How To Use Skilful In A Sentence
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This done with expedition, like men skilful in such mischief, as they took their cockboat to go aboard their own ship, it was overwhelmed in the sea, and certain of these men there drowned; the rest were preserved even by those silly souls whom they had before spoiled, who saved and delivered them aboard the _Swallow_.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
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Hence the quotation from ‘Shepherd's Hey ’, which is skilfully counterpointed with the ‘Enigma’ theme in bar 25.
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Even with its uneven moments, it is a skilfully written book that never stops inventing.
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Women skilfully carry heavy loads on their heads.
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They have been playing together for a long time, have a lot of experience and are a skilful side.
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She had used make-up skilfully to mask her bruise, and with the subdued stage light it was scarcely visible.
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But no matter how skilfully it's done, it shows somewhere: the stretched grimace, the unblinking eyes or in the body below, if it hasn't been done to match.
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With the aid of lacker varnish and skilful painting, paper made excellent trunks, tobacco bags, cigar cases, saddles, telescope cases, the frames of microscopes; and we even saw and used excellent water-proof coats made of simple paper, which did keep out the rain, and were as supple as the best macintosh ... ..
The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
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This chapter also draws largely, especially upon geological and chemical science, and affords another illustration of what, I trust, Mr. Stephens's book will more and more impress upon our working farmers, that _skilful practice is applied science_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
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Menander was a skilful constructor of plots, an imaginative deviser of situations, and a master of variety and suspense.
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Players as skilful as this are a rare breed.
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Top chef Marco Pierre White, who will judge the UK finals, said: "A truly great barperson needs to be as creative and skilful as a leading chef.
Undefined
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Burgess-Dunne aeroboat, the property of Vincent Astor; also Mr. Astor's skilful services as pilot, which he generously offered through his interest in naval affairs and because of his desire to give the world this first account of a sea battle observed from the sky.
The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory
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He was very skilful, he used to catch you with a jab and you wouldn't know where it came from.
Times, Sunday Times
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His narratives usually lend themselves to rich allegorical readings, and Tsui can be a very skilful allegorist when he wants to be.
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Suppose a man to have been trained in the palestra and to be a skilful boxer-he in the fulness of his strength goes and strikes his father or mother or one of his familiars or friends; but that is no reason why the trainers or fencing-masters should be held in detestation or banished from the city-surely not.
Plato's Gorgias - Selected Moments
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This painting is the work of a master hand, ie a superior and skilful artist.
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Technically the players are very skilful and the games are very competitive.
The Sun
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The skilful dealer represents such rare gains as a regular occurrence.
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Hall skilfully weaves the historical research into a gripping narrative.
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By fair means, or foul -- he himself ignored the last word and would have substituted the term skilful for it -- Pemberton Bryce meant to have Mary
The Paradise Mystery
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They skilfully adapted traditional beliefs and customs to European material culture and economic realities.
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The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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They attacked suddenly and skilfully using natural covertures, destroy our positions one after another by the direct fire.
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During his playing days Jim would always be remembered as a classy, skilful, intelligent player.
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And Nakula, the favourite of his brothers taught by Drona, became known as a skilful warrior and a great car-warrior (Ati-ratha).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
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Hundreds of tarred and burning hoops were skilfully quoited around the necks of the soldiers, who struggled in vain to extricate themselves from these fiery ruffs, while as fast as any of the invaders planted foot upon the breach, they were confronted face to face with sword and dagger by the burghers, who hurled them headlong into the moat below.
A Wanderer in Holland
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The baffy, or spoon, is a very useful club, which at one time was a great favourite with many fine players, and if it has of late years been largely superseded by the cleek, it is still most valuable to those players who are not so skilful or reliable with this latter instrument as they would like to be.
The Complete Golfer
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Winners don't just win because they are faster or stronger or more skilful.
Times, Sunday Times
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Georgi's brilliant interpretative finesse in skilful performance is a delight throughout.
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Women skilfully carry heavy loads on their heads.
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The men Columba sent forth were not only able teachers of Christian truth, they were skilful agriculturists, trained artisans, and cunning handicraftsmen.
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It is a grand oligarchy, with immense force and push -- with cunning and skilful intrigue -- in whose plenipotent fingers the threads of the universal octopus centralizes its splendid capabilities in a papal head.
