...Bysuch means Napoleon expected to dupe a government which the habit ofreigning over ignorance and error had rendered an adept in all thesedelusions...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...Here the adept naturally becomes a gorilla or a leopard, as he would be a lion in South Africa, a hyena in Abyssinia and the Somali country, and a loup-garou in Brittany...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...Lady Harden was an adept in the gentle art of snubbing...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905」
...In the evenings of spring and summer Donald was generally to be foundfishing upon this favourite stretch with artificial fly for trout, and,being an adept in the art, he seldom fished in vain...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
... We will try once more, this time with a victim paralysed not by me, an unskilled operator, but by an adept whose ability ranks so high that it is beyond discussion...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...He was an adept at 'tree,' 'dodge,' and 'squat;' he could play'log-lump' with 'wind,' and 'baulk' with 'back-track' so well thathe scarcely needed any other tricks...
Ernest Seton-Thompson 「Lobo, Rag and Vixen」
...I have neverbeen adept at holding my temper when I should, but somehow I managedit this time...
Various 「Astounding Stories, June, 1931」
...They were very adept in the management of mules...
Joseph Lievesley Beeston 「Five Months at Anzac」
...I had now become quite an adept in this kind of sport...
John Lort Stokes 「Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2」
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