For the central lantern, not yet driven to lean on ungainly props, with the rich arcades of its upper stages still open to view, still rose, in all the simple majesty of its four mighty arches, as the noblest of canopies over the choir below.
Arthur said to himself that he hated Candish for his ungainly person.
Miss Merrivale tossed her head, as they paused in the doorway of the tiny dining-room a moment to give Mr. Irons opportunity to convey his ungainly length into its proper niche.
Herman fixed his eyes resolutely on an ungainly group in pinkish clay which represented an American commercial sculptor's idea of Romeo and Juliet at the moment when the Nurse separates them with a message from Lady Capulet.
He called his name aloud, and for all his ungainly bulk would have run directly to the carriage in the middle of the street, only that the Doctor made believe not to see, and in a moment was out of reach.
Jan tried to be as dutiful to her as ever he could; but he could not change his ungainly person, his awkward manner.
Only by the exercise of notable will power could Crane keep his face straight as he shook hands with ungainly Scattergood and saw with his own eyes what a perfect bumpkin he had to deal with.
Tall and ungainly in his person, he affected gallantry and admiration of the fair sex, although his manners rendered his pretensions absurd, and his profession marked them as indecorous.
I was, at the beginning of this period, perhaps, the most ungainly awkward boy in the parish--no solitaire was less acquainted with the ways of the world.
In winter they wear gaiters, which give the ankles a most ungainly appearance.
A man with his ten or fifteen thousand perhaps will walk down the street buttoned up in an ungainly greatcoat and an old hat, not half so smartly dressed as a well-paid mechanic, and far behind the drapers' assistants in style.
The observant Godfrey, at his first sight of Juliette, for such was her name, marvelled how it was possible that she should be the daughter of that plain and ungainly old pasteur.
Her rather ungainly figure was clothed in what he thought an ugly green dress, and she wore a necklet of emeralds in an old-fashioned setting, which he also thought ugly but striking.
Close after him there followed several baggage-waggons, fleeing at an ungainly canter, the drivers flailing at the horses as if for life.
But now he knew her; now, even in that ungainly dress, she smiled upon him, bright with love; and his heart was transported with joy.
Indeed, his beautiful colour alone is enough to make his appearance an attractive one, even if he were unsymmetrical and ungainly in his proportions.
It was anungainly clasp-knife, as rusty as if it had spent a winter beneath a hedge.
Nanny dropped a curtesy, an ungainly one maybe, but it was an old woman giving the best she had.
Yvonne's father, observing men and events with a certain detachment in these days, was not drawn to the ungainly secretary.
Harry Jackson, seated patiently at the window behind the sycamores, failed to make out the identity of that small, ungainly figure until it had paced to and fro several times across the top of the small square.
At any rate,' observed Uriah, with a writhe of his ungainly person, 'we may keep the door shut.
If we are content with an ungainly fly, we will be satisfied with inferiority of rod and tackle; and although the fish may not see the difference, the angler may become, from neglecting one point, slovenly in all.
But before I had taken a step a little hand grasped my arm, and then and there took up its faithful guidance of me, and every fibre of my big, ungainly frame thrilled at this waking of the better life.
His long, wobbly and ungainly legs barely balanced a long and shaggy body, draped with a frowsy, kaleidoscopic mass of wiry hair.
Our attic became a study; the washstand a student's desk, with a big, ungainly head bent close to a smoking oil lamp.
Overhead, a gigantic, ungainly traveller, equipped with steel derricks at every corner, is advancing foot by foot as the bridge advances foot by foot.
Better name was never given to a locomotive, the rude and ungainly angles formed by rods and levers giving a distinct resemblance to the long-legged bugs.
But though ungainly in their appearance, they flew with considerable velocity, and sustained their great weight and bulk with much ease.
He is ungainly in his figure, and awkward and ungraceful in every movement and gesture.
Jack Henderson was a giant in stature, with large ungainly hands and a somewhat slouching gait.
The rooms indeed were low, for it had been built in the ungainly days of Queen Anne, with additions in the equally ungainly time of George II.
