They were unwieldy things for a lone girl to handle, but there was no other way and she must cross the river.
Already the two blacks stationed there were pushing the unwieldy portals to.
Sir Morton, much to his chagrin, found himself deputed to escort Lady Wicketts, whose unwieldy proportions allied to his own, made it difficult for both to pass with proper dignity through the dining- room doorway.
And now assistance seemed near, for the Reverend Putwood Leveson, having had to lead his bicycle up a hill, and being overcome with a melting tallow of perspiration in the effort, hove in sight like anunwieldy porpoise bobbing up on dry land.
Even those moving about had each its quota of such perchers, now and then affording an amusing spectacle, as the unwieldy quadrupeds sank under water, forcing the birds to take wing with an odd air of bewilderment.
This was in a bend where the current was sluggish, and the banks of slight elevation; for to beach such unwieldy craft in a swift-running stream is not only a difficulty but a danger.
He rather thought they would not now; and so reflecting reined hisunwieldy charger round, and rode back down the pitch, at a much better pace than he had ascended it.
With ranks broken, and many of them unhorsed, they were all but helpless in their unwieldy armour, and scores got tumbled over the cliffs of the Down.
Galloping on, the hunters were presently within a quarter of a mile of the rhinos, which, considering their gigantic size and unwieldy shape, moved at an astonishingly fast pace.
They had not gone a hundred yards when there burst from the seclusion of the river greenery, just in advance of them, two huge, unwieldy figures.
Over these was laid a floor or platform about ten feet by twelve, leaving room at the bow and stern of each canoe for men with paddles who were to guide and propel the unwieldy craft in some unknown, but, doubtless, satisfactory manner.
I found, to my great astonishment, that there was hardly one of them less than twelve inches in diameter at the top, and that the majority were so heavy and unwieldy that a dozen men could not move them.
I was heir to some lanky long-legged urchin, into whose narrow garments I had to squeeze my unwieldy figure.
If Europe then existed, it must have been shaken to its furthest bounds:--Hecla must have answered to the distant roar; and even the old Ural must have heaved its unwieldy sides.
The stern pile (of coal on this canal) is in a large crib near the stern and just in front of the cabin, and is placed in this particular part of the long and unwieldy boat in order to make her obey the helm better.
I uttered the word of power, and the huge unwieldy gates of opposition swung back with sullen and unwilling deference, compelled to respect the talisman I held.
He thought these would have greater lifting power, but when he came to try them he found them exceedingly unwieldy and hard to control.
Beyond that certain point the machine would become unwieldy and would lose its balancing properties.
The old shadouf of the desert, unwieldy though it was, would have been a veritable godsend to the troops here.
Cutting through the halyards, it brought the sail down with a run, and the unwieldy craft swung round broadside on to the stream.
He soon returned, bringing with him a hugeunwieldy rattlesnake.
Again and again the galleys passed, like shuttles on a loom, through the line of the enemy, sinking the unwieldy hulks and drowning the crowded crews.
The Admiral had shown as much naval skill as could, perhaps, have been exhibited with the unwieldy boats at his command; and, moreover, had brought from the fight an eyeless socket to attest his bravery and devotion.
Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old unwieldy methods of going on foot or on horseback, in palanquins or unwieldy coaches.
But it must be noticed that alongside of the unwieldy eight-oxen plough we find much lighter ones.
The House grewunwieldy in size and its business increased alarmingly.
This makes a committee of over 9000, an unwieldy number.
In the midst of these was the enormous floating mass whose bulk and unwieldy form seemed to render her as unfit for motion as the land batteries which were saluting her.
Nevertheless, such a vessel properly built is destined to play an important part in the navy of the future, when our present unwieldy ironclads shall have been relegated to that bourne where torpedoes cannot terrify.
And now from an unwieldy mass of shawls came a cry: "O Albert Dusante!
To the Senate, unwieldy now, and greatly changed in character from the body contemplated by the Constitution, it would be disastrous.
So the raging beast was caught, for it was far too heavy and unwieldy to spring out of the window.
Then he stretched himself before the fire and grumbled out his satisfaction; and in a little while the children became familiar enough to play tricks with the unwieldy animal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unwieldy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
