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Balletmistress Galli, a girl with old-fashioned ideas, filled the proscenium with rose-garlanded damsels whose inexpertness became proverbial.

From Time Magazine Archive

Giles trundled her over toward the dusky canopy under which Abner stood chafing, conscious at once of his own powers and of his own social inexpertness.

From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake

Every few days some unfortunate was buried on Boot Hill, a victim of his own inexpertness with the six-shooter.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod

I know and remember this longing; it was present through all my early years in a large boarding-school; but there it was naturally corrected by the changes of growth and the inexpertness of youth.

From A Diary Without Dates by Bagnold, Enid

The French pursued them, outsailed them, and missed them by their own inexpertness.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter




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