Autobiography, sermons, addresses, and essays of Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. D.,
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It is a skilful art, nevertheless, and "Cytherea" confirms a judgment long held that Mr. Hergesheimer is one of the most skilful craftsmen in English in our day.
Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
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Hereupon a wave like a steep mountain rose aloft in front as though rushing upon them, ever upheaved above the clouds; nor would you say that they could escape grim death, for in its fury it hangs over the middle of the ship, like a cloud, yet it sinks away into calm if it meets with a skilful helmsman.
The Argonautica
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Comic roles are skilfully handled by Massenet and come across well: Polish contralto Ewa Podles mustered grim regal splendour as the stepmother, with Madeleine Pierard and Kai Rüütel – both Jette Parker Young Artists – lively as the indistinguishably stupid sisters.
Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
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Evans skilfully avoids the gratuitously voyeuristic while never sinking into safe but dull academicism.
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By skilful use of ground and determined personal leadership, the huge enemy army was attacked from the flank.
The Scottish Regiments
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The doctor, whatever her politics and morals, had lovely skilful hands, which Phoebe could not but admire.
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There are not enough skilful, experienced cyclists on Britain's roads, however.
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After all, while it's his fault that he's a bit slow, unskilful etc.
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As they have never studied seriously, their unskilfulness betrays them at every turn.
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The skilfulness of the artisan into the making of the leather toys is seen to be believed.
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The elements of photography have been skilfully woven into the cinematography.
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The propagandists were often as skilful and as devious as the great Prussian Junker himself.
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So, if you've ever had the notion to don the leathers and take to the open road Easy Rider-style like Denis Hopper, Peter Fonda or Jack Nicholson, make sure you give yourself a safe and skilful start and get yourself some lessons.
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United are confident they have more skilful, mentally stronger footballers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The contrast between skilful actors and their overwhelmed co-stars hurts the overall experience.
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This bill skilfully balances the difficulties of the elderly with the avariciousness, often, of the capital interests in retirement villages.
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She was skilful and fast but he had the advantage of physical strength.
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The evening came to an end at last, but Kate had yet to be handed downstairs by the detested Sir Mulberry; and so skilfully were the manoeuvres of Messrs Pyke and Pluck conducted, that she and the baronet were the last of the party, and were even — without an appearance of effort or design — left at some little distance behind.
Nicholas Nickleby
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He is quick and skilful, he has great and scores tries.
Times, Sunday Times
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It suggests an inefficient way of identifying the most skilful players at a young age.
Times, Sunday Times
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In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision
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Given the skilful divers around, it certainly is an urgent matter.
Times, Sunday Times
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He skilfully dissects the complex and varied forms of the labour process during periods of transition.
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With one fierce and skilful kick of his aching foot he will mend a deep concavity in the refrigerator's flank.
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But they were surprised how unskilful the dogfox appeared to be in finding the scraps.
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He then made skilful use of the new medium of the internet to inform and entertain a much wider audience.
Times, Sunday Times
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They scarcely knew one another personally, but the idea of a group identity was skilfully promoted by the Kansas art dealer.
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You have to be incredibly strong and skilful.
The Sun
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Minto's skilful treatment, became gorgeous enough for the most exacting Asiatic, with its black marble floor, its rose-coloured silk walls where great silver sconces alternated with full-length portraits of British sovereigns, its white "chunam" columns and its gilt Italian furniture.
The Days Before Yesterday
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X. plays skilfully and correctly, but his expression continues crude, cold, monotonous; he shows too pedantic a solicitude about mechanical execution and strict time; he never ventures on a _pp. _, uses too little shading in _piano_, and plays the _forte_ too heavily, and without regard to the instrument; his _crescendi_ and _diminuendi_ are inappropriate, often coarse and brought in at unsuitable places; and -- his _ritardandi_! they are tedious indeed!
Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances
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The author skilfully draws together the different threads of the plot.
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She is a skilful costumier, but she has had to develop new skills when dealing with actors, designers and directors.
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The petitioners roundly charged the masons with unskilfulness in their work.
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When his undercarriage jammed the pilot alerted airfield bosses, burned off spare fuel, then skilfully landed the aircraft on its belly despite strong winds.
The Sun
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And much harder still is the process of simply sitting down and putting one word after another in skilful sequence to construct whatever it is you’re trying to build: making it interesting, fresh, groundbreaking, new.
