Some extra coal and supplies were loaded on a clumsy wooden hulk, but he durst not risk her carrying expensive machinery.

A great rope rose out of the water as the men at the winch hauled up the clumsy hulk.

Sometimes it slipped along the horse and tightened with a bang, for the clumsy hulk sheered about.

Americans are practically unanimous in regarding the belated excuses of your Government, to the effect that Belgian neutrality was already violated by the Allies, as mere clumsy subterfuges, trumped up to stem the terrible tide of universal condemnation heaped upon Germany for this crime against an innocent people.

The latter youth (who used to be called Heigh-ho Dobbin, Gee-ho Dobbin, Figs, and by many other names indicative of puerile contempt) was the quietest, the clumsiest, and, as it seemed, the dullest of all Dr. Swishtail's young gentlemen.

Only a small surface, including the bridge or conning tower, is exposed, thus making it almost impossible to hit them with the clumsy guns aboard ship.

Often she was as it were beside herself with vexation and distress to see him in his clumsy way doing what she could have done so much better had she been able.

Sorel was a clumsy little beast of a cheery and indeed puppyish disposition; Kasper was fierce, the largest of the five, even in his play he would always bite, and gave his godfather many a sharp nip as time went on.

Each wore a short rapier at his girdle, and he fancied he could trace beneath the folds of their garments evidence of the presence of the clumsy fire-arms in use at that period.

Lancelot, I verily believe, would have kept his promise, though he saw that the keepers gave ground, finding Cockney skill too much for their clumsy strength; but at last Harry Verney, who had been fighting as venomously as a wild cat, and had been once before saved from a broken skull by Tregarva, rolled over at his very feet with a couple of poachers on him.

"There's some of them lubberly transports won't mind our signals; they have had these soldiers so long on board, they get as clumsy as the red- coats themselves," muttered the admiral, hastening on deck to enforce his commands.

I've a strong suspicion that you're the cleverest of us; that you've got more brains in this sweet little finger of yours than I've got in my clumsy head" She laughed softly and looked at the head which he had libelled, the shapely head with its close-cut hair, which, sliding her hand up, she touched caressingly.

He came cantering along in a clumsy fashion over an open space, affording us an excellent shot, and when he was broadside on we both fired, breaking his back.

The reliefs on the Arch of Constantine are rude and clumsy compared with those on the column of Marcus Aurelius.

"I see you got this party all ready for me," said the sheriff more amiably to Riley Sinclair, who was watching in disgust the clumsy method of Jig's mounting.

But it was inconceivable that any living creature should be so clumsy with a common ax.

And now, as previously alleged by Colonel Picquart, it was shown to be a forgery of the clumsiest kind.

I confess that I, with others, have often felt inclined to criticize a certain caustic tone of his, in private talk, when the name of an offender was alluded to; but I have also felt almost indignant at his lenient good-nature to that very person, let him once show the smallest symptom of contrition, or seek, even in the clumsiest way, or for the most selfish purpose, to disarm his generous antagonist.

The clumsiest thing a dramatist can possibly do is to lay a long and elaborate train for the ignition of a squib.

And then there is the road going along just in the clumsiest way possible,up hill and down, through the water, and over the stones.

You couldn't expect to do anything decently, for you're only a man, and men are the uselessest, good-for-nothingest, clumsiest animals in the world.

The tale in itself is one of Charlotte's clumsiest contrivances for conveying necessary information.

Stroke "catches a crab" in the clumsiest style, (And they called him a fine finished oarsman, this chap!)

Despite the clumsiest management, the boat soon effected a junction with our gangway, allowing some nameless official to come on board, and to go through I know not what mysterious and indispensable formality.

But, guided discreetly, supported at need, The clumsiest novice at last may succeed, His knees and his elbows controlling; And you, my dear PRIMOSE, have played such a part.