supple-wristed

Updated: May 25, 2025

So ready lay his store of knowledge round him, so perfect was his ready utterance of the same, in coruscating wit, in jocund drollery, in compact articulated clearness or high poignant emphasis, as the case required, he was a match for any man in argument before a crowd of men. One of the most supple-wristed, dexterous, graceful and successful fencers in that kind. A man, as Mr.

Thomas Carlyle - Life of John Sterling