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’ Berndt said, breaking in on our conversation as he skilfully turns the wagon in through a well ordered gateway
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Tom piloted the car skilfully along his preferred route
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The colony assemblies, if they were not very favourably disposed (and unless more skilfully managed than they ever have been hitherto, they are not very likely to be so), might still find many pretences for evading or rejecting the most reasonable requisitions of parliament
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“That day will never come in our house!” Peter skilfully
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gently took the little bird out of Gretchen's hands, and skilfully
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Do you hear the Christian preachers who soothe our ears so skilfully and tell us that we can choose and nobody may tell us otherwise, and that nothing is wrong with cremation, share these gory details with us? Never!
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He will be “soothing” your ears very skilfully! If you would just realise that the scriptures God gave us is the only measure and if it does not fit into scripture, it is not from God
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M: Liberation is not the result of some means skilfully applied,
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secretly and not very skilfully emptying the contents of
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Haki and Sten fought bravely and skilfully, but out of control
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Titus climbed down and started dragging combustibles towards the strong door, as Tress took pot shots at him when presented with a target, she skilfully used a light cavalry bow that she had found
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He danced around them skilfully, then took his revenge by pulling me downhill before dumping me at a waterfront somewhere where there was no action of any sort
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against harm, a device that needs to be used skilfully;
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Pon reached into his bag again and produced a hat, which looked similar to Spock’s old one, but with the Thai royal emblem skilfully stitched to the front
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The sapphire had an elephant skilfully carved into it
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Andrei had never been a physically brave person, and after a few cigarette burns skilfully administered, Wei knew all there was to know about Andrei’s purpose and exploits to date in South Africa
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The Doctor had examined him and confirmed that he had indeed been castrated – it was no comfort to him, when the Doctor confided admiringly, that the procedure had been very skilfully done!
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Skilfully he slides the poles through loops sewn onto the side of the tent and with a strange twisting motion he flips the tent upwards snapping the poles into place and sits it squarely in the centre of the room; with the door facing the huge television set
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Shaving a small area of hair from above the microchip on Martin's head and wasting no time, he cuts into Martin's skull and skilfully removes the microchip
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That was skilfully handled
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“Who actually did the murals in this church? Although they have been skilfully painted, there is, I noticed, a very slight hesitancy to the brush strokes that the artist has made
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Jerry skilfully piloted the ship out to the harbour gates, which, on Mungo waving a flag at the harbour master, were opened by a mechanism powered by a fish-oil generator controlled by a lever in the harbour master's kiosk
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The digger driver, I noticed, had left the big Nectarine tree, skilfully scooping the bricks from around it without, as far as I could see, even scraping the bark
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They all made their way back to the car park in torchlight, skilfully guided by the competent men from the Rescue Squad
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Everyone on the ground watched in amazement as he skilfully weighed down the end of the rope with a few karabiners and threw it, perfectly, first time, over the chosen branch
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the intrigue he had skilfully introduced to the proceedings
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Michael skilfully matched relative orbits with the other craft so that they were
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If a patient lets his conscious mind wander at will, it can give him clues to forgotten things which, skilfully pursued by the doctor, will bring up whole networks of lost ideas and forgotten terrors
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The coterie of Ministers, who had so skilfully been feathering their own nests for so long, was now clearly rattled by the turn of events
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Not only had the scientist been murdered, but so too had one of Britain’s top agents who he, Dmitry Makienko, had so skilfully blackmailed into committing the murder and who had then himself been killed, personally by Makienko, with his own hands
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limbs worked the spade so skilfully that he had obviously learned how to dig somewhere,
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saviour, or even a wise statesman skilfully shaping the destiny of his
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protect her till her marriage, an accomplished teacher acts as a charioteer who skilfully manoeuvers his disciple’s Soul safely across the perilous
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It was a picture that any artist would have loved to draw and by colouring it skilfully he would have a work of unique aesthetic style
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she quickly and skilfully transfers to the male
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was skilfully formed into the grey Semtex of each casing half
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Thus a person charged with an offence may be able to prove an alibi by the aid of a skilfully prepared combination photograph
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Elly wasn’t as taken a back as I was and she took the blade off him and skilfully separated the bark from the tree without damaging it
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It was a precision operation, skilfully executed
