They being a very ſilly ſort of People, had no other way to ſhew their Spight and Reſentment, than by making Mouths at the Dutch as they paſſed by, and ſometimes Spitting upon them. To break them of that ungainly Cuſtom, we made a reſolution amongſt us, never to let any paſs by that did ſo, whether Old or Young, Man or Woman, without giving them a good Box on the Ear.
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1700, Christopher Fryke, Christopher Schewitzer, “chapter VII”, in S. L., transl., A Relation of Two Several Voyages Made into the East-Indies, by Christopher Fryke, Surg. and Christopher Schewitzer. The Whole Containing an Exact Account of the Customs, Dispositions, Manners, Religion, &c. of the Several Kingdoms and Dominions in those Parts of the World in General: But in a More Particular Manner, Describing those Countries which are under the Power and Government of the Dutch, London: [Printed for] D. Brown, S. Crouch, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Wyate, B. Took, and S. Buckley, →OCLC, pages 100–101:
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When the young scholar [Samuel Johnson] presented himself to the rulers of that society, they were amazed not more by his ungainly figure and eccentric manners than by the quantity of extensive and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable study.
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1857 March, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume XIV, number LXXXII, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, 327 to 335 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 484, column 2:
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There is but little tenderness in her manner to Celia, who is played by Miss Ione Bourke with very great simplicity and taste, though she has the disadvantage of being taller and in every way ungainlier than Rosalind, which is just the reverse of Shakespeare's intention.
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1867 April 19, “Mrs. Scott Siddons in Rosalind and Juliet”, in The Spectator. A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, Theology, and Art, volume XL, number 2025, London: John Campbell, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 439, column 1:
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[A] string of huge woolly camels, most powerful and ungainliest of their kind, swaying along beneath their loads as they thrust out their shaggy snaky necks in an aimless fashion from side to side, and frightening our nags in a desperate scramble to get out of the way up the mountain slope; […]
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1873 April, “Byzantine Anatolia”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XXVII, number 160, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, →OCLC, page 411:
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Photographs of the Fowler Moguls had always given me the impression of an ungainly design: the sight of them more then confirmed it.
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1944 November and December, Talisman, “A Broadening Horizon”, in Railway Magazine, page 339:
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His body, though thin, looked oversized and ungainly, his limbs poorly knit together; he appeared to conquer his tendency to awkwardness by making only the smallest, most deliberate of movements.
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1962, Edward [Ronald] Weismiller, chapter XI, in The Serpent Sleeping, New York, N.Y.: Putnam, →OCLC; republished London; Portland, Or.: Frank Cass Publishers, 1998, →ISBN, page 169: