How To Use Prowess In A Sentence

So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
DESPITE his great attacking prowess and capacity to find the net fairly on a regular basis, he does not come across as a penalty taker. The Sun
It is true - his oratorial skills are only matched by his prowess as an actor!
He added that irrespective of technical prowess, security consulting required more than just technical skills.
Unfortunately it was merely the not inconsiderable technical prowess of his dancers that Page showed off in his emotionally inexpressive choreography.

You are applauded for your professional prowess and dexterity in a business venture.
However he was very popular with the lords and chieftains of his day as he stayed in their castles and manors and wrote of their prowess and lineage.
The American scientist was to be prized not just for intellectual prowess, but technical facility.
This may be a first for international diplomacy: a world leader bragging about the prowess of his nation's hookers. Times, Sunday Times
The success of this cosmopolitan mollusk has much to do with its prowess as a swash rider.
Those who feel that obvious displays of intellectual prowess involving references to archaeology, pataphysics and other arcana have no place on a rock record may have trouble with this sort of thing.
Inasmuch as you are more noble than others by birth, so should you be more noble than they by virtues," adding that, "few great men have gained renown for prowess and virtue who did not entertain love for some dame or damoiselle. Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French.
This album exposes him as an unremarkable singer, largely devoid of charisma or vocal prowess.
If prowess at the game comes down to memorising a list of meaningless two and three letter words that are only barely considered English, then the language itself becomes secondary, in which case why not play flipping sudoku?
The martlet signifies nobility acquired through bravery, prowess or intelligence. On English arms it was a mark of cadency signifying the fourth son, for whom there was little doubt that there would be no land left for him to inherit.
You can probably trace this to a lot of things at the time: emerging technology and the 3D rat race where everyone is showing off their tech prowess in centimeters and not yards; the assumption leftover from the sparsely-populated 8-bit days that the consumer would spend at least all month with a single game ... Great Big Bites
The researchers cautioned that the study only predicts the likelihood that a child will be predisposed to physical prowess.
And Iott's and the Wikings 'whitewashed account of their military prowess is beyond absurd. Rich Iott -- a Nazi bit of reenacting work
Up to this juncture Pat was a heavy smoker, lived life to the full and certainly showed no athletic prowess.
And his fame has nothing whatsoever to do with his prowess on the football field or in the political arena.
Moyes is the referee, which is just as well as the fixture generally has a bit of needle to it: the veterans needing to continually reassert their prowess over the younger generation.
Kudos to this dancer for thinking beyond the customary perception of affording Rama the superlative prowess; thereby questioning his viability to be worshipped.
On the surface, they seem like one of those typical, progressive rock supergroup offshoots where each band member gets to show off their instrumental prowess.
It's not possible to read Paul's New Testament writings and remain unmoved by his open heart, intellectual prowess and staggering bravery. John Shore: Toward a Christianity of Common Sense
Our style of cooking is not an elaborate, cheffy prowess. Times, Sunday Times
He finished twelfth and always said that he wished he had been selected in 1956 when conditions better suited his prowess in heavy weather. Times, Sunday Times
The Channel Tunnel is a marvellous achievement of engineering prowess that has brought the UK closer to the European mainland than ever before, although some would say that isn't a good thing. Web TV Hub
For all that Netanyahu's innate arrogance and self-aggrandisement was laid bare by the contents of the nine-year-old recording, the collective shrugging of shoulders implies that few expected anything else from a man who has been boasting of his own political prowess throughout his tumultuous career. Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker
Cricketers around the country know all about his prowess, although Ricky Ponting could be excused for having hardly heard of him.
There is a curious, arguably perverse, symbiosis in football between physical prowess and serious injury which remains unexamined.
The automotive conquest of a continent, with all the empowering industrialization and economic prowess needed to eroticize and politicize the automobile and the road, remains the greatest collaboration between the poet-artist and the engineer. G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God
There was his sporting prowess: Rob had won the Victor Ludorum in his matriculation year. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
The cold was no match for these paragons of athletic prowess and goodwill.
