With poor instruments and unskilled hands the operations became mangling.

The torch itself could melt in unskilled hands.

They must go out into the world with a pair of unskilled hands, and nothing more.

It was dirty work, and dangerous for unskilled hands, and she found it difficult to learn.

It had been put up by unskilled hands, as its crushed shape and damp exterior clearly showed.

For the same reason anything like unauthorized excavation, especially by unskilled hands, is gravely to be deprecated.

Very little harm can result from its use even by unskilled hands, provided that reasonable intelligence direct them.

Late hours and hard work were my portion, and to my unskilled hands it seemed first a bitter lot.

Those succeed who learn how; and to add a little deftness to unskilled hands is the object of every succeeding page.

This method ("sunrise slumber") is certainly far more safe in ordinary and unskilled hands than the "twilight sleep" procedure.

There was a mechanism about its production, a copying by unskilled hands, a negligence or an ignorance of form that showed everywhere.

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!

"The wounds are too jagged for that-evenin unskilled hands, a scalpel would do a neater job."

"Before I part with the violin I must hear you play," said the vendor; "I never allow my instruments to go into unskilled hands."