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nimble-fingered

adjective as in dexterous

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They were very nimble-fingered, and they stole whatever they could find.

As he entered the exchange, a nimble-fingered Morse-operator was marking figures on a blackboard.

O my nimble-fingered god of theft, what makes you here on earth at this unseasonable hour?

Some boys are infinitely more nimble-fingered than others, and the sharpest earn eight or nine shillings a-week at the work.

The nimble fingered Ann Rutledge—a daughter of the tavern folk—had sat beside her.

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