They originated from the practice of clan members meeting regularly to test their physical prowess in preparation for battle - but no-one is sure who invented tossing the caber.
Appa the comrade was one such character, which really put to test his histrionic prowess.
Even in the middle of their bloodstained feudal period, in the year 597 B. C.-forty-six years before Confucius was born-Prince Chuang of the State of Ch'u, proclaimed: "The ideograph for 'prowess' is made up of the signs 'to stay' and a 'Spear' -- in other words, the cessation of hostilities. Two Thousand Years of Democracy
Yet they have the ability, potential, talent and prowess to go for big scores.
Ah, said the knight, that is the best knight I trow in the world, and the most man of prowess, and he hath been served so as he was even more than ten times, and his name hight Sir Pelleas, and he loveth a great lady in this country and her name is Ettard. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
The children at the end of the camp took part in a competition to show their prowess and several of them won prizes.
Their skill and prowess showed that The Apprentice could be about good business practice. Times, Sunday Times
This muscle group deserves all the attention heaped on it in pursuit of physical prowess. Times, Sunday Times
Celebrity scandalmonger Perez Hilton has described the naked crispbread dancing prowess displayed by the four boys from BorlÃ¤nge as “one of the best Talent auditions ever.” P2pnet World Headlines – April 21, 2009
This may be a first for international diplomacy: a world leader bragging about the prowess of his nation's hookers. Times, Sunday Times
The couple has fallen on hard times financially and has bought Spartacus hoping his fighting prowess will help them regain their status in the brutal world of gladiatorial contests.
Yet for all his manifest intellectual prowess, he made no single major discovery. Times, Sunday Times
The attractive girls get up in each other's grilles and talk smack about their cheerleading prowess.
D darkness of calamity dash of eccentricity dawning of recognition day of reckoning daylight of faith decay of authority declaration of indifference deeds of prowess defects of temper degree of hostility delicacy of thought delirium of wonder depth of despair dereliction of duty derogation of character despoiled of riches destitute of power desultoriness of detail [desultoriness = haphazard; random] device of secrecy devoid of merit devoutness of faith dexterity of phrase diapason of motives [diapason = full, rich, harmonious sound] dictates of conscience difference of opinion difficult of attainment dignity of thought dilapidations of time diminution of brutality disabilities of age display of prowess distinctness of vision distortion of symmetry diversity of aspect divinity of tradition domain of imagination drama of action dream of vengeance drop of comfort ductility of expression dull of comprehension duplicities of might dust of defeat Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
The evidence pointed to a sharp decline in guerrilla prowess.
Pyramid developed a general of unusual prowess called Tezozomoc, and under his leadership the Cactus People extended their fringe of feudatory states almost to Guadalajara. Mexico
[Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9.cap. l2.] continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished and ouerthrowen: The words are these; Ab ipso verò die tertiæ feriæ dum sic in superbia et elatione suæ multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, et multis armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, sexta feria appropinquante. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I
Her athletic prowess was demonstrated in the numerous track and field trophies she won.
Birman's insight that the Soviet Union was far weaker than it seemed from its military prowess was implicitly adopted by Ronald Reagan when he famously predicted in 1982 that "freedom and democracy will leave Marxism and Leninism on the ash heap of history. Right From the Start
The less we have in physical prowess or other abilities, the stronger the challenge to overcome.
Imagine a warrior society in which only martial prowess and accomplishment confer status and reward.
Ontario has crews that are second to none in terms of their skills and technological prowess.
How he maintains his athletic prowess is a subject of fascination among his fans and consternation among his opponents.
There was more, but what the world will remember is: "Andrew's prowess is legendary. Dan Collins: Carl Paladino Likes It Hot
He was already dreaded for his prowess in argument, his dictatorial manners and vivid flashes of wit and humour, the more effective from the habitual gloom and apparent heaviness of the discourser. Samuel Johnson
Naturally, the way to Penelope's heart is to show off a prowess in shooting, roping and riding.
