How To Use Practised In A Sentence
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It occurred to Wyllard that Gregory had, at least, made no great success of farming; but that occupation, as practised on the prairie, demands a good deal more than quickness and what some call brilliancy from the man who undertakes it.
Hawtrey's Deputy
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The League Against Cruel Sports issued a statement Wednesday calling on Ottawa to "take steps to end the immense cruelty to animals in events such as calf-roping, which is practised at rodeos including the Calgary Stampede.
CTV BritishColumbiaHome
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The men practised various traditional crafts, such as carving toys out of bone.
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During the workshop, they each practised their part in the performance.
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Huguenots the free exercise of their religion only in the suburbs of one town in each bailiwick (bailliage), and in those places where it had been practised before the outbreak of hostilities and which they occupied at the current date.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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It is less practised among those Gikuyu who have been Europeanised or detribalised.
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Even in 1935 they were being sent an ‘astonishing amount of illiterate and unintelligent writing’, but practised readers spent little time on it.
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She performed the song with practised skill.
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As far as demonstrations go, it was no big deal and, with no reports of the well-practised Belgian police water cannons in action, it was a pretty tame affair.
Damned either way
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Just as he's an expert guide through the between-spaces of the city, so he's a practised navigator through different psychic spaces.
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The entire sequence was like a well-practised ritual that never varied.
LOST SUMMER
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She has practised upon my credulity with huge success.
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He was well-practised in the French form of boxing known as la savate.
Spell of Magic – Part 2 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
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Indeed, despite antecedent ideas and practices, modern acupuncture, with such strange aspects as electro - acupuncture, may never have existed in traditional China in anything like the form that it is practised today.
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He has been at hard-heads with the rogues and come off with advantage; in short, practised with success the art of drawing two souls out of one weaver. [
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
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The jury heard that when Vinall practised at Glebe House, Headingley, in the early 1990s no chaperones were provided for his patients.
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And tho’ I helped make many a parchment from the chosen lambs, I did all my writing practice in my wax tablet, for parchment is far too precious for aught but the practised scribe.
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She was a vegetarian and practised yoga.
Times, Sunday Times
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Religion is practised passionately with many a young boy aspiring to become a Buddhist monk.
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And as he looked at the unpractised mouth and lips, he thought that such a daughter of the soil could only have caught up the sentiment by rote.
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The Romans became practised at draining marshes to rid areas of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
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Infant male circumcision as practised by the Jews occurs on the eighth day after birth.
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Fake contraceptive technology manipulates women in ways that we are coming to condemn when they are practised on members of other species.
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The recruits have just returned from their two-week camp in Otterburn where they practised their military skills and fieldcraft.
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The direct transfer of wealth and material from conquered peoples, as practised by the Romans, the British, and even the Russians after 1945, just hasn't happened.
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He faced the television cameras with practised ease.
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The Rostrevor man's shirt was stretched and pulled by the Tyrone captain before Canavan bought the free with practised skill.
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These were individuals who practised traditional Japanese arts such as ikebana or Kabuki theatre "in a supreme way".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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They who had practised penances and observed excellent vows for amrita now seemed to be eager seekers after amrita (celestial ambrosia).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
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Outsourcing and subcontracting were rarely practised and much work was done locally.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the chiefs still practised the old ways, the custom of hunakele, and hid the bones of the aliis where no men should find them and make fish-hooks of their jaws or arrow heads of their long bones for the slaying of little mice in sport.
THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
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The Press dilated speciously on the economy practised under the system and on its general advantageousness.
The Siege of Kimberley
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Bellingham practised as an insurance broker and his wife as a milliner.
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Essentially, the azad were itinerant mendicants who regularly practised extreme ascetic styles of religious devotion, as a mark of their ‘other worldliness.’
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I was determined to be a professional dancer, and practised for hours every day.
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Her signature was a complicated affair of practised flourishes.
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The defence was to be entrusted to the well-practised but now aged hands of that most experienced practitioner Mr Chaffanbrass, than whom no barrister living or dead ever rescued more culprits from the fangs of the law.
Phineas Redux
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Meanwhile, the responsibility of credit fund balance was practised, the institution of reserve ratio was built, and the economic leverage function of rate was performing.
