How To Use Nimble In A Sentence
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Shanghai Baby is peopled with nimble-witted hedonists. From the point of view of traditional mainstream society, they are moral degenerates and self-serving rebels.
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Manned Orbiting Laboratory gloves with sharkskin palms and sewn-in steel fingernails, so nimble that an astronaut could pick up a dime while wearing them, even when they were pressurized; long johns laced with plastic pipes, to water-cool the wearer; and box after box of headgear, including Armstrong's gold-visored external helmet, once thought to have been left on the moon.
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Modeled after British roadsters, the Miata MX - 5 is less about muscle than about being a quick and nimble extension of you.
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She was a free spirit, and nimble as hell.
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And we would feel constrained to confess ourselves poor diagnosticians if George Bernard Shaw, the enfant terrible of nimble wit in contemporaneous literature, succeeded in disproving the existence in himself of the same strain of blood as coursed in the veins of Heinrich Heine.
The Social Disability of the Jew
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The child had the nimbleness of a mountain shepherd, and Prometheus — the grace of an almost-god.
FIREBRINGER • by Therese Arkenberg
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The irresistibly danceable blues-zydeco fusion music pioneered by the late accordionist Alton Rubin Sr. (aka Rockin 'Dopsie) continues to evolve in the nimble fingers of a second generation.
In New Orleans, jazz fans get their groove on despite rain
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That feeling is produced by the cockpit-like design and the nimble driving dynamics that Mazda, a unit of Ford Motor Co., has been able to coax out of the chassis, which is also used in the Ford Edge.
Mazda's CX-9 Crossover
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His nimble mind calculated the answer before I could key the numbers into my computer.
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Their inscrutable, sphinx-like logic can prove hypnotizing, and even the brave of heart and nimble of mind may find him or herself captivated.
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I saw one group of traders run off like a startled herd, humping their bags of bags, while three police, like a pack of hunting dogs, scragged the least nimble.
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Even the low-end factories need managers and engineers as well as nimble-fingered farm girls.
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Forte's experience during the crisis shows another advantage of many Polish companies: nimbleness.
Euro's Allure Dims in Eastern Europe
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Some experts envisage a future of nimble covert operations.
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'You need to be flexible and nimble in this economy, ' Ms. Hahn says.
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For person and complexion they haue broade and flatte visages, of a tanned colour into yellowe and blacke, fierce and cruell lookes, thinne haired vpon the upper lippe, and pitte of the chinne, light and nimble bodied, with short legges, as if they were made naturally for horsemen: whereto they practise themselues from their childhood, seldome going afoot about anie businesse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Energy planners must be nimble enough to embrace these new technologies.
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While big banks consider requests from staff for moves, more nimble hedge fund managers are already packing their suitcases.
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The keeper of a thing so nimble must not sleep, he must not be oscitant, but very intent upon his charge.
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It's also fast enough to surf standing waves, stable enough to 360 in some holes, and nimble enough to nip into tiny eddies for a break.
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Even the nimblest player would have trouble lasting a minute before the men were spurting pixelated blood.
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The BOE would have to be "nimble" in responding to changes in the economic outlook, it added.
IMF Endorses U.K. Fiscal Plan
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You're going to be bumped and jostled many times while you wait in line - one of those bumps could be a nimble-fingered thief taking your cash.
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The pack began to dominate in set pieces, and supply their nimble three-quarters with ample, quality ball.
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Small companies are nimble and can take risks that large ones cannot.
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A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
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It's call the ExoFly, and Ray described it as a "dragonfly-on-steroids … a nimble flapping aerobot.
Universe Today
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He was very quick and nimble, which made him able to dance past defenders very quickly.
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After meeting face-to-face, a trail of text messages continues the conversation as friends disperse in trains, buses and on foot, nimble thumbs touch-typing on numeric keypads.
