skilful

Thus, in the phrase, A skilful artist, you know the adjective _skilful_ is in the positive degree; but, by placing the adverb _more_ before the adjective, we increase the degree of quality denoted by the adjective to the comparative; as, A _more_ skilful artist: and _most_ renders it superlative; as, A _most_ skilful artist.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

By fair means, or foul -- he himself ignored the last word and would have substituted the term skilful for it -- Pemberton Bryce meant to have Mary

The Paradise Mystery 1899

CPDM militants in Bafanji, Balikumbat Subdivision, have praised President Paul Biya, who is Chairman of the party, for what they described as his skilful handling of the Bakassi crisis.

AllAfrica News: Latest 2008

And our challenge as well, if we are lucky and skilful, is to make that confidence contagious, so that every Canadian feels the pride in Canada that Quebecers feel in Quebec.

Canada: Facing the Future 1991

And Nakula, the favourite of his brothers taught by Drona, became known as a skilful warrior and a great car-warrior (Ati-ratha).

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

And Nakula, the favourite of his brothers taught by Drona, became known as a skilful warrior and a great car-warrior (Ati-ratha).

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

The matter was in skilful hands; for the days rolled on, after that eventful excursion, with great smoothness.

The Old Helmet 1864

; the cook took the meat and went with it to the kitchen, where he cooked it and dressed it in skilful fashion with a mighty fine onion-sauce and hot spices; after which he ladled it out into two saucers and set them before the King and the Wazir, who took each a dish and gave their wives to eat of the meat.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

And much harder still is the process of simply sitting down and putting one word after another in skilful sequence to construct whatever it is you’re trying to build: making it interesting, fresh, groundbreaking, new.

Blog De Ganz | Archive | April 2008

Those who were called skilful leaders of old knew how to drive a wedge between the enemy's front and rear; to prevent co-operation between his large and small divisions; to hinder the good troops from rescuing the bad, the officers from rallying their men.

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