"Competently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as he could conveniently carry on his person. He handed the rest to Thal. He went competently to the pulsing call-signal. He put headphones to his ears. He listened. His expression became extremely strange, as if he did not quite understand nor wholly ...
— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster
... ten months journey between Aleppo and this court, I spent just three pounds sterling, yet fared reasonably every day; victuals being so cheap in some of the countries through which I travelled, that I often lived competently for one penny a-day. Of that three pounds, I was actually cozened out of ten shillings, by certain evil Christians of the Armenian nation; so that in reality I only expended fifty shillings in all that time. I have been in a city of this country called Detee,[249] where Alexander the Great ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr
... under the consideration of the Society, anatomy, chemistry, and the different branches of natural history, will share with the numerous departments of physical science, in claiming to be represented by persons competently skilled in those subjects. These claims being satisfied, but few places will be left to fill up with mathematicians, astronomers, and persons conversant with ...
— Decline of Science in England • Charles Babbage
... heaven: but being given assuredly to understand that the way is not less open to the most ignorant than to the most learned, and that the revealed truths which lead to heaven are above our comprehension, I did not presume to subject them to the impotency of my reason; and I thought that in order competently to undertake their examination, there was need of some special help from heaven, and ...
— A Discourse on Method • Rene Descartes
... a statement of the "six dangers" to which the country is exposed, an appeal to the Assembly to act more reasonably and competently, and ...
— Appearances - Being Notes of Travel • Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
... impossible to use the weapon that a former kindness had placed in his hand. He looked at Leverich now with an expression which the latter quieted himself to meet. This was a situation, not for bluster and rage, but to be competently grappled with. ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various |
