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  • In its movement it is awkward and ungraceful, though swift and savage as a pike.
  • She did it ungracefully, though, with a scowl and a half-shrug. BEHINDLINGS
  • Ungracefully slipping and sliding knee-deep in dark, sticky mud is not food gathering at its most glamorous, yet local people have been collecting marsh samphire between June and September for generations, wherever it is common but especially in East Anglia.
  • She certainly was an odd-looking little creature in the short tight wincey dress she had worn from the asylum, below which her thin legs seemed ungracefully long. Anne of Green Gables
  • There are two cocker spaniels in the back, and a young woman with a most ungraceful air.
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  • I need not add that my card is printed in German text, Paul Fleming, and that time has brought to me a not ungraceful, though a sometimes practically retardating, circumference. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
  • Sera sighed and sat ungracefully onto the stool.
  • That most people walk in an ungraceful, ungainly and awkward manner with a forward inclination of the body does not mean that it is the normal way of walking.
  • Dereth felt clumsy and ungraceful next to the two companions, as though they belonged to an exclusive club that he could never join.
  • If this is almost the series's swansong, it's a rather ungraceful one. Times, Sunday Times
  • He is a peculiarly ungraceful taker of the ball and too often does not gather it clearly.
  • He could bring grace and dignity to his work even when he was playing ungraceful, undignified people.
  • I say nothing about the ungracefulness of the translation but I much fear it will by many be taken as an indication of doctrinal bias.
  • Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.
  • It would be rather ungraceful of me to criticise Mr Blair for this - not everything can take priority all of the time, as he is constantly reminding us.
  • The final hymn ‘All For Jesus’ was sung with Lara desperately trying to hide in her book to escape Mr Yorke's glares, appearing clumsy and ungraceful.
  • And then playfully he shunts me with his shoulder, making me step ungracefully into the wall so that even the waiter standing aside holding a stack of dirty plates has to suppress a smile.
  • He ungracefully plonked himself into the nearest chair which squealed loudly in protest.
  • This girl wasn't as stupid and ungraceful as he had thought.
  • his stature low...his bearing ungraceful
  • I watched it as it teetered back and forth, threatening to fall off in a most ungraceful fashion.
  • Out of the window, I could see Jonah jogging ungracefully towards our block, all elbows and knees in a tragically unhip white vest, and I realised I'd had a lucky escape.
  • He was incapable of an ungraceful movement and he lives in the hearts of all Hibs fans.
  • The adorable couple next to me and their equally adorable daughter looked disconcerted at my ungraceful maneuvering around their seats.
  • Without the ungracefulness of a liquid-cooled engine's radiator and attendant plumbing to spoil the view, this motorcycles is a pleasure to peruse while sipping a hot coffee or a cold beer.
  • The clunky, ungraceful writing is mostly to blame for this.
  • He ran to me, his shoes clamoring on the floor ungracefully, as if these few strides towards me would forever determine the rest of his life.
  • If they don't, there's a kind of ungracefulness that's likely to reflect structural problems in the design.
  • The upper skirt was tied so lightly back that it was impossible to take a long step, and the under one was so loaded with plaited frills that it "wobbled" no other word will express it ungracefully, both fore and aft. Eight Cousins
  • There would be a great deal more ungracefulness than beauty in either a horse or a man that was so treated.
  • She could not do anything ungracefully, but that did not prevent her improving upon nature a bit, when she reached forth and deftly snuffed the red wick from the midst of the yellow flame. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
  • The fact that he was tall profited him nothing, for it merely emphasised the extreme ungracefulness of his figure. Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)
  • It turns out that my pronated feet (they roll inward), which I always thought had no consequence other than my walking a little ungracefully, are a health hazard. Leora Tanenbaum: Feet Are A Feminist Issue
  • ‘There is nothing wrong with being in the mortal realm, brother,’ hissed Leara as she sat down in her seat in a most ungraceful manner.
  • I clambered into the straw tick ungracefully and flopped down, clothes and all.
  • She was dancing with her husband -- a pitiful spectacle, for the lawyer must be pushed through the dance as he were a doll, with monstrous ungracefulness, and no sense of the time of the music, his thin legs quarrelling with each other, his neighbours all confused by his inexpert gyrations, and yet himself with a smirk of satisfaction on his sweating countenance. Doom Castle
  • The most concrete observation I have of my ungraceful exit was the sign on the gatepost forbidding the imbibing of alcoholic beverages in the park by penalty of five hundred pounds.
