Adjective : an unpracticed actor. From Dictionary.com.
"Do I ken you?" said the General with an unpractised smile. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
At this time, no unpractised eyes would have detected any change in him. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonstone] Reference
It was evident to my unpractised eye that we had the Boers on the run at last. From Wordnik.com. [With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service] Reference
No wonder the unpractised young stood aghast with cries of dismay on seeing him. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Novice]
Her unpractised mind was completely occupied in fathoming its recent acquisition. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
Even Jack's unpractised eye could see that the current had no depth of any moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
Tell him that his virtue is too heavy for the digestive organs of your unpractised stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
His full muscles and sleek skin, to my unpractised eye, denoted the height of robust health. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Her lover with his unpractised hand, had opened a new chapter in her life, too precipitately. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
Now, however, his gills were, for all practical purposes, useless; his lungs, ready but unpractised. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
The boy was evidently growing worse each minute, as even the unpractised eye of the miner could see. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines] Reference
An unpractised midwife that would not swear to the nose, lip, forehead, and eye of every one of them!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
And shall it be said that I, a master of arts in love, shall be overmatched by so unpractised a novice?. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Still young and unpractised in his pitiless system, he was troubled at the thought of a victim so pure as. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
An unpractised writer is generally anxious to bespeak public attention, and to solicit public indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Botany Bay] Reference
I advise no hitherto unpractised person to seek excellence as a ground and lofty tumbler after five-and-forty. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
In the wild forests of the mind they could rarely capture a mature idea, and they were as yet unpractised artists. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860] Reference
Nor did she seek to tread, with her free, unpractised step, the classic boards of Drury Lane, -- where Garrick, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
But he was a soft liver, unpractised in all manly pastimes, and the bow was like iron in his white, womanish hands. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Odyssey] Reference
“No,” said Lewisham bluntly, saying all he was sure of, and forthwith racking his unpractised mind for an excuse. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference
Amusement has been made of so small account in our philosophy of life, that we are raw and unpractised in being amused. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Yes, sir; but suppose an active, adroit, strong man, had insulted an awkward, or a feeble, or an unpractised swordsman. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
These, the veteran wooer attempts to carry by storm at once, seeing through their utter transparency: -- to the unpractised. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
From the beginning to the end of "Hester," there is one unerring indication of an uncultivated mind and an unpractised pen. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
For the word strength use difficulty, and we should say that, to the unpractised, the difficulties must always appear greatest. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
After all, the task is not difficult to lead the unpractised heart astray, by dint of those opportunities her seducer possessed. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom] Reference
But it had to be borne in inaction, for to move about in this furious pitching and swaying was utterly impossible to the unpractised. From Wordnik.com. [All Aboard A Story for Girls] Reference
He was always the saddest of the group, and even to my unpractised senses, he appeared to have suffered more deeply than his friends. From Wordnik.com. [Frankenstein] Reference
‘Do come out of it,’ she coaxed, with a softness in her voice which any man but unpractised Swithin would have felt to be exquisite. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
That richly modulated warble proceeding from the top of yonder birch, and which unpractised ears would mistake for the voice of the Scarlet. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
To an unpractised eye, if no indication of the source of these hymns had been given, could anything about them have suggested their source?. From Wordnik.com. [Hymns from the East Being Centos and Suggestions from the Office Books of the Holy Eastern Church] Reference
Here he made such a disposition of his forces as to give the place that peaceful and innocent appearance which deceived Cleon's unpractised eye. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
To trace them even at a snail's pace, for an unpractised eye, is like the child putting pen and ink to paper through his first copy-book of penmanship. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
Gerfaut recognized, by the clearness of touch and brilliancy of some of the passages, that this improvisation could not come from Aline's unpractised fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was a very superior instrument, and an excellent method of conveying to unpractised minds, many things, which otherwise must have remained mysteries to them. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
If detected with any thing that he ought not to have had, it was his custom to drop the forbidden toy and toddle off as fast as his unpractised feet would carry him. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
The service of outposts was a branch of soldiership, at that period, wholly unpractised by the British troops; but I had seen it already on its most perfect scale in the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
The operation, rudely performed, with rude instruments, by unpractised hands, excited to action only by the spur of absolute necessity, proved, nevertheless, entirely successful. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
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