A dexterous twist, and it went flying out of reach across the dressing tent.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
Then he turns it lovingly over in his fat palm, makes a dexterous backward motion and slides it into his coat-tail pocket.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma
And he adds-"I have observed that wherever you meet with a dexterous workman, you will find that he is a man that need not apply in one case in ten to his straight-edge or square."
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae