Sharp as a tack

Usage examples of adept.

Those two handsome adepts of Terpsichore had never met before, and they began an amorous warfare which made me enjoy my supper immensely, because, as he was a fellow artist, Marina assumed towards Baletti a tone well adapted to the circumstances, and very different to her usual manner with other men.

And a powerful Adept as well that much was evident from the signs all over him that pointed to constant manipulations of mage-energy on a scale Ancar had only dreamed of.

Falconsbane was not only an Adept, he was probably more powerful and knowledgeable than Ancar had dared to imagine.

Because they travelled around, and had many different pupils, in differing circumstances, the sophists became adept at arguing different points of view, and in time this bred a scepticism about their approach.

He beheld the living mystery, whirled into the dance of pure light as the adepts interceded, calling down the singing powers sent forth by Ath Creator.

The objects reported by von Koenigswald, if used in the same manner as South American bolas, imply that their makers were adept not only at stone-working but leatherworking as well.

General Vinoy has to-day issued a proclamation to the troops, which in its plain, simple, modest language contrasts very favourably with the inflated bombast in which his predecessor was so great an adept.

At this moment the young adept came in smiling, with her eyes full of fire.

Riddler, his murderous sister Cime, Bashir of Free Nisibis who brought Enlil into the war, and Grille, representative of Ranke under whose aegis even the Tysian mageguild had sent a young adept along to fight.

Adept was supposed to call a Domina, and compromised by leaving off the formal address entirely.

I was to be paid by the piece and therefore, since I was so adept at that craft, I would be earning rather more than the usual starvation wage.

Although Zinter is unusually adept, he is young and well beneath your level of accomplishment while Enam is struggling with disjunction.

Or she must find some way to use the meddling of the entelechy of the seventh sphere to her advantage: if Tempus sought out Datan and made an end to him, not Roxane or any other witch or adept of Wizardwall would scour the hills for souls to buy him peace.

She certainly preferred a letter to a mistimed telephone call, for the family, when far away as they were all far away now, were not at all adept at calculating the difference in hours between their time zones and her own-even when earlier, holding and rotating apples plucked from the epergne, they attempted to work out which way it was the globe turned and whether they should add or subtract a three or a six or a twelve from the local time told on their wristwatch faces.

What Fant really needed to cover was the fact that he was adept at robbing estates he represented.