Do we say skilful or skillful

skilful 1238 occurrences

and what is there that he is not able to render them skilful in learning?

No wonder the Chinese theatre in San Francisco is a success, considering how skilful the actors must be in catching the Cue.

Once a child brought an old tinder box with steel and flint, but even then we were not skilful enough to get up a flame.

When the kings from the regions all around have sent skilful artists to take a copy, none of them have been able to do so.

All through the night lamps are kept burning, and skilful musicians are employed to perform.

On the day mentioned, the monks and laity within the borders all come together; they have singers and skilful musicians: they say their devotions with flowers and incense.

All through the night they keep lamps burning, have skilful music, and present offerings.

In the cities and larger towns, such societies as can afford the expense have established quartette choirs of trained vocalists, who deliver the hymns and anthems of the service to selections from the music of the great masters, which they are expected to render in a manner that shall be satisfactory to a taste educated and refined by the instruction of good teachers and the public performances of skilful musicians.

But he added with a sigh that a really perfect crime mystery was as rare as a perfect chess problem: human ingenuity was not sufficiently skilful, as a rule, to commit a crime or construct a chess problem with completely artistic concealment of the key-move, and for that reason most problems and crimes were far too easy of detection to absorb one's intellectual interests and attention.

His ancestors, a younger branch of the royal family, had been made dukes of Burgundy, and by skilful alliances and rapid changes of side through the long Hundred Years' War, they had steadily added to their possessions and their powers.

Meanwhile Hannibal made skilful use of his small forces in eluding the consul Nero; but the capture by the Romans of despatches from Hasdrubal disclosed his plans, and Nero at once formed his own for intercepting him.

" After that tempestuous night when Thaisa was thrown into the sea, and while it was yet early morning, as Cerimon, a worthy gentleman of Ephesus, and a most skilful physician, was standing by the sea-side, his servants brought to him a chest, which they said the sea-waves had thrown on the land.

She sung like one immortal, and danced as goddess-like, and with her needle she was so skilful that she seemed to compose nature's own shapes, in birds, fruits, or flowers, the natural roses being scarcely more like to each other than they were to Marina's silken flowers.

This gentleman managed to eat thirty-two dozen within an hour, and would doubtless have got through more, but the person who opened them is described as not being very skilful.

His son Edward and his son-in-law Ethelred, whom he had set as ealdorman over what remained of Mercia, showed themselves as skilful and active as the King.

The clock does not wear out, but it goes more and more slowly and irregularly, and stops at last for some reason that the most skilful inspection cannot discover.

I am sure where hearts are so few, It is difficult to discern The diamonds of paste from the true; I thought him like all the rest, Skilful in playing his part; As careful at cards or at chess, As winning a woman's heart.

The newest ocean giant was in deadly peril, though probably few of her passengers guessed it, so reassuring are the huge bulk, the skilful construction, the watertight compartments, the able captain and crew, to the mind of the landsman.

The discomfited Prussians on their flank had been routed and compelled to retire, and in their front was an enemy, brave, skilful, and victorious, led by the greatest captain of the age.

I prepared withal, a number of arms, with a skilful pilot, whom we hired at a considerable expense, and made our ship (for it was a pinnace), as tight as we could in case of a long and dangerous voyage.

And being himself both skilful and curious in pronounciation; he was very desirous to have them well grounded in the rudiments of the English tongue.

Of the same tree they build ships and houses, and they are skilful in all other workmanships.

This came to the knowledge of the ambassadors, who conferred with the Venetians on the subject; and it was agreed, that the ambassadors and the young queen should go to the great khan, and beg permission to return by sea, and should request to have the three Europeans, who were skilful in sea affairs, to accompany and conduct them to the dominions of king Argon.

The worst of it is the man is not a reprobatenot a hang-dog, lounging rascal, but perfectly honest, willing to oblige, harmless and inoffensive even when intoxicated, and skilful at his labour.

The effect of this has been sometimes to cause the discharge of all but the very most skilful and able-bodied; of those who had, by working at less than full pay, been kept out of the poorhouse; and the selectmen of some towns, notably Plymouth, have refused to obey such a vote.

skillful 390 occurrences

He was quite unconscious of the burning bromine and the clipping of flesh that the skillful hand of the practitioner carried on.

With care she would get better and stronger rapidly, but the hip joint was out of its socket and only a skillful operation would serve to permanently relieve her of lameness.

Instantly little Wampus straightened up, grasped Tobey by the leg and with a swift, skillful motion jerked him from his horse.

For once a woman made the addressa wise woman, let it be said, who made skillful and sure distinctions between the Christian life as a life and the work of the Christian Church as one way of living that life.

Thus it came that, on the morning of the fourth day, he called Little John to him, and told him that he could not shake the fever from him, and that he would go to his cousin, the prioress of the nunnery near Kirklees, in Yorkshire, who was a skillful leech, and he would have her open a vein in his arm and take a little blood from him, for the bettering of his health.

And lay there, in the white, painfully clean, carbolic-smelling ward, attended by the most skillful doctors in England and by the grave and silent nurses, who, notwithstanding their lives of stress and toil, had not lost the capacity for pity and sympathy.

But Le Drieux's attorneys were skillful fighters and did not relish defeat.

No, thanks ever so: any cracksman skillful enough to pick the lock on the door may bag his loot and go in peace for all of me!" Impulse, at least she called it that, moved Sofia to approach and cautiously open the door still wider.

Of close conveyance, and each practise ill Of coosinage and cleanly knaverie, [Cleanly, neat, skillful.]

They had skillful and experienced management to which they immediately gave over all technical control, holding them responsible through an active Board of Directors and an accounting system devised by experts.

In this particular business the margin of profit is so small that only the most skillful and economical management can bring success.

prbetico, -a, skilled, expert, practiced, skillful. precaución, f., caution, precaution.

Reconnoitering patrols are composed of at least two men and a skillful leader, who, in important cases, would be an officer.

He said they could not give me very good wages at first; but if I learned readily, and was skillful in tending the looms, I might in time make a very good living.

This was Ben Speedwell, who enjoyed quite a reputation as a skillful and daring air driver.

But skillful as he was he could not master the overbalanced machine.

Now the shrewd and able tribe of advertising managers do not pay to any but a master-draughtsman the prices which "J.T."with an arrow transfixing the initialsgets; and Julien was as deft and rapid as he was skillful.

He swung them around a sharp bend with a skillful hand and poised his weight above the brake as they plunged at terrific speed down a steep grade.

There is something unnatural in Painting, which a skillful Eye will easily discern from native Beauty and Complexion.

Under the skillful management of Rutlidge,at the request of Mrs. Taine,the newspapers were already busy with the name and work of Aaron King.

"Basket-making has been a great industry in England from the earliest times; the ancient Britons were particularly skillful in weaving the supple wands of the willow.

Some years ago, a skillful moulder, in my then firm's employ, left us for the States, where he permanently settled.

On it went over the next slope and he followed at speed, noticing with joy that the rocky nature of the ground continued, and the most skillful warrior who ever lived must spend many minutes hunting his traces.

1. I strike on my drum, I the skillful singer, that I may arouse, that I may fire our friends, who think of nothing, to whose minds plunged in sleep the dawn has not appeared, over whom are yet spread the dark clouds of night; may I not call in vain and poorly, may they hear this song of the rosy dawn, poured abroad widely by the drum, ohe!

We may mention, the woodpecker, however, as a skillful searcher for insects that lie hidden in places where the sun has melted the snow.

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