masteries

• “--- Finally, Pazel's way leads him on board I.M.S. Chathrand – the last of the great ships of old built by shipbuilders and magicians that used masteries now lost forever.”

  Archive 2008-05-01

• “Like Ostwald, Soddy believed economic progress was made possible by the transition from direct solar energy to successive masteries of nonrenewable stores of fossil fuels.”

  Biophysical economics

• “So shall nature be cherished, and yet taught masteries.”

  The Essays

• “He had synagogues constructed in Nancy and Lunéville, and permit to the Jews to have access to all the masteries in the Parliament of Nancy.”

  Archive 2007-12-23

• “Choosing your hero class will be irreversible, much like the tradeskill masteries.”

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• “And ever Sir Launcelot would give him gold to spend, and clothes, and so did Sir Gawaine, and where there were any masteries done, thereat would he be, and there might none cast bar nor stone to him by two yards.”

  Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table

• “So this was done, and they were come to his castle, but in no wise the queen would never let none of the ten knights and her ladies out of her sight, but always they were in her presence; for the book saith, Sir Meliagrance durst make no masteries, for dread of Sir Launcelot, insomuch he deemed that he had warning.”

  Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table

• “The political sky with its wheeling black shapes and noble music and secret masteries is not the sky he lives and works beneath, gray and changeless, simple as a coffin lid.”

  Asimov's Science Fiction

• “John Calf, of Billonio, of Berlinguandus, and a rabble of others; and herein he spent more than eighteen years and eleven months, and was so well versed in it that, to try masteries in school disputes with his condisciples, he would recite it by heart backwards, and did sometimes prove on his finger-ends to his mother, quod de modis significandi non erat scientia.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier; and if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully.”

  ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus

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