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Meanings of skilful use in English

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Usage of skilful use in English
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The most skilful use has been made of his material by our author.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 / Devoted...
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He made a very skilful use of the returns of cotton, etc., exported.
The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's C...
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Gerrard seized upon the opening thus afforded him, and made skilful use of it.
The Path to Honour
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You made skilful use of that method of resuscitation.
The Henchman
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Notice the dainty effect of the tone coloring, heightened by the skilful use of impure rhymes.
A Book of German Lyrics
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Agatha saw that he kept the canoe from capsizing by the skilful use of paddle and sheet.
The Lure of the North
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Present-day reform lays a great emphasis upon instruments and very little on the skilful use of them.
A Preface to Politics
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By a skilful use of these weapons of controversy, he could attack or defend with equal success.
A Voyage to the Moon / With Some Account of the Manners and Cust...
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They would find driving the needle through much facilitated by a skilful use of the table formerly described.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870
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Later, when he entered Yale College, his skilful use of tools helped him to pay his college expenses.
Stories of Later American History
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Pursuing the advantage which a skilful use of interruption always gives to an orator, the Athenian turned to Eurybiades.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III
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These, and the skilful use of white, provide him with a colour scheme of great simplicity, originality, and beauty.
Promenades of an Impressionist
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The man looked annoyed, and tried, by the skilful use of gasolene and sparking levers, to leave Tom behind.
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout; Or, The Speediest Car on th...
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If a weapon of political warfare failed to be handled with craft and with courage, its skilful use was unknown.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
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He likes strong contrasts, which are brought out, not only by variety of touch but by skilful use of the pedals.
Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers
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He made skilful use of the occasion for the purpose of still further exalting and improving the question and his own position.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
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