I do not know what I can most admire in this article -- the unskillfulness, the malice, or the supine negligence of those who have been its fabricators!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference

Mithridates concealed the loss, giving it out that it was a small defeat, nothing near so great as reported, and occasioned by the unskillfulness of the leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

For to use the knife, unless in the extremest necessity, is neither good surgery nor wise policy, but in both cases mere unskillfulness; and in the latter, unjust as well as unfeeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Which makes the unskillfulness of some alchemists of the reformed school all the more remarkable — who have conceived that by the equable warmth of lamps and the like, burning uniformly, they can attain their end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Organon] Reference

He did not want docility; but either from the difficulty of acquiring our language, from the unskillfulness of his teachers, or from some natural defect, his progress in learning it was not equal to what we had expected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Settlement at Port Jackson] Reference

What seems to be of prime importance to this narrative though, is that Allison, taking this quatrain as a starting point, wrote a wholly modern versification in words and meter so skillfully used as to create not only a vivid atmosphere of piracy and antiquity, but of unskillfulness and coarseness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference

Textiles made from fibers of animal origin do not require, and as a rule do not tolerate, the addition of any metal in dyeing with the artificial colors, and if the manufacture of the color require the use of a metal, such as arsenic, which by unskillfulness or carelessness is left in it when delivered to the dyer, the tendency of the animal fiber is to reject it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference

Wherefore, Waldemar, (1) healthful Prince and Father of us all, shining light of thy land, whose lineage, most glorious from times of old, I am to relate, I beseech thee let thy grace attend the faltering course of this work; for I am fettered under the weight of my purpose, and dread that I may rather expose my unskillfulness and the feebleness of my parts, than portray thy descent as I duly should.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

Romans, was protracted to the tenth year, much less by the strength of the place than by the unskillfulness of the besiegers.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1] Reference

If this be so, it is no way astonishing that the same imprudence or unskillfulness which produces one mishap, should be the parent of many.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.] Reference

A high charge exhibited against them for their negligence, their unskillfulness, and unfaithfulness in the management of public affairs, ver. 1-6 and ver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

I presume this is the first time that it has been put in print, but I fear the copy has several corruptions, occasioned by the unskillfulness of the copyist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America] Reference

The siege of Veii in Tuscany, the first considerable enterprise of the Romans, was protracted to the tenth year, much less by the strength of the place than by the unskillfulness of the besiegers.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1] Reference

Those generals whom the nation has paid without service rendered for so many years, have, in the day of need, with some honorable exceptions, but served to injure her by their bad example or unskillfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [General Scott]

It is the very vagueness of her condemnation that tells on us -- the utter ignorance of what is so familiar to us that the vagueness betrays, the utter unskillfulness of the hits, and the purity that makes them so unskillful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference

This indistinctness will not, however, be wholly owing to the present imperfect state of some of the sciences, but in part, likewise, to the unskillfulness of the guide who has imprudently ventured to ascend these lofty summits.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

Thirteen years later, a variety of causes, some of which will be unfolded in the course of this narrative, had contributed to irritate the impatience of the nation, while the unskillfulness of the existing minister had disarmed the royal authority.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Marie Antoinette]

Their price depends on their cost of production; and it may be very much increased, even under the most favorable natural conditions, by the unskillfulness of labor, the dearness of the means of subsistence, of machinery and of auxiliary substances, by insecurity to property or to the person; by war, oppressive taxes (845) etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference

118 Thou knowest my unskillfulness, and my infirmities; teach me, and heal me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tenth Book] Reference

Octavius’s unskillfulness in his management of affairs, as from his omitting needful measures, through too strict observance of the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

The literal sense, he avers, is much obscured, owing partly to the carelessness of the copyists, partly to the unskillfulness of some of the correctors, and partly also to our own translation (the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

& the unskillfulness of Spanish sailours — & I can now form a tolerable idea of what a man feels at the point of death. we remained five days at Coruña — the only place where I met with the society I wished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 146] Reference

It is true, these may have a place in medicine, they may be of use in some bodily disorder (although there would rarely be occasion for them, were it not for the unskillfulness of the practitioner); therefore, such as prepare and sell them for this end only, may keep themselves clear; but who are they?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tupelo] Reference

Ughly Lithopaedion plus willful unskillfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic] Reference

"By your unskillfulness, my son.".    From Wordnik.com.  [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference

Concerning the inhabitants -- their number, few or many -- their size and stature, whether strong able-bodied men or weak, -- their habitations, whether they lived in tents or houses, whether in open villages or in walled towns, -- whether the woods were standing as in those countries that are uncultivated, through the unskillfulness and slothfulness of the inhabitants, or whether the woods were cut down, and the country made champaign, for the convenience of tillage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference