Use "skilful" in a sentence

1. of the most skilful artificers

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2. Thus, people who have had many incarnations are often regarded as ‘old souls’, and they are generally very skilful and wise

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3. The nature of the weapon, though it by no means puts the awkward upon a level with the skilful, puts him more nearly so than he ever was before

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4. If Evolutionists then make use of the word “Design”, when referring to specific aspects in organisms that supposedly came about by chance, they in fact acknowledge that a designer, having in mind the skilful execution of a plan to put together a work of art with a specific purpose, was behind the subject that they are discussing

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5. It was controlled, though her attacks were skilful and malicious

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6. He heard as clearly as she, the galloping horses, and he knew he was soon going to be in skilful healing hands

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7. sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the

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8. deflecting the bullets with rapid and skilful sword movements,

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9. highways, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing; 17 And in all

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10. by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought to us skilful men of the sons of Moli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, Asebebia, and his

11. 9 In the third year of his reign he caused a proclamation to be made to all his skilful men, who made many ships for him

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12. 9 In the third year of his reign he caused a proclamation to be made to all his skilful men who made many ships for him

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13. 47 And by the mighty hand of our Lord they brought to us skilful men of the sons of Moli the son of Levi the son of Israel Asebebia and his sons and his brothers who were eighteen

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14. Who shall understand except he who is wise and skilful and who loves his Lord?

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15. With skilful manipulation the demons convinced the people that it would be in their interest to have their God close at hand in case of emergencies

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16. with the best musicians, it still needs a skilful conductor to bring everything

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17. Women in general and mothers in particular, know instinctively when you’re concealing something, and they’re very skilful at forcing you to tell them

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18. He is clever, skilful, courageous, active and strong

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19. He had been trained to be a skilful sniper with the Government forces and it was he who trained Tar, they had both easily spotted Pon

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20. She initially found the speed of the sleek catamaran somewhat intimidating, and sensing this he sailed the cat in a more conservative fashion until she became a more skilful sailor

21. Wedon questioned them for about an hour and they were more than willing to answer all and every question, no hesitations or awkward silences, I was impressed with Wedon’s skilful questions and I was convinced the two novices had not been accomplices to Yaotl’s treason, when Wedon finished his questioning, we discussed the findings and we were all in accord, Coatl stood and addressed the people

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22. Doyle’s skilful use of verbal technique ensured that Adam remained completely calm as he began to reminisce about the early days

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23. With the skilful hands of a mother she did her best to stem the bleeding

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24. Japanese pilots had undoubtedly attained the world’s highest bombing standards and were extremely skilful

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25. The German ships succeeded in avoiding the bombs and shells by skilful manoeuvring

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26. Manstein, by skilful military manoeuvering, managed to evacuate the endangered German armies which Hitler had recklessly and fatally thrust south into the Caucasus

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27. John Dawes's dash up the left touchline gave the move terrific momentum, before a burst from flanker Tom David with a long pass out to Derek Quinnell who had numbers, another long pass and a skilful pick up (some say an interception) for Number 9, Gareth Edwards, resulted in a diving touchdown

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28. The Test series was drawn 2–2, and Cliff Morgan outshone everyone when he eventually captained a skilful Lions backline that included Arthur Smith and Jeff Butterfield

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29. By skilful tactical and strategic use of our ability to travel through time, we can overcome enemies much bigger than us if war is the only option left to us to solve a problem

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30. The whole business a skilful operation and Michael was impressed

31. contained several very skilful Mauritian players, won the contest by a single second

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32. He had listened while his father explained the intricacies of laying patters out to make the best use of the cloth and the extra profit made by skilful cutting

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33. The skilful doctor knew

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34. Amin gives you his best regards and asks you to search for a skilful painter in the country- if you do not have we have an excellent one-and let him draw the best and most perfect picture of Holy Jerusalem in large size, then let the whole cooperate to fix it nicely at the entryway of the country and on the wall of the first house seen by the coming ones to this country, then the problem will be solved by God’s will

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35. The pasha employed only the world’s most famous and skilful chefs in his kitchen and paid them high salaries

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36. He was as skilful on the keyboard as any other member of Diamond Head Crater, which is to say he could just about play block chords and the occasional melody