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_] He was tall of stature, and well proportioned, faire and comelie of face, so as in his countenance appeared much fauour and grauitie, of haire bright aborne, as it were betwixt red and yellow, with long armes, and nimble in all his ioints his thighes and legs were of due proportion, and answerable to the other parts of his bodie.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
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The base and armature is a trussed column of welded stainless steel tubing - a relatively nimble footing for the mass that sprouts from it.
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He evidently purged himself of enough angst to be able to craft a follow-up that's warm, nimble and surprisingly funny in places.
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Then had stalwart Gernot of Burgundy nigh done brave Iring unto death, but that he sprang away from the prince (nimble enow he was), and slew eftsoon four noble henchmen of the Burgundians from Worms across the Rhine.
The Nibelungenlied
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On the twisty country roads it feels as nimble as a hot hatch.
The Sun
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Elites always detest gifted and nimble outsiders.
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Our nimble-minded imaginative people will rise to and grasp the most elevated ideas if properly presented.
The Young Priest's Keepsake
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Tires that have a folding, or Kevlar, bead are lighter and more nimble than those that have steel beads.
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A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Our Hundred Days in Europe
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Her mind worked quickly as her gaze stayed locked with his, thinking up some excuse, but even her mind wasn't that nimble.
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes; which, deliverd oer to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Act IV. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
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Extraordinary in its detail—and in its close-up pictures of this nimble army of foragers who have, it appears, settled on Toronto as a favorite destination—the film fascinates with its display of the dauntlessness of the creatures, about which many unhappy householders need no instruction, and their capacity to adapt.
A Musical for Marilyn Monroe
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_Agility_ and _Nimbleness_; this renders the Limbs flexible and mettlesom, and adapts them for the most Vigorous Enterprize: It makes the languid and slothful, _brisk_ and _sprightful_; and rejects
The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing
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On the twisty country roads it feels as nimble as a hot hatch.
The Sun
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In the demo, you are placed behind the controls of two different spacecraft, a light and nimble fighter and a large, cumbersome but powerful gunship.
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The nimble-fingered girls in the packing room attracted the attention of the King and Queen.
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A nimble mind backed by a degree in economics gave him a firm grasp of financial matters.
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The magician does special exercises to keep his fingers nimble and body agile.
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You had to be quick, nimble and agile all the time.
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Furtive and nimble tipplers and topers nightly dodged through alleys and back yards under the noses of the flashlamp-carrying guards.
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My hands are bigger, and more adroit, with nimble fingers that can tie shoes, unwrap candies, and get the sand out from between my toes before we leave the beach.
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And he has a nimble mind, which is evident in the curious eyes and the arched eyebrows that seem to reach almost to his black turban as he listens to questions.
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The dexterity and nimble balance of elite fencers can boggle the mind.
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He's a nimble, accomplished soloist and a sensitive accompanist, capable of pastel washes, shimmering folky chords or juicy bop lines.
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He exuded class, confidence and style and for a heavily-built man was very agile and nimble.
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He was very quick and nimble, which made him able to dance past defenders very quickly.
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A nimble mind backed by a degree in economics gave him a firm grasp of financial matters.
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She has now become nimble and agile with the experience of dodging through traffic, avoiding moving vehicles, where she taps pleadingly at windows.
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His nimble mind calculated the answer before I could key the numbers into my computer.
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The immediacy of radio, and its nimbleness in updating stories, was once what gave it a huge advantage over print - an advantage that, of course, the new media have captured.
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His free arm moved to the pouches on her belt, his fingers deft and nimble as a squirrel as he purloined some component.
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The feel is of something nimbler and more complex, carefully presented in a charming space.
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She hesitated for a moment, running her nimble fingers around the rim of her tankard.
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She was extremely nimble on her feet.
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A leader... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. Nelson Mandela
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His fingers are extraordinarily nimble.
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There is no room for petty insularity and sectarian nonsense - the Scots must see themselves as nimble enough to change and take on the world's best.
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Feeling around the dial, her nimble fingers punched in the buttons, and she bit her lip, hoping that her friend would answer.
