Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

But, as I said to this artist, who, by the way, seems to be a most civil fellow, and is a regular virtuoso, it appears, with his brush;

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way

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Max Hornung was a virtuoso in his field, greatly admired, and it was an honor to cooperate with such a man.

Sidney Sheldon. Bloodline, p.373 (1977)