Fast-handed

I love the youthful brilliance of Jos Buttler, the chattering chutzpah of Craig Kieswetter, the studied leave of Nick Compton, the fast-handed strokeplay of James Hildreth, the tattoos of Peter Trego, the devotion to weight training of the trainer Daz Veness, even the goatee of chairman Andy Nash.

She made a fast-handed dive and snatched the statue back, just as he was sliding it into his pocket.

A feast of slide and fast-handed guitar, with Johnson's falsetto ramblings a highlight, the song became a huge success in America, providing this new found blues hero with instant fortune and a mass following.

Hart is not just posh but well-versed in explaining things with fast-handed diplomacy to unpleasant Johnny Foreigners without loosening his Windsor knot, often deploying that go-to Brit spook gadget, the weaponised umbrella.

He seemed to have that kind of self-possession and ease about him, together with a certain bantering jollity, which are so natural to fast-handed and well-housed lords of the soil.

It was time for Amber Lights to be studied from a post-feminist perspective — which would demonstrate, conclusively, that most of the credit should go to the editor, a fast-handed woman who had been left to improvise, during the period when Lalage was 'off colour'.

"La Bashta?" she repeated, almost getting the word right. He groaned, leaning back into the pillows, smiling. "No good . . . translation," he managed, then flipped her onto her back. The words meant roughly "hot-blooded, fast-handed woman.

How she could stand up her kid sister on her birthday to sneak off with that pimple faced, horny, fast-handed Johnson kid .