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It is most important (and many unpractised performers fall down here) to relocate to a simply awful site - at the very least, a desperately uncomfortable sofa but, ideally, under a thin towel on the hard, freezing floor of the bathroom.
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Like a practised wine taster, she swilled the dark liquid around in her mouth then swallowed.
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We practised as attorneys-at-law in Johannesburg in a shabby building across the street from the Magistrates 'Court.
OLIVER TAMBO
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He tried to be all serious and sombre - but it was all a little too practised.
The Sun
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Tour discipline is another area that is well practised and thought out.
Times, Sunday Times
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The argument turned out to be of longer duration than normal, and Lucien practised with Jeopardy for seven consecutive days.
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Many also practised severe austerities, subjecting themselves to extremes of temperature, hunger and thirst, painful bodily distortions, and various other kinds of self-denial.
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Olympiodorus, in Photius's extracts, tells us of one Libanius, who practised this kind of military magic, and having promised [Greek: choris opliton kata barbaron energein] to perform great things against the Barbarians without soldiers, was, at the instances of the empress
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Ikebana is usually practised in contemplative silence, but on this tour it is accompanying a much noisier kind of meditation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not only was he a compelling teacher, he practised what he preached.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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It can be practised by units as small as a company or platoon, or as part of a major programme to protect an industrial site or air base.
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Practised with restraint, it proves useful, whereas in excess it leads to eccentricity and insociability. [
Michel de Montaigne
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The ability to tie a good knot in monofilament and braid lines is an ability to be cultivated and practised.
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His brother raised his eyebrows, his unpractised conceit filtering into his expression.
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An innate horror at the sight of a naked sword averted him from the most just of wars; while his favourite Buckingham practised on his weakness, and his own complacent vanity rendered him an easy dupe of
The Thirty Years War — Complete
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But, in a country where female infanticide is practised and baby girls abandoned in dustbins, women chief ministers in five States is, nonetheless, remarkable.
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For example, resurfacing of the patella with a patellar button is practised routinely, selectively, or not at all.
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Crafts such as lace making, weaving and woodwork are still practised but today it is the tourist market which keeps them going.
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But, although her preceptress practised these arts with a dexterity then only known in foreign convents, the pupil proved so incorrigibly idle and awkward, that the task of needlework was at length given up, and lessons of music substituted in their stead.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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The literary celebration of a city was just one of many stylistic exercises practised by Bruni and his humanist associates.
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Tattoo art is still considered a lower-class macho symbol, traditionally practised among yakuza and construction workers.
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I would love to add "the ability to abstain from long term practised masturbation.
Army Rumour Service
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Organic surface horizons are often thicker than 50 centimetres, and peat-cutting is practised in easily accessible areas around lochs and roads.
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Origami comes from Japan, where it is still widely practised.
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The strappado as described by Smollett, however, is a more severe form of torture even than that practised by the Inquisition, and we can only hope that his description of its brutality is highly coloured.
Travels through France and Italy
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The man of the most practised intellect is not exempt from the universal laws of our conceptive faculty.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
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Markham, who had produced a hypodermic syringe and a swab, wiped her arm and inserted the needle with practised skill.
LOADED QUESTIONS
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It might endanger other reporters to have it publicly known that this deception is practised.
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It is quite clear in the above exchange about Mr Woodhouse's gallantries that she knows she is galling Emma: she wants to gall her rival and does it with malicious and practised expertise.
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A good analogue is the Bacha Bazi practised in Northern Pakistan and the increasingly lovely Afghanistan some of our best are dying to protect.
Policing Pledge Response Times – The Ugly Truth! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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He strongly believed in the contents of the literature and practised the spells and conjurations elucidated in the texts.
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The rites that he practised were of an uncouth, barbarous, and unusual nature.
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I was so unpleasantly occupied, for some time after her departure, with the knaveries said to be practised among the dense cover of the Windmill Wood, that I did not immediately recollect that we had omitted to ask her any particulars about her guests.
Uncle Silas
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They say it's because they measure it for each pair of glasses, but that's rubbish; I can tell from their well-practised line: we don't give out pupillary distances.
On top of it, there's the poor sight headaches.
