Example Sentences

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They brought children afflicted with skin- diseases, and asked for ointment, and on hearing that I was hurt by a fall, seized on my limbs and shampooed them energetically but not undexterously.

From Among the Tibetans by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

Ah!" said Amelia "She hasn't a friend in the world," Jos went on, not undexterously, "and she said she thought she might trust in you.

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace