dextrously he untied the knots.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

If this trick be performed dextrously, it is a very good one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference

The slitting chisel was applied, and he dextrously cut along the top, under the directions of John.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island] Reference

Errors and anomalies noted by transcriber: dextrously (both occurrences); cariboo; Guiseppe; assasination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Baron] Reference

If I had rail'd, I might have suffer'd for it justly: But I manag'd my own Work more happily, perhaps more dextrously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference

Force and fraud were then dextrously applied to secure his ascent from the Dalriadan to the Pictish throne a few years later.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Invention of Scotland: History and Myth'] Reference

Riding near, Billy seized his mail bags and dextrously got from his saddle to the stage, and the next instant he held the reins in his firm gripe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood] Reference

"The last two albums didn't count," Eminem sniffs, resolving to employ the zeal of the recently recovered to rhyme dextrously about doing vile things to women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eminem: Recovery] Reference

The doctor held up his hands; the man seized them and dextrously slipping a valuable ring from the finger of one hand, brutally threw him out into the current again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference

At times of national crisis, the priests and the people gathered, and infants, after the proper ceremonies and invocations, were dextrously hurled, alive, into the flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Stories Vol 1]

He very dextrously transferred the little billet to his left vest pocket, as though he was simply laying his hand upon his heart to give greater solemnity to his reply, and said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival] Reference

See how dextrously he avoids those hammer-like hands!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference

McTosh, of the gum-shoe tread, shuffled courses dextrously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captivating Mary Carstairs] Reference

This was not difficult; he did it so laughingly and so dextrously that.    From Wordnik.com.  [All the Brothers Were Valiant] Reference

Monsieur le Surveillant had so dextrously recommended to B. and myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enormous Room] Reference

The Moros silently unslipped their knives, and dextrously removed the skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Tribe in Filipinia] Reference

Foster dextrously manoeuvred his chair toward the entrance and reached out his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference

Enquire, as dextrously as you can, what is the name and quality of this charming creature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04] Reference

In this Berrie again took part, doing her half of the work quite as dextrously as Nash himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range] Reference

She drew up a box of lacquer and proceeded to lay her china service carefully and dextrously away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

He caught dextrously the sovereign which Kirkwood, in ungrudging liberality, spared them of his store of two.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Bag] Reference

His sword flashed, but Paul dextrously caught the stroke upon his own weapon, and the blade glanced off, ringing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi] Reference

Spaniards, and discharged their muskets on them so dextrously, that they killed one horseman almost with every shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main] Reference

Another day he exercised the battle-ax, which he so dextrously wielded that he was passed knight of arms in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I] Reference

Hamish dextrously wound him towards what little light was cast from the graveyard, and discerned the features of Hurst.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Channings] Reference

Then he searched in the bottom of the wagon until he found a monkey-wrench which he applied to the nut and twirled dextrously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference

The cue having been thus dextrously given, appeals and petitions for hereditary rule began to pour in from all parts of France.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)] Reference

Julius plays that game, dextrously extending the accusation of anti-Semitism to implicate principled critics of the Israeli state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Then he arose languidly, dextrously caught the arms of John Hopkins and conducted him irresistibly to the front door of the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference

But 'art is a second nature, and imitateth that dextrously and compendiously, which nature performs by ambages and length of time.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference

Lastly, he peered through the rear window where had been displayed the flag of truce which he dextrously appropriated to his personal use.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Phantom of the River] Reference

Playing thus so dextrously into each other's hands, and their own persons seeming secured, they are now looking to their privileged orders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference

Customers often stop to watch as she meticulously and dextrously sculpts vegetables and fruits into roses, flowers and leaves, and arranges them on plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference