The gangway-port opened, and the Academy band struck up, enthusiastically if inexpertly, as he descended to the dock.

He was lanky, with a balding pate, and sported a failed attempt at a moustache, inexpertly daubed on his freckled face.

He inexpertly gave Mrs. Byron quite a shock by the collision of their teeth.

Mrs. Pocket acted on the advice, and inexpertly danced the infant a little in her lap, while the other children played about it.

But even this significant lettering was often so inexpertly executed as to serve no decorative purpose whatever.

The darkness lifted veil by veil, not gradually, but by a series of leaps as when some one inexpertly turns a wick.