skilless

Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

Orleans recruits under Lockridge, who had just arrived at the mouth of the river, found themselves headed off, and began a long and skilless fight to recover the steamers and make the junction with the isthmus force.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,

Act III. Scene III. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will 1914

However skilless, they cannot help reproducing, any more than water poured from an old ink-bottle can help coming out more or less black; although, if sufficiently pretentious, they can monstrously caricature, especially if they begin with the modest time-worn admission that they are more familiar with the marling-spike than with the pen.

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life 1877

Being skilless in these parts, which, to a stranger,

Woodstock 1855

Man and fiend had alike failed a mind, not ignoble, not skilless, not abjectly craven; alike failed a heart not feeble and selfish, not dead to the hero's devotion, willing to shed every drop of its blood for

A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Man and fiend had alike failed a mind, not ignoble, not skilless, not abjectly craven; alike failed a heart not feeble and selfish, not dead to the hero's devotion, willing to shed every drop of its blood for a something more dear than an animal's life for itself!

A Strange Story — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Being skilless in these parts, which, to a stranger,

Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801

Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,

Twelfth Night; or What You Will 1601

And though by skilless builders framed and wrought

Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1569