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In a racing situation this means that the short tacking that might work for a very nimble monohull will probably be disastrous for a catamaran.
Sailing Fundamentals
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Everything about the way the nimble, compact fellow with slicked-back hair, informal formal outfit and open-necked shirt performs exclaims that he loves singing.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Kurt Elling Fools Around With Time at Birdland
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Quick and nimble, he can slot in at full back.
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Fueled by obedience, reveling in brute force, dismissive of weakness, the game hardly seems nimble enough to withstand the social trends that made Aliquippa feel, over the past 40 years, like some corroding edge of the American Dream.
Story Pick: A town where football greats are raised
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With light-fingered nimbleness he checked all the contents, drawers and secret hiding places in the dressing-case, finding everything intact.
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A nimble mind backed by a degree in economics gave him a firm grasp of financial matters.
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My hands are bigger, and more adroit, with nimble fingers that can tie shoes, unwrap candies, and get the sand out from between my toes before we leave the beach.
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The magician does special exercises to keep his fingers nimble and body agile.
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Another Instance of the strange _loosening_ nature of a violent jarring Motion, or a strong and nimble vibrative one, we may have from a piece of _iron_ grated on very strongly with a _file_: for if into that a pin _screw'd_ so firm and hard, that though it has a convenient head to it, yet it can by no means be _unscrew'd_ by the fingers; if, I say, you attempt to unscrew this whilst _grated on by the file_, it will be found to undoe and turn very _easily_.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
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You have to be nimble and small.
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She set higher financial goals, replaced profit-sharing with bonus plans based partly on market share, and drove top-down mandates so HP wouldn't be left behind by nimbler rivals.
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Making sense of this movie is a feat that requires a nimble mind and a fertile imagination.
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She got Jack Be Nimble to kick his pyromania habit.
Over the Moon
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Wheateye, whose legs were nimble as her tongue, had leaped from the coalhouse and run toward the Daly walk the instant the door started opening.
The Dollmaker
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She is nimble and light on her feet.
The Sun
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Nimble German infantry mortar squads inflicted 70% of Allied casualties during the Battle of Normandy.
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Where glossy magazines move at a glacial pace, the website was fast and nimble.
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This gives it better low-speed stability than a normal motorbike and should help it appeal to people who've never ridden one, but like the idea of nipping in and out of traffic on a nimble urban vehicle.
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Despite this he had piercing azure eyes, that hinted at his sharp and nimble mind.
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I've called this vehicle, generically, a helicop -- a volantor, after the Latin word "volant," meaning, to fly in a light, nimble manner.
Paul Moller on the Skycar
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Tamara Rojo also took a while to warm up but by Act II, she dazzled, with nimble jumps and spins eye-blurringly fast.
Evening Standard - Home
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This will require some nimble politics and diplomacy.
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The hops would be hanging heavy on the bine by now, rows upon rows of dark-green, spice-aromad swags, waiting to be harvested, picked by the nimble hands of men, women and children alike, most of whom came from London for a working late-summer holiday.
Excerpt: An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
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Left: keep your mind nimble while on the move.
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The clouds parted and the stars came out running as a nimble-footed Jerry Lewis clowned his way up the red carpet at
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With a nimble sidestep, I directed the hunched teenage rider neatly under my outstretched arm holding my overnight bag until, in a flash, he vanished in the swirl of cars, taxis and buses.
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The midfielder scored a goal that was a picture of nimble footwork.
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It's a plot fit for an evil genius, and Hallström's rapid-fire depiction of Irving's initial scheming is light and nimble.
GreenCine Daily: The Hoax.
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That leaves little room for anyone else to use them unless they have the nimble acrobatic skills of an Olympic gymnast.
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While big banks consider requests from staff for moves, more nimble hedge fund managers are already packing their suitcases.
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So agile and nimble and capable that you feel like a hero behind the wheel.
