It was the highly polished barrel of a revolver which he had whipped out casually with a deftness which seemed born of practice, and with which he now covered his rival.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay
Her capacity for remembering other people's prices was prodigious and she managed her agent and her publisher with a deftness that left them gasping.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
From a large assortment of stock adjectives she chose, with unerring deftness and rapidity, the one that taste and discrimination would most surely have rejected, fitting out her subject with a whole wardrobe of slop-shop epithets irrelevant in cut and size.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton