What is "skilfully"

Usage examples of "skilfully".

He arrays skilfully the facts and reasonings which British inquirers have adduced in favor of Sir Philip Francis, and the other most probable author, Lord George Sackville.

Ali suddenly cast aside his chibouque, drew the lasso from his pocket, threw it so skilfully as to catch the forelegs of the near horse in its triple fold, and suffered himself to be dragged on for a few steps by the violence of the shock, then the animal fell over on the pole, which snapped, and therefore prevented the other horse from pursuing its way.

Henceforth she avoided me so skilfully that I never could contrive another interview with her.

The ambassador, whose profession it was to carry on intrigues skilfully, had succeeded well, and I had taken the bait as he wished.

Creek and Little Pedee were much more numerous, if less skilfully conducted, than the men of Marion.

Tom Ryfe manoeuvred skilfully enough to bring his man on the ground precisely at the right moment.

After that they took the agreeable duty by turns, and in order to avoid any surprise in case the aunt should take it into her head to pay them a visit, we skilfully displaced a part of the partition, which allowed them to come in and out of my room without opening the door.

But when you talk of matter as something in itself inert and motionless, your parents or tutors surely cannot have left you so ignorant as not to know that no form of matter is motionless and inert: every particle is constantly in motion and constantly acted upon by agencies, of which heat is the most apparent and rapid, but vril the most subtle, and, when skilfully wielded, the most powerful.

All that he says has been said over and over again, and Blaise Pascal went much farther, but he wrote more skilfully and better in every way than Helvetius, who, wishing to remain in France, was obliged to retract.

The zonal system still persists side by side with the freer style, and is often very skilfully handled as a means of decoration.

But here Lady Bellamy intervened, and skilfully forced him into a conversation with her, in which Philip joined.

Impersonation has been at the heart of many detective stories, but it has seldom carried the emotional charge of Brat Farrar, and our sympathies are never in a mere puzzle so skilfully and so surprisingly manipulated.

Unperturbed, Planir gestured at a door skilfully concealed in the panelling of the far wall.

He concealed it in the handle of a tennis racquet, hollowing out the handle and afterwards piecing it together again so skilfully that it was difficult to see what had been done.

The Axis army, skilfully evading various encircling manoeuvres, made good its retreat to a rearward line running southward from Gazala.