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someone who is spectacularly skilled in a particular field
- One of these virtuosi seemed to think that I might be an embryo, or abortive birth.Part 2 — A Voyage to Brobdingnag (31% in)
- ...against me for hire: here were no gibers, censurers, backbiters, pickpockets, highwaymen, housebreakers, attorneys, bawds, buffoons, gamesters, politicians, wits, splenetics, tedious talkers, controvertists, ravishers, murderers, robbers, virtuosos; no leaders, or followers, of party and faction; no encouragers to vice, by seducement or examples; no dungeon, axes, gibbets, whipping-posts, or pillories; no cheating shopkeepers or mechanics; no pride, vanity, or affectation; no fops,...Part 4 — A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnms (73% in)
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