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If they do it right, the nimble hirers could see a rise in market share and stock price.
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The bandleader, who doubles as the vocalist, is a small, nimble man with a mobile face and dark, bristly hair.
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Production was cancelled abruptly in 1944 when it became apparent that Germany needed fewer hulking anti-tank aircraft and more nimble interceptors.
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o’er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
The second part of King Henry the Fourth
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His fingers are extraordinarily nimble.
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You'll select a number of units to deploy for each scenario, relying on such fantasy staples as weapon-heavy cavaliers and nimble archers to see you through.
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A nimble slip fielder and occasional spin bowler, he played for Suffolk in 1938 and 1939 after leaving Hampshire.
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So agile and nimble and capable that you feel like a hero behind the wheel.
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The veteran Argentine is such a willing worker, and it is his nimble mind, as well as fast feet, which ensures he is still such an entertaining performer so late in a remarkable career.
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Some laid-off employees become entrepreneurs, working on ideas that have been ignored by corporate bureaucracies, while sclerotic firms in declining industries fail, making way for nimbler enterprises.
How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
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It was a message of peace from nimble-footed dancing kids to the people of the world, on a day that was special to all children in the country.
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However, the Astra is such an agile and nimble car that you may very well avoid an accident altogether.
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Small, nimble, and underpowered for many jobs, the 480-horsepower tug burns little fuel and draws only five feet of water, two feet less than most small tugs.
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One of the reasons we left Google was that we wanted to be part of a startup again that had that kind of nimbleness," says McCaig.
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Though she was really tired with the exertions of the day, the sight of the new tambourine, after supper, proved too tempting; and she was soon practising the saltarello again, with an agility almost equal to that of the nimble
A romance of the republic
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Built like a small country, but nimble with it, he handles himself well in the action man stakes.
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Their feline sounds and nimble mannerisms left me breathless.
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Many have suffered for being perceived as part of big, top-heavy conglomerates instead of nimble, young start-ups.
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It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
The Second Part of King Henry IV
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Investors will need to be nimble in 2005, moving into segmented markets.
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In one corner we have rangy, raw-boned Clint Eastwood; in the other that nimble little street-fighter, Martin Scorsese.
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The early miniature pinscher was called the reh pinscher, so named because Germans thought the dog resembled the small, nimble, red roe deer that populated their forests.
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It's period perfect but feels contemporary and vibrant and it's because of Herman's ability to coordinate the visuals with the dialogue and recruit a cast that is not just nimble-footed but nimble-tongued as well so that, though they may trip over their various imbroglios, they don't stumble over their dialogue.
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Fears were allayed just three minutes into the game when a nimble move put the home side ahead.
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I suppose I had the quick nimble fingers that it took to form the beautiful pieces.
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His normally nimble mind hums to a halt, his jaw goes slack and twin rivulets of spittle suavely course down each corner of his mouth.
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And let's not forget a nimble mind's required to go along with the dexterity.
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I personally believe that with nimble fingers and fine eyes, humans seem particularly adapted - like our anthropoid counterparts - to the task of picking insects from leafs and branches.
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Bill Clinton is smart in a nimble-minded, quick thinking way, and Bush seems to be less so.
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Some experts envisage a future of nimble covert operations.
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Suppose a nimble-fingered user enters a (duplicate) city name but immediately realizes his mistake and fixes it.
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Hitchcock's images of Cary Grant, in all his Arrow-shirt, nimble-footed splendor, are with us yet.
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Surprisingly he had rather large hands but was nimble-fingered which proved invaluable in his role as a butcher and musician.
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Nimble old man, who for all emergencies has his light jest; and ever in the worst confusion will emerge, cork-like, unsunk!
The French Revolution
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A nimble mind backed by a degree in economics gave him a firm grasp of financial matters.
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His ungainly, inelegant posture can leave him exposed against nimbler opponents, and he easily attracts ridicule.
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Light and nimble, it was better suited to the terrain.
