How To Use Dexter In A Sentence
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More impressive still is his quicksilver dexterity in following the ever-changing contours of Sibelius' form.
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Therefore the learning of many languages is injudicious, inasmuch as it arouses the belief in the possession of dexterity, and, as a matter of fact, it lends a kind of delusive importance to social intercourse.
Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education
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David brought along his wire-haired terrier, Dexter; Audrey brought along only her exquisite taste.
Stephen Collins: winner of the Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story prize 2010
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To the insatiable bloody appetite of this creature nothing comes amiss; he takes the male ostrich by surprise, and slays that wariest of wild things on his nest; He captures little birds with the dexterity of a cat, and hunts for diurnal armadillos; he comes unawares upon the deer and huanaco, and, springing like lightning on them, dislocates their necks before their bodies touch the earth.
The Naturalist in La Plata
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In addition to the line, the secondary is a question mark for the Terrapins, who will be looking for Kenny Tate and Antwine Perez to step up their game now that they are the projected starters at safety, while redshirt freshman Dexter McDougle could find himself starting at corner.
Around the Atlantic Coast Conference
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The newspaper John Hebden worked for had told Dexter the journalist was on holiday and gave out his address in Acton.
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It is also extremely difficult to get characters on and off the stage dexterously.
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A repetitive set-top game called Search for the Spear of Destiny requires a beginner's level of dexterity, and delivers trivial lost-civilization factoids as reward cookies for successful play.
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Some of these tools: the ambition, the fixation on data, the subsequent doubt about what to do with that data taken on dexterously by Justin McGuirk, and the photographs.
Todd Reisz: Making Sense of the City
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You need manual dexterity to be good at video games.
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Key fabrics in this collection include felt and denim which she treats with dexterity and imagination.
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You are applauded for your professional prowess and dexterity in a business venture.
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In his vision of the future, epigraphists - archaeologists who study inscriptions - will rely instead on digital cameras, specialized computer software, and their dexterity with a mouse.
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His own dexterity in catching the phrase plumb in the middle gave him a thrill of excitement.
The Years
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Carnivale, Rome wazz: @dannys: the wire, six feet under, rome, band of brothers, dexter, OZ ... super seriale dannys: salutare! cam ce seriale recomandati? broscutzza: am o mica intrebare: cum de s-a mutat Accidentally on Purpose miercuri (la ei)?
Seriale tv - TvBlog
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The production and studio sound is excellent, the songs in Irish attractive, the string arrangements gorgeous and the instrumental dexterity often dazzling.
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He also found Norman Heatley, a laboratory wizard with great dexterity in micromethods.
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Next to her, hands working dexterously on a customer's head, another woman is busily putting the finishing touches to a ‘straightback’ hairstyle.
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Several of the men show great dexterity in shaping stones into implements, a process known as stone or flint knapping.
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The man who wore it had his heraldic device embroidered in vivid colours on his breasta chevron and a stag passant, the scutcheon supported by a branch of olive dexter and a stags horn sinister.
V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X
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To the end of this the assistant now touched his pontil, upon whose end he had taken up a little more glass, and this, being twisted in a ring round the foot of the stem, divided from the pontil by a huge pair of scissors, dexterously shaped with the plyers, and finally smoothed with a battledoor, became the foot of the wine-glass.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
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In his own country the king granted these honourable augmentations to his armorial ensign: a chief undulated, ARGENT: thereon waves of the sea; from which a palm tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister all proper; and for his crest, on
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
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Not unexpectedly, this building displays John Wardle's architectural dexterity and virtuoso skill.
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We felt that every element of danger was eliminated by the coolness and dexterity of our conductors, yet the sense of hazard and adventuresomeness was there!
The Roof of France
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Martis sanguineas quae cohibet manus, quae dat belligeris foedera gentibus et cornu retinet diuite copiam, 10 donetur tenera mitior hostia. et tu, qui facibus legitimis ades, noctem discutiens auspice dextera huc incede gradu marcidus ebrio, praecingens roseo tempora uinculo.
Hymeneal
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But flip the switch and Nexi comes to life with human-like dexterity and mannerisms that compel us to see a mind in the machine.