Blog De Ganz | Archive | April
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Hall skilfully weaves the historical research into a gripping narrative.
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In case you are wondering; in this context I am not referring to young Girl Guides, or delicious chocolate comestibles but to Gordon Brown's skilful habit of answering a question by using a dodgy statistic to not quite answer the question he was asked but one more to his liking.
The Today programme and "Brownies"
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Sea, sun and sky could not have been arranged more skilfully had Dr Barbara herself been in charge of the mise en scene.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Her acquired knowledge of the history of place and people along her chosen route is interwoven skilfully with her record of the moment as she lives it.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Technically the players are very skilful and the games are very competitive.
The Sun
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Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
The Bible, King James version, Book 30: Amos
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The old lacquer-work is difficult to get, and, when obtained, is high in price; but comparison between the old and the new shows the gulf that lies between the loving and skilful labour of the artist and the stupid and generally "scamped" achievement of him who merely "knocks off" candlesticks and tobacco-boxes by the score, to sell to the English visitor -- papier-maché being superseded by wood, and lacquer by paint.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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And frequenting the company of civill youths, observing also the cariage of Gentlemen, especially such as were amorously enclined: he grew to a beginning in short time (to the wonder of every one) not onely to understand the first instruction of letters, but also became most skilfull, even amongst them that were best exercised in Philosophy.
The Decameron
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Even when the tame _cabestro_ came, with tinkling bell, to entice Vivillo away, she could hardly bear to leave him, though she well knew that he was safe; that his wounds would be skilfully tended; that he would be restored to health, and that, in very shame (when the story was made known), Carmona must surrender the bull to her.
The Car of Destiny
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This "albumenized" paper the youth lays gently and skilfully upon the surface of a solution of nitrate of silver.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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This unity enabled the Alliance to intervene into the discourse of municipal politics in a skilful and decisive manner.
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The four players skilfully acted out very different scenes, playing with universal images of rejection, seduction and romance.
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For indeed in the middle the fashion thereof was red, but at the ends it was all purple, and on each margin many separate devices had been skilfully inwoven.
The Argonautica
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The account of events leading up to her dismissal and her subsequent reinstatement is skilfully narrated.
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In fact, can anyone trust anyone in this skilfully crafted thriller?
The Sun
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Debbie Tucker Green's recent Royal Court play, Truth and Reconciliation – though nothing like as so skilfully carpentered as Dorfman's – covered a huge swathe of history to suggest that some crimes are so grievous they can never be forgiven.
Death and the Maiden – review
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And that is the aim of this series – to expand on that statement, to uncover the root of all our unskilful behaviours and pain.
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He is widely regarded as Hungary's most skilful politician.
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Certainly, the first 45 minutes were scrappy, untidy and bereft of anything resembling skilful football.
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Just as only a caterpillar can become a butterfly, the formal stage seems a necessary developmental step to the skilful stage.
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The characters are credible and beguiling, and skilfully rendered by the cast.
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Alpiew wrapped her arms round Rebecca's waist and clung on as the woman skilfully raced her horse along the Strand.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Brocklebank is big, strong, experienced and skilful, so his success was not unexpected.
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The sun ensures you handle one-to-one relationships skilfully.
The Sun
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He also works well with our very skilful young players and that is important.
The Sun
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Sembene Ousmane is a story-teller and a skilful writer who can carry you along with the drama and the atmosphere regardless of subject.
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He is quick and skilful, he has great and scores tries.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, more skilful growers and more determined winery owners have pushed several recent examples to heights heretofore not achieved, often with a stiffening soupçon of Cabernet Sauvignon.
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No doubt Charcot determines very well the phases of the attack, notes the nonsensical and passional attitudes, the contortionistic movements; he discovers hysterogenic zones and can, by skilfully manipulating the ovaries, arrest or accelerate the crises, but as for foreseeing them and learning the sources and the motives and curing them, that's another thing.
Là-bas
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This five-minute masterwork is complete with a skilfully composed guitar lead, which appears in the midst of trance-like musical conditions.
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A skilful phrasemaker drafted that sentence, and it has a horrid brilliance.
Times, Sunday Times
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And a skilful politician recognises when it does.
Times, Sunday Times
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If he had a cut finger she would bind it up very skilfully and healingly, but unless he told her she never discovered he had a cut finger.
