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a superior ability- Their defensive prowess helped them win the Super Bowl.
- They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess.Aesop -- The Man and the Lion
- His prowess from behind the three point line is unmatched.
- Hers was the average woman's pride, but in the matter of man-conquering prowess she was not unduly conceited.London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon
- Jem said Mr. Avery misfigured, Dill said he must drink a gallon a day, and the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again, as I was untalented in this area.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.Seneca
- We have heard of your prowess.Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
- Who by his prowess conquered all France.Shakespeare, William -- King Henry VI, Part 3
- Both men were on their guard and fenced with fine skill, being well matched in prowess.McSpadden, J. Walker -- Robin Hood
- The tribe had gathered about to look upon the proof of his wondrous prowess, and to listen to his words.Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- Tarzan of the Apes
- He seemed no more to be continually regarding the proportions of his personal prowess.Crane, Stephen -- The Red Badge of Courage
- The Amazon Penthesileia ... comes to aid the Trojans, and after showing great prowess, is killed by Achilles and buried by the Trojans.Homer -- Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica
- A person whose goodness consists rather in his guiltlessness of vice, than in his prowess in virtue.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- Or maybe it's just that word of my prowess with cream of tartar has spread.Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble
- His prowess extends further than to setting off fireworks.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- The action was that of an Indian, impressive and stern, significant of an Indian's prowess.Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
- She was dignified, if not haughty; I felt her conduct like a kind of touching athletic prowess.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- But a deer was far beyond his prowess as a hunter.Elizabeth George Speare -- The Sign of the Beaver
- Artus managed to get his own short sword free of the sheath, but he was no match for the Winter King's prowess.James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
- This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the prowess of British regulars had not been well founded.Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
prowess = impressive ability