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The President asked for opinions as to the likelihood of criminal prosecution of Poindexter and North.
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The Viking helms and the chapel-de-fer are affronty by default; all other helms face dexter by default.
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She stoops over her heavy tambour frame, at work that fascinates her black spaniel dog, which stands with its forepaws on the front bar to watch her dexterity.
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Her verbal dexterity when delivering a stream of brilliant put-downs is extremely impressive.
The Sun
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The foremost of these was a young female, most elegantly attired, and mounted upon a Spanish jennet, which she reined with singular grace and dexterity.
Anne of Geierstein
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At higher levels, and with greater dexterity, stilts have been used as entertainment props since the fairs of the Middle Ages, and probably long before then.
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We all know that sort of transaction: the squabbling, and gobbling, and popping of champagne; the smell of musk and lobster-salad; the dowagers chumping away at plates of raised pie; the young lassies nibbling at little titbits, which the dexterous young gentlemen procure.
Mrs. Perkins's Ball
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But flip the switch and Nexi comes to life with human-like dexterity and mannerisms that compel us to see a mind in the machine.
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In addition, HBO have added a Game of Thrones-centric subsite and forum to their main website and confirmed that a veteran Dexter director, Brian Kirk, will be handling two episodes of the first season.
Archive 2010-06-01
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An American athlete swung the wheelchair to enter the bank dexterously , the counter has resembled the tea table highly, to her again appropriate.
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He tap-dances around the line between speech and song with such dexterity that by the time he reaches his summation — See now what a condition I am in! — we don't even notice that the seeming self-deprecation is actually an assertion of intellectual authority.
Archive 2008-11-01
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Now at one-fifteen pm, Glyn advanced purposefully on the PC, opened his BIG BLACK BAG and, incanting the magical chant, ‘This should be pretty simple’ began to perform an operation of electronic surgery with both guile and dexterity.
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Ruth (1/14/2010 7: 00: 56 PM) oh no bad news i love the guy he is one of my fave tv actors hope your well and back in filming soon dude tv wont be the same without our dexter fix
‘Dexter’ Star Michael C. Hall Has Cancer, Now In Remission » MTV Movies Blog
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Blacks harpoon dugong as they do turtle, but the sport demands greater patience and dexterity, for the dugong is a wary animal and shy, to be approached only with the exercise of artful caution.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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They are the only primates in the world that subsist on grass, and they have the greatest manual dexterity of any monkey on earth.
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They lugged out a pancheon, and filled it with more dexterity than usual, and then went off to bed, leaving the knife in one corner, the wood in another, and a few splashes of water in their track.
The Brownies and Other Tales
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Of course the technique was specialized and required dexterity and experience to execute well.
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That's as good a line of reasoning as any, right? jo5h dexter is gonna off lundy.
Win DEXTER Season One on DVD | the TV addict
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The present work not only bears an interesting subject, but the artist also dexterously evokes the childhood memories of the viewer.
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The dexterity and nimble balance of elite fencers can boggle the mind.
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Where his dexterous playing and effortless meter manipulation often buoyed the band's corybantic compositions, here, he's sadly mollified.
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I'm not nearly that proficient, but a bit of ambidexterity can benefit any golfer.
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His plans had required a dexterity that would serve him well when he came to supervise his own band of postgraduates later.
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These were, in the Portuguese version, per pale argent and vert, two roses dimidiating as many fleurs-de-lis, in dexter canton a dove volant argent.
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But, although her preceptress practised these arts with a dexterity then only known in foreign convents, the pupil proved so incorrigibly idle and awkward, that the task of needlework was at length given up, and lessons of music substituted in their stead.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Poindexter gave him a blank stare.
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Many will say, "Oh, let him bide,, because after all he is only a poor mad crazy fellow who spends his time in piling up apples in an apple cart and balancing them dexterously on the top of his nose.
The Apple Cart and the British Empire
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Her dexterity is not notable either in comparison with the normal person, whose movements are guided by the eye, or, I am told, with other blind people.
The Story of My Life
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Both players need extreme manual dexterity.
