What is "adroitly"

Usage examples of "adroitly".

He was lame, but he walked so adroitly that his defect did not appear.

Day after day had passed and Fal Sivas had contrived to prevent my leaving the house, though he had accomplished it so adroitly that it was never actually apparent that he did not wish me to leave.

It was impossible not to imagine spooky things lurking beyond the little sliver of illumination, stalking her and Griffon, moving with them and dancing adroitly away when the light happened to swing in their direction.

The mother, seeing the storm ready to burst, attacked me more adroitly, admitting that her son might be guilty, but that he must have been driven to it by misery, as he had got no bread wherewith to feed his children.

Before long it dawned upon me that this Count Manucci was the son of that Jean Baptiste Manucci who had served as the spy of the State Inquisitors and had so adroitly managed to get possession of my books of magic, which were in all probability the chief corpus delicti.

Adroitly snatching his wand out of his hand, I lifted his Columbine on my shoulders, and pursued him, striking him with the wand, to the great delight and mirth of the company.

There were several interesting labour-saving features, all of a startlingly practical rather than a merely gadgety character, and Gaiogi began to chip her gently about her domesticity, avoiding most adroitly any errors of taste which the nature of the occasion might have invited.

The river was split into a dozen channels, and the Hares kept the boat adroitly in deep water, for there was never a moment when it grounded.

Breschius entered, carrying a tray in one hand which he balanced adroitly with his stump.

Sahra had almost finished her next manuscript, a reply quite adroitly done, Marita thought.

In that duel Prince Rudolf received a severe wound, and, recovering therefrom, was adroitly smuggled off by the Ruritanian ambassador, who had found him a pretty handful.

By hooking the comet adroitly around Jupiter, in a reverse swingby, you loop it into an orbit opposite to the customary, docile way that worlds loop around the sun.

He was lame, but he walked so adroitly that his defect did not appear.

Pendergast, holding the burning paper aloft, adroitly sidestepped his grab.

Likewise upon the extreme stern of the boat where it was also triangularly platformed level with the gunwale, Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft, and silently eyeing the vast blue eye of the sea.