She could have worked it out at her leisure, to the last link of the chain, the way their prettiness had set them trap after trap, all alonghad foredoomed them to awful ineptitude.

They showed their governmental ineptitude clearly enough later on when they came into power, for they at once stopped building the fleet which the Federalists had begun, and allowed the military forces of the nation to fall into utter disorganization, with, as a consequence, the shameful humiliations of the War of 1812.

Since, however, the truth and charm of the tale depend upon this absence of the sensational, I must the more regret that Messrs. COLLINS, who have printed it exquisitely, should have been betrayed into a coloured wrapper of almost grotesque ineptitude.

The little front wheels are a stroke of mechanical ineptitude positively amounting to genius, and when they are replaced by a single wheel, and the whole affair resembles a huge tricycle, one instinctively looks round for a Dinosaur.

That the majority of persons are still feeling their way over the surface of things is attested by the general mental ineptitude for the study of solid geometry.

The attempt to obstruct the harbour mouth at Dar-es-Salaam was typical of their naval ineptitude.

Naturally, much delay and vexation were caused by this display of official ineptitude.

The eccentricities of modern education make us dependent for a number of our primary political terms upon those used by the thinkers of the small Greek republics of ancient times before those petty states collapsed, through sheer political ineptitude, before the Macedonians.

O Metaphasia, peerless maid, How can I fitly sing The priceless decorative aid To dialogue you bring, Enabling serious folk, whose brains Are commonplace and crude, To soar to unimagined planes Of sweet ineptitude.