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And, of course, if you've been expecting an email typed by my very own dextrous fingers, it'll be with you shortly.
The forepaws resemble slender human hands and make the raccoon unusually dextrous.
Apart from the huge variety of dice games, there were many games of dextrous skill such as knucklebones.
Yet he makes up for these frail qualities with his heightened intelligence and dextrous ability to climb tall trees.
The interface is appalling, requiring dextrous use of the keyboard to do relatively simple tasks.
His rise to local prominence was due to the dextrous performance of magic on the altars of his church and elsewhere.
How they can move off from traffic lights with phone held to the ear, changing gear and turning across junctions all with one hand is astoundingly dextrous.
Thanks to clever brains and dextrous suckers, they can also open locks, unscrew jars and even untie surgical sutures.
Bangalore designer Deepika cast a spell of summer evening lines, stuff you would call unique for their texturing, perforation of fabrics, and dextrous pattern-making.
He went on to make 55 appearances as Liverpool won the double, laying on the league-clinching goal with a dextrous and clever flick-volley pass.
It will take some dextrous diplomacy to keep all these far-flung island states together under antipodean leadership.
Bensusan can generate real excitement and drama with his solo work through intriguing melodies, rich ornamentation, and sheer dextrous intrepidity.
Ibbotson is dextrous with pace and suspense, accessible, always amusing, and a treat to read aloud, and the book is both joyously light-hearted and profoundly good-hearted.
You still get the glorious harmonies, of course, and the dextrous guitar playing still stands out, rather than being submerged underneath the raised volume.
They shoved us off scrums, stole our ball at the tackle, carried the ball powerfully into our defence, and showed dextrous handling skills in the open spaces.
The frustration is just like when you get popcorn kernel stuck somewhere in your back teeth and your tongue is not dextrous enough and your fingers are too grimy.
Local performer Gerry Grennan provided the pre-interval entertainment, providing some much welcome humour as well as some outstanding dextrous guitar mastery.
Viticulture on these precipitous inclines is extremely time-consuming and labour-intensive and requires particularly dextrous manual work.
Some of the wines had an aggressive masculinity and lacked charm, others had a more dextrous fragrance.
The salads are substantial, and prepared with the dextrous passion of the young chef.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The plot, dextrous as the contrivance of it had been, was not destined to succeed.
Margaret cast the gown on the bed, revealing all its beauty of jetted lace and soft yellow silk with a dextrous sweep of her arm.
I wrote last by a lady on the twenty-third, and she is so discreet and dextrous, that I make little doubt of its going right.
Its roof was lush with vegetation but by dextrous handling he set his helicopter down upon it.
A diplomate followed, and he also, in his sphere, received the most dextrous and well-turned replies.
Wright is a thorough logician, dextrous, transparent, straightforward.
Priscilla did not notice her mother's dextrous changing of the subject.
Only by dextrous work could he save himself from being run down.
It surprised Sigurd to find an adversary so resolute and dextrous.
He caught it on the second try, in those swift, dextrous tendrils.
With a dextrous stroke of the ax sever the head from the body.
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