The swift deftness and grace of her movements enticed him.

and I know what will please him; a bottle of wine to make him shine and Lucy Tait to tease him!" I thought there was an inhuman, devilish deftness in the rhymes.

She did this (Tilda noted) with extreme deftness, reaching out a hand to a dark shelf and picking up the match-box as accurately as though she saw it.

And now, declining all Bellew's offers of assistance, the soldier and the sailor began washing, and drying, and putting away their crockery, each in his characteristic manner,the Sergeant very careful and exact, while the sailor juggled cups and saucers with the sure-handed deftness that seems peculiar to nautical fingers.

But he saw her hand go back to the dressing table and open, with incredible deftness and speed, the little top drawer behind her.

With strange, inherent deftness she copied the garb, the hair dressing, even the manner and speech, of such worthy models as came within her range of visionlike her daughter, she had an eye for fitness and beauty; that which was merely fashionable though truly inelegant, did not appeal to her.

Silence accordingly reigned and produced a string fit for the Sultan's kitchen,of all the number, Mrs. Laudersdale adding by far the majority,possibly because her shining prey found destination in the same basket with Mr. Raleigh's,possibly because, as Helen had intimated, a sudden deftness had bewitched her fingers, so that neither dropping rod nor tangling reel detained her for an instant.

Each comes armed with a coorpee,this is a small metal spatula, broad-pointed, with which they dig out the weeds with amazing deftness.

He arranged it with his unobtrusive deftness in getting what he wanted out of a group of his fellow-beings, and she admired his skill, and leaned on it confidently.

Behind him came another mana small thin man with sleek black hair and a swarthy Jewish face, who moved with a catlike deftness, making no sound at all.