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.
There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and the adroit man.
But the Frenchman was too agile and adroit for him: he took the thrust in the flesh of his ribs and riposted like lightning.
By adroit devices in instrumentation, their tiny band toots a minute national hymn of irresistible drollery.
Altogether the work is more than adroit musical composition.
She had fought for her own hand for years; she could not dig, and to beg she was not ashamed; but a time had come when even the most adroit begging began to bore people.
And Palliser, having heard a vague rumor that he had actually settled a decent income upon her, had made adroit inquiries and found it was true.
The note of explanation sent immediately to Miss Alicia was at once adroit and amiable.
It was with the light and adroit touch of accustomedness to all orders of little situations that his grace took the matter in hand, with a shade, also, of amiable malice.
The fellow, he told himself, had been thinking matters over, had perhaps consulted a lawyer; and having had time for reflection, he did not present a mass of mere inflated and blundering vanity as a target for adroit aim.
Whatever other foolishness they may commit, these adroit operators never kill the goose that lays their golden eggs.
That adroit Finn, noticing my inquiring look, blurted out: 'That arm went in a street accident, I suppose?
These confine their attentions principally to private dwellings, are adroit and successful, but incur constant danger of detection and punishment.
Having grown somewhat adroit since her falling in love, she complained of an awful headache in order to explain her redness.
But at the end of a sitting, dealing with the fathers of the Church, an adroit examiner, having first interrogated Julien on Saint Jerome and his passion for Cicero, went on to speak about Horace, Virgil and other profane authors.
These adroit preliminaries have been going on for centuries, and nothing comes of them.
You are right," said Julien modestly, realising the adroit stratagem of which he was the victim.
Mrs. Amanda Welsh Sampson was extremelyadroit and careful in concealing her connection with the law-making of the State.
Hardly worth while, since he is so adroit at getting out of the way,” sighed Croly, sinking into a chair as if quite exhausted with the efforts already made.
That adroit Manchu, however, had a purpose to serve by his effusive bonhomie: it was nothing less than to undermine the treaty of Nanking.
Most adroit was he in all the archery of controversy: he had the subtlety that can evade the aim of the assailant, and the slender dexterity, substituted for vigour, that struck when least expected.
The originality of Birkenhead's happy manner consists in his adroit use of sarcasm: he strikes it off by means of a parenthesis.
More, for by adroit manipulation of a certain lock, with wrench and a pair of tweezers, he readjusted a certain valve hinge in the petrol tank which he had heard Monsieur Cheval grumbling about before.
Pointing the machine still more upward, he seized a bunch of loose lint, used to sop up recurring leaks here and there, and with a handy screw driver he managed to stop the rent in the metal with a few sharp adroit punchings.
But he had found that occasionally he could get Bertram home earlier by adroit suggestions of one kind or another; and more and more frequently he was succeeding in getting him home for a game of chess.
Billy was, in fact, quite pluming herself on the adroit casualness with which she had introduced the subject nearest her heart.
Sir Thomas Gourlay, when effort was necessary, could certainly play an able and adroit part.
You mistake me, sir," replied the adroit old man; "I am going to do you a service.
This imbecile, without a syllable to say for himself, without a solitary adroit word within tongue's reach, wherewith to annihilate the hussy, was a Musgrave of Matocton!
It was entirely possible that Miss Sherwood, in so finished and adroit a manner that Hunt had not discerned her purpose, had herself given him this jolt or at least contributed to its force.
Nevertheless, when, in 1688, this adroit statesman died, he left behind him only an unimportant State, in no way to be reckoned among the powers of Europe.
After the defeat of the northern hordes and the suppression of the second slave revolt, there was a war with the Celtiberi in Spain, in 97, in which Sertorius showed himself already an adroit and bold officer.
Mr. Rollin's resources in such extremities usually bespoke a lifetime of patient and adroit application, but now he hesitated.
They seem thin, facile, full of phrases--such adroit phrases as would catch the ear of a listening, applauding audience.
Aldrich had a versatile talent that turned easily to adroit prose tales, but his heart was in the filing of his verses.
His ability for adroit misstatement of an adversary's position has been equaled but once in our history.
It was a very adroit proceeding, but Montagu soon discovered that the precious casket containing the most important papers had been overlooked in the search.
By this adroit measure the queen was spared the annoyance of seeing her successor converted into a rival, and yet the prospects of this succession were strengthened.
Vane himself was a staunch Independent, and he was at the same time one of the most adroit of diplomatists.
In the Lords the Earl of Monmouth made an adroit movement in favour of Sir John.
Aided by his adroit spouse, who already had full possession of the King's heart and of that of Madame de Maintenon, M.
D'Argenson, who questioned the Cordelier several times, and carried his replies daily to the King, was sufficiently adroit to pay his court to M.
The fierceness with which the Moors had rushed to the attack was suddenly cooled; they were bold and adroit for a skirmish, but unequal to the veteran Spaniards in the open field.
No combination could be more desirable for a young man who proposed to himself a career of getting money by adroit management and spending it in pure and simple self-indulgence.
She dressed in male attire, was an adroit fencer, a bold rider, and a staunch royalist; she once took two hundred gold jacobuses from the Parliamentary General Fairfax on Hounslow Heath.
