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Physical ability

noun

The ability to perform some physical act; contrasting with mental ability.

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"Physical ability" Quotes from Famous Books

... General Assembly is hereby empowered to enact that every child, of sufficient mental and physical ability, shall attend the public schools during the period between the ages of six and eighteen years for a term not less than sixteen months, unless educated ...

— School History of North Carolina • John W. Moore

... needs of his employers for other qualities than likability. Consequently he has fallen down on all his big chances. Today he is just a popular door man for a big department store. His intelligence and his physical ability are so evident that he is an object of pity and wonder as he smiles and bows to customers of the store. Undoubtedly if he had studied the different opportunities he has had, and had fitted himself into all ...

— Certain Success • Norval A. Hawkins

... wrath at first, as became men who had long lived peaceful lives, they had at length revolted; and desert vultures could have told a gruesome story. Made a comrade and ally of these bordermen, Dick Gale had leaped at the desert action and strife with an intensity of heart and a rare physical ability which accounted for the remarkable fact that he had not yet fallen ...

— Desert Gold • Zane Grey

... not fitted me for such duties; that my experience in the diplomatic service had then been slight; that I had no proper training as a lawyer; that my knowledge of international law was derived far more from the reading of books than from its application; and that I doubted my physical ability to bear the pressure for patronage which converged upon the head of the ...

— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White

... that the class whose benefit we contemplate would not have physical ability to work on a farm, or in ...

— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth