The preamble of the Act stated its object to be "to prevent the introduction of unskilful workmen": and yet no indictments were ever brought against unskilful workmen, but only against very skilful and ingenious men.
The young man was discharged, and thoughskilful in that particular trade, he had been compelled to sell the furniture, the produce of his industry, to support a wife and family, who were dependent on him for support.
And yet he was not the least effeminate, for of all the men of his day, he was the most splendid sportsman, the most skilful in the tilt-yard, and the surest with the arrow.
In early manhood, as we have seen, he distinguished himself as a naval commander, and he later became a skilful general, affording his master most efficient help against the popular rising known as the “Pilgrimage of Grace.
The excitement moved a skilful German chemist who was also a strong materialist, to investigate the matter in the expectation that he might find out the trick.
Therefore the man or woman who is found to be most skilful in any art, business or work, is to be elected as foreman, and continues to act as such, till some one more skilful is found.
Count Louis was known to be as skilful a negotiator as he was valiant and accomplished as a soldier.
Louis of Nassau possessed high reputation throughout Europe as a skilful and daring General.
A different situation developed with the Indians, but after skilful treatment and a long interview with representatives of the many tribes he succeeded in winning their friendship, or at least a quiet neutrality.
This constitutes one of the greatest difficulties which a skilful elephant-hunter encounters.
Barham Hall near Ipswich, one of the most skilful and best informed agriculturists in the county of Suffolk, to preserve some of his wheat-fields from the ravages of a small gray slug, which threatened to demolish the plant.
He had acquired a good knowledge of design, either under his father, a tolerably skilful statuary in wood, or under some very exact naturalist; and in his early attempts he painted in a free and open style.
Indeed he appears to exhibit even a freer genius, a more happy composition, and a more skilful art in uniting the grounds of his pictures with the figures.
Antonio Lazzari, a Venetian, who succeeded in deceiving the most skilful artists, says Melchiori, by dint of copying Jacopo, and passing for him.
In none of them, however, was he a mere copyist; he varied the figures, and more especially the landscapes, in which he was a very skilful hand.
In fine, this artist will be found to rank equal with the chief part of his contemporaries; exact in design, skilful in the naked parts, while his colours are fresh and warm.
The figures he has introduced are his own, though he was less skilfulin this branch.
Even in his pictures for private ornament, conducted according to his own style and fancy, he was fond of adopting paternal subjects and examples; being skilful in drawing animals of every kind from nature.
I saw at the same time a person called Fraud, who sat behind a counter with false scales, light weights, and scanty measures; by the skilful application of which instruments, she had got together an immense heap of wealth.
Bough of the Oak appeared a little uneasy, and Ungque's countenance denoted dissatisfaction; but the last was too skilfulan actor to allow many of the secrets of his plotting mind to shine through the windows of his face.
The Indians are not very skilful in the use of sails, while the bee- hunter knew how to manage a bark canoe in rough water, with unusual skill.
Le Bourdon, it has been said, was very skilful in the management of his craft; and Gershom, now perforce a sober and useful man, was not much behind him in this particular.
Worthless as he was in so many respects, he was remarkably skilful with the axe, as he now proved by the rapid manner in which he severed the trunk of the large elm on which he was at work.
Peter then alluded to le Bourdon's art, describing him as being the most skilful bee-hunter of the West.
Food, clothing, houses, fuel, all come from nature and from labour, from more or less skilful labour exerted upon a more or less liberal nature.
He crossed a field, and in an hour brought another neighbour who was skilful with her needle.
These appliances cannot be properly arranged by even the most skilful tailor, unless the wearer of the habit is ready to seat herself on horseback, or on a block horse, for his benefit and assistance.
And, O Brahmana, as hunters intercept the flight of their game, the progress of those diseases is checked by able and skilful physicians with their collections of drugs.
Contrive thou, therefore, some skilful plan, with Suvala's son and Dussasana, by which we may go to those woods!
In thy army there is a monkey of the name of Nala, who is a skilful mechanic.
Oft in woods that are far away Joined we stood in our skilful play; Scathach our feats had taught.
Hardy chief is he, and story Soon must speak his conquests gory, Great for skilful war his glory; We shall know his deeds!
Truly," said Eochaid, "I myself am skilful at the chess-play.
The lob is one of the most useful and skilful shots in tennis.
His being the most skilful administrator in the world would seem to imply that he uses memory.
What skilful geometrician or arithmetician will fail to enjoy symmetry, order and proportion, in the objects that meet his view?
The skilful character of the surface chipping on these blades is perhaps better shown in Fig.
The flake is placed over the stake at the spot where it is to be cut, |21| and a skilfulworkman cuts the flake in two at a single stroke.
So skilful were the Mexicans in the manufacture of obsidian knives, that, according to Clavigero, a single workman could produce a hundred per hour.
The more convex face has been fluted or “ripple-marked” by cross-flaking from either side in the most skilful manner, the whole of the original polished surface being sometimes removed.
Of late years (1895) a far more skilfulworkman at Mildenhall has produced imitations which can hardly be distinguished from genuine arrow-heads.
Christian Science is always the most skilful surgeon, but surgery is the branch of its healing which will be last 402:3 acknowledged.
Marry, it is a good thought too; for we shall want honest andskilful men to rebuild us our city.
Yet it was happiness inexpressible to know that he was not only living, but in the safe retreat of Mary Harmer's cottage, and under her tender and skilful care.
One of the least of these urchins, but not the least courageous of their number, when taunted by his more skilful companions with being afraid, struck out boldly beyond the prescribed bounds.
The most skilful horsemen sometimes break their necks, but this is hardly adduced as an argument against learning to ride.
It seemed to him (so skilful was Wegg) that he was plotting darkly, when he was contriving to do the very thing that Wegg was plotting to get him to do.
Whether he prodded'; Mr Wegg's pantomime is skilful and expressive here; 'or whether he scooped?
The ashes being easily moved by a skilful hand, the spies took this as a hint to make off in good time.
But he was all sparkle and glitter in the box at the Opera, and there he and his dear wife made a conversation between Fledgeby and Georgiana in the following ingenious and skilful manner.
Audrey was bent on keeping her promise to Mollie, but she found a great deal of finesse and skilful management were necessary to secure her afternoon from interruption.
She then drew him out by skilful questions on Rutherford and its inhabitants, to which Audrey duly replied.
A skilful surgeon cuts deep: the patient may quiver under the relentless knife, but the present pain will prevent lasting injury.
The rude hearer is affected by the principles which operate in these arts even in their rudest condition; and he is not skilful enough to perceive the defects.
The infinite variety of the affections of the soul will suggest to a good head, andskilful ear, a variety of such sounds as are fitted to raise them.
The mothers who slept exhausted while I watched beside their darlings' bedsides will never, I like to fancy, think over-harshly of the heretic whose hand was as tender and often more skilful than their own.
The Broad Church arguments appeared to me to be of the nature of special pleading, skilful evasions of difficulties rather than the real meeting and solving of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skilful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
