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Comparing reptiles with amphibians, we may recognise an increased masterliness of behaviour and a hint of greater plasticity.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur

Marlboro's masterliness was quite another thing, affected no clusters of men, and was felt only by those whom he owned, body and soul.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various

The rendering was masterly to the extreme of masterliness.

From Sacred and Profane Love by Bennett, Arnold

None of Chopin's compositions surpasses in masterliness of form and beauty and poetry of contents his ballades.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James

This observation of success teaches the child to admire masterliness, to get the motto, Age quod agis, stamped into his child life from the beginning.

From A Study of Fairy Tales by Kready, Laura F.