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He removed a small bundle of craftsmen tools, removed the tool he needed and carried on skilfully carving, his mind now empty of past events as he concentrated on his work
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The Chief Of Police turned his full attention to Roger’s two lower arms that also been very skilfully removed from Roger’s elbow bone
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They sparred skilfully together, exchanging blows, neither gaining the advantage
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Three of the crew members were moving skilfully, manoeuvring the net and lowering it down
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and ceiling were as skilfully crafted as the wooden plinths and other shapely designs
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Every single item on that list is priceless, not just in its physical or material being, but the fact that it either belongs to you because you have worked for it, or you own those feelings because they are what you have skilfully made them into over the years
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The deception was carried on for some time, until at the end of a few months Fortune turned her wheel and the guilt which had been until then so skilfully concealed was published abroad, and Anselmo paid with his life the penalty of his ill-advised curiosity
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The blancmange was lumpy, and the strawberries not as ripe as they looked, having been skilfully
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He explained to them the property it possessed and entrusted the secret to them, telling them that now for the first time he was going to try the virtue of the enchanted head; but except Don Antonio's two friends no one else was privy to the mystery of the enchantment, and if Don Antonio had not first revealed it to them they would have been inevitably reduced to the same state of amazement as the rest, so artfully and skilfully was it contrived
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Then following the clew that, in the hands of the Abbe Faria, had been so skilfully used to guide him through the Daedalian labyrinth of probabilities, he thought that the Cardinal Spada, anxious not to be watched, had entered the creek, concealed his little barque, followed the line marked by the notches in the rock, and at the end of it had buried his treasure
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"Nothing could be in better taste than my father's demeanor, madame," said Albert; "nay, more, he seemed greatly flattered at two or three compliments which the count very skilfully and agreeably paid him with as much ease as if he had known him these thirty years
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Ali suddenly cast aside his chibouque, drew the lasso from his pocket, threw it so skilfully as to catch the forelegs of the near horse in its triple fold, and suffered himself to be dragged on for a few steps by the violence of the shock, then the animal fell over on the pole, which snapped, and therefore prevented the other horse from pursuing its way
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"And then," said Madame de Villefort, endeavoring by a struggle, and with effort, to get away from her thoughts, "however skilfully it is prepared, crime is always crime, and if it avoid human scrutiny, it does not escape the eye of God
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"Well, sir!" Wemmick went on; "it happened—happened, don't you see?—that this woman was so very artfully dressed from the time of her apprehension, that she looked much slighter than she really was; in particular, her sleeves are always remembered to have been so skilfully contrived that her arms had quite a delicate look
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Meantime the galley, which was very skilfully handled, had crossed us, let us come up with her, and fallen alongside
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Andrea, I think you have managed this affair rather skilfully?"
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It shone with an eloquent, troubling glow, and was skilfully executed according to some sort of mathematical technique
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She saw the same pattern of squares repeating themselves in two surrounding mirrors and it was extremely skilfully done
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Haldir skilfully cast over the stream a coil of grey rope, and he caught it and bound the end about a tree near the bank
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He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and skilfully took advantage of this loyalty
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Leblanc had promised to return in the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more skilfully, so that he might follow him on that occasion; but, in his contemplation, it is doubtful whether he had heard this
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She practically took command of our boat when it was found that the seaman who had been placed at the oars could not row skilfully
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Such gruel sustains life here, I thought; so, shutting my eyes, and excluding the motes by a skilfully directed undercurrent, I drank to genuine hospitality the heartiest draught I could
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So the little impudent fellow would waste many an ear in a forenoon; till at last, seizing some longer and plumper one, considerably bigger than himself, and skilfully balancing it, he would set out with it to the woods, like a tiger with a buffalo, by the same zig-zag course and frequent pauses, scratching along with it as if it were too heavy for him and falling all the while, making its fall a diagonal between a perpendicular and horizontal, being determined to put it through at any rate;—a singularly frivolous and whimsical fellow;—and so he would get off with it to where he lived, perhaps carry it to the top of a pine tree forty or fifty rods distant, and I would afterwards find the cobs strewn about the woods in various directions
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Bear in mind, too, that under these untoward circumstances he has to cut many feet deep in the flesh; and in that subterraneous manner, without so much as getting one single peep into the ever-contracting gash thus made, he must skilfully steer clear of all adjacent, interdicted parts, and exactly divide the spine at a critical point hard by its insertion into the skull
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Preserving an interval of some few yards between itself and the ship, the Jeroboam's boat by the occasional use of its oars contrived to keep parallel to the Pequod, as she heavily forged through the sea (for by this time it blew very fresh), with her main-topsail aback; though, indeed, at times by the sudden onset of a large rolling wave, the boat would be pushed some way ahead; but would be soon skilfully brought to her proper bearings again
