He was unversed in the art of exchanging polished phrases in the face of tense situations, of veiling threats, innuendoes, warnings, in the guise of polite rejoinders.
That much was quite clear even to one so completely unversed as himself in the ruthless way of Balkan politics.
I mean "full" in the intellectual rather than the physical sense--full of the subject, thoughunversed in the beverage.
If a man habitually sate down to luncheon, and ate it through, he was contemned as unversed in the science of feeding.
She was too unversed in the ways of coquetry to see or resent the point of the remark.
However unversed she may be in the world's ways, it is scarcely to be supposed that any young girl, under normal conditions, can look upon her own marriage as an abstract thing.
The important combination of the symbol "Luke 137" must be conceived as cryptomnesia, since the dreamer is quite unversedin the Bible.
For those unversed in psychoanalysis let me point out that up to her forty-sixth year the patient did but reproduce most faithfully the milieu of her earliest youth.
Are good burghers unversed In the humors of toping?
All that it becomes an unversed student of life's mysteries to suggest is that this example gives bold advertisement to the marvellous process.
Yet the girl, inland bred and unversed in weather lore, sat heedless and indifferent, her eyes fixed upon the horizon in a vacant stare.
He was not altogether unversed in the ways of good society, and it seemed to him that the Englishman was somewhat over-assiduous in his attentions.
Being very young, she was unversed in the ways of men.
Sir William Harcourt was not unversed in intrigue, and one wonders now how a Cabinet which contained those two men held together as long as it did.
The practitioner unversed in the tricks of the forge will best guard against this by viewing the foot, while on the ground, from behind.
Being wholly unversed in canine lore, he had, therefore, classified Chum as a "bird dog".
Unversed in the ways of dogs, he overestimated Chum, of course, and valued his society and his good opinion far more highly than the average man would have done.
He wanted tact, they said, he was too excitable, too impulsive, too much absorbed in his own ideas, too unversed in the arts by which individuals are conciliated.
Stonor, totally unversed in the ways of women, was crushed by her changed air.
At even the Mavericks might have been mistaken for mutineers by one so unversed in their natures as Mulcahy.
She, being a young thing, a mere chit as it were, was unversed in this procedure.
Unversed in the ways of the Court, George did not know that it was the habit of gallants to present posies, as they would have said, at the shrine of beauty.
