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Although the fees were high, the school was badly conducted, and the boys were both ill-taught and ill-fed.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

His eyes were wide open but unseeing, and he lurched like an ill-constructed puppet in the hands of an ill-taught puppeteer.

Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

At intervals Mr Bellamy coughs extensively and loudly, just to show his dignity and independence, and to assure the company that _his_ conscience is very tranquil on the occasion -- that his firm "withers are unwrung;" and Mr Brammel struggles like an ill-taught bullfinch, to produce a whistle, and fails in the attempt.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

May the Lord use your book to _STARTLE_ the careless, ill-taught professing Christians ...

The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson

On the subject of his first unfortunate marriage, we are made aware that his wife was a self-willed, ill-taught young woman, who set her own father at defiance, and threw herself on the protection of such a wandering oddity as Percy Shelley.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

Although the fees were high, the school was badly conducted, and the boys were both ill-taught and ill-fed.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

But when one looks up at any mass of the wealthier and more powerful classes, at the Grand Stand at Epsom, at the windows of Park-lane, at the people at a full-dress debate or a fashionable wedding, we shall be safe in saying that they are, for the most part, the most ill-taught, or untaught, creatures in these islands.

Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays 1905

An intelligent society will no more neglect its children than an intelligent mother will neglect her children; and will see as clearly that ill-fed, ill-dressed, ill-taught and vilely associated little ones must grow up gravely injured.

The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897

Although the fees were high, the school was badly conducted, and the boys were both ill-taught and ill-fed.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

It might be said it was only the rudeness of an ill-taught boy, but the boy was King of

The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896