their cattle. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
During Ronson's brief but dextrous DJ interlude, he drops a bit of Duran Duran's "Rio". From Wordnik.com. [Mark Ronson and the Business Intl] Reference
He always looked longingly at the bolos, from the time he had witnessed their dextrous use. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen] Reference
Apparently she had learned to be dextrous with more than mere socks during her prior dull life. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
I have slightly long nails and am really not that dextrous, so I had a hard time with the Treo. From Wordnik.com. [Web Teacher › iPhone questions] Reference
Cigole managed to baffle the most dextrous efforts and the most delicate contrivances of Brandon. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
It is easy from this relation to understand what dextrous physicians the natives of Louisiana are. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
Berghem, Paul Potter, Adrian Ostade, and others, have all been dextrous in using the etching point. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.] Reference
His little hands were hardly large enough to enfold it properly, yet they were marvelously dextrous. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
This evening's latest and most bewildering twist in the Voss saga required delicate and dextrous hands. From Wordnik.com. [Country of the Blind]
These ornaments were made of pine and cedar boughs by the more dextrous and artistical of our comrades. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
Imaginations shape with dextrous rapidity, the little accidents of the hour, and turn them to advantage. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
I threw all these into the market, and by dextrous manipulation raised the price to 3 per cent, premium. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
The queen's dextrous management was employed to prolong these absences, and gather together accusations. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction, I.1] Reference
I cannot rest and dream my dreams on warm white sands, but high and dextrous, low and sinister, must soar. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
Even the most dextrous and experienced smiths were baffled in their attempts to produce an exact counterfeit. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
His style is quick, nervous, often slangy; he is wonderfully dextrous in hitting just the right word or phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Then, by a dextrous swoop, the robber catches it up before it reaches the ground, and carries it off in triumph. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference
They are not quite as dextrous as an astronaut right now (though suit gloves are no picnic), but that will come. From Wordnik.com. [Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch] Reference
By the time we got home though, my limbs were a dextrous as water balloons and I collapsed into dreamless sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-06-01] Reference
I might even suggest that the comment to which you replied is an example of some dextrous and well-deserved ridicule. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » McCain Backs Down To Hannity: ‘I Never Quite Understood’ Global Warming] Reference
I am become rather dextrous in the use of the plane and the glue-pot, and find a demand that I am hardly able to satisfy. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 191] Reference
Then he suddenly gave his wrist a dextrous twirl and Giovanni's knife was torn from his grasp, falling about ten feet away. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
They give a very dextrous turn of the hand and the finest of these threads are used in some of the fabrics which they weave. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
The hope for them is that they will one day mature into new models dextrous and capable enough to allow us to indulge in amae. From Wordnik.com. [Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » On the simulation of amae] Reference
The latter stepped to the tree and with a dextrous throw sent a coil of rope over the first limb and caught the other end of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island] Reference
Women were quicker at the work than men and their smaller fingers more dextrous in removing the valuable, easily damaged capsule. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
It uses no other motors, and the strength of the grasp is controlled by a change in air pressure, making the hand quite dextrous. From Wordnik.com. [RAPHaEL: Robotic Hand With A Delicate Touch | Impact Lab] Reference
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