I knew of one man who entered that United States Military Base Hospital near Paris, with one bullet through the shoulder, another through an arm, an eye shot out and a compound fracture of the skull, and those American doctors and nurses by their attention and Skilfulness made it possible for him to step back into boots and breeches and walk out of the hospital in ten days.
""And they thought we wouldn't fight""
Floyd Gibbons
No wonder, then, that we make such slow and short way in the Skilfulness, success, and acceptance of our preaching and our pastorate.
"Bunyan Characters First Series"
Alexander Whyte
Alice and her mother each volunteered to go with him, so as to "break it" with feminine Skilfulness to Mary, whose reason might be destroyed by too sudden a gorge of joy, like the stomach of a starved man by clumsy feeding.
"Sisters"
Ada Cambridge