As a matter of fact, several bad forest fires have started from anunskillful attempt to smoke some animal out of a tree.
After watching the felling of several trees, the boys essayed trimming, and while they were by no means unskillful at it, caused many a laugh among the men because of the time they took.
In this case unskillful medical advice may have unfortunate results.
The first attack of gonorrhea in man is very often spontaneously cured, while unskillful treatment often aggravates it.
It is needless to say that success does not go to the unskillful boaster, but to the one who relates his audacious exploits in a casual way.
This to protect the weavers' ability to maintain themselves and their families from rich clothiers who keep many looms and employ journeymen and unskillful persons at low wages.
This is to avoid the mischiefs which happen by entrusting apprentices too weak, unable, and unskillful in the work, with the care of goods and lives of passengers.
This is to prevent false and deceitful hat- making byunskillful persons.
It is also sometimes produced by the unskillful use of forceps and other instruments employed by midwives.
The worst and most dangerous cases of stricture with which we have met, in a long and extensive experience, were rendered thus by the careless or unskillful use of bougies, catheters, or sounds.
Nevertheless, an attempt was made, but in a rough, unskillful manner, the result being that the advance of Judaism was retarded for a considerable time.
In short, the conservatives were unfortunate, because they were unskillful and imprudent.
One picture there was of a young girl, a very early photograph which had suffered sadly from unskillful process of enlargement.
Yet unskillful though it had been, the photograph had not been able to destroy its certain beauty.
The country is sparsely populated, and the plantations generally bore evidences of unskillful culture.
Now that which is proposed to your majesty is dishonest and unskillful at the same time.
And thus I prove to your majesty that to change our plan now, without warning our allies, would be at once unskillful and dishonest.
Our navy come in without having performed anything, yet there has been great loss of ships by negligence, and unskillful men governing the fleet and Navy board.
The craft that brought us in should be made, by a piece of unskillful management, to fall aboard the Lion, and remain alongside long enough to give us time to sneak in through an open deck-port.
Horace Vernet, who wielded no unskillful brush, has painted one too.
Perkins, who had opened a law office, and business not being very brisk, he had turned a rather unskillful hand to raising potatoes.
Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve.
Defn: Unskillfulor inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written.
Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect.
This was to avoid the mischiefs which happen by entrusting apprentices too weak, unable, and unskillful in the work, with the care of goods and lives of passengers.
Notwithstanding his extensive knowledge of "steam-boating" in general, Ben Wilford was a very unskillful pilot.
Ethan was still on deck, for though he refused to run the engine, he felt it to be his duty to stand by and see that no accident happened, for the steam was up, and the fireman was an unskillful person.
Noted pictures were spoken of as having lost their charm through an unskillful cleaner.
The ocean itself has yielded its dark secret to the perseverance of mankind, and the humble but not unskillful efforts which it has been my privilege to conduct.
Unskillful as he had shown himself in the matter of silver and gold, he had won great skill in the useful metals, especially in steel--the type of truth.
A sloop, loaded with staves and lumber, was lying in the midst of the foaming rapids, where it had struck the day before while guided by an unskillful pilot.
The performance of the surgeon was so unskillful that the flow of blood was with great difficulty stanched.
Although General Herkimer was severely wounded at the battle of Oriskany, his death was the result of unskillful treatment, and, if tradition speaks truth, of criminal indulgence of appetite on the part of his surgeon.
And thus I prove to your majesty that to change our plan now; without warning our allies, would be at once unskillful and dishonest.
I am indeed an unskillful manager of my farms, and sensible of this from its effects, I have now committed them to better hands, of whose care and skill I have satisfactory knowledge, and to whom I have ceded the entire direction.
Marcellus, ignorant or unskillful of no kind of fighting, in single combat surpassed himself; he never declined a challenge, and never accepted without killing his challenger.
These are usually introduced in anunskillful way, interrupting the narrative and destroying the unity of the work, but they are in themselves the most interesting parts of the whole novel.
Dracontius is not unskillfulin his versification and his use of language, and his poems prove that rhetorical training was still to be found in Africa.
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