"Nimble-fingered" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the baptismal words with motionless lips, and snatched another soul from the fangs of the "Infernal Wolf." [ 1 ] Thus, with the patience of saints, the courage of heroes, and an intent truly charitable, did the Fathers put forth a nimble-fingered adroitness that would have done credit to the profession of which the function is less to dispense the treasures of another world than to grasp those ...
— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman |
