The average young man of parts turned out by an American university has a many-sided interest in, and comprehension of, European literature and the intellectual movement of the world, which may go far to compensate for his possible or even probable Inexpertness in Greek aorists and Latin elegiacs.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
Giles trundled her over toward the dusky canopy under which Abner stood chafing, conscious at once of his own powers and of his own social Inexpertness.
"Under the Skylights"
Henry Blake Fuller
Owing to this form, or to the Inexpertness of the skaiters, they could not stop themselves on a sudden, but always tumbled one over the other whenever they came near the edge of the ice, or towards the quarter where the Emperor happened to be.
"Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton"
John Barrow