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He practised an applied moral and social philosophy in his attitude towards technology.
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I will promise thee this reward for thy labor: if thou consider well the actions of the world, thou shalt find him much practised by those that condemn him; who willingly would walk as theeves do with close lanternes in the night, that they being undescried, and yet seeing all, might surprise the unwary in the dark.
Machiavelli, Volume I
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Their battalions practised skirmishing on the glacis with that routine assiduity which is the secret of the German military success.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
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[Footnote 4: This tradition was told me by Tehua Indians, and some friends among the Queres subsequently confirmed it.] [Footnote 5: This fire-cure was still practised by the Queres not very long ago.]
The Delight Makers
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Torture was certainly practised by Europeans upon Europeans.
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No limit can be set to the forms of deception practised in the occult.
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Therefore, while the results of your education should stay with you forever, skills that are not practised are usually soon lost.
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In Wasps they face a team well practised in the art of winning when it matters.
Times, Sunday Times
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And three of those are well practised at thriving on catastrophe.
Times, Sunday Times
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He used to read palms and said he practised hypnotism.
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Now if we feel compelled to write in longhand we are embarrassed by the unpractised scrawl that we see appearing on the page in front of us.
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In the first instance it was shown that the use of so-called abortifacient drugs was extensively practised and was usually a first resort.
Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand
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In a wood-fired oven by the entrance a well-practised chef turns out gallettes auvergnates, delicate pizza-like tarts whose base is akin to water biscuit, whose top comprises ham, saucisson, cantal, mushrooms and egg.
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Serial monogamy is a common marriage pattern and polygyny is practised by a few.
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They tut-tut - if only he had a regular coach… if only he practised more… if only he would concentrate… And they are driving him potty.
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The practised glance flicked over her once again, appraising her in a different way.
COMPULSION
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Her signature was a complicated affair of practised flourishes.
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In the first, seven stings were given at the extremities, the middle segments being left untouched, and no malaxation was practised.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
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Their mix of flamboyance, lyricism and expert counterpoint suggest a well-practised compositional hand.
Times, Sunday Times
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She is a confident and practised speaker who always impresses her audience.
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Tour discipline is another area that is well practised and thought out.
Times, Sunday Times
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In their leisure time, though, whalemen often practised the art of scrimshaw, creating unique and beautiful works of art as well as practical and useful tools and implements.
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That they had not practised hard enough, despite weeks of meticulous preparation?
Times, Sunday Times
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I did not dress up in flouncy white dresses and veils, did not own bride dolls swathed on poufy white satin, did not walk my Barbie and Ken up imaginary aisles lined in flowing tulle or carry hairbrushes as bouquets as I practised the measured steps a bride is taught to take on her way to the alter where she will be joined with her husband-to-be.
Archive 2007-05-01
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Here he found himself almost equally helpless; for what male wit is adequate to the thousand little coquetries practised in such arrangements? how can masculine eyes judge of the degree of demi-jour which is to be admitted into a decorated apartment, or discriminate where the broad light should be suffered to fall on a tolerable picture, where it should be excluded, lest the stiff daub of a periwigged grandsire should become too rigidly prominent?
Saint Ronan's Well
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At school I was quite the womaniser, sending and receiving Valentine's cards with the practised air of a seasoned gigolo.
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Gorgias, it is said, was the first Orator who practised this species of _concinnity_.
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
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Acupuncture was practised in China as long ago as the third millennium BC.
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It is not an essential part of the route we are about to suggest, and we would rather decline the responsibility of recommending it to the attention of any one who is not a practised cragsman.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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They are terrified of Leninist politics, which is nothing more for them than realpolitik practised by Marxist intellectuals.
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The manufacture of catechu from the _Acacia catechu_ as practised in Canara and Behar, has been described by Mr. Kerr ( "Med.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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I practised throwing the shot in the orchard and I ran the 800m to national standard.
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The traditional method of combating intuitionalism from the time of John Locke to that of Herbert Spencer has been to present the reader with a list of cruel and abominable savage customs, ridiculous superstitions, acts of religious fanaticism and intolerance, which have all alike seemed self-evidently good and right to the peoples or individuals who have practised them.
