... “My God!” he cried, “we are swamped!” and for the moment it really looked like it; but the patrao, with a dexterous sweep of his long oar, turned the boat’s head toward the roller...
Various 「Stories by English Authors: Africa」
... Our camels returned from Geera with corn, accompanied by an Abyssinian hunter, who was declared by Abou Do to be a good man and dexterous with the sword...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...The operator then takes a piece ofbee’s wax in his mouth, and, putting his lips to the hole,extracts the air from the horn, and by a dexterous use of histongue stops up the hole with the wax...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 2 [of 2]」
...For a long time, although a slave himself, he was one of the most dexterous managers in the Underground Rail Road agency in Norfolk...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...If some dexterous scalpelshould ever investigate this problem, I can recommend another, evenmore singular than that of the Empusa, the Bat and the bird...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...As a bigsalmon struggles by, Mooween slips a paw under him,tosses him to the shore by a dexterous flip, and springsafter him before he can flounder back...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
...It was equally dexterous at seafishing, and took great numbers of young cod, and otherfish, there...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
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