You are grown a notable Proficient in LoveAnd you are resolv'd (if he please) to marry him? Cel.

Is it true that most of the prominent men of England"TOM BROWN" HUGHES, for instanceare proficient pugilists? Answer.

On the whole he had never enjoyed himself so much in his life; he became proficient in all manner of minor devilries, and was ceasing to trouble himself about his bell or his ecclesiastical duties, when an untoward incident interrupted his felicity.

Edith's passionate love of natural beauty was fully shared by the young refugee; and many an hour passed swiftly away while he instructed his quick and willing scholar in the mysteries of sketching, in which pleasant art he was himself a proficient.

Once I am more proficient, I'm sure I'll be able to do things like this all day long without becoming exhausted.

"You are proficient in more than one art, I see.

He will then, by testing them in drill regulations, select the most proficient.

These two men found no difficulty in securing the services of proficient burglars, safe-robbers, and the like; for, in addition to the high rewards paid these men, they were in a manner insured against permanent imprisonment in case of misfortune.

A Fellow of the Royal Society, who is my good Friend, and a great Proficient in the Mathematical Part of Musick, concludes from the Simplicity of its Make, and the Uniformity of its Sound, that the Cat-call is older than any of the Inventions of Jubal.

Jane and Johnny, who had been in early youth very proficient at it, had, since they were old enough to know it was a sort of low commercial cunning, the accomplishment of the slave, hidden their knowledge away like a vice.

It bored her, but she was fairly proficient at it.

He is a great painter, but a suspicious narrator; a grand proficient in the picturesque, but a very poor professor of the historic.

In 1864 the proprietor of one of the Chicago daily papers boasted that he "placed materials in remote rooms in the city and there secretly instructed girls to set type, and kept them there till they were sufficiently proficient to enter the office, and thus enabled the employer to take a 'snap judgment' on his journeymen.

To any real proficient in grammar, nothing can be more free from embarrassment, than the performance of these exercises, in all ordinary cases.

In Burmese she had previously become proficient, and she translated "Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress" into that language.

Gibbs was a very serious writer, and extremely proficient at his trade.

Edward VI.; with the natural feeling of a boy fond of knowledge, and himself a proficient for his years, was aware of the evil, and projected the remedy.

As she was discovered to have rare intellectual gifts and a very keen relish for learning, she was provided with every kind of preceptors, who made her proficient in profane letters, as they were then called.

It happens often that this sort of Man is heavy enough in his Nature to be a good Proficient in such Matters as are attainable by Industry; but alas!

Being now a very good Proficient in Discourse, I shall appear in the World with this Addition to my Character, that my Countrymen may reap the Fruits of my new-acquired Loquacity.

Finding our Landlord so great a Proficient in Kitchen-Musick, I asked him if he was Master of the Tongs and Key.

Walter and Mary Ann, a married couple, who had recently returned from Port Phillip, where they had been living in the family of the former superintendent, Mr. Robinson, were so civilized, and proficient in all the plain parts of education, that they possessed great influence over their countrymen, who, incited by the contemplation of their superiority, were apparently desirous of acquiring knowledge.

Having achieved a certain amount of experience on tour and in London, and being more or less proficient in her profession, does not, however, ensure an increase in the actor's value.

If that is the difficulty, let us make ourselves equally proficient.

There she became proficient in mere mechanical musicher ear being a poor one naturallyand learned to speak two languages, dance to perfection, and conduct herself like a high-bred woman of fashion on all occasions and in all emergencieseach and all necessities for a belle, which, it may be remembered, she had aspired to be, and announced her intention of becoming.