skilled

I know you to be well skilled in the management of the sword, while I am only moderately so; I know, too, that you are a good marksman—there we are about equal.

A FROG once upon a time came forth from his home in the marsh and proclaimed to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, skilled in the use of drugs and able to heal all diseases.

A FISHERMAN skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore.

It is just in such details that the skilled detective differs from the Gregson and Lestrade type.”