Jeff deftly sliced the big organ from top to bottom and I knew immediately my search was over.

"Smells right, feels ripe, looks ripe," he announced and deftly sliced the fruit open.

Looking worried, Marguerite deftly sliced my cermet sample into hair-thin slivers with a diamond saw, then inserted half of them into the cooler through one of the tubes.

Also included are drawings deftly sliced into slabs of clay; some may be the most purely abstract works Nakian made.

Maurizio deftly slices salami on the reels of his projector and grills a steak on its heated metal body.

Bazie asked, deftly slicing paper-thin wafers of sweet onion.

There was a splinter in the chief's chest and Baker had removed it and sliced deftly to expose the artery, clamped it together with steady fingers while the chief screamed and the Cong mortars thudded onto the field, and his hands had never shaken.

Letting the devout voices slip out of his consciousness, Cadfael congratulated himself on having made as many people as possible happy, and drifted into a dream of a hot knife-blade slicing deftly through the thick wax of a seal without ever disturbing the device.

For the grand finale, he deftly sliced a perfect sliver of a Key lime that looked as if it had just been plucked from the tree, squeezed it into my drink and ran a bruised lemon peel around the rim of the glass.