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House − maid that; the Chamber maid this thing to sell here, the Nurse had that thing to buy there; so that by degrees I sell into a pretty Trade of this kind of buying and selling old Cloaths, and grew so skill'd in it, that we took a Shop; and by such time as our Daughter was grown up, we had

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House − maid that; the Chamber maid this thing to sell here, the Nurse had that thing to buy there; so that by degrees I sell into a pretty Trade of this kind of buying and selling old Cloaths, and grew so skill'd in it, that we took a Shop; and by such time as our Daughter was grown up, we had

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Now _Asâl_ long before, out of his earnest Desire of searching into the meaning of Things, had studied most Languages, and was well skill'd in them.

The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail

And that is all the account I can give of the time, save that, on the second day, the girl left me alone in the hut and descended to the plain, where, after asking at many cottages for a physician, she was forced to be content with an old woman reputed to be amazingly well skill'd in herbs and medicines; whom, after a day's trial, she turn'd out of doors.

The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Thou'rt skill'd in war, thou hast learn'd somewhat under me,

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892

He was universally belov'd, hospitable, generous, learned in many things, skill'd in music, a very greate cherisher of learned men of whom he had the conversation.

Confessions of a Book-Lover Maurice Francis Egan 1888

You are some physician, or skill'd in phys'ognomy, or in palmestry;

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

In counsel strong, and skill'd in med'cine's lore.

Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

Just skill'd to know the right and choose the wrong,

Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854

Not skill'd like our own, to confiscate a portion of his earnings,

Man of Uz, and Other Poems Lydia Howard Sigourney 1828