Unsightly as the camel is, with its long snaky neck, its frightful hump, and its awkward legs and action, it wins much upon your kindness with a little acquaintance.
Their tailors are of course bad, and their figures, accustomed only to the loose and graceful costume of the East, are awkward and constrained.
Everything about our wedding was peculiarly awkward and uncomfortable.
But my infirmity would have rendered awkward the introduction to his young wife, to whom the memories of previous friendship did not extend.
He made an awkward attempt once to get at some of them, but their swiftness of wing took them far out of his reach.
At night especially, when walking near a bury situate in the open field, beware of putting your foot into one of these holes, which will cause an awkward fall if nothing worse.
Once or twice in the summer starlings may be observed hawking to and fro high in the air, as if imitating the swallows in an awkward manner.
But in a matter of so much interest to us both you will not let an awkward manner prejudice me.
I know when a man is at ease like a gentleman, and when he is awkward like a--' 'Like a what?
And he might then well have said one word more in pleading his suit, if he had not been too awkward to know what that word should be.
He had been awkward in his love-making, and was aware of it.
And all this awkward batch of brats has political opinions, if you please.
For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one.
Facts, however, are awkward things to disconcert, and they are obstinate.
She found himawkward and embarrassed in her cool, self-possessed presence.
He said "Thank you," but not so earnestly as his previous appeal might have suggested, and with the same awkward abstraction in his eyes.
Coquenard therefore entered the office from the house at the same moment her guest entered from the stairs, and the appearance of the worthy lady relieved him from an awkward embarrassment.
You're such an awkward little beast, Your features are (to say the least) So very plain.
More awkward in his kindliness than in his simple business confidences, but apparently equally honest in both, he shook Courtland's hand and walked away.
As he gazed at his wife's troubled face, an apologetic cloud came over his rugged but open brow, and a smile of awkward deprecating embarrassment suffused his eyes.
Although convinced that the young Englishman had come only to see Miss Sally, he was glad to share his awkward isolation with another stranger, and greeted him pleasantly.
To think," he murmured, "that if I had not been so awkward we should not have known one another!
She obeyed him, but in fear and trembling, for there was not only the awkward stile to climb, but the track ran over outcrops of rocks on which even a careful walker might slip.
In order to break the somewhat awkward silence that followed during the last part of their ride, Mr. Archer remarked that he was afraid "Old Farrell" would be in financial trouble, now.
Cecilia, too, shrank shyly away from his awkwardefforts to be affectionate to her.
I had a tall, awkward mare, and was loping over the field looking for my charges.
It was in September, 1870, that Harte in the make-up of the Overland found anawkward space too much for an ordinary poem.
He stopped on his way to the door, looking at her with awkward bashfulness as she stood there flushed and brilliant in her tossed state, scarcely a yard between them.
She half rose in acknowledgment of his bow, awkward and embarrassed.
Philip flushed at the mention of her name (he could not get himself out of the awkward habit of reddening when he was embarrassed), and Lawson looked at him quizzically.
It was an awkward thing to speak about, but apparently it was necessary to discuss it.
It was awkward to look after the family, no one would see to the children without payment, and the husband tumbled because his tea was not right when he came home tired from his work and hungry.
He was not a man to think girls were in love with him; he was too conscious of his deformity, and he felt awkward and clumsy with women; but he did not know what else this outburst could mean.
It was an awkward question, and Philip did not know how to answer it.
A number had no friends within reasonable distance of London, and to these the holiday was an awkward interval when they had to provide food out of their small wages and, with the whole day on their hands, had nothing to spend.
She had never been so ungainly at Oldburgh; she never was half so awkward in the school-room, as she would be while taking her cup of tea from Lady Barbara, or handing the butter to her governess.
The sight of strong feeling distressed her, and made her awkward and ungracious.
She stood leaning against the door, veryawkward and conscious.
In the second act we are again in Grosvenor Square, this time in a morning-room, where Sir Robert Chiltern and Lord Goring are discussing the awkward state of affairs.
They feed by day, and do not wander far from their burrows; if frightened, they rush to them with a most awkward gait.
Some of the men have shirts; but the common dress is one or two large blankets, generally black with dirt, which are thrown over their shoulders in a very inconvenient and awkward fashion.
The queen is a largeawkward woman, without any beauty, grace or dignity.
The waves, it is true, are not so long and high; but they are very awkwardto deal with, from their abruptness, and the rapidity with which they get up when a breeze sets in.
He felt instinctively that there would be an awkward pause.
He did not know but that some awkward accident might destroy all the chances of the affair.
I wish you would take some little trouble to act as other women act, instead of constantly putting yourself and me in the most awkward positions.
Moreover, when we compare the curtsy of a lady with the awkward one a peasant girl makes, which, if continued, would bring her down on both knees, we may see in this last a remnant of that greater reverence required of serfs.
I never mentioned him to Mr. Neville, as I thought it would be placing him in an awkward position, he who knew.
I felt as though we had to travel round the world, and yet we accomplished an awkward journey in remarkable time.
