Owing to exceptional eyesight he was a first-class counter-battery observer, and later on his skillwith the pencil did the Germans a lot of damage.
She was born in Bucklersburie in London at her father's house therein, and attained to that skill in all learning and languages that she became the miracle of her age.
These critics would "reform the party from within"; and as they handle with so much skill and consideration the sensibilities of their countrymen who still adhere to the fold, their efforts are the more likely to have a potent effect.
Stamped hangings of Cordova leather lined the walls, around whose bases ran a low range of ornate bookcases, constructed with the utmost taste and skill of the cabinet-maker's art.
He did not acquire skill in forensic eloquence; his biographer, above, states that he cannot put four words together in public, nor in private either.
These, like city cheaters, having gotten the names of all country gentlemen, make silly people believe they have long lived in those places where they never were, and flourish with skill in those authors they never seriously studied.
Such was her skill in the Fathers that she corrected a depraved place in Cyprian; for where it was corruptly written "Nisi vos sinceritas" she amended it "Nervos sinceritas.
They had nothing belonging to them except the clothes they stood in and their bits of skill in their different trades.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
Their innate thrift, frugality, and skill in trading, were regarded as avarice and dishonesty.
He had acquired all theskill of an efficient conductor and had familiarized himself with a large number of opera scores.
In Scribe he admired theskill and esprit of his stage works.
He had tried, as I have said, to find whether his step-son possessed anyskill with the pencil, and sorrowfully perceived he had none.
Now when I congratulated Wagner on the literary skill he had shown, he grew peevish; and indeed he resented at all times praise of his poetic ability, seeming to think that in some measure it was a denial of his musical power.
As this was a question of technical skilland practical experience, the aid of officers in the army was sought.
The metrical skillof the Hellenes fascinated him and fostered his strongly marked sense of rhythm.
I have told her how heartily you enter into the mysteries of household matters, and are of just that temperament to agree with her, and appreciate that domestic skill for which I am totally unfitted.
He had entered upon his new duties but a short time when an opportunity presented itself wherein he could exhibit his practical skill as a musician.
His born actor's skill enabled him to illustrate how such a character should move, whilst with the orchestra he would sing passages and rehearse one phrase incessantly until he was satisfied.
As he always succeeded in his feats, his mother and the other children took it for granted that he would not come to grief, and sometimes he would be asked to exhibit his unwonted skill to visitors.
Between Weinlig and my father, whom the history of music has celebrated as a violinist of exceptional skill and as a sound contrapuntist, constant communications passed, and I was very often the bearer of such.
In this it displayed almost the uttermost skill of human malice.
Karl Gustav swears that he will win it, though the skill of Yan Kazimir in leading armies confounds him not a little.
Billevich was so eager to exhibit his military skill to Babinich, that he sent forward a small party to reconnoitre.
The Tartars were commanded to bind the enemy, and with the skill peculiar to them they did this in a twinkle; then the squadrons pushed back hastily from the cannon-fire.
The regular troops, not in sudden partisan warfare, but in a great battle with the most highly trained soldiers of Europe, exhibited such skill and endurance that amazement seized the Swedish and Brandenburg generals themselves.
The Swedes prepared for defence with the bravery and skill peculiar to them.
I will leave him with you, and I urge you not to stop short of the highest medical skill that can be procured in either this country or in Europe.
The feeling that henceforth his success must depend upon the skill of his hypocrisy, and that he must at last die a liar, lay upon him with cold oppression.
Bart of the perspiring baker, an Italian who had spent some years in the United States and who was generally liked by the boys of the old Thirty-seventh because of his customary good nature and his skill in compounding their favorite dishes.
For a time victory hung in the balance, but then Yankee determination and superior skill in bayonet work began to tell.
The greatest skill and care is, therefore, necessary in this work, especially so in the case of some of the exquisitely fine blocks which are etched for some art publications.
She was rarely idle, and employed much of her time in needlework, leaving many specimens of her skill in this way in the decorations of the convents and churches.
The exiles carried their superior skill and industry into the various provinces where they were sent.
It was a trial of skill between the two most accomplished seamen in the Mediterranean.
This disparity affords good evidence of the inferiority of the Turks in the construction of their vessels, as well as in the nautical skill required to manage them.
Philip's embarrassments were indeed great,--far beyond the reach of any financial skill of his ministers to remove.
Meanwhile, Quixada's wound, which from the first had been attended with alarming symptoms, grew so much worse as to baffle all the skill of the surgeons.
With their skill in husbandry they combined a familiarity with various kinds of handicraft, especially those requiring dexterity and fineness of execution, that was unknown to the Spaniards.
They were ignorant of the country, and were altogether deficient in the agricultural skillnecessary for turning its unpromising places to the best account.
As a rule, such patterns simply serve to show the skill of the finisher, and to make one wonder who could have been foolish enough to select so limited and laborious a method as gold tooling for carrying them out.
As vellum burns very readily, the tools must not be too hot, and some skill is needed to prevent them from slipping on the hard surface.
When you are new at it, you ascribe your failure to want of skill, but you come to realize that skill will not help you very much.
My dear," she said, "why don't you put your skill and energy to some use?