We had to admire his prowess as an oarsman / his rowing prowess.
Some songs were clearly tailor-made to showcase his guitar prowess, namely a bombastic take on "Big Love" and a searing, extended solo on "I'm So Afraid. Boston.com Most Popular
This noted personage is a Eutaw by birth, but forsook his own people and joined the Py-Euts, after he became a man, and by his prowess and bravery, acquired such an ascendency over the tribe of his adoption, as to become their principal chief. Life in the Rocky Mountains
Much credit must be given to Iago's diabolical prowess which enables him to bend and twist the supple minds of his friends and spouse.
Talbott said the jamboree is a celebration of rugged individualism that manifests itself in the way a person steps up to a challenge, as well as athletic prowess. Billingsgazette.com
He is jealous of their prowess, and those qualities together in this time could be the biggest asset that we have in leadership.
I'm betting a well-paid lawyer will help them skate through the legal system with the prowess of a large corporation…
The axe almost weighs as much as him, but seven-year-old Weston does not let that stop him prove his woodchop prowess.
This easily could have been an excruciating polemic of real world issues, but any heavy-handedness is precluded by the author's expert storytelling and world building prowess. REVIEW: Under the Dome by Stephen King
The incredible speed which Maximin exerted in his flight is much more celebrated than his prowess in the battle. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
His puck-handling prowess can cause him to get overconfident or rattled by elements such as a kink in the boards of a road arena.
He leaves listeners entirely convinced that his 18-year-old striker is morphing into a multi-faceted performer possessing the prowess, but none of the pretensions, synonymous with the game's most coveted wunderkinds.
It's another example of how Ives associated dissonance and technical demands with masculinity, overcoming challenges, and prowess on the baseball field.
I counter with my stories of the hunting prowess of spiders and ants.
Though Ilantar had little love for the Isaad and their sinister lord, he respected their prowess in battle.
In a world where magic dominates and where broken limbs can be mended within seconds, physical prowess is a lot less valued than in our "muggle" world. Harry Potter, the jock
The only difference between the "religious" donations of a standard-deduction - taker and a Schedule-A - filer is rent-seeking prowess. Taxes vs. Philanthropy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
No other sport combines athletic prowess with linguistic dexterity. Times, Sunday Times
It is the academic prowess or skill that speaks, not the physical appearance of the beneficiary.
Confident in their military prowess, they preferred to try the arbitrament of war.
But his prowess in distance running proved his undoing. Times, Sunday Times
What signifieth whole that3 but, be all the prowess of ten, ’tis as strange to relate he, nonparile to rede, rite and reckan, caught allmeals dullmarks for his nucleuds and alegobrew. Finnegans Wake
As hunting success became an index of personal or professional worth, intense competition developed over the testimonials of prowess.
Damas, are called an orgulous knight, and full of villainy, and not worth of prowess your deeds, therefore I will that ye give unto your brother all the whole manor with the appurtenance, under this form, that Sir Ontzlake hold the manor of you, and yearly to give you a palfrey to ride upon, for that will become you better to ride on than upon a courser. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
The key to his prowess was timing, often heading upwards into the roof of the net. Times, Sunday Times
A combination of their trade patterns, naval power, and military prowess led to the largest empire the world has seen. Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy
The purist view is that sport is about sport and any interest in a female competitor for any reason other than her sporting prowess is wrong. Times, Sunday Times
Family connection and military prowess ensured his appointment as marshal, but his Gascon temperament did not make him a comfortable relative.
Their major preoccupation is to see the end of 'Lost' before their neighbour, who is still watching the first series, so that they can feel superior in their technological prowess. The End Of The Cycle
The oddest derivation of all is perhaps Plymouth Argyle, chosen because the two young men who started the club were impressed with the footballing prowess of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who were billeted in the town.