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The figure continued making his way down the house by grabbing appropriate ledges, and footholds from the balcony in a nimble movement.
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This sort of nimble talk is all very well; but because one likes sillibub occasionally is no proof that one is willing to discard meat entirely.
Conversation What to Say and How to Say it
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A man's nimble enough in the legs when he can git to the dimmy-john.
Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White
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When you're small you can be more quick and nimble.
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Several attempted, but none could equal him, in nimbleness of heels.
A Renegade History of the United States
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She watched the nimble sailors go about their business, singing shanties and being useful and she longed to join them.
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The department of manufactures was represented by massive furniture in calamander, ebony, and satinwood, carved with the most elaborate devices, dainty laces made by the nimble fingers of village women, beautiful productions on tortoise shell and gold, heavily embroidered cloths of gold, and a large collection of the various curios for which the East is famous, besides a display of tanned hides and jewelry of exceptional merit.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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In my first collection there's a poem called "Elegy for Fats Waller" in which my hero metamorphoses into the Sheikh of Araby one of his numbers: "Across the deserts of the blues a trail / He blazes, towards the one true mirage, / Enormous on a nimble-footed camel / And almost refusing to be his age.
Fats Waller by Michael Longley
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I do not mean the nimble, fleet-footed ones like the allosaurus; I mean the slow sloth-type ones that we are encountering at the moment.
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With nimble footwork and superb judgment, the pair put on 127 for the third wicket.
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His hands raced frenetically and gracefully up and down the fingerboard, offering now a nimble arpeggio or a powerful scale pattern.
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Roberts, nimble-footed, quick between the wickets, and full of strokes, joined Lancashire from Northants 18 months ago but failed to impress in his limited appearances last season.
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Energy planners must be nimble enough to embrace these new technologies.
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Egged on by shrill cries of approval from the ladies’ auxiliary, strapping bosthoons executed nimble jigs and reels, sang come-all-ye's, and vied with each other in hurling refuse cans the length of the street.
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Luckily the orchestra, under Lothar Koenigs, were playing so adroitly that the slipped dialogue and consequent collapse of surtitles in the prologue hardly mattered, expertly brought back on course by the nimble conductor.
The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
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Quick and nimble, fishlike, she glides over rocks, under overhangs and squeezes into narrow openings.
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It is one that requires nimble footwork.
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Muscled, dark-skinned men and nimble-fingered women churn the nearby factories, paper mills, shops and food markets.
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This $47 million fund is small and nimble, although management rarely tries any fancy footwork: It trades infrequently, which is a virtue.
2010 Mutual Fund All-Stars: Meeting money-making goals
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With nimble footwork and superb judgment, the pair put on 127 for the third wicket.
The Sun
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Hermod, called the nimble, an older brother of Baldur, said he would go.
Classic Myths
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I have not only seen several countries, beheld the nature of their climes, the chorography of their provinces, topography of their cities, but understood their several laws, customs, and policies; yet cannot all this persuade the dulness of my spirit unto such an opinion of myself as I behold in nimbler and conceited heads, that never looked a degree beyond their nests.
Religio Medici
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Self-awareness of roles and of the feelings evoked in interpersonal encounters is increasingly critical for the nimble entrepreneur.
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You had to be quick, nimble and agile all the time.
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A lady in a slinky black cocktail dress was playing it with long nimble fingers.
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Huge numbers of palm trees lined the roads with nimble-footed men springing up ladders to collect the palm sugar liquid.
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The acceleration and nimble handling made light of the twisting mountain roads and it only really struggled in two respects.
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Fears were allayed just three minutes into the game when a nimble move put the home side ahead.
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The quick end to the war brought the angle to a merciful conclusion and McMahon shifted his nimble mind to the pursuit of other angles.
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Not alone were they nimble because of the westing, but a benignant sun was shining down and limbering their stiff bodies.
MAKE WESTING
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The most nimble of all Jeeps, it comes with front and rear locking axles, giant tires, and extra low gear speeds.