  • Plain and rough nature, left to itself, is much better than an artificial ungracefulness, and such study’d ways of being illfashion’d. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 61-70
  • Poland; as a principle, we hated Napoleon, though he had neither act nor part in the doings of the democrats; and the sea-songs of Dibdin, which our youth _now_ would call uncouth and ungraceful rhymes, were key-notes to public feeling; the English of that time were thoroughly International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850
  • As for my writing style being untactful and ungraceful - Thank You! A Taste of Right-Wing Hate Mail
  • She barked her shin painfully on the "bench" rock, and her legs gave out, so that she sprawled ungracefully over it.
  • A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old - fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed — destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort. The Purcell Papers
  • Dragging myself ungracefully to my feet, I froze again, listening for any noise, waiting for anyone to come and check what the commotion was about.
  • That most people walk in an ungraceful, ungainly and awkward manner with a forward inclination of the body does not mean that it is the normal way of walking.
  • I was ungraceful and most likely, a bit repulsive.
  • Nevertheless so clumsy a beau, that thou seemest to me to owe thyself a double spite, making thy ungracefulness appear the more ungraceful, by thy remarkable tawdriness, when thou art out of mourning. Clarissa Harlowe
  • A flat, smooth, oval slab, weighing about fifteen pounds, and a stone roller six inches in diameter, worked with both hands, and the weight of the body kneeling ungracefully upon it on “all fours,” are used to triturate the holcus grain. First footsteps in East Africa
  • I staggered across the tiles in ungraceful fashion, handbag swinging as I swore.
  • A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old-fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed -- destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort. The Purcell Papers, Volume II
  • That most people walk in an ungraceful, ungainly and awkward manner with a forward inclination of the body does not mean that it is the normal way of walking.
  • Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.
  • The girl rose and made a scamper for the lovely woman, but a stray leg was purposely put out and quickly the girl was sent to her knees, toppling forward to land ungracefully upon her chin.
  • But despite kangaroos’ ungracefulness and clumsiness, and despite emus flightlessness and feistiness, both have been elevated to the position of Australia's national animal and bird, respectively.
  • He descanted with some eloquence upon the wickedness of lacing, the ungracefulness of artificial forms and the beauty of her own wholly natural grace. In Old Kentucky
  • The attire of the elder gentleman, a person as it seemed of quality and in the prime of life, was very plain and soldierlike, his stature low, his limbs stout, his bearing ungraceful, and his features of that kind which express sound common sense, without a grain of vivacity or imagination. Kenilworth
  • Had they had a wad of gum in their mouths, they would have been chewing it in an ungraceful, cowlike fashion.
  • Unfortunately, their animations are ungraceful as well.
  • Her Jackie O façade cracks, and Betty drinks too much - stumbling hotheadedly into the bathroom to avoid handling herself ungracefully. Cinema Blend Feeds
  • Out of the window, I could see Jonah jogging ungracefully towards our block, all elbows and knees in a tragically unhip white vest, and I realised I'd had a lucky escape.
  • Then there was me, a tall, chestnut haired, grey eyed, and very ungraceful woman with a low and intelligent voice wearing a plain, but practical, dress.
  • That most people walk in an ungraceful, ungainly and awkward manner with a forward inclination of the body does not mean that it is the normal way of walking.
  • Though I wouldn't have been able to express it at the time, this story of the shy, ungraceful daughter tyrannized by a contemptuous father struck home, struck a chord in my home.
  • Flopping ungracefully out of the tub, he paddled to shore.
  • Every one’s natural genius should be carry’d as far as it could; but to attempt the putting another upon him, will be but labour in vain; and what is so plaister’d on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the ungracefulness of constraint and affectation. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 61-70
  • It is impossible to escape the notion that the club is teetering on a ledge of uncertainty, a long, ungraceful fall on one side, a firm, solid footing on the other.
  • And this change came about without expostulations, reproach, or explanation, just by the turning of a key; and even this was the merest symbol, employed once only, to save the ungracefulness of words. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works

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