"Skilful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... since the myth told how two gods took the form of worms and were reborn of cows, the formula had to be altered. Both remain alive at the end of the combat, contrary to the usual formula, because both were males and both were reborn. The fusion is skilful, because the reborn personages preserve a remembrance of their former transformations,[1208] just as Mongan knows of his former existence as Fionn. In other cases there is no such remembrance. Etain had forgotten her former existence, ...
— The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch
... "they have brought no arms with them, at any rate. We are undoubtedly indebted to your honor's skilful management with them ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson
... proved to be the beginning of a six month's illness, forced him to leave home for the water-cure at Malvern. He returned in October and remained ill and depressed, in spite of the hopeful opinion of one of the most cheery and skilful physicians of the day. Thus he wrote to ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin
... be an elderly but robust Sioux warrior, and however he may have been when torture was going forward he wore just then a bland smile, although not much else. With wonderfully light and skilful hands he took off Will's bandage and replaced it with another. Will never knew what it was made of, but it seemed to be lined with leaves steeped in ...
— The Great Sioux Trail - A Story of Mountain and Plain • Joseph Altsheler
... determine; but it is to be remarked that the climate of California is a very trying one to people of his peculiar organization. The body was kindly taken in charge by a resident of the vicinity, and now lies in state in his back yard, where it is being carefully prepared for burial by those skilful meathounds, Messrs. Lassirator, Mangler, and Chure, whose names are a sufficient guarantee that the mournful rites will be attended to in a manner ...
— The Fiend's Delight • Dod Grile
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