Mr. Britling Sees It Through
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In this role he displayed a firm grasp of the issues of the day and skilfully led a diverse constituency forward.
Times, Sunday Times
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This five-minute masterwork is complete with a skilfully composed guitar lead, which appears in the midst of trance-like musical conditions.
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Hmas Wewak was greeted on entry by flotillas of dug-out canoes skilfully paddled by locals whose ages ranged from six to 60.
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Hall skilfully weaves the historical research into a gripping narrative.
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Thei be muche honoured of al men, for that thei are skilfull in the ceremonies of the lawe, teache them to other, and be the gouernours of the churches.
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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He was often fingered as the source of government leaks and is skilful in the art of invisibility in times of trouble.
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You have the blend of intuition and common sense that helps you handle people skilfully.
The Sun
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Women are expected to be skilful homemakers, not professionals.
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The matter was in skilful hands; for the days rolled on, after that eventful excursion, with great smoothness.
The Old Helmet
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Like all mountain roads which skirt precipices, it may seem "pokerish," but it is safe enough if the drivers are skilful and careful (all the drivers on this route are not only excellent, but exceedingly civil as well), and there is no break in wagon or harness.
Our Italy
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You are being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the crystallographic determination of ribosome structures at high resolution and for the skilful use of these structures to clarify fundamental and medically important aspects of ribosome function.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 - Presentation Speech
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A skilful ball from John put out the opposing team's batsman.
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There's no point in being the most skilful player, if you can't keep yourself on the field of play.
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Again and again to such gamesome talk, the dexterous dart is repeated, the spear returning to its master like a greyhound held in skilful leash.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Indeed, she takes up nearly four pages of the index, and her political career is skilfully interwoven throughout the text.
The Times Literary Supplement
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A short time before his death he dressed himself in that funebrial habit, and shutting his eyes like a departed person, was drawn in that attitude by a skilful painter.
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The contents of the paper was skilfully worded so as to convey the impression that the deponent was a woman of somewhat doubtful character herself, but that on the other hand she had been tricked by the defendant into a secret -- and what he intended to be a temporary -- marriage.
The Confessions of Artemas Quibble
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Equally skilful is the progress of Waverley from his woolly-minded ignorance at the opening to the knowledge of the world he acquires from experience.
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He said that I was one of the most skilful scrum-halves but I would get outplayed by my opposite number who had less ability.
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You have to be incredibly strong and skilful.
The Sun
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He was also a keen and skilful gardener.
Times, Sunday Times
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Using blended oils, the masseur skilfully used his palms and fingertips to apply pressure in a series of flowing movements across my body.
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They are just going in hard and sometimes players are too skilful and get in there first.
The Sun
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Liedertafel" (Society for vocal music) and as teacher, and then to the numerous pretty melodies intermixed with national airs, in which particularly the old "Dessauer march" is skilfully interwoven, then the wellknown student air "Was kommt dort von der Hoeh '", which of course gladdens the heart of every student old or young.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
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But it is a beguiling spectacle: super-fast, extremely skilful and unyieldingly bruising for a non-contact sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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Using a skilful flick of her thumb she looped the flex into the nock on the end of the bow, then released the bent shape so it jumped out of the ground.
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A game at _reversis_ [the description is of a gambling scene, in which Dangeau figures as a cool and skilful gamester] gives the company a form and a settlement.
Classic French Course in English
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They have been playing together for a long time, have a lot of experience and are a skilful side.
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The most vivid memories of this quarter final will not be of the skilful play of Lismore but the five minutes of first-half madness when the game erupted into violence.
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The game, the fastest and most skilful field game on the planet, requires such devotion.
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Leigh's skilful orchestration of character and narrative was confidently reasserted in his drama 'Grown-Ups'.
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Technically you want very skilful players but the character behind that is as important.
Times, Sunday Times
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He skilfully manoeuvred the motor boat past the rocks.
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But the selling point of this delightful book is its setting in the legendary France profonde, where market stalls offer goat's cheese and foie gras, home-made jam and oils flavoured with walnuts and truffles, where steaks are timed to perfection by singing the Marseillaise, and menus composed as skilfully as Martin Walker's prose.
Bruno, Chief of Police: Summary and book reviews of Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker.
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The skilful acting reaches beyond words, and it's a unique opportunity to appreciate one of the main assets of francophone theatre: its knack for emotion.
