30 Metaphors for skills

Except you do something, you'll sink to the tomb; Ah, where's the red roses that bloomed on your brow, Where nothing but white ones are languishing now? Go, learn of the red men, they certainly know, They find healing plants, and will tell where they grow; God gave them this knowledge; their skill is the best; Make use of such means, they will surely be blest.

Individual skill in marksmanship is an advantage in battle only when united with fire discipline and control.

Knowing this, skill in manipulation and accurate memory are all the qualities he requires to conjoin to such knowledge.

Skill in phrase-making was perhaps the literary gift which he most admired.

The skill, gallantry, and courtesy of the French captain, were the subject of much talk amongst us, and we were loud in his praise.

The spell which holds this captive soul She never would possess, Were not her varying features rul'd By sparkling playfulness, But when with aimless, trackless skill Is twin'd a mazy chain,

" Mrs. Julaper smiled in spite of herself, well pleased; for her skill in pharmacy was a point on which the good lady prided herself, and was open to flattery, which, without intending it, the simple fellow administered.

Gray, the poet, observes in one of his letters, that "our skill in gardening, or rather laying out grounds, is the only taste we can call our own; the only proof of original talent in matters of pleasure.

With Giardini also, whose skill on the violin was at that time the theme of universal admiration, Lady Huntingdon was well acquainted.

Sir Charles Williams is appointed envoy to this last King: here is an epigram which he has just sent over on Lord Egmont's opposition to the Mutiny Bill: Why has Lord Egmont 'gainst this bill So much declamatory skill So tediously exerted?

She was hopelessly ill; even medical skill, were there such a thing in the country, could not save her; but he could not leave to die like a dog a woman who had been his mistress, even if only the fancy of a week, as this poor girl had been.

So complicated is this apparently simple matter in its application that only the most exquisite surgical skill is proof against incalculable modifications in results.

His skill in the use of the long bow was the proud distinction of the English yeoman, and it was his boast that none but an Englishman could bend that powerful weapon.

But the skill of the musician is a permanent source of enjoyment, as well as the instrument which he plays upon: and although skill is not a material object, but a quality of an object, viz., of the hands and mind of the performer; nevertheless skill possesses exchangeable value, is acquired by labour and capital, and is capable of being stored and accumulated.

Attempts were made to destroy these trophies of national degradation; but, in some instances, the skill of the architect and the fidelity of the builder were an overmatch for the hasty ire of an incensed soldiery, and withstood the attacks until admiration for the work brought shame on their efforts to demolish it.

And know I've bought the best champagne from Brookes, From liberal Brookes, whose speculative skill Is hasty credit, and a distant bill: Who, nurs'd in clubs, disdains a vulgar trade: Exults to trust, and blushes to be paid' built and opened the present club-house in St. James's Street, and thither the members of Almack's migrated.

The body works upon the mind, by obfuscating the spirits and corrupted instruments, which Perkins illustrates by simile of an artificer, that hath a bad tool, his skill is good, ability correspondent, by reason of ill tools his work must needs be lame and imperfect.

Its movements are as the sword-play of an alert, poised, well-knit, strong-wristed fencer with the rapier, in which the skill impresses one more than the force, while without the force the skill would be valueless, even hurtful, to its possessor.

The special skill of the letters is their self-revelation, which brings out the pathos of the writer's position, while at the same time showing quite clearly the defects that explained it.

Not less notable than his eloquence in the forum, his skill in the duello, had been the determined fervor with which he knelt at her feet.

CHAPTER VIII THE AMERICANS ARE MADE WELCOME IN PARIS As Mr. Morris had predicted, Calvert's skill in skating and the accident to Monsieur de St. Aulaire became the topic of conversation in all salons.

Our skill in handling nature's lower powers may be a means of great good; not less may it bring forth unexampled evil.

But the skill of the musician is a permanent source of enjoyment, as well as the instrument which he plays upon: and although skill is not a material object, but a quality of an object, viz., of the hands and mind of the performer; nevertheless skill possesses exchangeable value, is acquired by labour and capital, and is capable of being stored and accumulated.

"There, I'll tell you plainly, friend, that my skill is but a seven-and-sixpenny matter, or a trifle beyond.

If a spinning-jenny be wealth, the spinner's skill is also wealth.

30 Metaphors for  skills