Times, Sunday Times
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To be dexterous in danger is a virtue; but to court danger to show it, is weakness. William Penn
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Key fabrics in this collection include felt and denim which she treats with dexterity and imagination.
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For example, when an armigerous person marries the daughter of an armiger, he may display a shield with his own arms on the dexter half, ‘impaling’ his wife's arms on the sinister half.
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He was not only a very dexterous thief, but was notorious for his boldness and hardihood, and for the number of his previous convictions.
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Within the Garter are impaled (dexter) the Arms of KING EDWARD VII. and (sinister) the undifferenced Arms of
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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Whenever he can, on most weekends and when guests are invited, Abnash dons the chef's cap and apron and handles pans and ladles with dexterity.
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The officer's historical role as a street cleaner occasionally required a measure of dexterity and imagination.
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He joins forces with former army hero Calvin Dexter to hit at the heart of the trade, which he identifies as cocaine's transportation by boat, and uses a budget of $2 billion to target vessels and corrupt officials in a global operation.
Reuters: Top News
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As he was waiting for the barmaid to pour the drinks, Dexter could not resist temptation.
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Back in 1989, as he contemplated a Test debut bowling to Marsh, Taylor, Boon, Border, Jones and S Waugh on an Oval shirtfront, Alan Igglesden received a timely self-esteem boost when the chairman of selectors Ted Dexter told the world Igglesden was the 14th-choice seamer.
Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth
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Dexterity comes by experience.
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Among other things I've done in the past two hours: housing works (found book 3 of a trilogy my mother had started but I don't think she ever found books 2 or 3 yet), The Strand (a mere 11 books, $18 and change), and 12th Steet Books ($16 and change for 7 books, mostly Robert Barnard mysteries, but I also got a Colin Dexter Inspector Morse to try and an old non-series Lawrence Block, etc.), and a quick visit to the Westside Market since, obviously, the larder is bare.
Breakfast in Bed
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It's blue, master, with a red stripe sinister, and a yellow emblem on the dexter side.
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It was a very dexterous kill, and she had to have the training.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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Years ago there was a young Bilkins, one Pendexter Bilkins -- a sad losel, we fear -- who ran away to try his fortunes before the mast, and fell overboard in a gale off Hatteras.
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
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The first is a battern topaz, same of thistles, emerald, ensigned with an imperial crown proper, and thereon the crest of Scotland, which is a lion sejant guardian ruby, crowned with the like crown he sits on, having in his dexter paw a sword proper, the pommel and hilt, topaz; and in the sinister a sceptre of the last.
Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities
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A dexterous American teenager would have dispatched the entire armored corps of a third-world country in the time that it took me to claim my two victims.
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Over 85 percent of the factories are American owned, and employ primarily women because of their perceived docility, dexterity and disposability.
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To be dexterous in danger is a virtue; but to court danger to show it, is weakness. William Penn
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In general terms the food is frugal and relies on fresh ingredients and dexterity to transform them.
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A cat, for instance, is much more dexterous with its paws than a dog. This dexterity fascinates cat lovers, who also cite the cat's legendary standoffishness as proof of its mental superiority.
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She gave him five minutes to pack an overnight bag under Dexter's supervision and say farewell to his family.
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D darkness of calamity dash of eccentricity dawning of recognition day of reckoning daylight of faith decay of authority declaration of indifference deeds of prowess defects of temper degree of hostility delicacy of thought delirium of wonder depth of despair dereliction of duty derogation of character despoiled of riches destitute of power desultoriness of detail [desultoriness = haphazard; random] device of secrecy devoid of merit devoutness of faith dexterity of phrase diapason of motives [diapason = full, rich, harmonious sound] dictates of conscience difference of opinion difficult of attainment dignity of thought dilapidations of time diminution of brutality disabilities of age display of prowess distinctness of vision distortion of symmetry diversity of aspect divinity of tradition domain of imagination drama of action dream of vengeance drop of comfort ductility of expression dull of comprehension duplicities of might dust of defeat
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
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Her verbal dexterity when delivering a stream of brilliant put-downs is extremely impressive.
The Sun
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Dimensions chop and change, and an almost magical dexterity keeps the viewer captivated and concentrating.
