I put them on slowly and unhandily, because of my swollen wrists: and from the drugs chose corrosive sublimate, as safeguard against recapture. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
"It will drift there in a day and a night, " the ferryman said, then watched as his boat was unhandily rowed out into the stream. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
Arab horsemen from behind the Turks galloped towards us, bucketing unhandily across the irrigation ditches. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)
I bound them up, and getting them unhandily on my shoulders — for I was not used to carrying burdens — set out for the oak wood. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)
The painted group moved round Samneric nervously and unhandily. ❋ Golding, William, 1911- (1954)
When they had understood what made this ghostly noise and Percival was quiet again, Ralph and Simon picked him up unhandily and carried him to a shelter. ❋ Golding, William, 1911- (1954)
He was in trouble about his rod, having snapped the top joint in unhandily dealing with a fine chub. ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
Ling and Izak went last, dropping the stolen guns they had held so unhandily. ❋ Manly Wade Wellman (1944)
It did not come so unhandily to them as might have been imagined. ❋ Howard Roger Garis (1917)
Occasionally a wretched bishop would find himself floundering unhandily, in masculine bewilderment, through something like a complete catalogue of contemporary fashions, in order to specify what the nuns were _not_ to wear. ❋ Eileen Edna Power (1914)
A waterman put them on board, or, rather, took them to the nearest waiting lighter, from whence they scrambled on board, Mr. Gillat very unhandily. ❋ Una Lucy Silberrad (1913)
Thus it was that soon after ten o'clock, when the village folks had laughed their fill and gone away, the new Mrs. Bean climbed the step-ladder, bestowed herself unhandily on the midship thwart and, with ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)
Mrs. Norma Hatch flutters beyond the frontier of Mrs. Wharton's experience, and the charwoman, who as a dea ex machina shoves the plot onward, does so very unhandily. ❋ Unknown (1906)
He was on horseback, and, stooping from his saddle, was endeavouring just now -- but very unhandily -- to unhasp the gate with the crook of his riding-whip. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
On his knees upon the deck aft, shoving his holystone to and fro laboriously and unhandily along the planks where the accident with the tar-pot had left its stain, the Dago still broke into little meaningless smiles. ❋ Perceval Gibbon (1902)
These are unpleasant stories to listen to, and the Messes tell them under their breath, sitting by the big wood fires; and the young officer bows his head and thinks to himself, please God, his men shall never behave unhandily. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Plucking at their harps, and they plucked unhandily: ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"I have come back to what is called society," Rachel was saying, "after nearly seven years of an exile something like Nebuchadnezzar's, and there are two things which I find as difficult as Kipling's 'silly sailors' found their harps 'which they twanged unhandily.'" ❋ Mary Cholmondeley (1892)