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He is quick and skilful, he has great and scores tries.
Times, Sunday Times
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A half basin of tea with a liberal supply of butter is heaped up with tsamba from a skin bag, and without spilling a particle of the meal, the natives skilfully knead the whole into a mass and eat it from the hand in pieces, as we eat bread.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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Lord Golden's voice was neutral as he observed, `Bluntner is a skilful carver.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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In this role he displayed a firm grasp of the issues of the day and skilfully led a diverse constituency forward.
Times, Sunday Times
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In vino veritas," says the proverb which on this occasion lied most vilely; yet it was true in the only sense in which "veritas" is there used; for there was unbounded candor and frankness, under the inspiring hospitality of our host, aided by his skilful management of the conversation.
The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic
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Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
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But these brilliant victories over greatly superior forces owed little to skilful generalship.
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Consequently Morgan and Mrs. Spaulding were constantly together during the ensuing ten days, and so skilfully did I behave that the innocent pair regarded the flirtation which I was carrying on as a superb joke -- a case of a banterer caught in the toils, and Mrs. Spinney's manners suggested that she was agreeably flattered.
The Law-Breakers and Other Stories
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He is a very skilful player who is adept at using the personnel at his disposal.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pretorian prefect, John, was a man of worthless character, and so skilful at devising ways of bringing money into the public treasury to the detriment of men that I, for my part, should never be competent to describe this trait of his.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War
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Also had a couple of storming, skilful bursts up the park, although his penchant for play-acting rankled throughout and eventually earned him a booking.
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This unity enabled the Alliance to intervene into the discourse of municipal politics in a skilful and decisive manner.
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It suggests an inefficient way of identifying the most skilful players at a young age.
Times, Sunday Times
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The violinist played the difficult passage skilfully and surely.
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Indeed, she takes up nearly four pages of the index, and her political career is skilfully interwoven throughout the text.
The Times Literary Supplement
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You have the blend of intuition and common sense that helps you handle people skilfully.
The Sun
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And social awareness enables them to create opportunities and neutralize opposition more skilfully.
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His four-man backing band worked hard and skilfully for their money.
Times, Sunday Times
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Glenda Larke is a skilful worldbuilder and in this new series she creates a remarkable desert land where water is treasured and the waterless are the outcasts of society.
Another review
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The tapers which are lighted down there, flash and gleam on alti-rilievi in gold and silver, delicately wrought by skilful hands, and representing the principal events in the life of the saint.
Pictures from Italy
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When his undercarriage jammed the pilot alerted airfield bosses, burned off spare fuel, then skilfully landed the aircraft on its belly despite strong winds.
The Sun
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And having imparted his minde to a very intimate friend, how he intended to deale with simple Calandrino: they went both very neere him, where he sate all alone, and making shew as if they saw him not; began to consult between themselves, concerning the rare properties of precious stones; whereof Maso discoursed as exactly, as he had beene a most skilfull Lapidarie; to which conference of theirs,
The Decameron
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A skilful player usually takes a free off the ground with his instep but the unskilful player who has to resort to the toe can be nicknamed ‘booter‘.
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Scooping his hand into the same scientific elbow-rest as before, and backing it up with the inert strength of his arm, as skilfully as a Police Expert, and with an apparent repose quite unattainable by novices, Mr. Crisparkle conducts his pupil to the pleasant and orderly old room prepared for him.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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He was a skilful politician, but he was not an adventurer or a visionary.
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¶ Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Amos 5.
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Her debut album, Seasons of My Soul, skilfully apes the pensive breeziness of that era.
Rumer: Seasons of My Soul – review
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Jupiter aligns with the moon and helps you handle relationships skilfully.
The Sun
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The chilling realities of street life are skilfully combined with the familiar trappings of adolescence to create a tense, powerful drama.
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Hanson skilfully exploited the system of proportional representation(Sentencedict), which asks voters to list candidates in order of preference.
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Thanks to her skilful handling of the affair, the problem was averted.
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He had been taught fencing as a part of his education, and would use the singlestick, arquebus, and crossbow, while the fashion of every gentleman wearing a sword had rendered it necessary that this weapon should be handled skilfully.
Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War
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The jokes are pushed to their limits but it's skilfully done, with excellent singing notably Julia Riley, Clint van der Linde, Laura Mitchell and rumbustious playing from the Old Street Band conducted by Jonathan Peter Kenny.