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- John Lithgow, Actor ( "Shrek," "Dexter") @JessicaSimpson i fell off of my couch watching dexter last night!! holy crapballs!!
‘Dexter,’ ‘Avatar’ And Eli Roth’s Car Test In Today’s Twitter-Wood » MTV Movies Blog
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Being cold can also affect your dexterity, co-ordination and ability to think.
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Dexter eased himself across the room and spoke in a whisper.
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He can do any sort of work requiring handiness and dexterity.
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Unique mix of electronic textures and rock guitars held together by verbal dexterity.
The Sun
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Not one critic, however, diminished the incredible manual dexterity needed to create them.
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In short, he had as many offices as Scrub in the play, and went through them all with great dexterity; this of surgeon was, perhaps, the only one in which his skill was somewhat deficient, at least that branch of tapping for the dropsy; for he very ingenuously and modestly confessed he had never seen the operation performed, nor was possessed of that chirurgical instrument with which it is performed.
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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He has proven himself a prodigious master of the qanun, an 81-string Arabic zither, his dexterous plucking unlocking the instrument's potential to scintillate and shine.
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In truth, he was a card cheat of remarkable dexterity who routinely cleaned out the sophisticates in games of three-card monte.
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Trying to learn to be ambidexterous though Screenname:: None.
Hamletwildie Diary Entry
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Bridget made tea for them both and came and watched as the sweep turned and furled his brushes with a dexterous competence.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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Mr Dexter said: ‘Insurance is increasingly becoming a knotty problem.’
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The word for right is dexter, from which derives our word dexterous, meaning ` skillful, clever, or artful. '
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
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Arms of the Office are -- _Arg., a lion sejant erect and affronté gu., holding in his dexter paw a thistle slipped vert, and in the sinister an escutcheon of the second; on a chief az., a saltire of the first_: No. 266.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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It thus encourages mental agility as well as physical dexterity, speed and good hand-eye co-ordination.
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On the dexter side a New Forest pony proper and on the sinister side a boar argent armed crined and unguled Or each charged on the shoulder with a spring of broom palewise flowered proper.
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By the time I had added an ordinary typewriter table to its scanty furnishing, I was hard put to turn around; at the best, I managed to navigate it by a sort of vermicular progression requiring great dexterity and presence of mind.
MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS
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The dexterity with which the charmers handle deadly snakes such as cobras and vipers has added to the allure of the street-side performances.
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The very much indented leaves, whose projections can be completely removed with a dexterous snip of the scissors, generally furnish the various layers of the barricade; the little robinia-leaves, with their fine texture and their unbroken edges, are better suited to the more delicate work of the cells.
Bramble-Bees and Others
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To acquire the friendship of their emirs, the two factions vied with each other in baseness and profusion: the dexterity of Cantacuzene obtained the preference: but the succor and victory were dearly purchased by the marriage of his daughter with an infidel, the captivity of many thousand Christians, and the passage of the Ottomans into Europe, the last and fatal stroke in the fall of the Roman empire.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Blanche eased herself up and Dexter watched the tension start to drain from Lancaster's body.
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This is hard work which Karen and her assistants tackle with enthusiasm and dexterity.
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The classical Sinawali, a double-stick style popular in the Central Luzon plains, is fluid and requires ambidexterity - a primer for the sword and dagger system.
Notes from the peanut gallery
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The fiddler was a boy of those parts, about twelve years of age, who had a wonderful dexterity in jigs and reels, though his fingers were so small and short as to necessitate a constant shifting for the high notes, from which he scrambled back to the first position with sounds not of unmixed purity of tone.
Wessex Tales
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When Rowlandson returned in the afternoon he would find the shadows all dexterously transferred to the plate by means of the aquatint.
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And he did so with an enviable manual dexterity driven by a witty, incisive mind.
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And Dexter tried to calm his faint resentment against her for casting a shadow over his optimistic mood.
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Dexter shuffled the papers in his lap, squinting through the reading glasses that he'd been promising to upgrade for three months.