Human Traits and their Social Significance
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The players practised in rain yesterday and the long range forecast for tomorrow is cloudy, showers in the morning, but clearing in the afternoon.
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In the 18th century, when journalism was in its swaddling-clothes, chantage was practised by means of pamphlets.
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Their wish to expand the audience probably emanates from their belief that poetry should be enjoyed and practised by everyone; that poetry needs to be liberated from stultifying analysis.
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Evidence would also show the pair had practised using homemade weapons both at Morrison's flat in Bridlington and in a woodyard where a silhouette target was found by police.
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But behind her vulnerable persona was a woman who was a ‘practised liar’ with a bent for sexual fantasy.
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Nordic walking is best practised on fairly smooth and level paths.
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We tried on matching tank tops and flares, and practised hairstyles from Honey magazine.
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A young lady of 26, of good heredity, from the age of 6 had only been attracted to her own sex, and even in childhood had practised mutual _cunnilinctus_.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
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He is a practised master at the art of schmoozing the media.
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Where he differs is in the specific massage and exercises practised on the gut.
Times, Sunday Times
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The exhibition highlights the many unique art styles practised in Nimbin, and walking into the gallery one is instantly drawn to the kaleidoscope of beautiful and interesting pieces.
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I lately learned that the principle of one of our newest concentrating machines, the Frue vanner, was known in India and the East centuries ago; and we have it on good authority -- that of Pliny -- that gold saving by amalgamation with mercury was practised before the Christian era.
Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
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Nor did they intend the unsustainable fiscal and monetary profligacy practised by Latin American politicians during the same period.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The structural underpinnings of such skill areas as note taking, summary, and the writing-up of science experiments, are explained to the pupils and practised in authentic contexts.
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He asked a thousand questions could scarcely be persuaded but some sinister design was again practised against her, and it was with much difficulty he at length grew more reconciled and satisfied with the account he received.
The Castle of Wolfenbach
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Naturopathy is also practised at residential clinics, traditionally at or near spas.
Alternative Health Care for Children
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Meticulously researched, her new film is a romp through the history of burlesque, narrated by those who practised the form.
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In this new environment Achill customs and traditions were practised and even developed.
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'For _Ringbone_ neurotomy has been practised with perfect success, after blistering and firing had both failed, notwithstanding the work the animal had to perform afterwards was of the most trying nature' (_ibid_.).
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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It was that quality of courage that struck every one who saw him; it was not only that he feared, it seemed, no one and nothing, but that he went a step further than that, spending his life in defying every one and everything, as a practised dueller might challenge every one he met in order to keep his play in practice.
The Cathedral
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Indeed, so extensively was the hunting of deer practised that bows and arrows were often called kago-yumi and kago-ya (kago signifies "deer").
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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There was a time when the term slash and burn brought to mind a form of shifting cultivation practised from ancient times.
The Hindu - Front Page
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But she is unpractised in using it," Mitty interjected, with a meaningful look at Olly.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Each can manifest itself either as an attitude, an authentic way of relating to the world, or as a style, in which only the externals of the attitude are practised without attention to its inner dictates.
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The diaries are at the heart of much of this continuing interest, even when perhaps not obviously so, because of their dogged frankness about Mann's yearning and unpractised homosexuality.
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Organic surface horizons are often thicker than 50 centimetres, and peat-cutting is practised in easily accessible areas around lochs and roads.
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'For,' said he, 'I'm not what you would call a practised hand wi' a velocipede, and my feet are dinnled wi 'standin' in the snaw. '
Mr. Standfast
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The result is witchcraft practised as an occult art, operating primarily through spells and curses.
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His speech was a type of sermon: a few well-practised jokes to start, a commentary on selected verses followed by a call to commit.
"Heed the Goracle" « Climate Audit
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He has practised medicine for a year.
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But the Krasians hadn't heard; they were rushing about in a panic as the hoof beats and unpractised howls drew closer.
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In the 1960s several 'bibliographical' presses were established by those wishing, among other things, to teach the methods of textual transmission in the medium of print as practised in the handpress era.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand
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Yoga is practised for the same reason.
The Golden Thread - Asian experiences of post-Raj Britain
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At McCallie Military School he practised amateur taxidermy and grew lawn grass in his bedroom; he was expelled from Brown University after being caught with a woman in his rooms.
