| 1. | Brujon was adroit Guelemer was vigorous. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | He told her about the election, and Anna knew how by adroit questions to bring him to what gave him most pleasure--his own success. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and the adroit man. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | With an adroit snap he catches it and bites it through with a crack.. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 5. | Twenty times she seemed almost to be submerged by these mountains of water which rose behind her but the adroit management of the pilot saved her. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 6. | He was intelligent, robust, adroit he did his best the master seemed pleased. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 7. | And the most experienced and adroit painter could not by mere mechanical facility paint anything if the lines of the subject were not revealed to him first. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 8. | The latter, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered and plaintive air. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |