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.