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The public service role of television news at the time of a major accident is fairly obvious and the private news channels now slip into it in a practised way.
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The following games are exclusively practised by girls: (1) Hup dik, 'whirling in pairs' (2) Phishpu hapu dik, 'whirling in pairs' (3) Aghavuli, 'hoping synchronising with clapping' (4)
Wither Chitrali folk games?
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I became," said the smith, "half partner, half domestic to a man of much skill and little substance, who practised the trade of a physicianer.
Kenilworth
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Most (though not all) Christian denominations today frown on the actual practice of any magic other than theurgy and that only as practised by qualified clergy.
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But the Krasians hadn't heard; they were rushing about in a panic as the hoof beats and unpractised howls drew closer.
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He was litigious, speculated cannily on the property market, hoarded grain in times of shortage and may have practised usury.
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However, the entryism practised by the British Trotskyists was guided by a completely different perspective.
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She was a practised swindler and took advantage of the old man's confiding nature.
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He practised the boys in football.
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Cauterization, scarification, erasion and excision are variously practised; the particular method depending, in great measure, upon the extent of the disease, the part involved, and other circumstances.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
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Meantime I practised terrible vocal exercises, chiefly consisting of a raucous "caw" something like a crow's favourite remark, and advocated by my teacher in elocution for no reason that I can now remember; and
Painted Windows
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His stint as a naval medical officer was the last time he actively practised medicine.
Times, Sunday Times
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In every city where Art is practised there are old gentlemen who never touched a pencil in their lives, but find the occupation and company of artists so agreeable that they are never out of the studios; follow one generation of painters after another; sit by with perfect contentment while Jack is drawing his pifferaro, or Tom designing his cartoon, and years afterwards when Jack is established in Newman
The Newcomes
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However, some of today's most widely practised religions began as stigmatized worship groups.
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Then there were exchanged certain melodious acerbities, which proved that these ladies had entered the lists on previous occasions, and that each was well practised in the other's methods of warfare.
In and out of Three Normady Inns
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So part of the essay attempts to identify the sort of praise and blame that can be practised in a dispassionate and clear-headed way, while junking the rest.
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Every day I practised for hours in burying forever the old Avis Everhard beneath the skin of another woman whom I may call my other self.
Chapter 19: Transformation
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His school practised secrecy and communalism making it hard to distinguish between the work of Pythagoras and that of his followers.
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In fact, there is a real example of depreciation accounting being practised alongside payments in lieu of depreciation.
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They say it's because they measure it for each pair of glasses, but that's rubbish; I can tell from their well-practised line: we don't give out pupillary distances.
On top of it, there's the poor sight headaches.
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Previous to the results of Minot's and Murphy's experiments the principal mode of treatment adopted, and one that was practised all over the world, was the giving of large doses of arsenic, while in serious cases it was also customary sometimes to resort to splenectomy, that is to say to removal of the spleen by an operation, or to blood transfusion, i.e. the transfer to the patient of blood from another person, a method that is still to be recommended at a critical stage in severe cases.
Physiology or Medicine 1934 - Presentation Speech
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The stang is of Saxon origin, and is practised in Lancashire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland, for the purpose of exposing a kind of gyneocracy, or, the wife wearing the galligaskins.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829
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I drew her down and we went to work sidestroke-like, while she nibbled and bit at my ears and chin and lips, gasping and shuddering like the expert trollop she was; I remember thinking, as she gave her final practised heave and sob, Susie was right: with another nineteen like this we'll be able to buy California after a year or two; maybe I'll stay about for a while.
Isabelle
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Dorries entered nursing in 1975 as a abecedarian at Warrington Accepted Hospital. 7 From 1978 to 1981, she practised as a nurse in both Warrington and Liverpool. 8 She claims to accept witnessed two adulterated terminations, an acquaintance that afflicted her attack to lower the foetal aborticide age. 6
Labour of Love
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‘Do come out of it,’ she coaxed, with a softness in her voice which any man but unpractised Swithin would have felt to be exquisite. ‘I feel that I have been so foolish as to put in your hands an instrument to effect my own annihilation.