It was fortunate for me that I had my "Noctes Ambrosianæ" along, for when I had exhausted my praise of the surrounding glories of nature, my bookseller would not converse with me; so I opened my book and read to him that famous passage between Kit North and the Ettrick Shepherd, wherein the shepherd discourses boastfully of his prowess as a piscator of sawmon. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
Ms. Resnick's hallmark is her marketing prowess, which she used to turn a little-eaten fruit into a product known to millions. Regulator Sues Pomegranate Juice Maker
Mason's prowess in a Hawk trainer moved one of his instructors to observe that the writer was wasted as a journalist.
Holland also has developed a means of measuring each sales rep's forecasting prowess.
But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement. Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
The problem with Barack Obama is that sometimes he lynches himself, not with the illusions of grandeur regarding legal prowess or being persecuted by The Left (or progressives) like Clarence Thomas (a beneficiary of affirmative action), but by believing that he is a race-neutral figure (because he is "biracial" -) and not openly challenging racists and racist socioeconomic/political systems. Question for Barack Obama: Do You Feel the Noose Tightening?
Stuart exhibited what is known in America as "airiness," and evidently loved to talk of his prowess. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
The primates attained their dominant positions through a combination of military skill, physical prowess, and personal magnetism.
This was due partly to her hats and partly to her remarkable prowess as a lady cricketer.
Remember, your value to a magazine isn't only your prowess or popularity as a musician.
Boston University archeologist Kathryn Bard and her colleagues are uncovering the oldest remnants of seagoing ships and other relics linked to exotic trade with a mysterious Red Sea realm called Punt ... the team led by Bard and an Italian archeologist, Rodolfo Fattovich, started uncovering maritime storerooms in 2004, putting hard timber and rugged rigging to the notion of pharaonic deepwater prowess. Latest Articles
The outer shape apparently evolved before some microscopic changes that may play a role in penguin's underwater prowess. Inkayacu Paracasensis: Giant 'Water King' Penguin, 5 Feet Tall, Discovered In Peru From 36 Million Years Ago
Deborah Willis celebrates the alterative body of a black female body-builder: hard-muscled and tattooed, the woman's physical prowess is evident through the close-up of her contoured back and torso.
Then the team led by Bard and an Italian archeologist, Rodolfo Fattovich, started uncovering maritime storerooms in 2004, putting hard timber and rugged rigging to the notion of pharaonic deepwater prowess. Boston.com Most Popular
When he returned, despite his academic prowess, his social ability was about 10 years behind.
These factors, he claimed, were an indicator of the industrial prowess of a nation.
He has the hook-singing prowess of Nate Dogg, a Southern drawl perfect for slowly cruising the strip with the top down and a talent for drawing humor from pharmacological, scatological and copulative raps. Nightlife Agenda: Paul Oakenfold, Michael Mayer and outdoor parties
Militia units, particularly elite volunteer regiments, used the occasion to march in parades and display their military prowess and social standing.
He was famous for his prowess as an athlete.
Over the last 16 years I have time and again witnessed the undoubted courage and fighting prowess of the Afghans.
Let's hope that the remaining garden shows go all out to beat their predecessors in culinary skill if not theatrical prowess.
He finds himself drawn on a journey involving phrenology, the dodgy science of determining mental prowess from bumps on the head, involving a machine called a psychograph.
You can probably trace this to a lot of things at the time: emerging technology and the 3D rat race where everyone is showing off their tech prowess in centimeters and not yards; the assumption leftover from the sparsely-populated 8-bit days that the consumer would spend at least all month with a single game ... Great Big Bites
Many pundits of the time tried to explain Jewish basketball prowess as biological: Jews were naturally more dexterous and had greater intrinsic athletic ability than non-Jews. A Renegade History of the United States
But your literary prowess is too circuitously authenticated to admit of any punctilious commendation from my debilitated pen, and under its umbrageous recess, serenely segregated, from the malapert and hypochondriachal vapours of myopic critics (as I am no acromatic philosopher) I trust every solecism contained in this autographical epistle will find a salvable retirement. Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
He is tiresomely interested in his prowess as a box-maker, or a boxster, or whatever it is in athletic parlance. A Fool and His Money
Yet in recent years only new Labour has successfully harnessed sporting prowess to a political programme. Times, Sunday Times
This enthusiastic interest in the “latest word” of European Marxism is one of the main reasons for Bolshevism’s later revolutionary prowess.
