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The grim Bear courts thy skill - Duncan Anderson "Sport"

Requires no prophet's skill to trace - "Another Peep at the Links"

orpheus bring your skill - Elizabeth Bartlett "ekstasis"

Traced with most infinite skill - Ardelia Maria Barton "Life's Plan"

However bright his tools or sharp his skills - Jenny Blackford "Beneath the Wheeler Centre"

Skill to lead by pathways rife - Roger Casement "Parnell"

As befits a mage so skilled - Edward Dowden "The Mage"

Exert their skill most faithfully - Eliza "The Broken Heart" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Skilled in the great powers of dominion - Enheduana "Temple Hymns: 33. E-Dimgalkalama, the Temple of Ishtaran in Der" transl. by Sophus Helle

With choicest skill and grace - "The Golfiad"

Born already skillful - Galway Kinnell "The Fundamental Project of Technology"

Skilled in toils of stormy warfare - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

Masks half its muscle in its skill - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Old skill in hateful wizardries - John Masefield "When Bony Death"

Such rapid wit and powerful skill - Edgar Lee Masters "So We Grew Together"

No mere skill of subtle tracery - A.A.P. "The Carver's Lesson" (in The Cornhill Magazine v.1 no.5)

Try the skill of my neglected hand - T.W.P. "Letter Fourth to Walter Savage Landor, Florence. by the Hands of Samuel Rogers, Esq., London" [The Knickerbocker v.22 no.4, Oct. 1843]

Drawn by your own sweet skill - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVI"

Whose skill brings hosts to worship - W. Gilmore Simms "Heads of the Poets III: The Same" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]

Mnemonic skills test positive - Saheed Sunday "Fluorescence"

a skilled enough practitioner of failure - Chaun Webster "[by way of entry you sit with an object]"

Simple truth his utmost skill - Sir Henry Wotton "The Happy Life"


Unskilful in pilotage - Thomas Hood "To Goldenhair"


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