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Again and again to such gamesome talk, the dexterous dart is repeated, the spear returning to its master like a greyhound held in skilful leash.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Nothing is done or said that doesn't feel coruscantly correct, dexterously blending private and public events, and making a one-person play convey so many lives, so much history, such an onrush of humanity.
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Valentinian 21 was the son of Count Gratian, a native of Cibalis, in Pannonia, who from an obscure condition had raised himself, by matchless strength and dexterity, to the military commands of Africa and Britain; from which he retired with an ample fortune and suspicious integrity.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Though occasionally the humour degenerates into facetiousness, the verbal dexterity of the verse is superb.
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THE extraordinary success of Homo sapiens is a result of four things: intelligence, language, an ability to manipulate objects dexterously in order to make tools, and co-operation.
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They are also known as mitten or thumb cats because they can learn to pick up things, open latches or move objects with near-human dexterity.
Undefined
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I'm your inferior in manual dexterity.
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No other sport combines athletic prowess with linguistic dexterity.
Times, Sunday Times
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His manual dexterity and fine spatial skills were wasted on routine tasks.
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In fact, I got into trouble recently because of "dexterous"--or rather, because I told someone that a left-handed person can't technically be dexterous.
Ferule & Fescue
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Dexter contradicted all the accepted norms of TV drama.
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Video games demand great manual dexterity.
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The second was a more straightforward slide on to his posterior from which he recovered with amazing physical dexterity to continue the point.
Times, Sunday Times
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These were tests of their ability to withstand pain and to practise athletic dexterity.
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Dexter looked up expectantly, a loop of ash dangling from the end of the cigarette he had lit in her absence.
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And riding swiftly on horses and managing them 'dexterously' the princes began to hit marks with shafts engraved with their respective names.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
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Ar. a dexter hand brandishing a sabre trenchant ppr hilt gold.
A History of Caroline County, Virginia
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She again burst forth, for nature having given her considerable abilities, had lent her at the same time an energy of passion, far superior in power to the cold ambition of Irene, or the wily, ambidexter, shuffling policy of the Emperor.
Count Robert of Paris
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After that, she began using the chopsticks with increased dexterity and was filling her own stomach in no time.
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If you lack good finger dexterity, you may find it helpful to use one of the new flosses, such as Glide, or a commercial floss holder.
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These smaller tools were clearly intended to carry out specific tasks, and were used by people with much skill and dexterity.
BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
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Wise creates just the right mood of simmering hostility via some pointed Gable/Lancaster byplay and various telling incidents with the crew, which includes a young Jack Warden and Brad Dexter.
John Farr: Clark Gable: King of Hollywood
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Kids who've grown up playing video games and typing instant messages on mobile phone keypads have developed unusual dexterity in their thumbs, researchers in England have discovered.
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They are the only primates in the world that subsist on grass, and they have the greatest manual dexterity of any monkey on earth.
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(When you had Room 405 on reserve, with the key clinking in your pocket and you couldn't wait to show off your bra-removal ambidexterity.)
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Picking your Pic(k) -- A Primer
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To build with any efficiency and skill, the colonial craftsperson needed a dexterous hand when wielding both kinds of axes.
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Dexter sighed with increasing frequency when sent out to check yet another marriage bureau.
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Andy's performance was especially impressive, as the diminutive axeman shifted from chunky rockers to white-soul wah-wahs with effortless dexterity.
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Pondexter is majoring in African studies and minoring in sociology.
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In robot hand systems, the force and torque should be well distributed and applied by the fingers in order to grasp and manipulate the object dexterously .
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On the one hand he had shown a great lack of manual dexterity, but he now showed that he had great talents for learning, especially mathematics.
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We don't already have translunar manned transport capability (to the surface), and getting it will cost many, many tens of billions more than a sufficiently dexterous RC bot.
Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch
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We also propose that their effects and complementarities influence alliance ambidexterity because they facilitate knowledge integration at the project level.
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His droll manner disguises, but does not hide, an awesome dexterity and emotional delivery of his one-man set.
