Noun : a language expert. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : an expert driver; to be expert at driving a car. ,expert work; expert advice. From Dictionary.com.
Matched with the expertness of the brutes in theirs. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
My father, a bookkeeper of some expertness, not securing. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Whilst the surgeons were clipping with expertness and vim. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
She was a wretched cook, and made no effort to acquire expertness. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
This, however, only come with experience, and verges on expertness. From Wordnik.com. [Rough and Tumble Engineering] Reference
In addition, he made much of his expertness in the distilling of water. From Wordnik.com. [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference
Yet throughout that period he retained his expertness in foreign affairs. From Wordnik.com. [Some Considerations in Canadian Foreign Policy] Reference
Both barber and surgeon shared a certain expertness with tools, as they do today. From Wordnik.com. [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference
"I was surprised," said he, "to see the expertness with which all flew up the hill.". From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
Ms. Kudrow fares somewhat better with her expertness at self-deflating self-mockery. From Wordnik.com. [Families Endure Stalinism While the West Keeps Quiet] Reference
We may test our growth in grace by our expertness in detecting the voice of our Lord. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The expertness that had made him the star of his football team stood him in good stead. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery] Reference
She swung the puncher's lariat she carried hung from her saddle-bow with much expertness. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies] Reference
Particularly singled out for praise has been their audacious expertness in close-quarter combats. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914] Reference
I was ASTOUNDED by Mexico's intelligence and expertness in response and preparation for the cane. From Wordnik.com. [DEAN] Reference
But expertness being the fruit of experience, we may be puzzled to tell who have attained that rank. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
The Captain's expertness and agility, in particular, in these experiments, astonished every beholder. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
He bore a horseman's lance over his shoulder and handled his weapons with the expertness of practice. From Wordnik.com. [Conan of Cimmeria]
It is an aid to that scholarly command of subject-matter which is the first essential for expertness in teaching. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference
Thus their vehicles and their bodies are so nimble that they acquire the utmost expertness both in advance and flight. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Their self-confidence in such affairs is supported by their certified expertness in handling evidence & mdash of a sort. From Wordnik.com. [Unprintable] Reference
Therefore, tact, discretion, language qualification, expertness in the subject, and other qualifications must be stressed. From Wordnik.com. [FM 7-98 Appendix D - Related Operations]
But in cutting such grain much depends on the expertness of the hand who pushes off the grain, in making clean work and good sheaves. From Wordnik.com. [Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap] Reference
Running for the flag is a game in which the fleetness and bottom of the horse are tested perhaps more than the expertness of the rider. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
Lances were slung, and bows and arrows got in readiness with an ease and expertness that was truly wonderful, considering our rapid riding. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
Every mechanic whose hands and brain have been trained to the expertness required by the master workman, is well-educated in his particular calling. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
They are known for their expertness in this field. From Wordnik.com. [BeanRocket Blog Communities Lastest Posts] Reference
In spite of Lang's expertness it was an unequal race. From Wordnik.com. [The Poisoned Pen] Reference
The deep human expertness in Gloriani's charming smile -- oh the terrible life behind it!. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge, fresh expertness?. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian] Reference
Their expertness as fishermen was a great stand-by, for they had started without any ration of meat. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland] Reference
And he proceeded to thump and press upon her chest with an expertness that proclaimed the student of medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
Maudslay's, and thus became acquainted with Clement, whose expertness as a draughtsman and mechanic he greatly admired. From Wordnik.com. [Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers] Reference
It merely gave the charm of worldly experience and expertness to a beauty which, without it, might have been too melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
It's difficult enough for me to pursue commerce on the plain, honest track; knavery demands an expertness altogether beyond me. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Life] Reference
If he had escaped a month longer, he might have heard of Mr. Chute's genealogic expertness, and come hither to the college of Arms for. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
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