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She it was, nimble-fingered and observant and idiomatic of imagination, who held together a sometimes wayward consort.
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In the hills are the nimble klipspringers which explore these hilly rocky outcrops.
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They are nimble climbers in the trees and hop like tiny kangaroos on the ground.
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Meanwhile, the open division final gets under way, sand spraying under nimble feet.
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A 300-pound man has about as good a chance of catching a nimble-footed quarterback as an elephant has of swatting a fly.
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Fears were allayed just three minutes into the game when a nimble move put the home side ahead.
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Indeed, Kilbride might have rubbed salt in with big Jim Fitz hammering a shot off the crossbar in the closing moments before the nimble Nolan brought the scoring to an end with his fifth point from a free.
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On formal occasions, he enlisted nimble-fingered accomplices.
Globe and Mail
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Call it mild ADD if you want my psychiatrist did, after all, but I prefer to think of myself as nimble-minded.
Archive 2005-10-01
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My current nemesis is “nimblewill” — an actual weed that is ferocious.
What is that Weed, and how did it get into my garden? « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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To western ears, his freestyle guitar instrumentals blends traditional nimble-fingered Eastern African melodies with rapid chord changes often found in jazz.
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Her nimble steppe pony had found footing on this rocky track where a larger horse such as Altaru would have broken his legs.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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The boy jumped up onto his bed with nimble movement, holding the insulation in his mouth while rummaging the pouch in his hand for a normal wrench.
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Fears were allayed just three minutes into the game when a nimble move put the home side ahead.
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With a nimble sidestep, I directed the hunched teenage rider neatly under my outstretched arm holding my overnight bag until, in a flash, he vanished in the swirl of cars, taxis and buses.
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The older generation enjoy it and take it in but it's the nimble minds of the younger generation that accept this stuff more easily.
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The black rhino is known for its aggressiveness and its nimble upper lip, which it uses to grasp and browse on shrubs.
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It'll take nimble minds as well as strong shoulders.
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It seemed, too, that she fell in love, genuine love, as other people, fumble-footed, fall into holes that more nimble-footed elements avoid.
MURDER SONG
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‘As long as there is power cut, the business will go on,’ he says, even as his nimble fingers are engaged in unwinding the intricacies of a faulty lamp.
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Ere the Christian could avail himself of this mishap, his nimble foeman sprung from the ground, and, calling on his steed, which instantly returned to his side, he leaped into his seat without touching the stirrup, and regained all the advantage of which the Knight of the Leopard hoped to deprive him.
The Talisman
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Lightness, rapidity, nimbleness, grace and rich apparel all belong to this little favorite.
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Thy nimble pencil paints this landskip as thou go'st.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
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The midfielder scored a goal that was a picture of nimble footwork.
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Despite the best efforts of our targeting computer it was notoriously difficult to hit the nimble humanoids, and with every second that passed the robots bounded ever closer.
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With his rubbery frame and vertical hair, Bob Kingdom looks right for the role, and we catch a glimpse of Laurel's nimble mind when he informs us that ‘a myth is a moth's sister’.
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It ascends me into the brain ... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes; which delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
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The irresistibly danceable blues-zydeco fusion music pioneered by the late accordionist Alton Rubin Sr. (aka Rockin 'Dopsie) continues to evolve in the nimble fingers of a second generation.
In New Orleans, jazz fans get their groove on despite rain
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His fingers are extraordinarily nimble.
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A nimble slip fielder and occasional spin bowler, he played for Suffolk in 1938 and 1939 after leaving Hampshire.
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He did everything in his power to outrun us, especially after he saw the camera, but the Kia was no match lot the lighter, more nimble Prius.
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So, have the person can be satisfying very nimble very clean neatly does one personal independence easily change in most short time the burned-out lamp bulb?
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Ribot's performances are sensitive yet nimble, never drawing attention with embellishment, but allowing the songs to shine.
