ambidexter

• “Some people," I began, "are what is called ambidexter, and can use either hand with equal ease.”

  Mr. Isaacs

• “She again burst forth, for nature having given her considerable abilities, had lent her at the same time an energy of passion, far superior in power to the cold ambition of Irene, or the wily, ambidexter, shuffling policy of the Emperor.”

  Count Robert of Paris

• “Bred to casuistry, and well accustomed to practise the ambidexter ingenuity of the bar, it cost him little trouble to soften the features of the tumult which he had been at first so anxious to exaggerate.”

  The Bride of Lammermoor

• “With his left hand — for he was as ambidexter as a brave writer of this age requires — he caught up a handspike, and hurled it so truly along the line of torches that only two were left to blink; with his right he flung the last bale upon the shelf; then leaped out after it, and hurried it away.”

  Mary Anerley

• “They are, indeed, nearly ambidexter; but the sword, the spear and the fish-gig are always used with the right hand.”

  The Settlement at Port Jackson

• “But the thing which in eminent instances signalizes so exceptional a nature is this: though the man's even temper and discreet bearing would seem to intimate a mind peculiarly subject to the law of reason, not the less in his heart he would seem to riot in complete exemption from that law, having apparently little to do with reason further than to employ it as an ambidexter implement for effecting the irrational.”

  Billy Budd

• “You don't think me 'ambidexter,' or 'either-handed' ... and both hands open for what poems you will vouchsafe to me; and yet if you would let me see anything you may have in a readable state by you, ...”

  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett

• “(Judg. 3: 15; 20: 16), one unable to use the right hand skilfully, and who therefore uses the left; and also one who uses the left as well as the right, ambidexter.”

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• “But let us select them from the pages of the same writer, one who was ambidexter; let us take, for instance, Rumour's Prologue to the”

  Essays in the Art of Writing

• “He had the personal peculiarity of being ambidexter, or able to wield his claymore with his left hand as well as with his right; and hence his Gaelic name of Coll Kittoch, or Coll the”

  The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649

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