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• But ability is necessary. (16)
• His ability was undoubted. (8)
• His ability to speak was tasked. (10)
• Not a career for a man of his ability. (8)
• I have a moderate ability, immense devotion. (10)
• I might see things clearer if I had a fine ability. (10)
• He was a Latin scholar and scientific writer of no mean ability. (18)
• She had a distinct ability; the good ambition to use her qualities. (10)
• Business ability is the secret of monetary success in Greater Grub Street. (16)
• His ability to silence her was great: she could not reply to speech like that. (10)
• To show his ability, Strauss had to conduct, without rehearsal, his Serenade, Op. (3)
• Buoyant, convinced of his own ability, he saw the office crowded with commissions! (13)
• I admit that success often depends on my ability to save them from immediate need. (12)
• He was a most prolific writer and can be compared in ability and style to Palestrina. (3)
• A thrill of satisfaction swept her in reflecting that her ability to reason was thus active. (10)
• Sir Lukin hurried up to Redworth, who had no doubt of his ability to manage Mr. Sullivan Smith. (10)
• Szumowska-Adamowska=, before mentioned as a pupil of Paderewski, are all pianists of great ability. (3)
• Of this he was ignorant in his high school and his college days, and he was confident of his ability. (16)
• He is a gentleman; he has more ability than most young men: he can do anything he sets his mind to do. (10)
• They all have faith in their cause and in their ability to redeem their obligations when the war ends. (18)
• What ability or skill the Great Man brought from his province may be only the foundation for real work. (16)
• He has, therefore, believed excessively in his ability to make use of her, and to counteract her baseness. (10)
• An Irishman of real ability, he had started life with high ideals and a belief that he could live with them. (8)
• But what were the Fates about when they planted a man of the ability of Tom Redworth in a Government office! (10)
• But people have come to seek me out for so many years that I have lost the impulse and ability to go to them. (12)
• That is why people of ability like Mrs Mountstuart see so little; they are so bent on describing brilliantly. (10)
• Aminta noted it as a mark of superior ability, and she had the envy of the complex nature observing the simple. (10)
• He was cultivated, well read in philosophy and science; he possessed considerable literary and critical ability. (3)
• And you can count upon me to aid and abet you in your generous conspiracy, Mrs. March, to the best of my ability. (9)
• If there, is any point on which he has not convinced my reason it is that of our ability to walk this narrow way alone. (9)
• How would the world go round, how could Society exist, without common-sense, practical ability, and the lack of sympathy? (8)
• A quiet evening with a scholarly man, and a man of strong practical ability and shrewdness, like Mr. Temple, did me good. (10)
• True, there is still opportunity in small towns for editorial courage and ability; William Allen White has demonstrated that. (16)
• To the best of my ability I will provide for him: but I sincerely desire to disconnect you from those who are unworthy of you. (10)
• My ability of distressing you during my life would be a species of revenge to which I could hardly stoop under any circumstances. (4)
• Whereas he was formerly all enthusiasm about his plot with Arnold, he now began to be doubtful and suspicious of his own ability. (18)
• After brilliant concert tours through Europe, he came to America, in 1889, with Sarasate, where his ability was at once recognized. (3)
• The disappointed critic of ability knows that the truth is what stings, and if he seeks disagreeable truth, at least he seeks truth. (16)
• Not long ago there arrived on Park Row for the first time in his life a newspaper reporter of conspicuous ability along a certain line. (16)
• The superior vocal ability of the Italians was acknowledged, but the lack of rhythmic form in their music made an unfavorable impression. (3)
• Lord Dannisburgh was a man of ministerial tact, official ability, Pagan morality; an excellent general manager, if no genius in statecraft. (10)
• Phips learnt all the particulars, satisfied himself of his ability, and then determined to raise that ship and make himself master of her wealth. (19)
• The ability to write without offending the advertising theatrical manager seems in the last case to be the only absolutely essential qualification. (16)
• His superiors depended on his ability to do extraordinary things; however, his nature was too guileless to cope with the daring of a man like Arnold. (18)
• A given book cannot affect a man of a particular ability, temperament, training, as it affects one of a different ability, temperament, and training. (16)
• Given the education, the experience, the needed judicial temperament, and the writing ability, all these are no assurance that opportunity can be found to utilize them. (16)

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Definition of ability:

• ability, a-bil’i-ti, n. quality of being able: power: strength: skill. | n.pl. abil’ities, the powers of the mind. (0)

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