"Asking his expert advice?" "I've told him no more than what he could read for himself in the newspapers," answered Delkin.

[Lat.], grounds. indication &c 550; criterion &c (test) 463. testimony, testification^, expert testimony; attestation; deposition &c (affirmation) 535; examination.

"'Ere, guv'nor," said the cabman, seeing with an expert eye that Priam Farll was unaccustomed to the manipulation of luggage.

I was eager to have some expert opinion as to whether the British were apparently abandoning the slow method of reducing the fortification, or if, having learned perchance that we were running short of ammunition for the big guns, they were making an attack in order to provoke us to waste powder which would be more sadly needed at some later day.

Where it was a case of saving a friend, he was prepared to act in a manner reminiscent of an American expert witness.

You're an expert accountant.

I'll bet Diamond is an expert swordsman, and he's just the kind of a chap to lose his head and run you through the body!

This regiment was famous for its rifle practice, and Ericsson was soon one of its most expert marksmen.

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 Doctor soon became quite an expert hunter, and before he had remained on the prairie a year there were but few men in the country who could kill more buffaloes on a hunt than he.

" The Colonel staked No. 1 Above the Discovery, and the Boy was in the act of staking No. 1 Below when "No, no," says that kind mackinaw man, "the heavier gold will be found further up the gulchstake No. 2 Above"; and he told them natural facts about placer-mining that no after expert knowledge could ever better.

Nan was an expert swimmer, and Marian knew nothing of the art, but the three girls enjoyed splashing about in the water, and were never quite ready to come out when Aunt Alice or Mrs. Allen called to them from the beach.

Expert log drivers who ride on the tipping, rolling logs in the raging river, guide the logs on these drives.

Magician's manual; tricks and routines, with instructions for expert performance by the amateur.

Calder watched the beautiful animal with all the enthusiasm of an expert horseman.

You will never find expert players, who appreciate what I may call the geometry of the court, penalise themselves in this manner.

He is an expert climber, and the prints of his claws have been seen on the bark at the top of trees fifty feet in height and without branches.

Maybe you know that we do a good deal of that sort of work, and we can give you expert service; the right roofing put on to stay, and to stay put.

He thought of darting behind a cedar, but he knew the man behind him was an expert shot, and something fundamental in the brown man forbade his getting himself killed while running away.

But, so little did the invaders respect the necessity of appearances in their present position, that one of these seeming savages had actually mounted a log, taken the axe from the hands of its owner, and begun to chop, with a vigour and skill that soon threw off chips in a way that no man can successfully imitate but the expert axe-man of the American interior.

He is an expert mechanic, and himself makes most of the very ingenious instruments which he uses.

"His being an expert dancer does not entitle him to our regard."Ib., p. 82.

Expert thieves have been known to open handcuffs without a key, by means of knocking the part containing the spring on a stone or hard substance.

His one thought was that, being an expert boxer himself, Merriwell had forced him to a fist fight, believing it would be easy to dispose of him that way.

Whaley was an expert woodsman.