He drew up his terms skilfully, and every one saw that the bracelet was a gift to Miss Beighton; the acceptance carrying with it the hand and the heart of Commissioner. From Wordnik.com. [Plain Tales from the Hills] Reference
The road was wide, and he made the turn skilfully. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle, or, Fun and Adventures on the Road] Reference
M. de Martigues skilfully, they would cut my throat. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Fortunately this skilfully-devised programme was not fulfilled. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Rosecrans had very skilfully manoeuvred Bragg south of the Tennessee. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
One may find rice-farms as skilfully cultivated as those of Japan or China 287. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Agriculture was skilfully carried on by means of fertilization and irrigation. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The fashionable stranger had skilfully touched the weak place in an author's heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
M. Charnot, who had skilfully gathered up the legs, looked like a hired pallbearer. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
So skilfully did the keen blade do its work that the screen hung apparently undisturbed. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
These, it must be owned, were most skilfully concealed at the foot of a series of kopjes. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
It is all entertaining stuff, skilfully assembled and described in a fairly droll manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow] Reference
That the crime would be so skilfully planned and executed that the criminal would escape?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The vessel was being steered skilfully to take the haven, but she was too large for its mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Presently I saw Masters come out of the companion-way and make his way very skilfully towards me. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
In the dark a man may be so skilfully attacked that his enemy is not discovered, but not in the day. From Wordnik.com. [When the Holy Ghost is Come] Reference
Then he took the long coarse white turban cloth from his head, and wrapped everything skilfully in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
Along the coast lowlands one may find rice-farms as skilfully cultivated as those of Japan or of China. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
That afternoon he watched Percy skilfully handle the splitting-knife and later do his part in baiting the trawl. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
And I bandaged him so skilfully that he had no pain; and when the pain was gone, the fever began at once to abate. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Then, when the boys were at the height of interested expectancy, he skilfully drew the lesson he wanted them to learn. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
The interesting feature about it is the fact that when skilfully thrown it will return to the thrower unless intercepted. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
At last, by skilfully watching his opportunity, he brought one of them down with a lucky shot, and pounced on it greedily. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
His voice is powerful and of great compass; a preeminence he possesses over Kemble, of which he skilfully avails himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
After he had carefully traced all these, he produced a small box of ebony, skilfully inlaid with streaks of mother-of-pearl. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
On the middle of its back a couch was skilfully fastened, and over this a canopy was raised on four slender pillars of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
He filled the thimble glasses with rare old applejack so skilfully that another drop would have flushed over their worn gilt rims. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
His letter was skilfully penned to put suspicion to sleep if it had not been fully roused, and if the Countess had not betrayed him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"I think, Miss Percival, it would be better to try and wake him skilfully, so that he should not suspect that you had seen him asleep.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Omoo is of the order composite, a skilfully concocted Robinsonade, where fictitious incident is ingeniously blended with genuine information. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
But at 8.10 a fierce roar of guns multifarious declared that the river was fringed by the enemy, and that he was well and skilfully concealed. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
So skilfully had the coup been conducted under cover of the disturbance in the cove that none of the other smugglers had taken the slightest alarm. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
It was exasperating, for, from the beginning of the shoot, every bird seemed to know where it was safe from the gleaming guns held so skilfully by the. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
These were made so skilfully, like concealed ornaments, that nobody could have discovered them if his attention had not been drawn to them by accident. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
She represented on it all sorts of quadrupeds so skilfully that one expected to see them move; and birds, so that it was a wonder one did not hear them singing. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
But if, like Marianne, you have fought skilfully, you may again enter Pont du Sable with a quicker eye, a harder body, and a deeper knowledge of the southwest gale. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
Wielding his oar skilfully, Spurling held her bow to the north, ready to scull for the last inch, or to let her drop back, as the approach of the steamer might make it advisable. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
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