Mayenne skillfully avoided a battle, and still more skillfullythrew abundant supplies into the city.
Henry of Navarre, in command of the royal forces, at the head of thirty thousand troops, was besieging Paris, which was held by the Duke of Mayenne, and boldly and skillfully was conducting his approaches to a successful termination.
Ascertain carefully the cause of the evil, and then skillfully doctor the disease, and not the symptoms merely.
All these ladies were the occupants of spacious houses the doors of which were guarded by skillfully powdered footmen, and which, winter after winter, were so many social centers.
The object of the company was to perfect and introduce an invention which, had it been properly developed as a mechanism and skillfully dealt with otherwise, might well have become popular.
Leopold Schmid (in Giessen, died 1869) gives a favorable and skillfully composed outline of Fortlage's system in his Grundzüge der Einleitung in die Philosophie mit einer Beleuchtung der von K.
She knew how to make herself indispensable and always to show that indispensability so skillfully that it did not offend.
And so skillfully did he know how to exhibit the resources of his brain, that he was generally taken for an educated man, while in reality he possessed only cleverness and the brazenness of a Warsaw loafer and trickster.
The tarnished and chipped gilded frames of the mirrors were skillfully masked with red muslin, pinned artistically with flowers.
He knew how to arrange matters so skillfully and acted so excellently the part of a man worried about the welfare of everyone that Janina feeling his troubles and believing him, often lacked the courage to remind him of the money he owed her.
These are most curiously and skillfully made of glutinous clay, so strong that they can neither be overturned nor washed away.
He dealt his blows with bewildering rapidity, pressed upon Jim, skillfully evading the grasp of his long arms, and in a trice the champion measured his length upon the greensward.
I have saved my husband, dear, from profound but skillfully concealed poverty.
You will understand at once that I began to gnaw the head of my cane, to consult the ceiling, to gaze at the fire, to examine Caroline's foot, and I thus held out till the marriageable young lady was gone.
Caroline, alarmed by these words, lets go the door, shuts it and comes back.
You will understand, therefore, how what was meant to be a secret now obtains the honors of publicity.
It was not fright nor disgust, nor admiration, nor scorn, but a little of each skillfully and most perplexedly mingled.
THE PAGAN'S CUP The Nashville American says: "The plot is intricate with mystery and probability neatly dovetailed and the solution is a series of surprises skillfully retarded to whet the interest of the reader.
It is excellently written and the denouement so skillfully concealed that one's interest and curiosity are kept on edge till the very last.
He skillfully hit a distant stone with tobacco juice and then took up the conversation where he had left it.
He turned on Toothpick and skillfully ferreted from him the story of the murder of the Courfay family two weeks before.
Bill McAllister and Allen skillfullycut some twenty horses from the milling crowd in the corral, drove them through the gate, and started them toward the cavvy.
In addition, there were primitive spits on which were broiled huge pieces of meat, while in the hot ashes Mrs. Bradley skillfully baked small loaves of delicious corn bread.
The servant covered the graves with leaves and soskillfully did he conceal the resting place that not even Fred could see where it was.
But D'Artagnan was impassible and Porthos motionless; the thrusts aimed soskillfully were parried by an able adversary; not one hit the mark.
Charles, by skillfully husbanding his generosity, had given the duke time to wish, although he might not have wished for so much as was given him.
Will he defend her less skillfully on this account?
His voice was not very good, having in it a kind of unpleasant rattle; but he managed it rather skillfully in conversation, and you soon, ceased to notice the peculiarity.
The pen which has written my books cannot be more agreeably employed than in acknowledging what I owe to the pen which has skillfully and patiently helped me, by copying my manuscripts for the printer.
Their nests are skillfully woven baskets of fresh grasses, about as high as wide; they are generally placed in upright forks and well concealed by drooping leaves.
The nests are made of strips of rushes, skillfully woven together and attached to upright cane near the surface of the water.
Defn: To lay color on canvas by uniting them skillfully together.
The President received Henry with great kindness, and told him to inform me that the whole matter had been more skillfully and successfully managed than anything in this line since the war began.
Some good pinard[10] was placed in a hole under the stairway, into which one descended by means of a trap door, also skillfully camouflaged by a morsel of linoleum.
They had been recolored so skillfully that only a very slight difference in the tints could be perceived after the most careful scrutiny.
The cottage was not plastered, it was simply built of enormous bonesskillfully arranged, which gave it its white color.
His bag was swiftly and skillfully unpacked for him--this always annoyed Lee--and the water was turned into the tub.
The impression she skillfully conveyed to Lee Randon, by an art which never for an instant lost its aspect of the artless, was that he, at least, older in experience than the rest there, alone entirely understood and engaged her.
Well, very well and skillfully had Jack played his game, and one day he and the baron were at dinner.
And as he won his promotion by training his body, brain and nerves to use his original tools to best advantage, so now he will succeed as leader by learning to use skillfully these new human ones.
To handle these tools skillfully has therefore become a recognized art.
He will find them sensitive, difficult instruments, capable of splendid accomplishment if skillfully handled, but blunt and ineffective in unskilled hands.
The scheme of his romance is no more than a series of ingenious combinations, skillfully leading to the issue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skillfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