Lucerne Festival Orchestra; Xerxes; La bohème – review
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Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Children's works are very rudimentary ’, he said, ‘because children are very unskilful, and because their little minds are very restricted.
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The skilful use of obligato, the counter melody flowing around the main melody, is an unfailing attraction of his music.
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The tale of how He coming unexpectedly home found Him with Her was then put through its paces with such skilful jockeying that not one in ten would know it for the same dobbin so lately brought limping to the light.
The Henchman
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Venice, Zante, Candie, and Zephalonia, and other the dominions of the Segniorie and State of Venice, and thereby haue made and mainteyned, and doe make and continually maintains diuers good shippes with mariners skilfull and fitte and necessarie for our seruice: and doe vent out of our Realme into those partes diuerse commodities of our Realme, and returne hither into our sayde Realme many good and necessarie commodities for the common wealth thereof:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The moon visits the most sociable part of your chart and you handle people skilfully.
The Sun
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The skilful application of the anapaest for the production of the brilliant gallop of 'Lochinvar' has been equalled only by Scott himself in his 'Bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee. '
Marmion
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Thomas Linacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he restored many from a state of languishment and despair to life.
Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
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One half the hermit crab is as naked as the "human animal," and even less fitted for exposure; for it consists of a thin-skinned, soft, unmuscular bag, filled with delicate viscera; but not even the human animal is more skilful in clothing himself in the spoils of other animals than the hermit crab in wrapping up its naked bag in the strong shell of some dead fusus or buccinum, which it carries about with it in all its peregrinations, as at once clothes, armor, and house.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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Instead, she can operate the mouse like a teenager while skilfully moving from one educational game to another, and carrying out a Google search is a doddle.
Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth
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The chilling realities of street life are skilfully combined with the familiar trappings of adolescence to create a tense, powerful drama.
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An error in judgment has long been distinguished from an act of unskilfulness or carelessness or due to lack of knowledge.
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The novice may produce a great deal of power, but because they are relatively unskilful, the power output is misdirected with lots of thrashing about but slow forward velocity.
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Very practised and skilful in thieving were the native population of Cruces – I speak of the majority, and except the negroes – always more inclined to do a dishonest night's labour at great risk, than an honest day's work for fair wages; for justice was always administered strictly to the poor natives – it was only the foreigners who could evade it or purchase exemption.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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The star gives a skilful performance as an aimless man who has drifted to great lengths to escape his rich family.
Times, Sunday Times
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He led his team of skilful but unpredictable players to Portugal, hell-bent on adding to his formidable reputation.
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Up there, on the top floor, was not only as dangerous a man as I'd ever met, but a top-hole shikari, a night-bird, a trained and skilful hunter who could catch the sound of grass growing.
Watershed
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Using colour Skilful use of colour compositions is the key to creating spectacular and subtle displays all year round.
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Will it result in a facile anti-reductionist anfractuosity so skilfully punctuated way back by E.H. Carr in his What is History?
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The film skilfully keeps the leads straight, relying on support to bear the brunt of the comedy.
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Every meeting should be skilfully chaired to achieve consensus over strategic issues.
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Wherefore discouragement comes from want of light, because they are not skilful in the word of righteousness: for had the discouragement at first been true, which yet it could not be, unless the person knew by name himself under eternal reprobation, which is indeed impossible, then his light would have pinched him harder; light would rather have fastened this his fear, than at all have rid him of it (Heb 5: 12-14).
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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We had seen quick skilful players succeed before.
The Sun
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We're victims, we say: mere vessels, drinking the vanilla scent of this one's skin, the lustre of another's eyes so skilfully darkened with bistre.
Archive 2004-12-01
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A skilful patient mender will repair the cloth so that you simply cannot see where the hole was.
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United are confident they have more skilful, mentally stronger footballers.
Times, Sunday Times
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_Se Romeo t'uccise_" (_Romeo e Giulietta_, Bellini) somewhat weak and ineffective, made the skilful _pointage_ here given:
Style in Singing
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Andy Reid is a marvellous player; skilful, intelligent, and quick in thought and action.
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He is strong and very skilful.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a crabbedly honest old fellow, and a very skilful hunter.
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He was skilful in the management of men; he had a keen appreciation of legal distinctions, and that comprehensive sight at the same time of ends and means which we call the organizing power.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
