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Skilled

adjective

Having or showing or requiring special skill. "A skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience" , "A skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow" , "A skilled trade"

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"Skilled" Quotes from Famous Books

... discerning some truth in that remark, "but I am not alone, Al Kahlminar; I have within my palace two valiant knights, skilled with the steed and the spear, who are ready to go forth in my stead at ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various

... Ericsson was given work in connection with the canal, and moved his family with him to a town called Forsvik. Here a great many soldiers were at work, for the canal was in charge of the army, and many skilled engineers were gathered to ...

— Historic Boyhoods • Rupert Sargent Holland

... most skilled in physic of the brethren were immediately summoned, and they lost not a moment in accompanying me to the cavern. All that evening, until midnight, the frenzy of the maniac seemed rather to increase than abate. But at that hour, ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... admire, for they are men skilled not in propagating the vine, nor in grafting trees, nor in tilling the ground. They know not how to cultivate the fields, nor to wash gold, or to break horses, or to shear or ...

— On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art • James Mactear

... younger than myself; and he had an absurd wish to make people think he had married a young and fresh-looking woman. To fall in with his vanity I tried to look it. We were often in Paris, and I became as skilled in beautifying artifices as any passee wife of the Faubourg St. Germain. Since his death I have kept up the practice, partly because the vice is almost ineradicable, and partly because I found that it helped me with men in bringing up his boy on small means. At this moment I ...

— The Well-Beloved • Thomas Hardy

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