unpractised

Unpractised runners may seem to have been running all day, but their performance is poor.

The wreck, even to my unpractised eye, was breaking up.

An unpractised hand, but this skill came by nature; art could only elaborate and perfect it.

After a moment's hesitation, he began to tap out his message with unpractised fingers.

He himself had thrown now - hurriedly, excitedly, with unpractised hand.

She still looked not that much older than I did--at least to my unpractised eye.

Differences so minute that they escape the unpractised eye, denote editions of most various value.

To the unpractised eye it might appear a hotch-potch thrown together at random.

Unpractised ears can appreciate only simple equalities, such as are found in ballad airs.

He was always the saddest of the group; and, even to my unpractised senses, he appeared to have suffered more deeply than his friends.

It was a note in Tommo's unpractised hand, telling me that he was well.

John, on the contrary, was unpractised.

She gave her attention to the paper, reading it, he observed, in the slow, careful manner of the unpractised, and frowning as she read.

Their embrace was unpractised and unrehearsed, clumsy and frenzied.

She was a fair cook in an unpractised way, capable of interpreting and following a recipe with a reasonable chance of an acceptable result.

The gun bucked madly and wrenched itself out of my unpractised grip, but at three feet I could hardly have missed.

Pictures and prints which even my unpractised eyes could recognize as being of great price and rarity hung thick upon the walls.

Others said it tacitly - with their terrible, unpractised delivery, or useless lectures that they'd clearly spent no time whatsoever on.

Bide you also, Martina, that you may remember my words in case this unpractised officer should forget them."

But however unpractised she was, the weapon was still levelled at Derkhan's gut.

Far from being only slightly shy of great faith we're almost completely unpractised in the art of letting God be God.

The Unpractised Heart.

Heavily, and with unpractised movements, it straightens up and tries to look courtly, attentive and willing.

There was a leap, swifter than his unpractised sight, and the lean, yellow body disappeared for a moment out of the field of his vision.

But evidently her clumsy and unpractised caresses, even if they had afforded him a certain pleasure to begin with, now only irritated and disturbed him.