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37. Eustace Miles, which tell me in invigorating language of all the money, time, and energy I have saved, of my increase of bodily health, of how active I am getting, how skilful and of what a tough endurance, how my brains have grown clear and nimble, my morals risen high above the average, and how keen my enjoyment of everything has become, including, strange to say, my food

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38. Oh, I had such _hope_ that I was better! Shall I ever get quite well again? Won't it at best, after every effort, every perseverance in struggle, be just a more or less skilful mending, a more or less successful putting together of broken bits? I thought I had been growing whole

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39. and was very skilful in teaching the stages of the profound

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40. He had been plunged in parish affairs since breakfast, for it was the day appointed by him and recurring once a fortnight into which by skilful organizing he packed them all

41. It was an inconspicuous and skilful way of transporting drugs, or

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42. She read books of travel, she learned poetry by heart, she grew skilful at combining her studies with her cooking; and propping up Keats on the dresser could run to him for a fresh line in the very middle of the pudding almost without the pudding minding

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43. He walked away, at last quite leisurely, from an uncommenting wife to a lady whose affection for him was invariably already so great that there was nothing left for it to do but to decline; and when it had declined, assisted and encouraged in various ways by him, the chief cooling factor being his expressed impatience to get to his painting again undisturbed by non-essentials--each lady found it cooling to be called a non-essential--he avoided the part that is sometimes a little difficult, the part in which recriminations are apt to gather like clouds about a sunset, the part that lies round ends, by skilful treatment, by a gradual surrounding of her who was now not so much a lover as a patient with an atmosphere of affection for her home

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44. Tussie had gone in himself, after a skilful questioning of Fritzing had made him realize how little had been ordered, and had, with Fritzing's permission, put the whole thing into the hands of a Minehead firm

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45. But the retoucher with his pencil and etching tool to-day is very skilful

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46. The children lifted their faces to him and he went on: “you will, therefore, need to be more capable, more skilful

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47. Chantaburi has the reputation for having some of the world’s most skilful cutters of the stones, turning the drab, raw dull stones into beautifully faceted gems

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48. Disposing these articles about him in skilful manner, he bestowed a parting defiance on Mrs

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49. A fig for Don Belianis, and for all who say he equalled him in any respect, for, my oath upon it, they are deceiving themselves! I say, too, that when a painter desires to become famous in his art he endeavours to copy the originals of the rarest painters that he knows; and the same rule holds good for all the most important crafts and callings that serve to adorn a state; thus must he who would be esteemed prudent and patient imitate Ulysses, in whose person and labours Homer presents to us a lively picture of prudence and patience; as Virgil, too, shows us in the person of AEneas the virtue of a pious son and the sagacity of a brave and skilful captain; not representing or describing them as they were, but as they ought to be, so as to leave the example of their virtues to posterity

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50. A Roman gentleman stood by his side and explained to him the skilful construction and ingenuity of the vast fabric and its wonderful architecture, and when they had left the skylight he said to the emperor,

51. And said most sage Cide Hamete to his pen, "Rest here, hung up by this brass wire, upon this shelf, O my pen, whether of skilful make or clumsy cut I know not; here shalt thou remain long ages hence, unless

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52. The shocks our old whalers had to stand amongst the heavy floes in Baffin's Bay were perfectly staggering, notwithstanding the most skilful handling, and yet they lasted for years

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53. And he who is most skilful in preventing or escaping from a disease is best able to create one?

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54. First, let the unjust be like other distinguished masters of craft; like the skilful pilot or physician, who knows intuitively his own powers and keeps within their limits, and who, if he fails at any point, is able to recover himself

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55. And if merchandise is to be carried over the sea, skilful sailors will also be needed, and in considerable numbers?

