Thou speakest well The knave who serves unto another's needs Knows himself abler than the man who needs him; And she who stoops, will not forget, that stooping Implies a height to stoop from. Eliz.

We were not only abler of body than the French, and, therefore, superiour in the use of arms, which are forcible only in proportion to the strength with which they are handled, but the national practice of shooting for pleasure or for prizes, by which every man was inured to archery from his infancy, gave us insuperable advantage, the bow requiring more practice to skilful use than any other instrument of offence.

Arnold and André, 1780.Of all the leaders under Washington none was abler in battle than Benedict Arnold.

A man of more wisdom than wittiness, and brain than fancy; and abler to any thing than to make verses.