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Forty years after the Black Jazz period, the long-estranged couple are recounting that absorbing story with every appearance of cordiality and plenty of their old skilfulness and spirit.

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2012

The following recipes and remarks will be found valuable assistants to those so situated, and will offer many practical suggestions intended to develop ingenuity and skilfulness in this much-neglected branch of cookery.

From Breakfast Dainties by Murrey, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson)

In the 14th the same sort of change took place as elsewhere; and art was beautiful, but it was too much an evidence of skilfulness and adroitness.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various

But above the hall-door the family coat-of-arms makes a fine show, carved there in wood with New Zealand skilfulness.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

In Sparta, skilfulness in sinning and hiding sins was tolerated and even applauded.

From The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) Sermons On Subjects Suggested By The War, Third Series by Velimirović, Nikolai