Besides being the foremost statesman of the south, Toombs was its very ablest man of affairs, and as far superior to Davis in practical and business talent as a trained and experienced man is to an untrained and inexperienced woman.
To that utterly untrained and supremely inappropriate person Heaven sent this incredible luck.
The hush deepened as the strings took up an old, old refrain and the untrained melodious voices began: "The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky home.
With an untrained temper, the rifle that sends a squirrel tumbling over and over from the top of a tree might at last be turned upon some human being.
Many of them prove to be wholly untrained to this simple domestic accomplishment.
The manner of the handwriting was itself characteristic of kind consideration for her untrained readers.
The name now is familiar to all the world; but then it struck strangely on untrained English ears and to me it seemed quite as reasonable whichever way one twisted it round.
So in addition to the lack of any trained class from which to draw, even among the untrained the choice is much restricted by the undesirability of the conditions of the service itself.
Thus there is no homogeneity in their armies, since experienced warriors and untrained plunderers march side by side[38].
Untrained men and weak horses were left behind, and the infantry could not hope to keep up with the rapid movements which had now to be undertaken.
On the two bombing days sixteen untrained men came from the battalion resting at Locre and sixteen others from the battalion resting at R.
Besides these thirty-two untrained men, the bombers from the battalion at Locre used to come and practise on the ground under their own Bombing Officer.
From the preceding paragraphs it may be surmized that the youth is quite untrained and untaught.
There is that quality of tension in the voices with the accompanying forcing of tone which is peculiar to untrained singers striving for a tone near the limit of their highest range.
Most of these men had been a year and a half ago citizens untrained for war.
It is a great effort for boys with, one might say, wholly untrained minds to concentrate for any length of time, and it is well not to ask them for more than half an hour at first.
They may now sometimes be procured untrained for L5 or L6 each; but the peregrine is large enough for the game of this country.
The military genius is one who, either untrained by studious preparation, or else starting out of the lines in which many were ranged level with himself, seizes the staff of command, and receives the homage of comrades and superiors.
Can an ignorant or an untrained brain follow the theory of light, or the metamorphosis of plants?
Descending in the scale to untrainedlabor in all its forms, the woman is at times of less value than the man.
Industrial education will prevent the possibility of another generation owning so many incompetent and untrained workers, and technical schools in general are already raising the standard and helping to secure the same end.
A surplus ofuntrained workers at once appeared, and this and general financial depression brought the wage to its lowest terms; but when this had in part ended, the trades still remained open.
That proportion of the annual contingents which is dismissed untrained goes either to the Ersatz-Reserve or to the 1st ban of the Landsturm (the Landwehr, it will be observed, contains only men who have served with the colours).
The second ban consists of untrained men between the ages of thirty-nine and forty-five.
It is quite obvious, that what he adds comes from genuine and original talent, from his own musical individuality; but he is not master of himself; he has no style; he is an untrained musician.
They were thoroughly untrained and ignorant of their duties and had no hesitation in appointing other commissioners.
These are the sort of natures that when untrained and ungoverned, use upon occasion the dagger and the poison cup; or which even when not untrained are in danger, in certain cases of shipwreck, of going to pieces altogether.
In the first place, the scattering of untrained troops in billets greatly increased the difficulty of disciplinary control, while training grounds were farther removed and somewhat inadequate.
He was not the untrained Atheist of the theistic imagination, who may be confounded with a quotation from Kant by one of the personages of Mrs Ward's religious vaudevilles.
With his untrained men he could not risk a stand-up fight; but he hoped that the advantage of surprise, if the patrol was really so small as the scouts declared, would enable him to achieve his end without fighting.
Ignorant of the strength of the column, he dared not risk exposing his small force of comparatively untrained men in the open.
Even if they had been warned by the fugitive overseers and the sergeant, they would probably not suspect that the Englishman would attempt, with untrained natives, to trap seasoned soldiers.
No German, in command of any considerable body of disciplined men, would have been so sluggish in following up a horde of untrained negroes.
Would his little force of untrained men be swept upon and overwhelmed?
I have eighty Guides, and the rest my own men, who do wonderfully, considering how sadly untrained and undisciplined they are.
