But Gerard, who was a very fair fly-fisher, saw the point at once, and soon came to handle the whip in such fashion as to show promise of eventually becoming as proficient as Dawes himself.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
A very thorough training is necessary to make one proficient.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody
It was at a time when poverty and distress appealed to him that his great-heartedness, his forgetfulness of self, and his proficient medical skill forced itself before that public attention from which at all other times it timidly shrunk.
"The History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University"
Robert Peter