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Usage examples of skilled.

There came to their great aeronautic parks at Chinsi-fu and Tsingyen by the mono-rails that now laced the whole surface of China a limitless supply of skilled and able workmen, workmen far above the average European in industrial efficiency.

A large number of skilled engineers had already been brought from the fleet and were busily at work adapting the exterior industrial apparatus of the place to the purposes of an aeronautic park.

It was a little amusing to me that I could speak with some authority to skilled and experienced agriculturists, who felt our rivalry at Mark lane, but who did not dream that with the third great move of Australia towards the markets of the world through cold storage we could send beef, mutton, lamb, poultry, eggs, and all kinds of fruit to the consumers of Europe, and especially of England and its metropolis.

Gaean Reach and Alastor Cluster, especially those with rural populations, a new profession has come into existence: the man skilled in star-naming and star-lore.

But, of course, there are a great many of the seriously wounded that no amount of aseptic and skilled surgery or nursing can save.

Piece by piece he was assembling the costly treasures for its furnishing fine hand-turned bedsteads and chests and chairs from the skilled Wethersfield joiner, Peter Blinn, glossy pewter plates and a set of silver spoons from Boston, real china bowls of blue and white Delft from Holland.

Yet thou art a brave man, or else a very simple one, or thou wouldst never have chosen to meet Sir Malud with sword and buckler, for he be skilled with these while thou art clumsy with them.

Elric thought of Burell, who had been the most skilled at creating large, complex illusions.

He came from Naples, was a great gamester, a skilled swordsman, and was always ready to extract himself from a difficulty by a duel.

Bonnard was a corpulent man, a skilled ceramicist whose touch with tile nippers and mosaic tesserae was unrivaled, but he was not much of an overseer.

It meant only he would go to that hospital in up-State New York where skilled surgeons would fit him for a new and crimeless life.

Seven crofts were in their pathway, but the assailants expected to attack only three, for MacKinnion crofters were skilled warriors as well as farmers, and the few attackers had only surprise on their side.

I have heard that there lives a great viking in Salten fiord who is skilled in sorcery.

She was deeply skilled in those dark and flagitious arts, which have cast a gloom upon this mortal scene.

First the tentative withdrawal, and now the ingenuous response, was more erotic than any flagrant vice of the most skilled lover.