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    skilful


    1. of the most skilful artificers


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


    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


    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


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


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


    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


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


    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


    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


    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


    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


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


    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


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


    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


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


    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


    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


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


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


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


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


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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    33. The skilful doctor knew


    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


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


    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


    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


    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


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


    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


    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


    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


    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


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


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


    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


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


    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


    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,





































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    Synonyms for "skilful"

    adept expert good practiced proficient skilful skillful able dexterous apt ingenious resourceful

    "skilful" definitions

    having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude