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Slight fault, unskillfulness, or negligence, either as to the sufficiency of the carriage, or to the driving of it, may render the owner responsible in damages for injury to passengers.

From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Young, Andrew W.

The public interest did not receive so great damage from Octavius's unskillfulness in his management of affairs, as from his omitting needful measures, through too strict observance of the law.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

I presume this is the first time that it has been put in print, but I fear the copy has several corruptions, occasioned by the unskillfulness of the copyist.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen

The meat was brought on again, sliced in a manner which could not conceal the unskillfulness of the original attack.

From The Jester of St. Timothy's by Pier, Arthur Stanwood

The amount of jagged dark line which then will mark the limits of the squares will be the exact measure of your unskillfulness.

From The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners by Ruskin, John