Adept, adroit, deft, dexterous, handy, skillful.

When the trout refused to be taken elsewhere, I have always found them here, abundant, greedy, and ready to be taken by any decently skillful effort.

Up to the mid-century then, despite assailants, the classical school held its supremacy; for its literary art was incomparably more skillful than that of its enemies.

In this cattle driving business is exhibited some most magnificent horsemanship, for the "cow-boys," as they are called, are invariably skillful and fearless horsemenin fact only a most expert rider could be a cow-boy, as it requires the greatest dexterity and daring in the saddle to cut a wild steer out of the herd.

The native pilots are remarkably skillful navigators, and seem to know by instinct how the shoals shift.

Sibylusually so skillful at this most delicate of sportswas as inaccurate and awkward, this day, as the merest tyro.

All the circumstances of Mr. James Allerdyke's death, and of Lisette Beaurepaire's death, pointed to unusually skillful poisoning.