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He was born in Hong Kong where he subsequently practised as a lawyer until his retirement.
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After lunch we formed up and practised our parade drill and made sure that everyone knew what was going on; when the time came for the real thing we were all ready for it.
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This is the first time in UK film that the hoodie gang, practised in petty crime, rather than snazzy gangsterism or striking violence, has been treated like big canvas outlaw antiheroes.
SXSW 2011: Joe Cornish on aliens, hoodies and Attack the Block
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In Ireland "dapping" with the green drake or the daddy-longlegs is practised from boats on most of the big loughs.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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Silkworm culture is practised in order to get silk.
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In time fresh quarrels developed about the practice of lay investiture of bishops, still practised in England, although prohibited by the papacy since the 1070s, and in 1103 Anselm again went into exile.
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They have practised the signature and the showstopper bakes, but when they lift that checked cloth and look at the technical challenge, they are in agony.
The Sun
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The origins of many of the religions practised here remain shrouded in obscurity.
Times, Sunday Times
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In preparation for urban warfare, the soldiers practised responding to a vehicle ambush, clearing buildings and attacking enemy positions.
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The pair practised a couple of courts apart yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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I personally had practised yoga and meditation and at times was quite dedicated.
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They practised relentless and insidious indoctrination.
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He found that he had been practised on.
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Even though bouldering can be practised alone you shouldn't underestimate the importance of an experienced climbing partner.
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It then transpired that the delay was caused by the Emperor's having suddenly intimated that he expected Prince Chun to make thrice to him, as he sat on his throne at Potsdam, the “kotow” as practised in the Court of China.
William of Germany
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The average size of holding is between 3 and 6 ha, and below 3000 m irrigation is practised.
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Today, traditional art forms are practised alongside painting, photography, theatre and film.
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The library maintains and restores its collection in its bindery, where skills like paper making, hand-marbling, gilding and binding are practised.
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He would meet, when need be, the grim-visaged monster of dissolution with the dignity of a stoic, but by habit disdained not to dodge the shadow with the practised agility of a filcher and scamp.
Under the Rose
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The old lady has practised a lot at drawing and she is now a famous painter.
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Unsuitable large-scale farming is also being practised in some areas such as the Praslin watershed where bananas are grown for export.
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The art of mnemonics is insufficiently taught, and when practised by novices is apt to lead to confusion: witness the crude prep. -school chestnut about Mrs. Lummock and Mrs. Kelly.
Try Anything Twice
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Once finished, I scribbled a short note to him underneath, in the unpractised hand of a man who rarely writes, and folded it over.
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She practised for days until she could shoot straight.
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It is most important (and many unpractised performers fall down here) to relocate to a simply awful site - at the very least, a desperately uncomfortable sofa but, ideally, under a thin towel on the hard, freezing floor of the bathroom.
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Not only was he a compelling teacher, he practised what he preached.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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Every kind of licentious language and actions was practised in the worship of these deities, accompanied with a frantic rage called orgies, from the Greek word for _rage_.
The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861)
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That they had not practised hard enough, despite weeks of meticulous preparation?
Times, Sunday Times
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Search through Christendom, lengthways and breadthways, there was not a public usage, an institution, an economy, which more profoundly slept in the sunshine of divine favor or of civil prosperity, than the peculiar mode authorized and practised in Scotland of appointing to every parish its several pastor.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2
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In Wasps they face a team well practised in the art of winning when it matters.
Times, Sunday Times
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In summer, we went swimming in the Barrow every day, and swam until we were blue with the cold, our teeth chattering as we practised for competitions.
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Naturopathy is also practised at residential clinics, traditionally at or near spas.
Alternative Health Care for Children
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The ethical debate that underlies the legal and medical practice of female foeticide as practised in clinics is mockingly addressed in the family planning initiatives that have ironically triggered it.
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endwise" by Mr. Hurley's practised fists after Hayne was struck down by the corporal's musket.
The Deserter
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Hyde Park Corner article, and not the old "shandrydan" with which some remote squatter might at times have galloped into town, poising himself with practised and needed adroitness on nature's bush track, behind a pair or more of the hundreds of nags on his run.
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
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Once in, we practised a few exercises (compass, orientation, cramp removal) and began our descent.