Jack was an idle fellow, whose single accomplishment was driving an automobile, in which he displayed remarkable skill and recklessness; there was hardly a day he did not run over something or somebody.
Two negatives has every boy, And uses them with pride and joy And every girl has utmost skill In interchanging shall and will.
He has exceptional skill in tracing his ingenious plots.
In the uneasy period of irritation and defiance he lost none of his skill in self-portraiture, in projecting himself upon the canvas of modern life.
He can present with equal skill profoundly poignant situations, such as occur in Clayhanger and Hilda Lessways.
It is easily brought about by him that has a genius, but the skill lies in doing it without one.
The last search had been made, the last clew followed, the last resources of wealth and skill were at an end, and these, these bones and trinkets were all that could be found.
No doubt your intentions are good enough, my dear sir, but it requires great skill to handle so large an estate properly, and a single error in judgment on your part might cost thousands of dollars.
Another chapter in the made-up tragedy," he said, "performed with marvellous skill as you can see.
Hence, in scalping a fallen foe, the victor deprives him of his charm, and shows it in triumph, as a token of his skill in battle.
He was proud of his skillin surgery, and devoted to the science.
The Indians seeing several wagons there, supposed each one contained armed soldiers or men; and they were quick to see that the white man's skill was more than their bows and arrows.
Red Cloud won great glory among all the Indians on the plains by his skill in manoeuvring in getting us to give up four hundred miles of rich territory, pulling down three forts, and retiring back to the Platte River.
The first was, by his temper and skill and success in hunting, a favorite of his grandmother.
Twice was he wounded, and so distinguished by his daring that he was made a chief for his skill in fighting.
A war broke out soon after this event, in which Pontiac displayed theskill and courage of a great commander.
Activity, courage, skill in war and diplomacy, were the remarkable features of his well-known character.
The English were few in number, but their skill and bravery in war was well known to the red men, and they dreaded them, as if they had been superior in number.
Nor did they pay much heed to the shrewdness and skill with which the Flemish leaders had chosen their position.
Nor was the lad, as I took pains to inquire, noted particularly for his skill in this direction--having seldom won prizes in the official contests.
From one end of Flanders to the other the movement spread; and these debating societies did much to cultivate a regard for learning and dialectic skill among the mass of the population.
Many of the leading actors in the tableaux have "speaking parts," all of them in Flemish and delivered with varying degrees of histrionic skill to the crowd that lines the streets.
Frequent mention is made of his skill as a portrait painter, and Prof.
A tiny canoe, more or less perfect in design and equipment, according to the caprice and skill of the fashioner, is made, and is hung up in the house after sunset.
The more elaborate ones display an amount of artistic skill that gives the Mandáya[5] the high reputation that he has in eastern Mindanáo as a man of superior attainments.
Here and there one finds one with a reputation for skill but this reputation is never so great as to overcome differences of opinion on the part of others who also claim to be experts.
With the exception of the gong and the Jew's-harp, all of these instruments can be made to produce varied and pleasing rhythms or music, according to the knowledge and skill of the performer.
The jacket is embroidered more or less elaborately according to the skill of the embroiderer and the amount of imported cotton yarn available.
The operator is nearly always a woman, or a so-called hermaphrodite,[17] who has acquired a certain amount of skill in embroidering.
I was a constant witness of mimic encounters, and occasionally of what appeared to be the preliminaries to more serious affairs, and can bear witness to the skill displayed in the manipulation of the shield.
To give a satisfactory description of the attitude and movements of the dancer is impossible, as the skill and grace of the dance consists essentially in postures and gestures, and each individual has his own variations and combination.
Various tunes are played on both forms of guitar according to the caprice and skill of the performer.
The process occupies a variable length of time, depending on the skill of the operator and on the endurance and patience of the subject.
For were it not for their skill in understanding the intricacies of the subject and in sidetracking irrelevant claims the disputes would be impossible of satisfactory arrangement.
It is a magnificent display of warlike skill and of physical agility and endurance.
To one who hears Manóbo drum music for the first time, it sounds dull and monotonous, but as the ear grows accustomed to the roll the compass can be detected and the skill of the drummer becomes apparent.
The intermediate parts of the panels consist of reticulations whose general design depends upon the skill and whim of the weaver.
The skill which now guides our organs and us in arts and inventions was at one time exercised upon the invention of these very organs themselves.
They are as the artificial obstructions in a hurdle race--tests of skill and endurance, but in themselves useless.
Where there is smoothly flowing water with little chance of drag, and little if any wind, if the fly is cast with some skill it will float properly with wings upright more often than not.
And othersome make difficulties of those things they haue no skill of.
Dearing was a dashing officer, and in this battle performed his part with great skill and bravery, charging a fort with artillery, running the guns by hand right up to the fort, pouring shot and shell into it until the white flag was sent up.
It is precisely that of a savage, who, finding a web of cloth he had not skill to frame into a garment, wrapt one end round his middle, and threw the rest about his shoulders.
Or had of Helicon my fill; That I might catch poetic skill To sing how dear I love thee.
She is here in Venia; she tells me of your knowledge and skill with your father's apparatus.