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But skilfully manoeuvred, incessantly wheeling like trained chargers in the field; the boats for a while eluded him; though, at times, but by a plank's breadth; while all the time, Ahab's unearthly slogan tore every other cry but his to shreds
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They select their positions so well, and defend them so skilfully, with an eye to the forces at their disposal, and the time they wish to gain, that their tactics must have been carefully thought out long ago
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It was also necessary to withdraw skilfully from the wounds the twigs left by the rods which had been broken on the criminal's back
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Another time, in the dormitory, he would act some indecent living picture, to the general applause, or he would play the overture to "Fra Diavolo" with his nose rather skilfully
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This quintet of the elect were sitting now at the general table, and very skilfully succeeded in giving themselves the air of being quite ordinary people, so that no one could have known them
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It would never have done to act off-hand, at random; the plan had to be carried out skilfully, by degrees
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Iván Mirónovich Baúshkin, the chief attorney of the peasants, who had conducted the case against the prince with so much zeal in the Senate, who knew all the approaches to the secretaries and departmental chiefs, and who had so skilfully distributed the ten thousand roubles, collected from the peasants, in the shape of presents, now himself brought his activity to an end and returned to the village, where, with the money collected for him as a reward and with what was left of the presents, he bought himself a grove from a neighbouring proprietor and built there a hut and an office
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So he shoved his beard into his mouth and made faces, and very skilfully pretended to know nothing of this case, excepting that the reasons for an appeal were insufficient, and that he, therefore, agreed with the chairman to leave the decision of the Court unaltered
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The scout, standing up at one end of the skiff and dipping his paddle now on one side now on the other, steered skilfully while talking incessantly
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His mind went back to the murdered man over and over again during the following day; and he liked the recollection of having done the thing so skilfully, so cleverly, that nobody-would ever discover it, and he would not therefore be prevented from murdering other people in the same way
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Since philosophers and philanthropists are not the rulers of mankind, it is fit that our soldiers should guard our frontiers and our homes, and their weapons, skilfully wielded, are perhaps the surest guarantees of the peace we love so well
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And all this goes on throughout Russia in the autumn of every year, in broad daylight, in the heart of a great city, witnessed by all the inhabitants, and the stratagem is so skilfully managed, that though men at the bottom of their hearts realize its infamy, still they have not the power to throw off the yoke
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After discoursing awhile of the weather and the amenities of country life, he skilfully directed the conversation to piano-tuners, music, and pianos generally, and ended by saying that he himself played—and in truth he did sit down and perform three waltzes, with Mimi, Lubotshka, and Katenka grouped about the instrument, and watching him as he did so
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No writer has been able more skilfully to give his characters a real personality, or to portray more faithfully their failures, sharp struggles and final successes
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The plot is very skilfully constructed and the interest is maintained up to the last page
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Gordon Stables' new work is a London boy about whose origin there is a mystery, which is skilfully dealt with and satisfactorily solved
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Sir, it is admitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, in his communications to Congress, that the concerns of this bank have been "skilfully and wisely managed," that the bank has made a very limited and moderate use of the public moneys deposited with it; and that it has greatly facilitated the operations of Government by the safe-keeping and transmission of the public moneys
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The tiny kitchenette boasted ice-box, fireless, and a modest collection of electric cooking appliances; in a half-hour Anne had evolved a cream soup, a bit of steak, nearly cubical in proportions, slice of graham bread, a salad of lettuce and tomato with skilfully tossed dressing, a muffin split ready to toast, with the jam and spreader for it, and coffee was dripping into the very latest model of coffee-pots
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Contrary to our expectations, the gas (as we are since informed by good authority) was skilfully prepared and perseveringly used
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This course of reflection has a tendency to illustrate this idea—that, as in every political association it is of primary importance that the great interests of each local section should be skilfully and honestly managed and protected, so, in selecting the mode and means of management and protection, an especial regard should be had to the content and rational satisfaction of those most deeply concerned in such sectional interests
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” If an architect whose net income is only a thousand dollars a week belongs to the “small fry,” what name would these journalists have for the remaining insignificant beings who practise architecture faithfully and skilfully, and thank Providence sincerely if their year’s work shows a profit of three thousand dollars? Yet, with a tolerably extended acquaintance in the profession, we are inclined to think that this list includes the greater part of the architects in this country
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In reality, it was not a double statue, but the figure of Faust was skilfully obtained by means of the folds of Marguerite's robe
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Already we can see the benefits of the department in the improving material condition of the people in the country about, in better and larger crops, cultivated more skilfully with better implements, etc