expertness

Portland, with good natural abilities and great expertness in business, was no scholar.

To get that ordered life I had realised the need of organisation, knowledge, expertness, a wide movement of co-ordinated methods.

This accounts no less for the numbers they destroyed, to which the expertness of their marksmen chiefly contributed.

Owing to the remarkable expertness which her crew has acquired, it was possible to carry out three disembarcations this afternoon.

It is amusing, even now, to hear the boys laughing at their expertness with the spade.