She kept eye on him all the while, as Palmet, with the skill of an adept in disguising his petty larceny of the optics, did on her.
The next instant Cecilia was shrinking from theadept intriguer--French-taught!
Some jugglery was played by the adeptmale heart in these later hesitations.
There is no waste of time on history, geography, or physical science; and between the concentration on a singly main subject and the impetus given by the master's rod the Athenian schoolboy soon becomes adept with his letters.
The Athenian, in short, is an adept at praising himself with affected modesty, and his companions listen good-humoredly, and retaliate by praising themselves.
And they are getting more and more adept at using it.
The locals are adept at using this resonance, at taking advantage of foreigners vulnerable to their music, to their costumes, to their rustic shrewdness.
If at once she found in you the extraordinary adept you are, she would never cease tormenting you until she discovered who had been your instructress.
Thus passed the first glorious night of my initiation into all the rites of Venus, and at the hands of a lovely, fresh and beautiful woman, who had only been married long enough to make her a perfect adept in the art.
His mother proved an adept in every resource of lust.
Already an adept in dissimulation, I faltered out that it was of herself and of her endearing caresses the day before, which had made me feel so queer all over.
The sin of disparaging mercury is also set out-- "The adept on hearing quicksilver heedlessly disparaged should recall quicksilver to mind.
At last I turned to the very front and found that the manuscript was by Ahmid, an occult adept of Hindustan, who lived somewhere in the second or third century of the Christian era.
If I thought of him at all, it was merely as some experimenter who might have need of help, rather than as an adept of adepts, who had transcended all human accomplishments in his line of research and thought.
He left the declaration inconclusive--a stroke of diplomacy that would have graced an infinitely more adept wooer.
But it had to become one of another nature, when, in answer to the question about his health which Clotilda hopefully put to him as an adept in science, Victor was compelled to give the (faintly paraphrased) history of his nocturnal bleeding.
He was from town, and wished to convince the country folk that he was an adept at his profession and to be relied on.
He looked indifferently at the young man from town swaying over the Torah, out of which he read fluently, intoning with a strangely free and easy manner, like an adept to whom all this was nothing new.
You hear now how I am confessing to you and admitting what the devil was able to do against Luther, who of all men ought surely to have been a very adept in this art.
But a man who is unable to do anything good himself likes to court praise and to appear an adept by abusing and crying down the good work of others.
Deerslayer was a sufficient adept in the usages of the natives to understand the reason of the change.
All this was lost on Deerslayer, who was no great adept in the mysteries of Cupid, but whose mind was far more occupied with the concerns that forced themselves on his attention, than with any of the truant fancies of love.
She was familiar with the Greek, the Syriac, and the Egyptian languages, and was an adept also in Latin, then the political language of the civilized world.
Epaminondas had been an earnest student of philosophy and music, and was an adept in gymnastic training.
But Yasmini, even at that age, was adept at feeling her way nicely.
But Yasmini never paused to cast up virtue when she needed assistants in a hurry; rather she was adept at appraising character and bending it to suit her ends.
Chicago was new territory to both the girls but Patricia, from the necessity, as she told Joan, of grubbing, had become an adept at finding shelter.
What really was the case was this: Patricia was an adeptat playing with fire.
Nor, as I afterwards learned, was the admiration a merely blind one, as he was a most cunning adept in all the wily stratagems by which such men correct the wilful ways of Fortune.
I saw that he was a master in a walk in which I myself had so long been a student, and that he was a consummate adept in the "art of impudence.
As he came finally face to face with the terrible Adept of Rache Churan, Miska disappeared into the shadow of the balcony.
There is one frailty, Miska, that even the Adept cannot conquer.
By many a bold and many a crafty step this adept in his art had wound his way to the highest rank of nobility attainable by a subject, and to a station of eminence and command scarcely compatible with that character.
The adept will at once intuitively separate from its friends the book that either is or will become curious.
As he's an excellent judge of horses, a tolerably good huntsman, and an adept in all games of chance, my cousin has no reason to doubt the existence of these papers, and I of course still less.
I, like you, am no adeptin self-denial, where I feel that I have to assert a natural right, and therefore I lack the first requisites of a moralist.
The most successful American politicians, beginning with the anti-slavery agitators, have been those most adept at twisting the ancient gauds and shibboleths of Puritanism to partisan uses.
Considering that it is by Dreiser, it is extraordinarily adept and intelligent in design; only in "The Titan" has he ever done so well.
Of course Fred knew not what sort of animals had made the tracks in question, but he was anadept at guessing, and the satisfied looks of his companion gave him reason to believe that he was correct in his surmises.
Hero-monarchs, holy Brahmans, filled the halls bedecked in gold, White-robed priests adept in mantra mingled with the chieftains bold.
Keith was an adept at adapting himself to his environment.
Cookie was a willing rascal and a naturaladept at the double-cross.
Imagine that a composer who is an adept in counterpoint places four pianists at different pianofortes, and that he gives a different theme to each of them, or a theme to one and modified versions of it to the others.
