257 examples of adept in sentences

I am rather an adept at telling stories which just graze impropriety, for instance.

Those who wish to read a curious monument of the follies of the alchymists, may consult the diary of Elias Ashmole, who is rather the historian of this vain science, than an adept.

Great winds at one time were predicted by a famous adept in the art, but no unusual storms having happened, to save the reputation of the art, the prediction was applied figuratively to some revolutions in the state, of which there were instances enough at that time.

" "I would not assert that theurgy may not be lawfully undertaken," replied Plotinus, "provided that the adept shall have purified himself by a fast of forty months.

" He was no adept at turning a neat phraseat reeling off a pretty honeymoon welcome.

On the contrary, if the cook be not so clever an adept in her art, then it will be requisite for the housekeeper to give more of her attention to the business of the kitchen, than in the former case.

Ulysses, for example, we are told, like a modern charwoman, excelled at lighting a fire, whilst Achilles was an adept at turning a spit.

filtered through the dregs of Paine, Each pert adept disowns a Briton's part, And plucks the name of England from his heart.

The "poems" were nonsense rhymes, in the writing of which Miss Mitchell was an adept.

He did not seem very adept in the knowledge of rowing, and took quite a little time to get under way.

Buffalo Bill was an adept at slaughtering game on horseback, and he won his great bet at killing the greatest number of buffaloes, by following the custom of the Indians and shooting to the left.

But had John Hammond devoted his days to the study of Coptic manuscripts, or the arrow-headed inscriptions upon Assyrian tablets, she would have toiled her hardest in the endeavour to make herself a Coptic scholar, or an adept in the cuneiform characters.

And instantly he began the maneuver in which he was such an adept.

He was versatile to an unusual degree, being an adept at painting, as well as billiards, chess, riding, swimming, and general athletics.

Thus an admirer of Teniers or Hobbima might think little of the pastoral sketches of Pope or Goldsmith; even Thompson describes not so much the naked object as what he sees in his mind's eye, surrounded and glowing with the mild, bland, genial vapours of his brain:but the adept in Dutch interiors, hovels, and pig-styes must find in Mr. Crabbe a man after his own heart.

At the end of the eighteenth century the vogue of the "Gothic" romance of ghosts and mysteries was at its height; and this work, written in ten weeks by a young man of nineteen, caught the public fancy tremendously, and Matthew Gregory Lewis was straightway accepted as an adept at making the flesh creep.

She is certainly an adept in giving gifts that gratify.

He was adept with engines and micro-electronics.

His tall, slight frame could not stand the shocks of his comrades, but no one could equal or come near to him in speed, and he was quite an adept at dodging a charge, and allowing his opponent to rush far past the ball by the force of his own momentum.

It is true, that "one and the same word" may sometimes be differently parsed by different grammarians, and possibly even an adept may doubt who or what is right.

He was to take up an entirely new study, with the whole-hearted enthusiasm that had made him an adept at linotypes, gas engines, and the sport of kings.

Miss Fauset is especially adept in her translations from the French.

Where is "the gloriously decisive change, the immeasurable metamorphosis" in human worth that should in some sort justify the consummate price that had been paid for man these seventeen hundred years before? "Had a mere adept of the Rosy Cross Spent his life to consummate the Great Work, Would not we start to see the stuff it touched Yield not a grain more than the vulgar got By the old smelting-process years ago?

I had now become quite an adept in this kind of sport.

" "It was this way, d'ye see, Mr. Lindsey," said Chisholm, who was becoming an adept at putting statements before people.

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