Based on a real story from 1937, the drama is about an ambitious teacher who seeks to awaken his spiritual prowess through visiting a tohunga.
With Braveheart, Mel Gibson demonstrated his prowess as a natural-born director.
He has now stopped his medical practice and is making use of his literary prowess to pen down useful material that is of some value to society.
The son of Telamon of Salamis and a warrior of great stature and prowess who fought against Troy.
The primates attained their dominant positions through a combination of military skill, physical prowess, and personal magnetism.
From there he won a scholarship to a leading public school, where his sporting prowess blossomed. The Sun
But his athletic prowess dovetailed with his particular experiences, and his body, for him, acquired almost magical power.
In a contest of marine, engineering prowess, SCUBA designers (the best from around the world) were asked to submit a SCUBA device to take its user to the deepest depths for the longest amount of time, with a maximum amountof user efficiency. Altered Realities
His virtue, physical prowess, and most importantly his desire to acquire superlative objects from Europe and elsewhere, are manifested in this magnificent display of arms and armour.
At no time did the games disintegrate into one-man shows of polo prowess.
The Gurkhas are famed for their prowess in battle.
BOTTOM LINE: One of the best original anthologies ever edited by Ellen Datlow - a high compliment indeed, given her prowess as an anthologist. REVIEW: Poe edited by Ellen Datlow
But now, at the present moment, he was unwilling to make essay of his prowess as a cragsman. Tales of all countries
Moreover, he hath seven daughters, who in valour and prowess equal and even excel their sisters,66 and he hath made the eldest of them, the damsel whom thou sawest,67 queen over the country aforesaid and who is the wisest of her sisters and in valour and horsemanship and craft and skill and magic excels all the folk of her dominions. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Howland was a brave man; he had already showed both strength and prowess when, washed overboard in a "seel" of the ship, and carried fathoms deep in mid-ocean, he caught the topsail-halyards swept over with him and clung to them until he was rescued in spite of the raging wind and waves that repeatedly dragged him under; nor in the face of savage foe, or savage beast, or peril by land or sea, was John Howland ever known less than the foremost; but now in face of this angry woman he found naught to say, and blushing and stammering and half laughing fairly turned and ran away, springing up the stairs to the elevated deck cabins, in one of which Elder Brewster and his family had their lodging. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims
; and she answered, I desired to prove thy prowess afield and test thy doughtiness in tilting and jousting. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
While it won't be clear until Election Day, the state Democratic Party's fundraising prowess is expected to give it a significant edge in organizing and capitalizing on its early-voting effort. Parties rev up political machinery in Maryland to boost early voting turnout
I was perusing the latest issue of one of those male magazines, you know the type - glossy, cover shots of half naked nubile females and banner headlines screaming guarantees of hitherto unpossessed sexual prowess and financial muscle.
Card-guessing tricks give a magician the opportunity to show off his or her mind-reading prowess.
There we forgathered in the summer evenings and of a Saturday afternoon in winter, and told mighty tales of our prowess and flattered our silly hearts. Prester John
She has not been engaged in a business activity to exploit her sporting prowess or to turn her talent to account in money.
Mrs. Tuitt's prowess and achievement at the sport of netball is another huge claim to fame which elevates her above the ordinary.
Here are some situations for you to test your prowess at these skill areas. Times, Sunday Times
Just in time for the Anzac weekend, the General will be displaying his turntable prowess and lyrical powers as he spins the latest dancehall hits from Jamaica.
When battleships showed their prowess, submarines and torpedo boats were devised.
He is agile in the field and also possesses accurate throwing prowess from the deep.