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As Dexter enters manhood, the complex dream in which Judy and her world of social grandeur and illimitability remains with him, while he takes steps to transcend his own limited life, persuading his father to send him east to the Ivy League, where, with a subtle blend of dream and hard-headedness, he acquires the clothes and the mannerisms of Judy's class, while realizing that he can never himself fully enter it.
Fitzgerald's 'Radiant World'
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The game has loads of different courses to tackle, all cunningly designed to test your manual dexterity to the maximum.
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New research carried out in nine cities around the world shows that the thumbs of people under the age of 25 have taken over as the hand's most dexterous digit, said The Observer.
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He laughed with everybody who would exchange a laugh with him, shook hands right and left, with what may be certainly called a dexterous cordiality; made his appearance at the market-day and the farmers 'ordinary; and, in fine, acted like a consummate hypocrite, and as gentlemen of the highest birth and most spotless integrity act when they wish to make themselves agreeable to their constituents, and have some end to gain of the country-folks.
The History of Pendennis
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It's illegal, of course, but Benny keeps it in operation by greasing the palms of the local flatfoots, a maneuver which takes no small amount of dexterity.
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And let's not forget a nimble mind's required to go along with the dexterity.
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In the street Dexter watched three kids start to kick a football against a brick wall.
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Both players need extreme manual dexterity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The music is certainly not immune from figuration that assists finger dexterity, but it is polished less for fingers and more for ears.
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See my poor dexter, abridged to one thumb, one finger, and a stump, -- by the blow of my adversary's weapon, however, and not by any carnificial knife.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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The dexterosphere takes it to mean that two conditions were necessary for the candidate to remain affiliated with (or at least to feel comfortable at) Trinity United Church of Christ: Pastor Wright had to both retire and acknowledge that his anti-American sermons were wrong.
Slick Barry: A New Clinton Moment
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Decreased grip strength may result in loss of dexterity, and thenar muscle atrophy may develop if the syndrome is severe.
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As a soldier learns more in a week of war than in years of parades and pipeclay, so, cut off from all distractions, moving from bivouac to precarious bivouac, and depending, to some extent, for my life on my muscles and wits, I rapidly learnt my work and gained a certain dexterity.
The Riddle of the Sands
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Hopeless is the most polite word I can think of to describe my complete lack of skill, coordination and dexterity.
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To begin the quest, humans and elves should visit Dexter on the second floor of Castle Britannia in Trammel .
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It's also well correlated with other incomplete or abnormal brain differentiation syndromes such as dyslexia, ambidexterity, and Asperger's.
Risk Factors : A Full House
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The result was an interpretative epiphany, a physical and intellectual dexterity that defies equalling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Paly of six on a bend three mullets (Elton) impaling a fish, and in the dexter chief point an annulet between two bends wavy.
Old French Romances
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The extraordinary dexterity he shows on the oud, the grandfather of the guitar/banjo / ukulele etc, recalls masters like Paco Pena and Jimi Hendrix.
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Buster Poindexter released his cover version three years later, which went on to become an international smash.
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It was time to deploy Dexter's tactic of unsubstantiated allegation.
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In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorale of the Dexter
Martin Luther King - Biography
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Boris had the crowd enthralled with his dexterity on the whistle and harmonica.
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The patient should be mentally alert, manually dexterous, and have sterile urine.
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Church often say, that his company was very merry, facete, and juvenile; and no man in his time did surpass him for his ready and dexterous interlarding his common discourses among them with verses from the poets, or sentences from classic authors; which being then all the fashion in the University, made his company the more acceptable.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The captives on the rock were at last rescued by the islanders, who are the most dexterous cragsmen in those parts.
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Diceland is a tabletop combat game that contains elements of miniatures games, dice games, and dexterity games.
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An American athlete swung the wheelchair to enter the bank dexterously , the counter has resembled the tea table highly, to her again appropriate.
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The shield of the Papal coat of arms can therefore be described in heraldic terms as follows: ‘Gules, chape in or, with the scallop shell of the second; the dexter chape with a moor's head in natural colour, crowned and collared of the first, the sinister chape a bear trippant in natural colour, carrying a pack gules belted sable’.
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Many pundits of the time tried to explain Jewish basketball prowess as biological: Jews were naturally more dexterous and had greater intrinsic athletic ability than non-Jews.
