Competent

Examples

• You are a far more competent judge of such affairs than I am. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I do not speak to the feeble, or think of them: I address only such as are worthy of the work, and competent to accomplish it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She has got three competent people to look after her--Fosco and your aunt, and Mrs. Rubelle, who went away with them expressly for that purpose. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• With your branch of the subject, on which alone you are competent to speak, I should not think of interfering. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill, and fills well and with respect. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• So I don't think I'm a competent witness. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I am not competent. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Some highly competent authorities are convinced that the setter is directly derived from the spaniel, and has probably been slowly altered from it. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I sent him repeated orders by staff officers fully competent to explain to him the situation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mr. Drummle, said I, you are not competent to give advice on that subject. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she appeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education and average intelligence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I am a competent witness, for I was regimental quartermaster at the time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• To do this work with contrabands, or to have it done, organization under a competent chief was necessary. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Control of air pressure is never entrusted to any but the most reliable, competent and experienced man, as it is of the utmost importance that air pressure be maintained properly. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Or, if you are competent to judge aright the signs I never fail to show you when he appears among you, is your superior honesty your qualification? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And as to prior use abroad, it was not regarded under the law of his country as competent evidence. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Inspector Gregory, to whom the case has been committed, is an extremely competent officer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was a most intelligent, patient, competent, and loyal assistant to Mr. Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If I had space I could quote numerous passages to this effect from highly competent authorities. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The one thing that no democrat may assume is that the people are dear good souls, fully competent for their task. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The captain, while a competent seaman, was a brute in his treatment of his men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The competent and upright agent wanted, must be a devoted man. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Cumberland, wanted to engage the services of a thoroughly competent drawing-master, for a period of four months certain. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Released in his turn, Mr. Godfrey whispered to me-- Evidently a most competent person. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She had better be examined by some one more competent. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The knowledge of a farmer is systematized in the degree in which he is competent. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I make no comments on a subject to which I cannot presume myself to be competent. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• We were also operating in a country unknown to us, and without competent guides or maps showing the roads accurately. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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