... He workedmuch as a barber does who hones a razor, and with every evidence ofsimilar practice; but his proficiency was the result of years ofpainstaking effort...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
... How often had she watched them fashioning them, andthey had taught her how to use them, too—them and the heavy warspears—laughing and clapping their hands as her proficiency increased...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Terrible」
...But there was one art the boy possessed which Akut could not master,though he did achieve fair proficiency in it for an ape—boxing...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Son of Tarzan」
...I complimented him upon his proficiency in lying, and poor Lángobúmo, almost in tears, confessed that he had pointed out to me the real place...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...This proficiency in the water has beengained at the expense of its power of flight, butthis is a matter of small moment, as it happens...
George Murray Levick 「Antarctic Penguins」
...On ordinary occasions it is not easy to decide on the position anddistance of the bird while uttering its note; for the Corn Crakeis a ventriloquist of no mean proficiency...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The hand follows the eye in aim, and practice willoften develop unthought-of proficiency...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...Skin as before, subsequently removing the leg bones and head,and modelling as in the second system, or working by the firstmethod, according to your degree of proficiency...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...Many people attain great proficiency infinding — the Rev...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...The doctor himself was anadmirable example of the proficiency thus attained under good Mr True...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
...Benjamin Banneker's proficiency in mathematicsenabled him to make the first clock manufactured in the United States...
Various 「The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916」
...Professor Russell says that:—“Some admirersof the Chinese cite this eclipse as a proof of theearly proficiency attained by the Chinese in astronomicalcalculations...
George Chambers 「The Story of Eclipses」
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