Their native tongue is to them strange, inelegant, unapt, and crude.
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The poet's chaos was no unapt emblem of the state of my mind.
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And remained in a fluid body, it was a subject very unapt for proper conglaciation.
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This is no unapt emblem of the mind's self-experience in the act of thinking.
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A most merciful man, as ready to forgive as unapt to take or give offence.
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As one of you put it to me, they are unapt for more than just that.
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I have, too, a sort of spiritual gaucherie which makes me unapt to participate in any rite.
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Some leap to the strains with unapt foot, and make a halting figure in the universal dance.
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Archy is as unapt to give out a secret as the rock is to unlock its waters.
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But are we so far depraved, that we are wholly unapt to any good and prone to all evil?
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It is certainly the sort of wine wherewith to tempt a Polyphemus, and not unapt to turn a giant's head.
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Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. (The local coastline in 2017, Inepta Cove no longer existing) The feature was named "Caleta Inepta" (unapt cove) on a 1954 Argentine navy chart, which reflects the inadequacy of the cove as an anchorage. This name has been approved with an English generic term.
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In 1859 he enrolled at Leipzig University, and in 1861, at Baden-Baden, endeavored to kill king William I of Prussia by firing two shots from a pistol, at a distance of three paces. However, the monarch suffered only a slight injury of the neck. The assailant, in a letter found upon him, stated as his motive the conviction that William was unapt of the task of uniting Germany. The assailant was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, but was pardoned by the Badish souvereign on William's plea, and released in 1866, with the stipulation that he should leave the German Confederation forever.
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