" When "Justicia" refers to her personal relations with the lord to whom her letter is addressed, her comments are still more in keeping with the acknowledged forte of the lady novelist.

My great forte in killing buffaloes from horseback was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd, shooting the leaders, thus crowding their followers to the left, till they would finally circle round and round.

He plays the piano-forte with great skill and power, reads exceedingly well at sight, and, to say all in a word, plays nearly the whole of Sebastian Bach's 'Wohltemperirtes Klavier,' placed in his hands by Herr Neefe.

I used to amuse myself with the piano-forte after supper, when all had gone to bed.

We have a piano-forte on board and two gentlemen who play elegantly, so we shall have fine times.

Declamation was evidently more the Muse's forte than argument, but her aside was an aside, and that of the jockey friend was not.

Tragedy was his forte as a dramatist (1749-1803).