Unpractised as I was in military affairs, I could not but observe the striking contrast which the Peninsular regiments presented to that raw soldiery, whom I had been accustomed to look at, before I quitted England.
His method of engaging himself in this business of purchasing a tomb was that of an absolutely unpractised man.
An unpractised versifier (fancy styling the author of the Faerie Queene and Adonis, an ‘unpractised versifier!
And now the shepherd raised his pensive head: Yet unresolved and fearful roved his eyes, Scared at the glances of the awful maid; For young unpractised Guilt distrusts the guise 93 Of shameless Arrogance.
Whenever the strangers were withdrawn, as they were very easily, the province was left in the hands of men wholly unpractised in war.
Now I think we have a right to claim, in a metropolitan establishment of this kind, in all its departments, a degree of perfection that shall quite outdo the unpractised thought of any man on that particular subject.
To do our heroine justice, considering that she was unpractised in manoeuvring with court ladies, she conducted her scheme with a degree of address worthy of her object.
Inside was an ordinary sheet of paper written over in a bold, firm, yet slightly unpractised writing that she knew well enough, and the sight of which filled her with a presentiment of evil.
Unpractised in the art of violating treaties, he secretly excited his bold and subtle vassal Almondar.
It was certainly delightful to be loved, and so loved--to be attended, and so attended; but the heart of Julia was too unpractised to relish the laugh and observations of a malignant world.
Upon unpractised men, the arts of the sex are often successful, but generally they are allies that increase the number of the assailants, without promoting the victory.
He was yet learning how to cleave the clouds and hurl the thunderbolt with unpractised hand.
The whip of anunpractised charioteer is powerless to urge on his horses; the hand that is unaccustomed thereto cannot bend the bow.
I shall omit to describe the shock which a spectacle like this communicated to my unpractised senses.
In this art, as in most others, I was an unpractised simpleton.
It seemed like a recent erection, had all the gloss of novelty, and exhibited, to my unpractised eyes, the magnificence of palaces.
All unpractised in their earliest accomplishment, the hard-worked hands had never been so deft before; nor ever stone softer or chisel sharper than the first of each that could be found.
So soft that stone, so sharp that bit, so timorous and tentative theunpractised strokes of Robert Carlton!
Her unpractised mind was completely occupied in fathoming its recent acquisition.
The interest which the unpractised ones of this town expressed so grotesquely was genuine of its kind, and equal in intrinsic worth to the more polished smiles of larger communities.
The Cormorant belongs to the family of the pelicans, the relationship between them being evident to the most unpractised eye; and the whole structure of the bird shows its admirable adaptation for the life which it leads.
According to Von Hartmann {139b} the unpractised animal manifests its instinct as perfectly as the practised.
The small gentry about Knapwater seemed unpractised to Miss Aldclyffe, Miss Aldclyffe herself seemed unpractised to Mr. Nyttleton's experienced old eyes.
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