capableness

These youngsters miss a chance to see their power in action and to wear or use visible proof of their capableness.

Parent Talk Chick Moorman 1998

These youngsters miss a chance to see their power in action and to wear or use visible proof of their capableness.

Parent Talk Chick Moorman 1998

These youngsters miss a chance to see their power in action and to wear or use visible proof of their capableness.

Parent Talk Chick Moorman 1998

There seemed, somehow, to be a look of content and capableness about those heads bent so busily over the stitching.

Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926

And then she stared hard at him, noting the steady, cold, alert eyes; the firm lips; the bigness of him, the atmosphere of capableness that seemed to surround him; the low-swung guns at his hips, with no flaps on the holster-tops, and the bottoms of the holsters tied to his leather chaps with rawhide thongs.

'Drag' Harlan Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

She's got her mother's good looks and nice manners and -- and kind of genteelness, you understand, and with 'em she's got her dad's sense and capableness.

Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

He writes of "her desire to be taught and instructed in the knowledge of God; her capableness of understanding; her aptnesse and willingnesse to recieve anie good impression, and also the spiritual, besides her owne incitements stirring me up hereunto."

Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903

What chiefly struck me about Mrs Brindley was her serene air of capableness, of having a self-confidence which experience had richly justified.

The Grim Smile of the Five Towns Arnold Bennett 1899

In the harsh vanity of her conscious capableness and young strength she thought thus, half forgetting her own follies, and half excusing them on the ground of inexperience.

The Old Wives' Tale Arnold Bennett 1899

Her sober, kindly capableness evolved from the slovenly little house and the untended children, from the dusty rooms and neglected kitchen the kind of order and neatness which had been plain to see in Robin's more fortune-favoured apartment.

Robin Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886