This was a situation, not for bluster and rage, but to becompetently grappled with.
He was competently apportioning toward Lewiston's note the different sums coming in this month.
By my beard, they are competently scurvy for such a city as this is; for a cow with one fart would go near to overthrow above six fathoms of them.
And if you cannot do itcompetently without, use a well-composed form.
That there be a nature competentlyquiet and patient, and not intolerably froward and unpleasable.
These men had already demonstrated their ability to perform their duties competently under integration, and in conformity with the new order most (p.
By V-J day, the Navy's black officers, both line and staff, were serving competently in many occupations.
Had the Bruxellois taken a leaf out of the book of Prussian efficiency or were they a more competently executive people?
It struck her that Brussels was cleaner, wholesomer and more competentlymanaged than either New York or Paris.
Although the place was an attractive one, Mr. Hutchinson distrusted his ability to discharge competently the duties of a Chief Justice, since he had never had any systematic training as a lawyer.
I wonder at these things, because when we examine the matter we find that the essentials involved in billiards are as competently and exhaustively furnished by a bad billiard outfit as they are by the best one.
The supply of competently gifted bearers of the community's culture would accordingly be limited to such as could be drawn by self-selection from among this inconsiderable proportion of the community at large.
She attended first very competently to all of Paula's wants in the way of breakfast and saw her fairly launched on her chilled grapefruit.
These difficult and pertinent questions have been and still are being competently discussed by other writers.
Competently qualified with abilities for the office.
Competently disposed to it, with willingness and desire of success; and hath right ends in undertaking and discharging it.
But if he be competently able, and refuse to pay through knavery and injustice, and you have better ways to use that money, if scandal forbid not, you may seek by law to recover your own from him.
Perhaps they served their end in procuring for him the honourable appointment which he filled competently for ten years--that of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford.
Whether this is done competently or incompetently depends, of course, and must depend purely on accident, on the willingness and ability, that is to say, of individual teachers to educate themselves.
Nevertheless, the alarm can be as competently sounded upon a brass drum as by a silver trumpet, and his words came forth from a sincere throat.
You have competently performed your part," admitted Pe-lung, although an occasional jet of purple vapour clouded his upper person and the passage of his breath among his teeth would have been distasteful to one of sensitive refinement.
Set your mind at rest upon that score: each blow was competently struck and convincingly fatal.
He writeth a fair and swift hand, and is competently versed in the Four First Rules of Arithmetic, in the Rule of Three (which is sometimes called the Golden Rule) and in Practice.
He must be competently instructed (or how shall he instruct you?
They are solemnly attentive, an educated and experienced audience there for a purpose, and not to be trifled with, the most competently critical audience in the world.
No statistics can deal competently with the comparative well-being of nations, and nothing is more ludicrous than the results arrived at where Germany is discussed by the British or American politician.
Most of the statuary in Berlin is new and shiny and provided with all the modern conveniences --the present kaiser attended competently to that detail.
The tales of Mr Kipling which will longest survive him are not the tales where he is competently brutal and omniscient, but the tales where he instinctively flies from the necessity of giving to his vision the likeness of the modern world.
Mr Kipling exploits her mystery competently and coolly, making his points with the precision, clarity and force of one to whom the enterprise begins and ends as an affair of technical adequacy.
Then she flicked competently round the drawing-room with a duster, calling to Florence to clear away quick, because she wanted the table for cutting out.