The band attained renown for the players' high level of technical prowess.
Indeed, so confident is Indian big business of its new economic prowess that it believes it will be better able to suborn Pakistan through the establishment of a South Asian free trade than by the BJP's sabre-rattling.
Is it a flamboyant mockery of colonial history and military prowess? Times, Sunday Times
And at Sneek, in the church of St. M.rtin, is buried a giant of more renown and prowess -- Peter van Heemstra, or "Lange Pier" as he was called from his inches, a sea ravener of notable ferocity, whose two-handed sword is preserved at Leeuwarden -- although, as M. Havard says, what useful purpose a two-handed sword can serve to an admiral on a small ship baffles reflection. A Wanderer in Holland
His cricketing prowess had not gone unnoticed when he was selected to tour India.
It is no exaggeration to say that some of the actions of the packets and their dauntless crews recall the palmy days of Elizabethan naval prowess and exploits such as that of the immortal _Revenge_. The Cornwall Coast
She writes extremely logically with fine analytical and synthetical prowess about the subjects she covers in her journalism and exhibits courage and wide experience: some first hand - and some garnered from obviously reliable sources. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Jocks respect physical prowess and look down on unfit people for being weak and lazy.
She frightened the hell out of the entire male staff with her rampaging sexual prowess and bandy legs.
Dumby's spectacular football prowess has been spotted by a city talent scout, which sets up the need for him to win Best Player in the final against a much stronger team.
We prefer to use our own locomotive prowess to enjoy the countryside in all its peace and quiet and natural beauty.
The sagas represent him very much as a henpecked husband, and the likely origin of his nickname is both murkier and less glorious than the obvious explanation of his prowess in battle.
The couple has fallen on hard times financially and has bought Spartacus hoping his fighting prowess will help them regain their status in the brutal world of gladiatorial contests.
But the real test of athletic prowess comes with the mobile phone throwing competition, where contestants attempt to chuck the handsets as far as possible from a standing start.
But unless one is simply an adamant disarmer or thinks that nuclear weapons are totally irrelevant in light of America's current conventional and technological prowess, dropping the triad just does not make sense. News
He was called a valiant and a hardy man and did so much by his prowess, that under the banner of the earl of Moray he did such valiantness in arms, that the Scots had marvel thereof, and so was slain in fighting: the Scots would gladly have taken him alive, but he would never yield, he hoped ever to have been rescued. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
Zaren on the other hand was not a demigod, and Tsuko had not foreseen his great battle prowess.
And her composure in front of the camera has been as striking as her athletic prowess. Times, Sunday Times
“The High Line was actually reacting to us, as we moved forward,” concurred Standard architect Todd Schliemann, whom Mr. Balazs selected for the complicated project based on his nonuniform sensibilities and technical prowess. The Last Cool Building
You are applauded for your professional prowess and dexterity in a business venture.
The grey heron's sheer prowess as a hunter has made it one of the most widespread predatory birds in the world.
Then he reassured himself: women tended to be palliated by his abundant affection when his prowess faltered, rather frequently these days.
[6] Innumerable are the names which might be cited here of religious who have given proofs of the keenest patriotism, defending the islands with the cross in one hand and the sword in the other: Father Agustín de San Pedro, a discalced Augustinian, called "Father Captain" for his prowess against the Mindanao Moros; the no less famous Father Pascual The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
An antediluvian civilization, thriving and technologically advanced prior to the flood, managed to survive the flood due to their technological prowess.
Greek gods like Priapus are known for nothing else but their sexual and procreative prowess.
For such a rendering would in a measure constitute a kind of superlative (K.S. 309 1), but a superlative that bears the meaning that even Yahweh was impressed by this hunter's prowess and achievements -- a thought that strikes us as involving a rather trivial conception of God. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
[Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9.cap. l2.] continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished and ouerthrowen: The words are these; Ab ipso ver� die terti� feri� dum sic in superbia et elatione su� multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, et multis armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, sexta feria appropinquante. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
This is another expression of Dorian contempt for Ionian prowess; see Appendix H, Dialects and Ethnic Groups, ©8. THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
Greaves, a goal-scorer of legendary prowess, is one of the greatest footballers ever to grace the English game.
