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Slowly and unskilfully he imitated the old man's delicate gestures.

But no wounded man was treated hurriedly or unskilfully.

The letters are clearly but unskilfully written.

It is clearly but unskilfully written.

He was swimming energetically but unskilfully.

In fact, their attempts at stealing had been too much invited by the indiscretion of some of the English, who unguardedly separated themselves in the woods, for the purpose of killing birds, and who managed their muskets so unskilfully as to render them less formidable in the eyes of the natives.

Not badly, not unskillfully, but Rose knew him, and could tell what he was after.

Used unskillfully, they will also readily break plastic or copper plumbing.

It was as if the train, going at full speed, had been unskillfully pulled up. "

Almost all children prefer being read to, even unskillfully, to watching any television program, no matter how violent and flashy.

It had been ground unskillfully to a point.

They spent long minutes fumbling unskillfully at the outer airlock door.

Ever diligent, he unskillfully practices his guitar every day in front of customers.

The hairy man punched him unskillfully in the nose.

She cut his hair, not too unskillfully.

The man had been knifed, but unskillfully.

"The U.S. hand was repeatedly tipped and unskillfully played," the report said.

He thrust unskillfully at it.

They would fight bravely if unskillfully.

The duty of the supervisor is to prevent the learner from acting unskillfully or carelessly or in a manner likely to cause danger to others.

With tears streaming down his cheeks, in the smelly darkness of the shelter, he drew it hard and unskillfully across his throat.

He marked the jaggedness of the neck stump, where Charmian had hacked and sliced unskillfully.

It was unskillfully executed, but there was an unexpected juxtaposition there that lit UP his dials.

Elsewhere were stacked cups, plates, ornaments, looted from civilized lands by the heathen or not unskillfully made by their own smiths.

Psychedelics, like any powerful tool, may be used skillfully for the benefit of humanity, or unskillfully to the detriment of those whose ignorance leads to abuse.

"The cavern mouth was perhaps three ells wide, and somebody had hurriedly but not unskillfully set rock to rock across the front- to keep in warmth, perhaps?

As he shouted, one of the oarsmen, swinging stoutly but unskillfully, felt his oar turn under him, twist and throw him bodily off his bench, half over the side.

"But for tonight, my lady," he said, unskillfully, though he must have rehearsed it many times, "I think we ye earned the right to be alone, that I may praise you."

Another curtain wall at right-angles runs down to the sea close to the landing-place, ending in a ruined round tower, whose vaulted base has poorly splayed and apparently rather unskillfully constructed embrasures.

EPILOGUE If you meet the Buddha in the road, kill him: An adage that warns against one last fixation-you can become unskillfully attached to Buddhism itself.

The sound of a piano being unskillfully handled is to me what the continual drop of cold water on the same part of the head is said to be in countries where that interesting torture is practiced.