A Renegade History of the United States
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Overall, the book would be useful to preachers and pastors interested in the style of homiletics at a church such as Dexter Avenue, but it has little relevance, otherwise, for modern readers.
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The least of these illuminators, with his insignificant eyeless face, possesses at his fingers 'ends the maximum of dexterity in this art of decoration, light and wittily incongruous, which threatens to invade us in France, in this epoch of imitative decadence, and which has become the great resource of our manufacturers of cheap "_objects of art_.
Madame Chrysantheme
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My dear Fellow you are doubtless too young to have seen Sobers, Kanhai, Dexter or Graeme Pollock.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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He laughed with every body who would exchange a laugh with him, shook hands right and left, with what may be certainly called a dexterous cordiality; made his appearance at the market-day and the farmers 'ordinary; and, in fine, acted like a consummate hypocrite, and as gentlemen of the highest birth and most spotless integrity act when they wish to make themselves agreeable to their constituents, and have some end to gain of the country folks.
The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
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I could also hide my skill very dexterously, which is generally found a work of great difficulty, and judiciously winning or losing, I contrived to make it answer my purpose, -- until one day, going to a table which I was very much in the practice of frequenting, and where no one was then engaged, I was invited by a stranger to play.
The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2
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My digits aren't dexterous enough to keep up with how fast my admittedly-failing memory recalls the number. 90% of the times I misdial, it's on the last number.
May 2005
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After my five seconds of philosophizing, the next thing I noticed was my rapid loss of manual dexterity.
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No great manual dexterity is required to perform the technique.
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Computer games can improve children's manual dexterity .
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Our language expresses this supremacy of the favoured side in the terms dexterity, adroitness and address, all of which allude to the right hand.
The Life of the Spider
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… The group was started by Pat Dexter, who started coming to the park with his homemade hoops several years ago, he said, because he was looking for wide-open spaces to hoop, spaces away from lamps and other breakables ‘I teach P.E. and I googled ‘Hula Hooping’ one day, and hooping. org came up and I couldn’t believe it.
Hooping.org | Blog | Albuquerque Hoopers Hoop It Up
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She demonstrated her dexterity by managing to pinch my cheek while wearing elbow-length white gloves.
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The work-droid can easily handle 20lb weights in Earth gravity, which is said to be well in excess of what other "dexterous" robots can manage.
The Register
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Dexter gnawed his pen thoughtfully.
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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For examples dexter going onto season 5, weeds season 6 now?, cali season 4 I believe.
WEEDS Season 5 DVD Review – Collider.com
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While she was gone, Dexter rekindled the fire using the wood stacked in a pile under the edge of canvas that covered the small area where they had slept.
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Cris Carter may be the most dexterous player, but he's not the only handy man in the NFL.
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Dexter lounged in, sucked the last goodness from his cigarette and stubbed out the butt in Blanche's wastepaper bin.
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Dexter aspects are considered more direct and effective than sinister aspects; Lilly writes of them ‘Observe the dexter aspect is more forcible than the Sinister’.
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Blanche reappeared just after four, throwing off her coat and beckoning Dexter into her office in the same gesture.
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Unique mix of electronic textures and rock guitars held together by verbal dexterity.
The Sun
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In Travelling Companions is foreshadowed Jamess later skill in the description of ancient landscape and architecture; in At Isella, his habit of rounding out a story from the most flying hint; and in The Sweetheart of Mr. Briseux, at least in patches, his smoothly ironical, dexterously enwinding style.
Chapter 8. Henry James
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While core competence remains vital — differentiation offers a competitive advantage — firms must examine their organizational ambidexterity.
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For he was perfectly correct - Amanda Cynster stood in no danger from the raffish Earl of Dexter.
ON A WILD NIGHT
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Crest, a dexter arm embowed; habited in mail, holding in the hand all ppr. a spiked club or.
Virginia and Virginians
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Despite his decrepit appearance, Barlow was as dexterous as a monkey.
STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
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This Shield, represented in No. 328, has both the bordure on its dexter half, and the tressure on its sinister half, dimidiated by the impalement.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