He boasted of his prowess as a lover.
We have seen on TV displays of miraculous masculine prowess.
A workbench is a testament to your building prowess and can also be a source of bragging rights. Tool Collecting
Padraic will also be remembered for his prowess on the football field.
Is it a flamboyant mockery of colonial history and military prowess? Times, Sunday Times
But second, those we're recruiting who are good men and women are definitely at a lower level of mental ability than we used to when we want to transform our Army, our military, for a more technologically prowessed ability. CNN Transcript Aug 12, 2007
Despite, or maybe because of, their acrobatic prowess, owning one has always had a certain nerdiness attached to it. The Folding Bike Goes Cool
By donating large amounts of money, wealthy individuals are able to signal their economic prowess.
Big Tom, the village boys called him; and well they might, for he was a staunch, burly fellow, who looked as if he could crush an Indian in each hand -- not that he had ever had an opportunity to perform that remarkable feat, for Tom Hennessy had but recently arrived from a large town in the East; but he _looked_ as if he could do it; and, therefore, had credit for any amount of prowess and strength. Po-No-Kah An Indian Tale of Long Ago
I was perusing the latest issue of one of those male magazines, you know the type - glossy, cover shots of half naked nubile females and banner headlines screaming guarantees of hitherto unpossessed sexual prowess and financial muscle.
The actor and stuntmen obviously have the skills to pay the bills and don't have to rely on clever cuts and camera work to falsely bolster their ass-kicking prowess.
The performers displayed their physical prowess in the most acrobatic style.
He finds just enough courage to annoy Billy Jack and get his throat crushed in an awesome display of Billy Jack's prowess in the martial arts.
Gorgeous models he met through the magazine, high priced call girls with sophisticated sexual prowess he had brought them all to the seclusion of his apartment for a steamy evening of sex.
As the navigator's equivalent of adventurer with a pelorus, she has endeared herself to the ship's company with her prowess on the bridge and her stamina ashore.
She was not prepared to give even the benefit of the doubt over the question of the mob's fighting prowess.
Animal figures are talismans that endow the wearer with the animal's power and prowess.
It was possible for young men of relatively low status to make a mark through their prowess, but in general the participants were already of noble or at least knightly birth.
This muscle group deserves all the attention heaped on it in pursuit of physical prowess. Times, Sunday Times
Bemoaning the state of British arts in general, she animadverted concerning our undoubted satirical prowess: "It's easy for us, it's what we do? we just lift an arse cheek and out it comes. Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
It made not a jot of difference to his stallion prowess. Times, Sunday Times
Too often, the country seems to be engrossed in a mythic, heroic narrative of patriotic, martial prowess.
For all that Netanyahu's innate arrogance and self-aggrandisement was laid bare by the contents of the nine-year-old recording, the collective shrugging of shoulders implies that few expected anything else from a man who has been boasting of his own political prowess throughout his tumultuous career. Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker
Soon she has landed a job as assistant bursar, displaying a winning way with investments, and manages to get Jake enrolled in the college by exaggerating his rowing prowess.
They praised his earlship, his acts of prowess worthily witnessed: and well it is that men their master-friend mightily laud, heartily love, when hence he goes from life in the body forlorn away. RIP Duke Gyrth Oldcastle of Ravenspur
Then, the SPD team had to spell one more word correctly to affirm the result, and Leos - who on Wednesday predicted a win for the SPD team based on Stubbs's spelling prowess - correctly spelled the word, "madeleine" and it was over. The Gazette-Enterprise: News
For some reason the Border towns (in Scotland the term ‘border’ refers to the region north of the border with England) showed particular prowess in making sweeties.
Their striker demonstrated all his prowess with the boot.

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