Yet these two show such expertness that Tom can add to the sack of a slower picker, and Cassy give Tom some of her cotton, and each have enough to satisfy the weigher at night.
The title does not indicate, as it ought to do, the special purpose of the book to show that to give the scholar expertness with his hands at the first and thus develop his self-supporting ability is far better than to cram his memory.
She also liked, and in some measure had the power, to express her own feelings in verses; which, with all their simplicity, show a sense for rhythm and some expertness in diction.
Schiller has accomplished it in great perfection; the whole scene of affairs was evidently clear before his own eye, and he did not want expertness to discriminate and seize its distinctive features.
In addition, he made much of his expertness in the distilling of water.
Both barber and surgeon shared a certain expertnesswith tools, as they do today.
The outcome of its influence is that expertness in practical living and expertness in evaluating life, instead of uniting to take advantage of a common opportunity, are set against each other.
This devout attention to methods secured for a considerable number of men a technical expertness for which we look, as a rule, only in the work of the greatest artists.
Nothing, indeed, could be plainer than the fact that women, as a class, are sadly deficient in the small expertness of men as a class.
In his great study of British genius, Havelock Ellis found that an incapacity for such petty expertness was visible in almost all first rate men.
The criminals in the jail of Edinburgh, after three weeks teaching, had acquired a considerable degree of expertness in perceiving and drawing lessons from the moral circumstances which they read from Scripture.
If the following sample responses are carefully studied, a reasonable degree of expertness in scoring fables may be acquired with only a limited amount of actual practice.
No amount of secondary expertness in politics or economics or social reform or even morals can atone for the abandonment of our own province.
Much the same task confronted Jo Stinger, and he performed it with the expertness that was to be expected of such a veteran; but when he had done all he could, there remained the most dangerous shaft of all.
He flicked out one to each player, face downward, with an expertness and speed that dazzled McCrasky.
She was a sensible girl who realized that the typewriter paid better than the piano, and accordingly turned the expertness of her white fingers to the former instrument.
She understood well when to speak and when to keep silence; and, though her disposition was not spiteful, she could spy out with great expertnesswhere another's weak side lay.
From his expertness in handling of the bow, every good shooter was called by his name.
The inhabitants of Cornwall and Devon have, we are well assured, from time immemorial, been celebrated for their expertness in this pastime, and are universally said to be the best wrestlers in the kingdom.
Expertness is the kind of facility acquired by long practice.
The army was celebrated for the expertness and valor of the soldiers.
A merchant needs great facility in dispatching business; a bunker, great expertness in casting accounts; both need great readiness in passing from one employment to another.
The male in all the orders of life is the agent of variation and tends by nature to expertness and specialisation, without which his individuality is incomplete.
They enlarged and expanded the activities of government, hastening that day when there should exist a public conviction that government is a matter of technical expertness and must be run in a scientific manner for the common good.
He was not interested in civil service reform, which was a product of a differentiated society, in which professional expertness was recognized and valued.
But the amusement which the greatest number of the children of both sexes seemed to take chief delight in was swimming and diving in the sea, and the expertness which they exhibited was truly amazing.
However, after having spent the whole day in diligent practice, we began to find some of our former expertness returning--at least Jack and I did.
Meanwhile, such expertnessqualified by such candour made it impossible to guess the extent of her personal experience, or to estimate its effect on her character.
The idea that his tact was a kind of professional expertness filled her with repugnance, and insensibly she drew away from him.
But the amusement which the greatest number of the children of both sexes seemed to take chief delight in, was swimming and diving in the sea; and the expertness which they exhibited was truly amazing.
Tell me, why should ye youths ever show so sweet an expertness in turning all trifles of ours into trophies of yours?
Pierre well knew her expertness in catching likenesses, and judiciously and truthfully beautifying them; not by altering the features so much, as by steeping them in a beautifying atmosphere.
It is an aid to that scholarly command of subject-matter which is the first essential for expertness in teaching.
It consisted simply of pitching balls, made of some hard and polished substance, at a mark, at long or short distances, according to the expertness of the players, the first complete score of five throws to take the prize.
