He knows that by touching her with his skilful and accustomed hand he can soothe her yet more readily.

His early paintings, above all, show an accurate observation of form, subject and body and their spacial relationships rendered by a trained and skilful hand.

But he had good taste, a correct eye, and a skilful hand, and his productions were pleasing and popular.

City and countryside alike are sketched in with a skilful hand, and she certainly didn't sing the blues all the time.

This artifact belongs to the so-called "Classic Dacian" period and described as a "primitive work done by a not skilful hand".

There seemed to be hands everywhere, skilful, sensitive hands, knowing how to make her nerves alternate between being soothed and being excited.

Veronica is a restorer of Chinese lacquerware and paintings, so the finest, most beautiful, old things pass through her skilful hands.

The doctor, whatever her politics and morals, had lovely skilful hands, which Phoebe could not but admire.

The king's brow was clouded and troubled; the arrow which Earl Sudley had shot with so skilful a hand had hit.

Both work with speed; their skilful hands move rapidly, and the excitement of the contest makes the labor light.