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Meanings of unskilled hands in English

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Usage of unskilled hands in English
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With poor instruments and unskilled hands the operations became mangling.
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
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The torch itself could melt in unskilled hands.
Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
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They must go out into the world with a pair of unskilled hands, and nothing more.
As We Are and As We May Be
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It was dirty work, and dangerous for unskilled hands, and she found it difficult to learn.
Calvary Alley
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It had been put up by unskilled hands, as its crushed shape and damp exterior clearly showed.
Under the Country Sky
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For the same reason anything like unauthorized excavation, especially by unskilled hands, is gravely to be deprecated.
How to Observe in Archaeology / Suggestions for Travellers in th...
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Very little harm can result from its use even by unskilled hands, provided that reasonable intelligence direct them.
Fat and Blood / An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Ne...
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Late hours and hard work were my portion, and to my unskilled hands it seemed first a bitter lot.
Stories Worth Rereading
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Those succeed who learn how; and to add a little deftness to unskilled hands is the object of every succeeding page.
Success with Small Fruits
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This method ("sunrise slumber") is certainly far more safe in ordinary and unskilled hands than the "twilight sleep" procedure.
The Mother and Her Child
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There was a mechanism about its production, a copying by unskilled hands, a negligence or an ignorance of form that showed everywhere.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting
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Lucien beheld Paris once more; in imagination he caught again at the reins of power let fall from his unskilled hands, and he avenged himself!
Eve and David
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"The wounds are too jagged for that-evenin unskilled hands, a scalpel would do a neater job."
Silent screams
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"Before I part with the violin I must hear you play," said the vendor; "I never allow my instruments to go into unskilled hands."
Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin
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