adept's

Its function is to sharpen perception, the adept's awareness of his environment, its particularities and what they portend.

Mother of the Unconventional William Meyers 2011

Thus motionless, everything about him seemed a little more elongated than usual, like a saint carved into the vertical moulding of a church porch, from his narrow, scholarly face to the long-toed shoes on his thin, sinewy feet, and the lean, clever adept's hands.

The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

Thus motionless, everything about him seemed a little more elongated than usual, like a saint carved into the vertical moulding of a church porch, from his narrow, scholarly face to the long-toed shoes on his thin, sinewy feet, and the lean, clever adept's hands.

The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

Instead, he kept up his physical assault on the demon, while methodically shutting down the pathways for the adept's Tau-tau to work on him.

The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983

Laid across the seat of the middle one was an adept's wand, as if left there only for a few moments while its owner went on an errand elsewhere.

Sorceress of the Witch World Norton, Andre 1968

About me the pillars still blazed, the silvery strands continued to veil the adept's prison.

Sorceress of the Witch World Norton, Andre 1968

We found an adept's gate and were drawn through it into one of the other worlds-

Sorceress of the Witch World Norton, Andre 1968

Baxter went to his own cubby, and each man of the adept's cold-blooded crew methodically took up his task.

Triplanetary 1927

The apparition gave him no time to proceed by exorcism or otherwise, but having instantly recourse to the voie de fait, took measure of the adept's shoulders three or four times with blows so substantial, that he fell under the weight of them, and remained senseless for some minutes between fear and stupefaction.

The Antiquary 1845

Sir Arthur obeyed his direction, and pulled out the small plate of silver which he had used under the adept's auspices upon the former occasion.

The Antiquary 1845