Pursue with avidity the beaten road which leads to popular honors and sordid gain, but relinquish all thoughts of a voyage for which you are totally unprepared.

She was utterly unprepared for it.

The forces of France were miserably unprepared.

This change of plan was made known to Mr. Spragg at a moment when he was peculiarly unprepared for the financial readjustment it necessitated.

The boy was nervous, sensitive, of a spirit quick to take alarms or hurts,physically unprepared to wrestle with arduous toil, privation, and exposure,most apt for the teachings of gentleness and taste.

Germany, therefore, by this move forced Russia's hand; and at a moment when Russia was known or supposed to be comparatively unprepared.

We are shockingly unprepared, or else, of course, there'd have been no war at all.

I fear your visitation finds me singularly unprepared to do the duties of a host.

In a community distinguished for its love of order and respect for the laws, among a people whose sentiment is liberty and law, and not liberty without law nor above the law, such an outrage could only be the result of sudden violence, unhappily too much unprepared for to be successfully resisted.

We let them rest as long as we could, for their swollen eyes and stiffened joints told how sadly unprepared they were to go forward at once.

As, however, I am unprepared minutely to point out the nature of these measures, or distinctly to lay down a ground-work for future civilization and improvement, I shall merely observe, that what would then remain to be done would neither require any great capital, or present obstacles which might not easily be overcome.