...You see what a debater was lost in him; how nimble he was in the art of making white look black... 
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...Miller had nimble fingers, and on them sharp nails, and, with an energetic pinch upon the bare arms of the poor girl, she would arouse the daughter of Africa from her pleasant dreams...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle」
...Miller had nimble fingers, and on them sharp nails, and, with anenergetic pinch upon the bare arms of the poor girl, she would arousethe daughter of Africa from her pleasant dreams...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States」
...In this respectit resembles the nimble wagtails...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...But finally he succeeded; and thoughshe squawked horribly and turned, quick as a flash, she was not quickenough to catch the nimble thief, who was already hidden under a bush...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...If in the course of his operations the bird happensto dislodge a nut, so nimble is he that before it reaches the groundhe will have caught it in his beak...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The young are able to run about assoon as they are hatched, and, as we have seen, are most expertand nimble in concealing themselves...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...“On nimble wing the gullSweeps booming by, intent to cullVoracious, from the billows’ breast,Marked far away, his destined feast...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [June, 1897]」
...As he cannothope to take refuge underground, an easy task for his nimble andvigorous tools, the Scarites lies low in his death-like pose, keepingit up, if need be, for an hour...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
... It would need more than that and, above all, a slender figure and a nimble carriage; and the Volucella is thickset and corpulent and sedate in her movements...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...It is great fun to watch the nimble squirrel folk sitting in the treesand holding a leaf between their little hands while they lick off thehoney dew...
Margaret Warner Morley 「The Insect Folk」
...Only little Paul, ofall the household, lent me the aid of his nimble hand to seize thefugitives...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...Quick asthought, the were-wolf turned himself into a leaf, but the man wasas nimble, for he caught up the leaf, thrust it into the joint ofbamboo, in which he kept his tobacco, and bunged it up tight...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...On their part the nimble youths leap, and all strive to show their delight...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...I was at the killing once of one of them, and thereby perceived that she was not so called of any want of nimble motion, but rather of the contrary...
Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed 「Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)」
...From this he fell towondering whether her brain kept pace with her nimble hands and ways...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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