All 4 Uses of
dexterity
in
Great Expectations
- Then she took some butter (not too much) on a knife and spread it on the loaf, in an apothecary kind of way, as if she were making a plaster,—using both sides of the knife with a slapping dexterity, and trimming and moulding the butter off round the crust.†
Chpt 2
- I was secretly afraid of him when I saw him so dexterous; but I felt morally and physically convinced that his light head of hair could have had no business in the pit of my stomach, and that I had a right to consider it irrelevant when so obtruded on my attention.†
Chpt 11
- But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity began squaring again.†
Chpt 11 *
- Resenting this little success more than anything, Drummle, without any threat or warning, pulled his hands out of his pockets, dropped his round shoulders, swore, took up a large glass, and would have flung it at his adversary's head, but for our entertainer's dexterously seizing it at the instant when it was raised for that purpose.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(dexterity) adroitness (skill) -- with the hands or mind