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They worked dexterously, though their hands grew red and numb from the cold.

The comic element is used dexterously to bring out the fear of death.

Then, not satisfied, he dexterously operated the panel once more.

He led the way, walking dexterously backward the better to carry on a conversation with them.

The last deals rather dexterously with a political subject.

The old nurse picked the baby up dexterously and began to rock him gently by way of an answer.

He closed his belt dexterously with one hand, poured, and drank.

After a time the tall soldier slid dexterously through the hole.

"It would be dexterously done, I have no doubt, madame."

But the Imam dealt with the students wisely and dexterously.

And he did so, dexterously, with a quick flip of his last tentacle.

In a few minutes she dexterously swept off a sheet of near-bread.

In both plays he was singled out by critics for his ability to move dexterously from one emotional state to another.

Yes, he told me late last week while dexterously distancing himself from the Dyson flap.

How are bats able to fly so dexterously at night, in spite of the fact that they have very small, weak eyes?

Sometimes, they dexterously used their dredges to whip away anything that might lie within reach.

Bud and Ted watched, fascinated, as the young inventor worked dexterously.

He dodged dexterously, and in trying to do the same the tramp nearly fell to the ground.

It is hard to imagine a cast more dexterously matched to a series of smart notions.

First came a couple of new Christmas trees, dexterously scrambling along the cables and bearing gifts.

Imagine it's your lover exploring you, dexterously demonstrating his tender regard.

The angel dexterously sipped her drink and began to speak in a voice that was far from angelic.

It swings dexterously among the famous, the infamous and the not famous at all.

Poirot was dexterously taking them down one by one.

He threaded his way dexterously through the traffic.

Then, dextrously, he turned this simple apparatus upside down, and presto!

Dextrously shifting gears, Penn suddenly asks, "Can we talk about drugs?"

While Alan was thinking, she had taken off the tie and dextrously unbuttoned the top two buttons of the white blouse underneath.

If you demand that your artists have "skill" in painting dextrously you can have it.

Working dextrously with two tentacles, he fastened it just beneath his wife's golden torc.

It was dextrously done.

The man in the bowler picked it up, showed it to them, walked it dextrously back and forth between his fingers.

Upon this loom Mr. Grass weaves a dextrously complex and engrossing narrative.

Ms. George has a good eye for gleaming color, and she applies it dextrously in long streaks and short, stabbing strokes.

Uhura curtsied, dextrously managing her invisible long skirts.

They spread their sheets dextrously and rolled me this way and that with expert technique as they cleaned me up.

He dextrously unfastened the gold clasp; on a bed of crimson velvet lay a single diamond earring, perfect as a tear.

When all five rats were standing on Fafhrd's shoulders, they lifted one strand of the silver chain and brought it forward over his head, most dextrously.

The food prepared dextrously by chef Pierre Jay (ex-Tour d'Argent) is superb.

Thus, Helen and Joe flirted joyously and sparred dextrously, but neither was ever to be found tete-a-tete with anyone else.

A multi-faceted personality, Ramanna was a gifted musician, and could play the piano as dextrously as he could speak about atomic energy.

Kai observed another adult separating fringes from the mass, dextrously flipping them over the edge of the cliff with smart sweeps of his beak.

One plot-advancing song ("Him, Them, It, Her") is far cleverer than the narrative it is dextrously advancing.

Moreover, in large scale strategy the superior man will manage many subordinates dextrously, bear himself correctly, govern the country and foster the people, thus preserving the ruler's discipline.

One big, barechested man had a silver patch over one eye; another had only one arm, although he ate as quickly and as dextrously as his companions.

She leaned across to Lord Michael, offering him her hand to kiss, a perilous exercise that he was able to accomplish dextrously while their horses danced underneath them. '

Afterwards the seeds are separated from the husks from which they have come by dextrously tossing them into the air with the basket, just as wheat is winnowed in Spain.

Each of the three principal players dextrously suggests a slightly exaggerated, slightly bogus persona on first appearance, while allowing a sense of a more fragile, serious self to peek through.

But, though they are fit enough," McDowell dextrously flicked with right forefinger melon seeds to the grass at his feet, "to be men, they are not fit to be soldiers.

If he hinted at a movement, it was only to deceive; if he dextrously sketched a gesture in the air, he then behaved in a manner that contradicted the displayed intention.