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  • Skilfully driven by the current demented buffoon, Labour are thankfully going down to the sort of loss that should destroy them for the same number of generations it will take to pay of their criminally accumulated national debt.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Skilfully constructed and moving in concentric circles that gradually close in on the truth they hid from each other at the time of their failed engagement, it is rich in layers of meanings and echoes.

    Mich��le Sarde. 2009

  • Skilfully using guerrilla tactics and aided by what they called "general mosquito," the freed slaves fought the French Armies to a standstill.

    ANC Today 2007

  • Skilfully using guerrilla tactics and aided by what they called "general mosquito," the freed slaves fought the French Armies to a standstill.

    ANC Today 2007

  • Skilfully and accurately they fired at the mark, and swam the Dnieper against the current — a deed for which the novice was triumphantly received into the circle of

    Taras Bulba 2003

  • Skilfully as the magistrate had delivered this thrust, it had been as skilfully parried; so skilfully, indeed, that Goguet, the smiling clerk, could not conceal an approving grimace.

    Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003

  • Skilfully, he guided himself through the vast throng until, as he took one more spin, he came face to face with the woman, grabbing at her at the exact moment that she, laughing also, spun towards him.

    The Battle of Forever Van Vogt, A. E. 1971

  • Skilfully Doc maneuvered the ship into the launching rack.

    Gold in the Sky Alan Edward Nourse 1960

  • Skilfully and accurately they fired at the mark, and swam the Dnieper against the current -- a deed for which the novice was triumphantly received into the circle of Cossacks.

    Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

  • Thus provided, keep close not to be discovered; out with your Call, and use it _Skilfully_ and well, and you need not fear Game.

    The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

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