In other designs the means of access to the rear ends of the tubes are of a makeshift and unworkmanlike character. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
A thick edge on a joint gives an unworkmanlike appearance to the work. ❋ Samuel Edward Dibble (N/A)
This method is extremely costly and unworkmanlike. ❋ Samuel Edward Dibble (N/A)
Confronted therefore with the opportunity, or the need, for a change of habit, in the course of a migration for example, they must either refuse it, like a shy horse, or (if they accept it) enter on their new career imperfectly trained, and extemporizing adjustments here and there in very unworkmanlike fashion. ❋ Various (N/A)
An oval or round patch is unworkmanlike and does not wear well. ❋ Kate Heintz Watson (N/A)
As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)
Completed, the bandage looked not too unworkmanlike, and was cool and comforting to the hot throb of the wound. ❋ Samuel Hopkins Adams (1914)
The floors were all single and laid in so unworkmanlike manner that I could often see the ground beneath, when the carpets were not on the floor; and they are always taken up in the summer, to make the apartments cooler. ❋ Unknown (1903)
However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done. ❋ Unknown (1896)
It is, in fact, a "circulating library" novel before -- at any rate at an early period of -- circulating libraries: not unworkmanlike, probably not very unsatisfactory to its actual readers, and something of a document as to the kind of satisfaction they demanded; but not intrinsically important. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
They often do not appear until long after the decisions which they chronicle have been made and their general make-up is sometimes unworkmanlike and unscientific. ❋ Simeon E. Baldwin (1883)
No man ever came back to Marwood and said, "Sir, you broke my neck in an unworkmanlike manner." ❋ Bill Nye (1873)
There is no more reason for making these buildings of a temporary character, than there is for putting up our barns and other outbuildings in a cheap and unworkmanlike manner. ❋ Unknown (1867)
But Sir Joshua's sketched leaves would indeed imply some unworkmanlike haste. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
Sometimes, when I am holding on with all the necessary tenacity of grip, as regards my hands, but, "scrambling my toes about" in a very disorderly and unworkmanlike fashion, he pops his head up from below for me to sit on; and puts my feet into crevices for me, with many apologies for taking the liberty! ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)
It would seem as though they were disgusted with such unworkmanlike proceedings, and that they cannot rest until they have taken it into hand, and endeavored to "make a job of it." ❋ Unknown (1852)
The first room that we entered was apparently the workshop, for it contained a small woodworker's bench, a lathe, a bench for metal work and a number of mechanical appliances which I was not then able to examine; but I noticed that the entire place presented to the eye a most unworkmanlike neatness, a circumstance that did not escape Thorndyke's observation, for his face relaxed into a grim smile as his eye travelled over the bare benches and the clean-swept floor. ❋ Unknown (1902)
They think we went out of the business two weeks ago, "said Dick Norton, as he, in a very unworkmanlike manner, attempted to aid Bob. ❋ James Otis (1880)
