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    1. adjusting veils and hats with adroit feminine touches; the pretty


    2. ” In fact, it took Lenin years of adroit maneuvering and secret police activity to bring it about in Russia, using both her serfs and her industrial workers


    3. Among “those-in-the-know”, he had a discreet reputation for being able to legally outwit the Revenue Services Forensic Accountants who were able to track-down so-called “money-laundering” on the Internet – his adroit, discreet use of “Worms” would spread computer viruses wrecking whatever “unfair” evidence that had been built up


    4. "Certainly Olin, you may proceed to reveal my adroit method of planning out this lesson in the law


    5. “That was extremely adroit of you,” she said laughing


    6. Djamila did not talk as much as she looked and smiled but her comments when they came were surprisingly adroit


    7. The adroit Canadian spent his time preparing the meat and flour products he had brought from Gueboroa Island


    8. He was spoken of as the most adroit, the strongest, and the most courageous contadino for ten leagues around; and although Teresa was universally allowed to be the most


    9. With an adroit snap he catches it and bites it through with a


    10. elegance, their adroit evasion of almost all questions -- above all, their fits of unrabbitlike melancholy

    11. He was an adroit scandal-monger, and would crawl a mile on his belly to anything that had a title or a million


    12. And the most experienced and adroit painter could not by mere mechanical facility paint anything if the lines of the subject were not revealed to him first


    13. by adroit questions to bring him to what gave him most pleasure—his own success


    14. She had dreaded him, winced before him, succumbed to adroit advantages he took of her helplessness; then, temporarily blinded by his ardent manners, had been stirred to confused surrender awhile: had suddenly despised and disliked him, and had run away


    15. The adroit artist was asking Mr


    16. But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Marya Dmitrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions- the least effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp her foot- which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual severity


    17. Consequently, it would only have been necessary for Metternich, Rumyantsev, or Talleyrand, between a levee and an evening party, to have taken proper pains and written a more adroit note, or for Napoleon to have written to Alexander: ‘My respected Brother, I consent to restore the duchy to the Duke of Oldenburg’- and there would have been no war


    18. He felt young, bright, adroit, and resolute


    19. Fourthly, it would have been senseless to wish to take would have been in the highest degree embarrassing for the Russians, as the most adroit diplomatists of the time (Joseph de Maistre and others) recognized


    20. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master seemed pleased

    21. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and the adroit man


    22. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the presence of the prey which had been brought down, and which did not stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand


    23. The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered and plaintive air


    24. The honored—must I say the lamented—Stead, the adroit Jacques Futrelle, what might they not tell were their hands able to hold pencil?


    25. By adroit management the wooden float is made to rise on the other side of the mass, so that now having girdled the whale, the chain is readily made to follow suit; and being slipped along the body, is at last locked fast round the smallest part of the tail, at the point of junction with its broad flukes or lobes


    26. To show how adroit their chief sometimes was in his proceedings,


    27. The playbill might have been asked for, for instance, and the note, deftly folded in the playbill, was being put into her hands; but an instant, perhaps an accidental, nudge from the adjutant, extremely adroit in his apologies for his awkwardness, and the note had slipped from a little hand that trembled with confusion, and the civilian youth, stretching out his impatient hand, received instead of the note, the empty playbill, and did not know what to do with it


    28. In three years he had gone off considerably, though he was still rather handsome and adroit


    29. He was bold, adroit, of imposing appearance, and showed tact even when tipsy; therefore, he was appointed, and was allowed to retain so public and responsible an office


    30. In reality, instead of making notes, he merely drew lines across his notes, having seen prosecutors and attorneys, after an adroit question, making memoranda of questions which were to crush their opponents

    31. ’ And pity for myself vanished, and there remained only the bestial need of some adroit, cunning, and energetic action


    32. [126] Robert Macaire is a modern type of adroit and audacious rascality


    33. But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Márya Dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual severity


    34. Consequently, it would only have been necessary for Metternich, Rumyántsev, or Talleyrand, between a levee and an evening party, to have taken proper pains and written a more adroit note, or for Napoleon to have written to Alexander: “My respected Brother, I consent to restore the duchy to the Duke of Oldenburg”—and there would have been no war


    35. In spite of the complaints of the French as to the nonobservance of the rules, in spite of the fact that to some highly placed Russians it seemed rather disgraceful to fight with a cudgel and they wanted to assume a pose en quarte or en tierce according to all the rules, and to make an adroit thrust en prime, and so on—the cudgel of the people’s war was lifted with all its menacing and majestic strength, and without consulting anyone’s tastes or rules and regardless of anything else, it rose and fell with stupid simplicity, but consistently, and belabored the French till the whole invasion had perished


    36. And those fingers were skillful, adroit, alert, their every movement carried out with that smooth, indefinable grace which is almost always possessed by the really high-class card sharper


    37. His distracted client came up to him whilst he was progressing, and interrupting him, bitterly exclaimed, "you have undone me! you have ruined me!"—"Never mind, give yourself no concern," said the adroit advocate; and turning to the court and jury, continued his argument by observing, "May it please your honors, and you, gentlemen of the jury, I have been stating to you what I presume my adversary may urge on his side


    38. ” But while our country’s industrial territory is vast, the interests of the few great controllers who determine wages and prices for all are equally vast, and each plutocrat is tormented incessantly by jealousy and suspicion; not a day passes without conflicts of interest which adroit diplomacy could turn into ferocious warfare


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