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56. Now the most skilful physicians are those who, from their youth upwards, have combined with the knowledge of their art the greatest experience of disease; they had better not be robust in health, and should have had all manner of diseases in their own persons

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57. And as unskilful players of draughts are at last shut up by their more skilful adversaries and have no piece to move, so they too find themselves shut up at last; for they have nothing to say in this new game of which words are the counters; and yet all the time they are in the right

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58. as he had been a hardy seaman; he had formed an acquaintance with all the smugglers on the Two months and a half elapsed in these trips, and Edmond had become as skilful a coaster coast, and learned all the Masonic signs by which these half pirates recognize each other

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59. Dantes employed it in manoeuvring his yacht round the island, studying it as a skilful horseman would the animal he destined for some important service, till at the end of that time he was perfectly conversant with its good and bad qualities

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60. He was not very skilful yet, and as he scrubbed the water ran down over the stock of the brush, over his hand and down his uplifted arm, wetting the turned-up sleeves of his shirt

61. "Yes, if he be poor and inexperienced, not if he be rich and skilful; besides, the worst that could happen to him would be the punishment of which we have already spoken, and which the philanthropic French Revolution has substituted for being torn to pieces by horses or broken on the wheel

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62. "On my word," said Franz, "you are wise as Nestor and prudent as Ulysses, and your fair Circe must be very skilful or very powerful if she succeed in changing you into a beast of any kind

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63. "Ali," observed his master, as the Nubian entered the chamber, "you have frequently explained to me how more than commonly skilful you are in throwing the lasso, have you not?" Ali drew himself up proudly, and then returned a sign in the

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64. Their mother was not so skilful at contriving new clothes out of old

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65. supposed he was very skilful?

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66. But excuse me, sir, for talking of our domestic misfortunes; I interrupted you at the moment when you were telling me that you were a skilful chemist

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67. Afterwards, Estella and I played at cards, as of yore,—only we were skilful now, and played French games,—and so the evening wore away, and I went to bed

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68. "Oh, let us have no gestures, no screams, no modern drama, or you will oblige me to tell you that I see Debray leave here, pocketing the whole of the 500,000 livres you have handed over to him this year, while he smiles to himself, saying that he has found what the most skilful players have never discovered—that is, a roulette where he wins without playing, and is no loser when he loses

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69. "And what do you think I did? I feigned a criminal process, and employed all the most acute bloodhounds and skilful agents in search of her

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70. Danglars is so skilful, he will soon regain at the Bourse what he loses elsewhere

71. de Morcerf,' said the president, as he unsealed the letter; and the count began his defence, I assure you, Albert, in a most eloquent and skilful manner

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72. "The skilful swordsman whom you have conquered

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73. Notwithstanding his youth, Master Andrea was a very skilful and intelligent boy

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74. Skilful men, of the medical and chirurgical profession, were of rare occurrence in the colony

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75. The surgeon was quick and skilful, and when he had finished Caris said admiringly: “You did that very well

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76. He had once been a skilful sculptor and had earned an honest living, but he had taken to evil courses and had twice already been in gaol—once for a petty theft and once, as we had already heard, for stabbing a fellow-countryman

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77. In an instant Beppo, a skilful workman, made a small hole in the wet plaster, dropped in the pearl, and with a few touches covered over the aperture once more

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78. 'Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes! Sit still, and you shall know what driving really is, for you are in the hands of the famous, the skilful, the entirely fearless Toad!'

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79. I believe these four stones to be skilful imitations which

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80. I had some knowledge of gold-work, but was far less skilful than the thief had been

81. With a vigorous and skilful effort he clambered over the stern

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82. At last, one day in early May, a letter reached her from a former friend of her mother's, to whom she had addressed inquiries long before—a person whom she had never seen—that a skilful milkmaid was required at a dairy-house many miles to the southward, and that the dairyman would be glad to have her for the summer months

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83. On another day, she wandered with him, hand in, hand, along the deserted paths of a garden whose creepers had been cut out by a decorator's skilful hands

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84. No picture can do justice to the rich colors of the edifice or to the harmonious tone resulting from the skilful use of many diverse materials

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85. Sir James, and having made up her mind that it was to be the younger Miss Brooke, there could not have been a more skilful move towards the success of her plan than her hint to the baronet that he had made an impression on Celia's heart

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86. It must be remembered that by "business" Caleb never meant money transactions, but the skilful application of labor

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87. forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skilful with

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88. shoe-making; but they had long and skilful fingers and could make many other

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89. Though one Wizard that I knew took up the art long ago, and became as skilful in it as in all other things that he put his mind to

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90. the boat with skilful strokes; his hood was cast back, and his dark hair was