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  • Still in the absurd hat she got out a panful of potatoes and began to peel them skilfuly, automatically.

    Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

  • When she did learn of her husband's Royalist actions, and that he was devoted to the Cinq-Cygnes, she assisted him, but falling into a skilfuly contrived plot, she innocently brought about her husband's execution.

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • The forces of Blaine were led, as they had been in 1876, very skilfuly by Senators

    Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

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