As might be expected, she rode, as the saying goes, astride, evincing great adeptness for this form of exercise, which has been described to me as being healthful in the extreme, although I should denominate it as bordering upon the dangerous, unless the equine one chose for one's use was more docile than so frequently appears to be the case.
"Fibble, D. D."
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
If so, the little trick had been done with deplorable spontaneity or adeptness of usage.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
His eye is always upon his neighbour's defects, and I never cease to marvel at its adeptness.
"Brother Copas"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch